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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.

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Loyalty partners: co-creating customer value

Currency Alliance

The majority of existing partnerships at big loyalty programs are brokered with one goal in mind: creating more value for the most frequent customers. For airlines and hotel groups, frequent customers are business travelers, so their partner mixes are heavily biased toward fellow travel brands. I’m a case in point.

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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

More useful loyalty currencies are appreciated by more people and will bring the hundreds of millions of people who are rarely active in loyalty programs back into the fold – because they can accumulate more useful value across a much wider spectrum of places they shop.

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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]. More money, fewer monies.

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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. It starts with stepping in and listening to what your customers are saying at every touchpoint, monitoring sentiment and taking action to respond to their concerns.