Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. The optimal points to offer mostly depends on the frequency of engagement your brand has with target customers. This actually is not true. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value.

Loyalty Programs 52

Loyalty Programs Loyalty Airlines Banking 52

Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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. The value can be immediate. I’m a case in point.

Loyalty 59

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Airlines Travel 59

Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

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.

Loyalty 52

Loyalty Innovation Travel Loyalty Programs 52

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

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.”.

Loyalty 45

Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Rewards Programs 45

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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. How can we call that success? A little more context.

Loyalty 45

Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Broadly speaking, most of the chains’ loyalty efforts have been in proprietary, albeit digitalized versions of the original S&H program: collecting in order to redeem for rewards, some digital couponing, and pushing out offers via a mobile app. But South Africa’s first-place ranked program isn’t a grocer at all, but a pharmacy.

Loyalty Programs 52

Loyalty Programs Loyalty How To Hotels 52