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Pay with points: unlocking loyalty program value

Currency Alliance

Pay with points is trending upward in loyalty marketing for three main reasons. Over the past 3-4 years, brands with loyalty programs have been more focused on offering members new ways to redeem points and obtain interesting rewards.

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Hospitality loyalty: 3 predictions that will change the industry

Currency Alliance

It’s time for hotel operators to re-evaluate how well their ace in the hole – their loyalty program – is enabling every function of their business to deliver more value. Here are three predictions of how loyalty programs must evolve in hospitality. Yet like many hotels, most hotel loyalty programs are homogenous.

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Next-Generation Loyalty Marketing (for experts)

Currency Alliance

This presentation is about driving customer engagement, and how the loyalty industry is transforming in order to engage with the mid-tail and long-tail customer. Loyalty programs must evolve to keep customers engaged. Every business needs a loyalty strategy, but not every business needs a loyalty points program.

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Loyalty marketers: get ready for the deliberate consumer

Currency Alliance

to keep entertained and occupied.”[ii]. Loyalty marketing is a mix of science and art, but in its most basic form, loyalty programs are a value exchange. I hate bashing the industry, but a great many loyalty programs still don’t even have this basic equation right. It is making people more deliberate.

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Innovators break the mould, at the 2020 Loyalty Magazine Awards

Currency Alliance

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. Hybrid points programs.

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Bank loyalty: stay top-of-wallet through the next decade

Currency Alliance

Back in 2017, when interchange fees were slashed by the European Union, most banks’ response was to simply to give up on their loyalty program; this was lazy and a huge strategic mistake. Every bank needs a loyalty strategy – even if they don’t have a points-based loyalty program.

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In loyalty, entrepreneurial leaders will win

Currency Alliance

In recent years, brands have invested more in loyalty. At many businesses, however, loyalty teams still attract relatively few resources compared to the ROI that loyalty can deliver when best-practices are observed. but within a few years it had become South Africa’s leading loyalty program.

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