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Loyalty programs: should you issue your own points or miles?

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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.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

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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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Reconsidering Loyalty: Top Loyalty Trends for 2019

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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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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

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Emotional loyalty: add incentives along many touchpoints in customer journeys. 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.

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Top 6 Loyalty Trends for 2020: digital transformation for an open future

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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. Constraining collaboration only constrains your ability to engage and capture insightful data. Brands reward more touchpoints to grow emotional loyalty.

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Loyalty Tech: Migrate to Microservices, or Get Left Behind

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Change in the legacy loyalty platform, on the other hand, has been difficult and expensive, because the vendor must be supportive, if not fully engaged for nearly any desired change to functionality. Loyalty is earned by the customer’s cumulative experiences with a brand, across all its touchpoints.

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