Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

Nobody with $100 in pesos leftover from a recent trip would travel back to Mexico just to spend them, but they might exchange them back into dollars. Many people who travelled regularly (until overseas card payments became the norm) collected coins and banknotes from dozens of different countries, holding them for decades.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The majority of existing partnerships at big loyalty programs are brokered with one goal in mind: creating more value for the most frequent customers. For airlines and hotel groups, frequent customers are business travelers, so their partner mixes are heavily biased toward fellow travel brands. I’m a case in point.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

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. voucher-based. A disloyal generation? Engaging employees.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. Banks have been in and out of rewards programs for decades – but their focus ebbs and flows depending on the economic cycle as well as the regulatory framework. Merchants across retail, travel, utilities, healthcare, etc.

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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.”.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The future represents much more collaboration among brands to serve common customers more effectively. An example of effective alignment of strategy with tactics include Australia’s Coles Supermarket chain and its flybuys reward program. altering customer behaviour to support corporate objectives, without upsetting people.

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SuiteCX

JANUARY 19, 2015

Key Learning: Bringing in partners is a good way to shore up limited resources during a major implementaDon.

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