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]. More money, fewer monies.

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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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Loyalty Innovation Travel Loyalty Programs 52

SurveySparrow

MARCH 29, 2023

Each of the stages they cross is referred to as a customer touchpoint and can be used to create a delightful experience for your prospective customers. are touchpoints in this stage. The objective should be to maximize your ROI from the customer. Touchpoints: A touchpoint is an interaction that your customer has with your brand.

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Kitewheel

MARCH 25, 2019

For example, many retailers send a welcome email after you sign up for their rewards program. Instead of making people wait to use a discount code, let them use a new-member reward right away in the store simply by being connected to their account. Measure ROI across interactions.

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ROI Hotels Customer Journeys Retail 76

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.”. [iii].

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The most important priorities are: Align with corporate goals: update loyalty program design to support current business objectives. Customer data: maximize ROI. Emotional loyalty: add incentives along many touchpoints in customer journeys. Partners: optimize the mix to appeal to a broader array of customers.

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Loyalty Strategy Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

At the Loyalty Surgery this year, IBM’s Greg Land said that their modern martech trial at Malaysia Airlines performed extremely well, delivering a 43% improvement in ROI. Brands reward more touchpoints to grow emotional loyalty. Reward programs are changing, but they are not going away.

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Loyalty Trends Loyalty Programs Hotels 40

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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Loyalty Loyalty Programs How To Hotels 40

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. As a result, the supermarket’s NPS has gone up and up.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty How To Hotels 52