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. What really stood out is which brands were pulling off these feats.

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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.

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Oracle

APRIL 8, 2021

Disney goes deep on customer insight. Disney Movie Insiders is the loyalty program for Walt Disney Studios, spanning Marvel and Star Wars to Pixar films. One of its key benefits (and a key benefit of all member experiences) is the discovery of customer insight to deliver a better customer experience.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2017

More useful loyalty currencies are appreciated by more people and will bring the hundreds of millions of people who are rarely active in loyalty programs back into the fold – because they can accumulate more useful value across a much wider spectrum of places they shop.

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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. travel (Budget car rental, Velocity). utilities (AGL). fashion (Adidas).

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SuiteCX

JANUARY 19, 2015

Key Learning: Bringing in partners is a good way to shore up limited resources during a major implementaDon.

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