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

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Many loyalty program members will now be accustomed to similar liquidity enhancements, such as exchanging your American Express Membership Rewards Points into Avios or Bonvoy. Remember, your loyalty goal is not to issue the maximum number of points, but for the maximum number of customers to see joining your program as worthwhile.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

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Loyalty had evolved into a fairly segregated marketing function, but many of this years’ entries were more comprehensive, loyalty-enabled marketing programs. As more holistic marketing initiatives, loyalty mechanics were harnessed to drive and measure engagement across channels, and across many more customer touchpoints.

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Reconsidering Loyalty: Top Loyalty Trends for 2019

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Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. YouGov data from the UK shows that even the youth demographic – supposedly disloyal – thinks that points programs “are a good way for brands to reward customers and 59% think all brands should offer one.”.

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

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Emotional loyalty: add incentives along many touchpoints in customer journeys. 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. Define the strategy.

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Top 6 Loyalty Trends for 2020: digital transformation for an open future

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To support digital transformation, your customer data needs to be in a single CRM that actions data using a single campaign management system. Brands reward more touchpoints to grow emotional loyalty. Reward programs are changing, but they are not going away. The tide is turning.

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Loyalty Tech: Migrate to Microservices, or Get Left Behind

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The typical incumbent loyalty technology platform comprises five core modules: CRM/Analytics Platform. CRM/Analytics. In legacy loyalty systems, the CRM would traditionally be integrated as part of the loyalty stack. Some of the CRM platforms optimized for loyalty marketing include…. Campaign Management. Points Bank.

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