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.

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Oracle

JANUARY 16, 2018

With every new year comes new customer experience trends and innovations. On the horizon for 2018 is an increase in customer advisory boards, new job titles, and the next frontier of customer experience-related innovation management. Prediction #2: Increased focus on innovation management.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 21, 2018

In brief: what we’d fully expected (and set out in our ‘ Top Loyalty Trends ’ blog several months ago) was large scale proliferation and diversification of loyalty marketing, as brands beyond established loyalty sectors discovered how better customer experience could deliver bigger ROI. Technological Innovation.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

During 2023, brands will make it easier for more customers to realize value from loyalty program participation. This will help them engage many more customers – particularly in the mid-to-long tail: previously not seen as a valuable target for loyalty marketing, but now recognized as a leading source of incremental revenue.

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Confirmit

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Preventing customer churn is also in essence the main objective of most customer experience programs, and often the most tangible one as linking customer loyalty to revenue from repeat business and positive word of mouth is a well-established way to fund CX improvement efforts, like the development of a new customer loyalty program.

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ReviewTrackers

MAY 8, 2017

Session topics include how to make the most of customer feedback , the different elements of ROI, employee engagement, the continued role of NPS in measuring customer satisfaction, agile operations, and in-depth measurement and insight, among others. Where: London, UK. Forrester CXNYC. When: June 20 to 21, 2017. Where: New York City, NY.

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Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

We see innovation happening in service, and those officers have very senior titles and very broad responsibilities. I travel to Japan, to Europe, and I see this innovation happening across all segments across the globe. What successful and innovative strategies do you see in customer service, and what are the common mistakes?

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Talkdesk

JULY 31, 2017

We see innovation happening in service, and those officers have very senior titles and very broad responsibilities. I travel to Japan, to Europe, and I see this innovation happening across all segments across the globe. What successful and innovative strategies do you see in customer service, and what are the common mistakes?

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West Monroe

MAY 31, 2019

Last year, I wrote about conversational interfaces and how they have the potential to disrupt business and technology paradigms over the coming years. Many firms have started building out their potential use cases and strategies, budgeting innovation funds, and building proof of concept systems.

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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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Kitewheel

JULY 15, 2019

According to Gartner, over half of all businesses will redirect investments towards customer experience innovations this year. Driving real loyalty is more than just customer service, marketing, sales, or even loyalty programs. Audit your Data and Technology. The Rising Role of CX in Business.

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Currency Alliance

JUNE 11, 2019

The smart ones kept a loyalty strategy even if they eliminated the points, but some foolishly acted as though their rewards program was their loyalty strategy – and threw the baby out with the bath water. To be perfectly clear, this does not mean that any bank should cease to innovate around consumer-facing UX.

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OpinionLab

MARCH 12, 2015

The problem is: if you think VOC as merely a provider of customer opinions, you are missing the real value of the technology. For the remainder of this newsletter, I’m going to outline some of the more innovative and impactful applications of VOC data: Personas. Immediate Action. Personalization. Customer Experience Management.

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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 11, 2023

Unless the volume of business is high, there is never a positive return on investment (ROI). For this reason, only very large partners end up collaborating even though the loyalty program members engage with thousands of medium or smaller potential partners on a daily basis.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Within one year, over 100 bank-sponsored loyalty programs in Europe disappeared. Shutting down the loyalty programs was a huge strategic mistake by the banks. Next, we explain how to increase the perceived value of your loyalty currency, so that your loyalty program is more effective, and the ROI increases.

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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. Using AI to improve profitability of pricing and promotions.

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Currency Alliance

MARCH 30, 2022

The ability to innovate with scant resources – and constantly leaning on others for help. The ability to bring together complementary fields of experience to create profitable solutions based on innovative business models and modern technology. Innovating with scant resources.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Management. It often has a great CX and UI.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

What is strange today, is that most brands have evolved their public-facing ecommerce platforms into dynamic, content-rich, and personalized shopping experiences, while their loyalty program redemption catalog may not have changed in ten years, leaving it looking static with minimal appeal. Management. It often has a great CX and UI.

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Currency Alliance

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Recognizing loyalty program members at the Point of Sale (POS) has been challenging for over 30 years. The result is that it can be difficult for a retailer to deliver a smooth customer experience when identifying their own loyalty program members, or customers in partner loyalty programs, at the POS.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This has mostly been via low-investment, tactical approaches that increase ROI, and educate the C-suite regarding long-term strategic value. Faced by this looming ‘perfect storm’ of change, the sheltered existence, that many leading loyalty programs have enjoyed for three decades, is coming to an end. An uncertain future.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Having benchmarked and talked to hundreds of loyalty programs in the past few months, what we think program leaders ought to be doing during the next 3-6 months is preparing a plan to realign their loyalty program design with the broader business strategy and core value propositions. Customer data: maximize ROI.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 7, 2021

AI is important, but still hard to harness – so it may still be years before anything truly significant is happening in loyalty with AI. I encourage you to keep experimenting because the constraint with AI is not the technology, but the lack of sufficient or clean data – two aspects covered by our Loyalty Imperatives.

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Thematic

AUGUST 29, 2024

VoC feedback enables organizations to identify key areas for improvement, prioritize initiatives that matter most to their customers, and innovate better. What is a Voice of Customer program? A Voice of Customer (VoC) program is a systematic way to gather, analyze, and act on customer feedback. We’ve got you covered.

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Currency Alliance

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

So, with competition across nearly every category, all companies now need a loyalty strategy. Not every company needs a loyalty program with points, gift cards, or other incentives, but very few businesses can survive without a base of loyal customers that makes up 30-50% of recurring total sales.

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Currency Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Escalating competition across sectors – not a purported “death of loyalty” – is making loyalty harder earned. 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. Marketing teams, and technologies, becoming more deeply intertwined.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Second, if you’re already familiar with the economics, it provides a narrative framework for upskilling your own teams, to help everyone you work with understand what will drive success and failure in loyalty marketing. Unfortunately, many loyalty programs still resemble different guys in disparate fields with different cows.

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Currency Alliance

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

In ‘Why so many digital transformations fail’, Harvard Business Review cites : inordinate wastage on proprietary technology. Loyalty marketing, however, has been restrained (or, arguably, sheltered) by monolithic tech, and probably a lack of interest, as other, sexier marketing innovations stole center-stage.

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ClearAction

OCTOBER 1, 2018

That’s exciting, yet the future of customer experience management (CXM) is calling out for significant shifts beyond the trends and forces in technology, socio-economics and competitive environments. Likely, the promise of CXM ROI has been alluring to executives who have asked for quick wins and near-term gains.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2017

As technologies mature and customer behavior changes, markets must evolve to remain relevant. We have seen tremendous change across many industries during the past 40-50 years, and these changes can help predict the next evolution in the loyalty sector. Unfortunately, the customer loyalty sector has not kept pace.

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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

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. and changing consumer behavior is impacting the legacy loyalty model, and setting the stage for new leaders to emerge.

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Pointillist

MAY 23, 2018

Visualize a “future-state” customer experience to spur innovation. Today’s Complex, Multi-Vendor Technology Stacks Need Orchestration. How to Maximize Your Journey Analytics ROI. Identify the key “make or break it” moments in the overall journey. Identify and prioritize opportunities to improve the customer experience.

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Currency Alliance

APRIL 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? As CEO, the time you can dedicate to your loyalty program is probably close to zero. Most loyalty programs report how many members they have.

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ShepHyken

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

How to Create a Customer Service Plan that Drives ROI by Krishna Charan. It takes a fairly deep dive into creating a customer service plan that generates ROI. My Comment: Following up on our third submission for this week’s Top Five articles, here’s another point of view regarding the ROI of customer service.

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