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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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9 Ways You Can Spring Clean your CX

Kitewheel

For an airline, it may be as simple as streamlining the boarding process, a major source of stress for travellers. For example, many retailers send a welcome email after you sign up for their rewards program. Connect channel activities and customer experiences.

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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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Reconsidering Loyalty: Top Loyalty Trends for 2019

Currency Alliance

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.”.

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Loyalty Strategy 2019: How to Win in the Next Decade

Currency Alliance

Emotional loyalty: add incentives along many touchpoints in customer journeys. The reality is that there are a lot of people slapping each other’s backs about incremental gains, while most brands still have less than 1/3 rd of customers active in their loyalty programs. A useful set of segments might include: For Travel.

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Top 6 Loyalty Trends for 2020: digital transformation for an open future

Currency Alliance

Brands reward more touchpoints to grow emotional loyalty. Reward programs are changing, but they are not going away. To incentivize customers to progress through purchase funnels, brands are recognizing that additional touchpoints should be rewarded. Cloud-based tech can solve this problem. This is so true.

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