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Loyalty programs: should you issue your own points or miles?

Currency Alliance

So, a brand issuing 1% in points would only really be able to engage customers spending $2,500 a year (or $1,250 if you issue 2%). But most types of retailer, other than grocery or fuel, can only expect 10-20% of total customers to commit to this level of spending. Consider the example of a retailer (i.e.,

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

While travel and retail brands have made a lot of progress in the last 24 months, the bulk of innovation has come from other consumer sectors – including media businesses, entertainment, and telecoms providers, which in recent years appeared to regard loyalty as a lost cause. Alongside retail, news brands have been among the hardest hit.

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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

Currency Alliance

Halifax’s Extra is just one example of a now-tired global trend, not just in banking but across sectors, of a loyalty strategy invested entirely in modest sums of reward value to drive a specific action. Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. by merchant, or by retail category).

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Loyalty partners: co-creating customer value

Currency Alliance

The best-known loyalty programs are made up of many partnerships – such as United Airlines and Hilton Hotels, or Emirates and Marriott. But partnerships don’t have to be between huge companies; a local pharmacy can partner with convenience stores or fashion retailers. Vueling is similar. will change.

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

The reality is that there are a lot of people slapping each other’s backs about incremental gains, while most brands still have less than 1/3 rd of customers active in their loyalty programs. A loyalty program should be relevant to 80% of customers. Of course, your strategy cannot be developed in a vacuum.

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9 Ways You Can Spring Clean your CX

Kitewheel

Identifying customer pain points isn’t easy – VoC data only reflects those customers willing to fill out your surveys and is difficult to use for immediate experience course correction. How you can identify customer pain points more quickly this spring is by bringing journey analytics in house.

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Breaking down the walls: Loyalty Magazine Awards 2019

Currency Alliance

Really, for those relatively few brands achieving impressive levels of customer engagement, it’s breath-taking how fast the industry has progressed in such a short time. One of these is ´Plus´, a Dutch retailer and winner of the ‘Best Use of Communications’ award. They won the prize for “Best Voucher-Based Loyalty Program”.

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