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. A disloyal generation? Engaging employees.

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Magazine Loyalty Innovation 2020 52

Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

Bribing customers is easy and, as with most easy initiatives, not very profitable. 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. For starters, it isn’t financially sustainable. equates to $76m USD. References. [i]

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Banking Loyalty Consumers Loyalty Programs 40

Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As a result, major loyalty trends for 2019 will see a wave of innovation as established brands trial new ways to retain share of mind. Reward programs still have an important part to play in this effort; but they are only part of the picture. Loyalty’ must be delineated from ‘points programs’ or ‘rewards programs’.

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Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs 2018 45

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Businesses, their markets, and customer behavior have evolved dramatically in the past 10 years, yet most loyalty programs have only made incremental changes (in some cases to the detriment of customers). Customer data: maximize ROI. Partners: optimize the mix to appeal to a broader array of customers.

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Loyalty 2019 Loyalty Programs Hotels 45

Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. How supermarkets can profit from loyalty currencies. This is nonsense.

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Loyalty Programs Loyalty Hotels Travel 52