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

Currency Alliance

Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value. For some brands, issuing your own loyalty currency is certainly desirable.

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Beyond the Hotel: Earning Guest Loyalty with Hospitality Tech

Currency Alliance

Countless articles have been written about enhancing the hotel customer experience (CX) with technology. The hotel market is becoming more competitive, with a larger share of wallet being spent on a greater variety of services. Happily, this increased competition does not pose an existential threat to the hotel as a business model.

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Next-Generation Loyalty Marketing (for experts)

Currency Alliance

That type of simple recognition goes a great way in building loyalty with customers. This presentation is about driving customer engagement, and how the loyalty industry is transforming in order to engage with the mid-tail and long-tail customer. Loyalty programs must evolve to keep customers engaged.

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Are Loyalty Cards Dead?

Beyond Philosophy

If you’re like me, you have loyalty cards for three different supermarkets, a half dozen airlines, several hotels, a dozen or so assorted retailers and the local frozen yogurt shop. No of course not, and that’s the problem with calling these pieces of plastic “loyalty cards.” What is Loyalty Anyway? That’s loyalty.

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Outrageous! Hotels keep on charging!

Beyond Philosophy

Have you ever spent a night at a hotel, on business, and been charged a “resort fee” even though you never had time to take advantage of the pool, the spa or any of the other “amenities?”. hotels are expected to add on $2.55 When it comes to hotel fees, unexpected expenses can mean different things to different guests.

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Loyalty marketers: get ready for the deliberate consumer

Currency Alliance

This isn’t just a casual observation, but a sign of a widespread consumer trend which every loyalty marketer should be thinking about. Of course, after decades of increasingly easy and affordable travel, no consumer’s ambitions will stop with an ice-cream cone. One year ago, there might have been 2 people in 50.

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Loyalty partners: co-creating customer value

Currency Alliance

Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. Depending on the maturity of your loyalty program, you may already have some program partners, or be a partner in somebody else’s program. How loyalty partners co-create value.

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