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Building a Better Loyalty Program (and the Reward for Getting It Right)

BlueOcean

Salesforce reports that 55% of members would use their loyalty programs more if the rewards were personalized to reflect their unique needs. McKinsey agrees, saying that “earn and burn” transactional rewards programs aren’t enough to retain loyal members. Testing for activity, promotions ambassadorship.

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

Currency Alliance

Nobody with $100 in pesos leftover from a recent trip would travel back to Mexico just to spend them, but they might exchange them back into dollars. Many people who travelled regularly (until overseas card payments became the norm) collected coins and banknotes from dozens of different countries, holding them for decades.

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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. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats.

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Loyalty: On the Cusp of Major R(E)volution

Currency Alliance

Stated a different way, ROI from loyalty marketing investments could grow exponentially with a few tweaks that put the customer´s interests first. This means merchants and travel suppliers will be able to capture useful data insights from a much larger set of customers, who again start identifying themselves at the point of sale.

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COVID-19 has changed how we do everything – here’s how Conjoint and MaxDiff can help you respond

Qualtrics

People are changing the way they shop, how they can travel, where they eat, how they work, and how they stay in contact with loved ones. Tailoring packages for maximum ROI - hospitality offerings usually involve a matrix of different features and services, and so it’s essential to understand how consumers respond to different combinations.

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Consumer banking: money can’t buy loyalty

Currency Alliance

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].

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10 Inspiring B2B Loyalty Program Examples from Successful Companies

SmartKarrot

By offering loyalty programs, B2B businesses an invaluable customer data. It also helps them build data-driven direct communications strategies that help yield higher ROI. One way to address the challenge is by offering rewards. Rewarding prospects in the form of free product trials makes it easier to sell it to them.