Currency Alliance

JULY 16, 2024

The redemption value of a loyalty currency is fixed by most brands. But for a few years now, some travel and most coalition loyalty programs have been experimenting with dynamic values, and the results for improving loyalty ROI and customer engagement are encouraging.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2017

Loyalty program announcements so far this year indicate a major sea change. To get customers re-engaged, brands are making it easier to participate in their loyalty programs and are offering enhanced ways to redeem – so customers can make use of even small amounts of points/miles.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

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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BirdEye

APRIL 25, 2023

Make it relevant and user-friendly with convenient ways for browsing so customers engage with it. And be sure to collect and analyze the metrics to measure ROI. Most of your local media providers will also have supporting digital components to help promote online engagement, too.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 21, 2018

In brief: what we’d fully expected (and set out in our ‘ Top Loyalty Trends ’ blog several months ago) was large scale proliferation and diversification of loyalty marketing, as brands beyond established loyalty sectors discovered how better customer experience could deliver bigger ROI. Onward and Upward.

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BirdEye

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Spruce up your Google Business Profile Your Google Business Profile is your one-stop shop to ensure more customers engage with you when they see your name in local search results. In a Birdeye study, 92% of customers said that they read at least two reviews before engaging a business, while over 50% agreed to have read 4 or 5 reviews.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 20, 2020

There are really only four ways to create value for all stakeholders in a loyalty program: maintain low operating costs, and funnel the savings into rewards. add complementary partners in every spending category so the program and the currency are more useful and interesting. Not every loyalty program seems to appreciate this.

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West Monroe

MAY 31, 2019

To recap, conversational interfaces are an emerging high-level system design model where interactions occur in the user’s spoken or written natural language. Many firms have started building out their potential use cases and strategies, budgeting innovation funds, and building proof of concept systems. Personal Financial Management.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

So, while the major loyalty trends for 2023 will be oriented around cost control, this will be accompanied by refocusing investment where it’s most profitable. This article shares the lowest hanging fruit for keeping customers engaged and delivering more profit to the bottom line. embedding loyalty mechanics across the business.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Loyalty trends, as we’ve said in our previous years’ trends articles, are interesting to think about – but they are not necessarily reflective of what your own brand should be focusing on in the next year. The article covers the various brands which have joined the Scene+ loyalty coalition.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Unless the volume of business is high, there is never a positive return on investment (ROI). For this reason, only very large partners end up collaborating even though the loyalty program members engage with thousands of medium or smaller potential partners on a daily basis. This workload can now be greatly reduced.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 20, 2024

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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BirdEye

AUGUST 20, 2024

In the scorching supper heat or the freezing winter chill, homeowners rely on their heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to keep them comfortable. outdated systems, poor air quality) What motivates them to make purchasing decisions? Bundle services or offer package deals to incentivize customers to buy more.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Within one year, over 100 bank-sponsored loyalty programs in Europe disappeared. Shutting down the loyalty programs was a huge strategic mistake by the banks. Next, we explain how to increase the perceived value of your loyalty currency, so that your loyalty program is more effective, and the ROI increases.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It has the potential to address a lot of business challenges, and enable many forms of elusive innovation in loyalty marketing. The biggest opportunities for loyalty programs relate to operating more efficiently to reduce cost, and improving personalization. As the saying goes, ‘garbage in, garbage out’.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Because each customer segment will respond differently to available loyalty incentives, tailoring the customer experience by segment across channels is essential to maximize ROI. Millions of longstanding loyalty programs are testament to the fact that loyalty marketing can be optimized for the benefit of all stakeholders.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Recognizing loyalty program members at the Point of Sale (POS) has been challenging for over 30 years. The result is that it can be difficult for a retailer to deliver a smooth customer experience when identifying their own loyalty program members, or customers in partner loyalty programs, at the POS.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Motivation.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Motivation.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This has mostly been via low-investment, tactical approaches that increase ROI, and educate the C-suite regarding long-term strategic value. Faced by this looming ‘perfect storm’ of change, the sheltered existence, that many leading loyalty programs have enjoyed for three decades, is coming to an end. An uncertain future.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

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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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Customers expect flexibility and convenience from the companies they do business with because people live in a world where almost everything is accessible with a few clicks on their smartphone. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace. How do we define greater liquidity in loyalty programs?

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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.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 7, 2021

But make no mistake; failing in the medium-to-long term on these Loyalty Imperatives will put your customer relationships at risk and ultimately damage your brand. Most programs do a fairly good job focusing on frequent customers. The Loyalty Imperatives answer that question. Loyalty programs are no different.

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ClearAction

OCTOBER 1, 2018

. “Only 13% of marketers feel they are fully implementing customer revenue-producing strategies and engaging differently, including driving deeper relationships, collaborating across stakeholders and leveraging data to uncover new opportunities and options for engagement.” customers, channel partners, alliances).

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It allows us to keep customers engaged when business plans fly out the window, due to marketplace calamities, such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Each trend supports aspects of the broader business imperative: to be present when and where customers choose to engage. putting the customer at the center of your business model.

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BirdEye

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Be available to your customers 24/7, answer frequently asked questions, and use AI to analyze customers with Birdeye. Set up easy-to-use appointment booking systems We live in the age of fast conversations and actions. The more steps a customer takes in reaching you, the less likely they will.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If a new CEO replaced you tomorrow, and had no previous connection to the current loyalty program, what changes do you think she would make? We hear loyalty leaders state all the time that they have embraced ‘best practices’. That’s right, loyalty programs should be a profit center.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Old-school loyalty technology firms shrinking, or dying out. The evolution of loyalty marketplaces. The outcome for the brands which succeed will be in getting 25-50% more customers engaged with their loyalty strategies. Loyalty program management’ was reported as CMO’s lowest priority, with 4.8%

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The following quote baffles my mind: According to IRI Worldwide, 74% of consumers globally choose a store based on its effective loyalty programme.[i]. If 74% of consumers choose a store based on their loyalty program, then why do few loyalty programs have more than 25% of their customers participating?

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Pointillist

JUNE 15, 2018

The answer isn’t acquiring two new customers. Much of the marketing world is still focused on customer acquisition, but to improve customer retention will yield f ar better ROI and cost about 5-25X less than customer acquisition. Is Retention About Churn or Loyalty? Deep understanding of customers.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

One of the earliest loyalty programs came out of the grocery sector. 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.

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BirdEye

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Email marketing is a top tool for communicating directly with customers and driving them to your offers. This ensures you stay in touch at every step of the customer engagement process. The cost incurred to attract new customers is the customer acquisition cost (CAC).

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ClearAction

MAY 28, 2015

It should also includes online communities of other types, including online rating systems like Yelp, TripAdvisor, just to name just a few. Brands will be pushing harder on the customer experience manager to show business results. Trust & Choice: Essential Customer Experience Ingredients.

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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

Customer journey maps are typically created to visualize a specific experience for a particular segment or persona. Next, qualitative data captured in employee notes, interview transcripts, and call center logs, as well as quantitative data from surveys and other databases and systems, is added to the journey. Trigger-based Engagement.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 10, 2021

If a new CEO replaced you tomorrow, and had no previous connection to the current loyalty program, what changes do you think she would make? As CEO, the time you can dedicate to your loyalty program is probably close to zero. Most loyalty programs report how many members they have.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 9, 2021

Headless loyalty systems are API-first loyalty platforms that enable any customer-facing platform to integrate loyalty marketing functionality into their Customer Experience (CX) via API. In that world, every change was expensive and slow, because of the effort on both the frontend and backend systems.

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