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

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Plus, many types of points are widely appreciated by customers, and are useful to the brand for scoring different customer actions while influencing behavior. 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.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

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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. Hybrid points programs. A disloyal generation?

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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

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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. This led many banks in Europe to close their rewards program over the past three years. by merchant, or by retail category).

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

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We believe these trends will occupy most brands’ efforts during 2019. Of course, your strategy cannot be developed in a vacuum. An example of effective alignment of strategy with tactics include Australia’s Coles Supermarket chain and its flybuys reward program. For Retail. Frequent business travelers.

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Breaking down the walls: Loyalty Magazine Awards 2019

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More enlightened marketers, on the other hand, see points as a way to keep score of customer actions at many different touchpoints along complex customer journeys. More than one brand at this year’s awards demonstrated just why this is so important, including Parfumerie Douglas, a German retailer and winner of ‘Best Customer Experience’.

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It’s (almost) never 1%: how to price loyalty rewards

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If 74% of consumers choose a store based on their loyalty program, then why do few loyalty programs have more than 25% of their customers participating? Of course, dishing out ‘value’ sounds scary to a chief financial officer. Such ‘loyalty’ programs today are actually just rewards programs: ‘you do this and I will do that.’

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Loyalty Tech: Migrate to Microservices, or Get Left Behind

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Of course, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP also have solid CRM platforms if your budget permits. These enterprise and mature CRM platforms are more functional, and suit companies with more complex marketing intelligence needs, beyond just supporting their loyalty program.

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