CSM Magazine

JULY 13, 2022

Each one is a chance for you to nurture their interactions towards a sale, referred to as customer touchpoints. Optimizing your customer touchpoints can lead to stronger brand loyalty, more revenue, and improved sales. Your customer journey is composed of a set of touchpoints. Imagine this.

Touchpoint 69

Touchpoint Customer Journeys Self Service Chatbots 69

Currency Alliance

JUNE 19, 2019

This was my second year on the judging panel at the Loyalty Magazine Awards. Independent of individual program achievements, the most important development across the industry has not been in individual technological triumphs, but a hastening structural shift in how brands understand and approach the purpose of their loyalty programs.

Loyalty 49

Loyalty Loyalty Programs Gamification Airlines 49

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

The smart ones kept a loyalty strategy even if they eliminated the points, but some foolishly acted as though their rewards program was their loyalty strategy – and threw the baby out with the bath water. For a time, banks hoped that third-party CLO providers would help banks achieve their loyalty goals.

Banking 40

Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But there remain some fundamental things that loyalty programs need to achieve to weather the looming storm that open banking, mobile payments, aggregation models, and other marketplace dynamics will bring. More customers will want to earn more loyalty currencies – which is potentially fantastic for all brands.

Loyalty 64

Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Travel 64

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.

Loyalty 45

Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Nobody in loyalty could have missed The Times’ headline in October, about the Committee for Climate Change (CCC) proposal to start taxing frequent flyer programs (FFPs), or even to shut them down, under the assumption that they increase flying. Brands reward more touchpoints to grow emotional loyalty. The tide is turning.

Loyalty 40

Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Hotels 40

Currency Alliance

AUGUST 16, 2019

Loyalty programs once enabled relatively personalized marketing. Partners enable two things, in your loyalty program: capturing data to identify the highly personal ‘something extra’ which incentivizes customers to shop your brand, rather than a competitor’s. The partner mix, therefore, must be revisited.

Loyalty 40

Loyalty Brands Loyalty Programs Airlines 40