Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having benchmarked and talked to hundreds of loyalty programs in the past few months, what we think program leaders ought to be doing during the next 3-6 months is preparing a plan to realign their loyalty program design with the broader business strategy and core value propositions. Customer data: maximize ROI.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

There is a growing divide in customer experience delivered by brands whose digital transformations are progressing well, and those being left behind. Since customers are losing patience with brands that don’t recognize them as people, or enable consistent, multi-channel engagement, this priority remains over-arching in 2020.

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Kitewheel

MARCH 25, 2019

What changes has your business made this year to improve the experience customers have with your brand? Last year, we saw incredible growth in Customer Experience (CX) investments and for good reason. Most businesses struggle to connect all of the relevant data on their customer experience. Identify customer pain points.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

If 74% of consumers choose a store based on their loyalty program, then why do few loyalty programs have more than 25% of their customers participating? Customers are interested in earning a meaningful amount of value, but the value they receive does not meet minimum expectations – so people quit. The answer is simple.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

Really, for those relatively few brands achieving impressive levels of customer engagement, it’s breath-taking how fast the industry has progressed in such a short time. Looking beyond transactional rewards. Mastering customer data (finally). Collecting data at more touchpoints is very useful.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

Customer-side, the greater control and flexibility around data, enabled by microservices, is experienced as more rapid deployment of features, accurate personalization, greater relevancy, and an improved perception of the brand. Redemption Catalog.

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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. Loyalty programs are essentially a value exchange.

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