Loyalty 2.0
April 25, 2010

The big-if not the biggest-marketing buzzword. There is no shortage of articles and opinions on this topic. In fact, googling the term “loyalty programs” yields about 1.6 million hits; googling “credit card loyalty programs” yields about 1.1 million. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

Loyalty, the Social Way
April 25, 2010

Social is to strategy what the internet was to commerce back in the early part of this century – a new way to reduce costs and increase revenue by improving and enhancing the ways in which company and customer interact. For this reason, as we...

Five Burning Quesions on Loyalty: Loylogic’s Steve Landuyt
April 24, 2010

Steve Landuyt is the Executive Vice President for Loylogic, Inc, a Swiss company which specializes in global loyalty and reward solutions for the payment industry, airlines, hotels and gaming providers. He leads U.S. sales and business development as well as partnership initiatives to expand market...

Payment Card Rewards Programs and Consumer Payment Choice
April 23, 2010

Credit and debit card payments have been growing rapidly. To continue the growth, payment card networks keep adding new merchants to their networks. But adding new cardholders is becoming more difficult because most consumers in the United States already have both credit and debit cards....

Can IP Commerce Create the Apps Store for Payments?
April 22, 2010

There’s no Steve Jobs strutting on the stage, massive consumer buzz, or slick television ads about how there’s an app just for you. But there are some things you’ve probably heard about and a soon-to-be known Denver based company, IPCommerce, is the invisible engine that’s...

Exclusive Interview: Andrew Ching on Payment Rewards and Loyalty
April 22, 2010

In this exclusive NEXTcast interview PYMNTS.com sat down with Andrew Ching, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Toronto. Andrew weighs in on loyalty and rewards programs and how they affect consumer payment choice. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

Loyalty & Marketing
April 22, 2010

NFC Déjà vu all Over Again
April 22, 2010

There was big news yesterday out of the world of NFC and contactless. A collaborative effort between Inside Contactless, Sagem Orga and TazTag has produced a brand new NFC payments gizmo that is purported to be prescription for what ails NFC payments adoption. Described as...

Cards, Coupons, Cell Phones, Oh My.
April 22, 2010

There was a story earlier this week about the bigger role that “general purpose” payment cards are now playing in the store loyalty card space. The elevator story here is that there are a number of use cases now where store loyalty cards have become...