Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

Plus, many types of points are widely appreciated by customers, and are useful to the brand for scoring different customer actions while influencing behavior. 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.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

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. Compounded in Europe by the slashing of interchange fees, banks have been left with reduced margins from which to carve out rewards value[v]. CX enhancements at scale.

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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.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We believe these trends will occupy most brands’ efforts during 2019. Emotional loyalty: add incentives along many touchpoints in customer journeys. To build real equity in the relationships with customers, your program needs to be relevant to customers across all their touchpoints with the brand.

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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. Second, emotional loyalty involves rewarding your customers for many more touchpoints than just purchases.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

More enlightened marketers, on the other hand, see points as a way to keep score of customer actions at many different touchpoints along complex customer journeys. Collecting data at more touchpoints is very useful. When I last converted a hotel currency into United Airlines MileagePlus, it took three or four business days.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 21, 2019

This makes it difficult to coordinate meaningful touchpoints across marketing channels; and, nearly impossible to consistently reinforce the loyalty strategy. Loyalty is earned by the customer’s cumulative experiences with a brand, across all its touchpoints. Many organizations have attempted to build Points Banks from scratch.

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