Currency Alliance

AUGUST 15, 2024

This is precisely what loyalty programs were originally designed for, as marketing platforms purpose-built for measuring and incentivizing customer engagement, including when the customer is not shopping with your brand. Personalization comprises four key strategic initiatives. Somewhere in the middle are hospitality companies.

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Currency Alliance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In this new content series, we show what a world-beating loyalty program would look like in four different sectors, and discuss the brands currently showing the potential to build that ‘world-beating’ program. First up: the travel & hospitality sector. are now ripe for inclusion in loyalty coalitions.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 15, 2024

Many people assume that operating a loyalty program necessarily implies issuing your own loyalty points or miles. Points and miles are a dominant and popular form of loyalty value. The golden benchmark is about $25 USD per year in loyalty value. This actually is not true.

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Up Your Service

MAY 3, 2017

Our previous blog post demonstrated the power of customer voice in an unsolicited book review from a technology industry guru. This post makes the same point, but for the travel and hospitality – one of the most traditional “service” industries on the planet. Turning loyalty members into evangelists.

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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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Beyond Philosophy

JUNE 1, 2015

And, what is the impact of loyalty programs on enterprise profitability? Overall, companies with loyalty programs have grown at about the same rate as companies without them; but there is variance in performance value among industries. Key among these are: Integrate Loyalty Into the Full Experience. Use the Data.

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Bold360

APRIL 27, 2017

Travel and tourism can be difficult areas for retaining customer loyalty, with websites set up exclusively to pit brands against one another on the best deals for hotels and rock-bottom prices on flights. Inspiring Real Loyalty, No Cards in Sight. engender loyalty! engender loyalty!

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Apart from adapting to mobile apps and ditching plastic cards, the typical loyalty programs in 2020 still operate pretty much the same as they did at the turn of the century. And there are many, many more of these lookalike programs. Why hasn’t loyalty? Winning loyalty programs in 2025. Customer singular.

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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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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A recent article on PhocusWire helpfully outlined a range of security vulnerabilities common to loyalty programs. Some of them were matters of procedure and staff training – which are clearly important – but many were technological vulnerabilities which can be avoided by using modern tools and systems.

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Michelli Experience

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Difficult customers, the ease by which customers can access us through technology, and ever-increasing service demands can render anyone a bit frayed and negative at times. But two-thirds of marketers view loyalty programs as a way for consumers to demonstrate their loyalty to brands.

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Customer Bliss

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Today, I’m replaying one of our most popular episodes from 2018 about the employee experience and building customer loyalty at Hertz with Eric Smuda , VP of Customer Experience and Loyalty. Hire and Staff for the Intersection of High-touch and High-tech.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This presentation is about driving customer engagement, and how the loyalty industry is transforming in order to engage with the mid-tail and long-tail customer. Loyalty programs must evolve to keep customers engaged. Every business needs a loyalty strategy, but not every business needs a loyalty points program.

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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

MAY 9, 2017

But getting real value from loyalty programs has become harder and harder. In part this is because the biggest travel loyalty programs are getting watered down and due to the tremendous proliferation of other incompatible loyalty programs. The typical consumer is now a member of lots of programs.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

But getting real value from loyalty programs has become harder and harder. In part this is because the biggest travel loyalty programs are getting watered down and due to the tremendous proliferation of other incompatible loyalty programs. The typical consumer is now a member of lots of programs.

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AWS Machine Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Solution overview With the rapid growth of digital channels and technology advances that make hyper-personalization more accessible, brands struggle to determine what actions will maximize engagement for each individual user. User B 17141 Subscribe to Loyalty Program 2 0.71 User A 11999 Purchase in “Jewelry” category 2 0.86

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

JULY 13, 2015

We put the many prospects in the top, they travel willingly and orderly through the funnel, and POP! But customer experience travels on, past the prospecting and sales phase and well into the relationship with the customer. Processes break all the time – both due to technology and people. But are they, really?

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Metaverse technology is increasingly becoming a way of getting things done for most businesses. The growing adaptation of the technology has seen its global market value clock $83 billion in 2023, a figure that is projected to increase to $936.6 What is Metaverse Technology and How Has it Benefited Businesses? billion in 2030.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The right technology can help you choreograph a delightful first impression. Offering a wide spectrum of choices on a technology platform equipped with the ability to serve up personalized recommendations can keep your customers consuming content on your service much longer. Look at the travel industry.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As consumers grow more empowered, with more control and choice than they’ve ever had before, their loyalty to a brand and preference for concentrating their purchasing power becomes even more crucial to merchants. A more useful loyalty program for the customer is one that offers them a loyalty currency that they desire.

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One Millimeter Mindset

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Decisions about the structure of the customer loyalty program, and its perceived relevance and value to each customer. Also, decisions about systems, software, quality, and the loyalty Apps each customer uses when doing business with that organization. Each with their own, branded customer loyalty program.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 1, 2020

Of course, after decades of increasingly easy and affordable travel, no consumer’s ambitions will stop with an ice-cream cone. Loyalty marketing is a mix of science and art, but in its most basic form, loyalty programs are a value exchange. to keep entertained and occupied.”[ii]. It is making people more deliberate.

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Kitewheel

MARCH 4, 2019

Travel and hospitality companies have a difficult job. But even these leading travel brands can do better. Things are improving for the travel industry, but the biggest multipliers of customer satisfaction seem largely to be left behind. Personalize Based On Past Behavior to Drive Loyalty.

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Currency Alliance

MAY 9, 2022

To help businesses on this path, we have decided to share our experience in building an API-centric loyalty platform over the years. We explain how the technology differs from legacy solutions, and how an API-first approach solves the specific business challenges and enables the marketing goals that it was built to achieve. .

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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.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 16, 2020

For most of the last decade, loyalty marketing seemed to be on autopilot for many brands – but the tide is turning. Many of the entrants to this years’ Loyalty Magazine Awards were as adept with data and technology as marketers in many other disciplines. Hybrid points programs. Great service in unexpected places.

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Experience Investigators by 360Connext

MARCH 24, 2020

Customers will be dealing with challenges of their own, and your support teams may be challenged with absences, shorter shifts, overburdened technology, or other challenges. Put your loyalty program on overdrive by extending point expiration or rewarding engagement with your brand right now.

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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. Loyalty personalization has been subsumed into a wider conversation about data actionability.

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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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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

MAY 9, 2019

The rapid evolution of the supply chain has allowed a few exciting technology companies to grow fast in recent years, unencumbered by irritants such as competitors, defined standards, and complex legacy priorities and business practices. Building such habits is precisely what loyalty programs do. . This phase won’t last.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

2021 will be another year in the long-term journey to become customer-centric, balance the economics of loyalty programs to deliver more value to customers, and ensure the right systems are in place to reduce dependencies on the IT department or vendors. Rebalancing loyalty program economics.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Loyalty partnerships with complementary brands are the best way to create additional value, for customers and for your business. Depending on the maturity of your loyalty program, you may already have some program partners, or be a partner in somebody else’s program.

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CSM Magazine

JULY 13, 2022

Your customers travel through such touchpoints that result in them buying. They then travel along more touchpoints as they’re nurtured for repeat purchases and, later on, brand loyalty. Also, friendly customer service plays an important role here, but so does the technology you employ. Customer loyalty programs.

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Blake Morgan

JUNE 7, 2023

Traveling can be stressful, but it doesn’t have to be if airlines prioritize customer experience. Those results are stunning after the numerous times Southwest has been in the news lately for canceling thousands of flights due to faulty technology and poor leadership. Consistency matters to customers, especially when traveling.

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Currency Alliance

JANUARY 18, 2021

It’s time for hotel operators to re-evaluate how well their ace in the hole – their loyalty program – is enabling every function of their business to deliver more value. Here are three predictions of how loyalty programs must evolve in hospitality. Yet like many hotels, most hotel loyalty programs are homogenous.

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