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. The majority of existing partnerships at big loyalty programs are brokered with one goal in mind: creating more value for the most frequent customers.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Partners: optimize the mix to appeal to a broader array of customers. Emotional loyalty: add incentives along many touchpoints in customer journeys. A loyalty program should be relevant to 80% of customers. For example, maximizing customer Lifetime Value (LTV) might be the primary objective.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

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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Kitewheel

MARCH 25, 2019

One great way to start quickly is to implement a suppression campaign when customers are facing a service resolution issue. When someone is having an issue with guest services at a hotel for example, the hotel should not be bombarding them with ads for longer stays.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Such ‘loyalty’ programs today are actually just rewards programs: ‘you do this and I will do that.’ This is normally in the form of static rules which apply a flat 1%+/- reward across the board. But it’s also because the factors that affect a customer’s loyalty are not static, but highly fluid.

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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

JUNE 11, 2017

A few examples – just so readers don´t think I am inventing this – include Amazon Prime (household penetration), Nordstrom (multi-tender), Hilton Honors (redeeming with Amazon), La Quinta Hotels (Redeem Away), Tesco (increased redemption partners), and the list goes on.

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