Customer Base Rewards Programs Travel 
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. voucher-based. A disloyal generation? Engaging employees.
Currency Alliance
OCTOBER 12, 2021
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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Currency Alliance
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
The future represents much more collaboration among brands to serve common customers more effectively. An example of effective alignment of strategy with tactics include Australia’s Coles Supermarket chain and its flybuys reward program. altering customer behaviour to support corporate objectives, without upsetting people.
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. Merchants across retail, travel, utilities, healthcare, etc.
Currency Alliance
APRIL 15, 2024
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.
Currency Alliance
JUNE 19, 2019
By the end of the programme’s first year, loyalty members made up 44% of Tarte.com revenue, despite only making up 21% of the total customer base. Customer journeys to the moment of purchase are highly complex and too few brands are engaging with key steps along the way, to understand why customers buy, or fall out of the funnel.
Currency Alliance
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Such ‘loyalty’ programs today are actually just rewards programs: ‘you do this and I will do that.’ This is normally in the form of static rules which apply a flat 1%+/- reward across the board. A superb example of a program getting this right this is Virgin Australia’s Velocity program. This seems fair.
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