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Durbin Storms Lead to Clear Skies

COLLOQUY 2012 Year in Review

Is Your Discounting Strategy 100% Off?

Lighting the Lamp on Loyalty
How the NHL Can Win Back Fans

2012 Masters of Enterprise Loyalty
COLLOQUY's 2012 Ranking of the Top 5 Elite Enterprise Loyalty Practitioners

Under the Radar: Ten Trends Loyalty Marketers Might Not See Coming in 2013

A Change in Flight Plan

Scott’s New Loyalty Strategy: Sharing Value

The Redemption/Retention Partnership
Financial services companies are recognizing the value of retaining high-value customers, and turning to redemption to help get the job done.

The Solution for Marketers to Thrive in an Open Loyalty Economy

A Measurability Breakthrough in Social Media Marketing
A Measurability Breakthrough in Social Media Marketing

Channeling Flow, Part 2
To apply the concept of flow to your loyalty program, think like a jet fighter pilot.

DMA's Million-Dollar Message: Creating a Virtuous Cycle with Straight Talk

Where is COLLOQUY Now?

Trust or Bust
Consumers are Seeing Less Value in Return for Sharing Their Information

The 2012 COLLOQUY Loyalty Summit Highlights of Day Three

The 2012 COLLOQUY Loyalty Summit — Highlights of Day Two

The 2012 COLLOQUY Loyalty Summit — Highlights of Day One

Flow and the Feedback Loop
How a classic element of loyalty marketing keeps customer engagement flowing

Piloting India’s Loyalty Landscape

Unlike pinball, loyalty programs sometimes don’t offer players free games
Unlike pinball, loyalty programs sometimes don’t offer players free games

Low-Priced Secret Sauce

Important Olympic survey results from Viggle

Channeling Flow
Applying a creative timing element makes loyalty engagement irresistible.

The Dual Relevance of the New United MileagePlus Digital Media Store
The Dual Relevance of the New United MileagePlus Digital Media Store

Viva la fidelidad a Mexico!

What do the COLLOQUY Loyalty Awards mean to the winners?

Win for the Winners: Encourage Loyalty Innovation and Vote for Excellence in Loyalty Marketing

Speling lessons from Bloomingdale’s new loyalty program

Is Now the Time for J.C. Penney to Double Down Its Bets on Its Rewards Program?

The danger of extreme relevance marketing
The danger of extreme relevance marketing

Who Loves You, Baby?

MasterCard’s “Daily Deal” Offers: What Will Make it Hum?

"You Like Me, You Really Like Me!"

Leaping to Other Authors
The COLLOQUY Q&A Quest Continues

Wyndham Rewards Meets The Avengers
Take a loyalty program’s appetite for robust rewards. Add a “super” partner. And blockbuster things happen.

Start ’Em Out Right
Building beneficial loyalty memories - and loyalty habits

Close Calls on Loyalty
Guidance and a Quiz to Test Your Customer Commitment

Loyalty Landscaping: MyLowe’s Grows Soft Benefits
Loyalty Lanscaping: My Lowe’s Grows Soft Benefits

United’s Outperform Recognition Program unites employees and MileagePlus members
United’s Outperform Recognition Program unites employees and MileagePlus members

In the Driver’s Seat
Steering beneficial customer behavior: Conversation with Peter Sheahan

Minding Your Social Media Business
Vision is but one aspect of creating social media ROI: Conversation with Mitch Joel

Walmart and Target Poised to Up the Ante for Mobile Payments

Outstanding entries for the 2012 COLLOQUY Loyalty Awards

Resolving to be relevant, and responsible, across all screens

The Cluster Program – A Modern Model for Loyalty

Entries are closed for the 2012 COLLOQUY Loyalty Awards - Next up: Your turn to vote

Loyalty Binges That Leave Companies Starving
Loyalty Binges That Leave Companies Starving

ExxonMobil’s Speedpass Tries Discount-Oriented Promotion

Who Is Mastering Loyalty?
Who Is Mastering Loyalty?

We’ve extended the time to let your company shine

The Freddies are back...and the winners are...

Learnings from the Eurobonus frequent-flyer program anniversary and its COLLOQUY Loyalty Awards honors

New Jersey's gift card law could harm retailers, customers and the state itself

More to Moms Than Meets the Eye
More to Moms Than Meets the Eye

The Flavor of Foodie Relevance
The Flavor of Foodie Relevance

Weighing Bloomingdale’s New Loyallist Program
Weighing Bloomingdale’s New Loyallist Program

Shouting is not dialogue

Announcing the 2012 COLLOQUY Loyalty Awards – more exciting than The Hunger Games

Revisiting Surprise and Delight
Revisiting Suprise and Delight

Loyalty Highway, I want to drive it all night long

April Fools 2 days late or 363 days early... your choice

Checking out self-checkout: Is it checking itself out, as well?

Your Competitors Are Working on Relevance. Are You?
What we didn’t include in our cover story

The power of sharing - well, sort of

Undressing an Online Loyalty Trend

The COLLOQUY I-Network - The Cause Is the Catalyst

Establishing customer relevance keeps us on our toes - and our customers’ toes, too

Welcome to Emotional Loyalty
Welcome to Emotional Loyalty

How Many Groupon Fans Will Pay $30 For First Crack at Deals?
How Many Groupon Fans Will Pay $30 For First Crack at Deals?

I-Networks on Overdrive

Loyalty fun for the whole family, complete with face painting.

Training Plan: How Loyalty Coaches Social Change and Wellness
Training Plan: How Loyalty Coaches Social Change and Wellness

Putting the Cart Before the Hoarse
Putting the Cart Before the Hoarse

Red Sox vs Lance Armstrong: Which lead does your program follow?
Red Sox vs Lance Armstrong: Which lead does your program follow?

On Target
Can marketing be too relevant?

What was most popular last week in last week’s Market Alert?
What was most popular last week in last week’s Market Alert?

The battle against loyalty program myths

Tactics Versus Strategy: Two Retailers Face Off
Tactics Versus Strategy: Two Retailers Face Off

Miles hidden in your gift card? Thoughts on the MileagePlus Gift Card Exchange program

Besame Mucho
Besame Mucho

Got Privacy? Google Shows How It’s Done
Got Privacy? Google Shows How It’s Done

The Jewel in the Crown
The Jewel in the Crown

Most clicked on from last week's Market Alert
Most clicked on from last week's Market Alert

We have a lot to learn from each other…
We have a lot to learn from each other…

Blog Update: They Keep Forcing Us to Use This Headline

Fear Factor, Frequent-Flyer Edition

Mark Zuckerberg’s Loyalty Manifesto
Mark Zuckerberg’s Loyalty Manifesto

Facebook tops social networking in Brazil
Facebook tops social networking in Brazil

Spirit's "DOT Unintended Consequences Fee": inspiring more unintended consequences than envisioned?

COLLOQUY's most popular content of the week
COLLOQUY's most popular content of the week

Bacon beckons, in a whole new way

Freedom: Perhaps the ultimate aspirational reward

Helping Your Segmentation Soar
Helping Your Segmentation Soar

Siri's Virtuous Circle
Siri's Virtuous Circle

Breached Loyalty: Changing Customer Connection to Caution?
Breached Loyalty: Changing Customer Connection to Caution?

Best of the week
Best of the week

Online Bake-Off
Online Bake-Off: Which Raises Loyalty Faster, Apps or Online Video?

Roll Tide Roll
Roll Tide Roll

Most read items from last week's Market Alert
Most read items from last week's Market Alert

The experiential differential: Loyalty at 180 miles per hour
The experiential differential: Loyalty at 180 miles per hour

Program Protection in 2012
Program Protection in 2012

New Year's Resolution: Revamp Your Loyalty Program?
New Year's Resolution: Revamp Your Loyalty Program?

Safe Landings for Program Pilots
Safe Landings for Program Pilots

Marriott's Ties That Bind
Marriott's Ties That Bind

Have a Coke and a polar bear
Have a Coke and a polar bear

Fire In the Hold: American Airlines Promises to Save Member Miles
Fire In the Hold: American Airlines Promises to Save Member Miles

Numbers and lessons from a recent Virgin Australia survey of frequent-flyer program members

Naming a program, or any initiative for that matter, to communicate benefit

Driving Results in the Burgeoning Brazilian Loyalty Landscape

Emotional Immersion: Loyalty Perspectives from Loyalty World Brasil

Practitioner experience meets customer experience

With Apologies to Kevin, Here are the Six Degrees of Incentive Bacon

The future of hyper-relevant offers and a sea of customer data collection

Building loyalty by encouraging disloyalty?
Building loyalty by encouraging disloyalty?

Do Good. Feel Good. Get Rewarded.
Turning best intentions into positive actions

COLLOQUY's International Loyalty Dictionary
A pocket guide to points translated to various languages

Covert Loyalty: Treat, or Trick?

The loyalty device race takes to public transport

Front-line body-language training: Deepening the understanding of the customer say-do gap?

Attracting Teen Loyalty. Like, Totally.

Congressmen introduce the Consumer Debit Card Protection Act to Repeal the Durbin interchange fee amendment

Earn rewards while preparing for Zombies

Keep Calm and Carry On

Lessons From Netflix: Mopping up with Bounty, the Qwikster Flixter-Upper

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Top 5 Things I Learned at DMA 2011

A tattoo on your backside is not a redemption item

Which direction is your direct marketing going?

Why do customers choose to do business with companies?

Why Amazon focuses on customer experience

Gamification need not be complicated
Gamification need not be complicated

The Groupon loyalty initiative: Discounting customer relationships?

First notes from the World Retail Congress

Which stories shined brightest in last week's Market Alert?

What's in a loyalty program name? Perhaps a new hotel name.

Sweet Emotion

OnStar's Wrong Turn to Achieving Customer Intimacy

Back to School, Loyalty-Style

Gunnery punnery: An incentive offer sets its sights

When is a loyalty pterodactyl in the hand worth two loyalty pterodactyls in the bush?

Customer Privacy, and a Viral Campaign Gone Wild

Oceans 1: A Tale of Caesars Entertainment's Total Customer Relationship Program

Where the Global Loyalty Compass Truly Points

Sears Holding Corporation Shifts Toward Enterprise Loyalty

View From Ocean's Edge: Global Loyalty Views From the 2011 COLLOQUY Loyalty Summit

Understanding Your "Why" Will Lead to Customer Love

Starbucks Grows QSR Loyalty

2011 COLLOQUY Loyalty Summit Highlight Films: The NHL Goes Into Customer-Relationship Overtime

Good Choices: How Choice Hotels Engages Elite Customers . . . With Survey Choices

Do You Know How to Make Your Customer's Day?

And the winners are...

Independent Merger: FlyBuys and Air New Zealand Partnership

Navigating the Shifting Tide in Loyalty: Barclaycard Leverages Experiences for Customers

Brands and Babies: Jim Stengel on Loyalty Leadership

2011 COLLOQUY Loyalty Summit Report: The Four Forces That Are Shaping Loyalty Marketing

When Loyalty is Just a Dead End

Are you ready for some most-read COLLOQUY Market Alert news?

The Haggle Factor: Global Differences in Purchase Negotiations

Loyalty for Social Change: Does Venturepax Pass the Test?

Turning the "iNetwork" into the "weNetwork"

COLLOQUY Market Alert: the first round draft choices

A Modest Proposal

Watch the Red Sox virtually then check in to get free stuff

The Great Divide: Rewards Preferences Around the Globe

We hope not at the same moment: "Virgin America & Hertz Offer Elevate Program Members Deals On the Road and at 35,000 Feet"

Airlines: Why charge an arm and a leg when you can charge for each arm and leg?

And the most read item in last week's Market Alert was...

Beware the danger of treating newly-acquired customers better than your already-loyal customers

Points of Contention: Arguments over ownership of the loyalty points heat up in divorce proceedings

The Grand Exploration: COLLOQUY's Global Loyalty Compass

The historical bond of social media and loyalty programs

Citi offers easy-peasy redemption option

Welcome back, Freddies

More on the Freddies, and Randy Petersen

Feeling strong now! Gonna fly now! This loyalty program gives members (virtual) strength

Making services more accessible to loyalty program members: a healthy approach

Welcome back Freddies, we missed you

Recent studies in the concept of Total Relationship Banking

T-Mobile Taps Telco Trend

Managing Those Pesky 'Madvocates' at United Airlines

The mobile wallet and the device race, international style

CVS/pharmacy puts redemption promotion front and center

They're Heeeerrrrre!

Loyalty marketers can help consumers plan for their planning

Tesco trials the Clubcard approach in U.S. Fresh & Easy stores

Adopting B2B Loyalty

Walmart gas discounts: Will they change the fuel incentive landscape?

Personalizing best-customer rewards with gusto

Safeway borrows a page from the travel industry

The Trend that Keeps on Giving

The Trend that Keeps on Giving

When Luxury = Loyalty

What Are You Doing This Weekend? I'm Casting My Vote for the COLLOQUY Awards!

Despite exploding social networking, customers still want to talk directly to you

The beauty of soft benefits

Got Loyalty?

EMV still prominent part of the loyalty roadmap

Which loyalty news shined brightest last week?

Google's artistic lessons in gamification marketing

Senate rejects the Tester-Corker speedbump in the march toward enacting the Durbin Amendment

Google charges ahead in the

Mobile marketers prioritize customer relationships, but measurement needs alignment

What loyalty news was most popular from last week's Market Alert?

Are You Ready to Vote for Loyalty's Best Innovators?

All hands on deck: taking experiential awards a step further

Moms and loyalty: the power of the "I-Network"

Hard Liquor, Soft Benefits, Real Ownership

The rebate debate

The "Undercover Boss" should also play the role of customer

The Loyalty Industry Adds to Japan Relief Efforts
COLLOQUY Network Partners band together to supply further aid

Customer service and the employee engagement that fuels it is critical to brand loyalty

5 Things I Learned About Customer Loyalty from Dancing With the Stars

The Loyalty Industry Adds to Japan Relief Efforts

The AAdvantage Milestone

Covert Loyalty Wins Counterculture Fans

Understanding What's in Consumers' Wallets, and on the Table

Consumer Engagement Could Be Very Taxing

Ego + Power of Status = Incremental Business

Loyalty 101: The Good and the Bad

PNC empowers customers with choice of perks

Unexpected Durbin impact

Tongues are Wagging

How GameStop deploys elements of Enterprise Loyalty

The power of the experiential reward

Will New Luxury Raise the Bar for Loyalty Marketers?

The Next Wave of Legislation Affecting the Loyalty Industry?

Loyalty Relief: Helping Customers Help Others

If Point Redemption is a good thing, then why don't more loyalty programs promote it?

Technology, In the Hands of the Associate?

Ashes to Cash: Cemetery Points Program Enlivens Japan's Graveside Visitations

What were your colleagues and competitors reading last week?

Avoiding the Gotcha Game

The Regions reaction to the Durbin Amendment

MyPanera's effective surprise and delight

Most popular items in last week's Market Alert.

Borders Bankruptcy: Is Loyalty Too Late?

Is the Tipping Point Nearing? EMV Enabling Loyalty Benefits at Last in the US?

The communication station: are you making your connections?

Inside the Coles Acquisition of FlyBuys Australia
Coles acquires National Australia Bank's 50 percent ownership

Breaking News: "Loyalty Programs Are Working"

Last week's Market Alert – who were the popular kids?

An AMEX Juggernaut? Or, Just Good Partnering?

Double-down? How about quintuple-down?

Most clicked on from last week's Market Alert

A missed opportunity to add loyalty value?

The power of card rewards

India Ready for 2 to 3 Coalitions—We Intend to Be One of Them, Rittweger Proclaims

What was all the rage in last week's Market Alert?

Reward more engagements with customers, not fewer

The customer conversation is happening, with or without you

NCDM 2010 Enterprise Loyalty Day Recap

The loyalty-program designer's co-pilot

Best in show from last week's Market Alert

Foursquare and Facebook Places Face-Off for Loyalty

There might be such a thing as a free lunch, if the Super Bowl goes to overtime

High Quality Trial

The Fork in the Road

Most popular from last week's COLLOQUY Market Alert

Drugstores dive for local loyalty, while others strive for high-frequency

Loyalty in my breast pocket

Equal Shopportunities: How CPG and Retail Companies Can Collaborate for the Best Promotions
Behind every great campaign is a greater collaboration.

The most popular news items for the first week of 2011

M marks the spot

Clipping for Recognition: Groupon Offers Deals, But is that Enough to Win Our Loyalty?
Social couponing services such as Groupon know so much about us as consumers; yet seem to do little to inspire our loyalty.

CVS' ExtraCare Beauty Club another step in the direction of Enterprise Loyalty

What news and which views were most popular in 2010?

Moo. Mauve. Moo.

Does targeting your best customers mean alienating others?

At Rite Aid, loyalty and sales are clearly linked

American Express Jumps into a New Loyalty Game

My two cents on the twelve cents

Hard vs. soft benefits: What do consumers really want?

The game is afoot

Do Affluent Customers Value Rewards?

The Future World of Loyalty

2010 Loyalty World UK Conference
COLLOQUY's Highlight Recap

The Secret Driver of Loyalty

Hello? Hello, Operator?

The holiday retail frenzy begins, but what about long-term loyalty?

Smooth Operator
To ensure retail loyalty program success, remember who reigns over its deployment

More evidence of rewards just for stopping by

The Paradox

Welcome to COLLmart

Storytelling

The Consumer Power of Ten

MyMacy's initiative customizes merchandise to boost loyalty

Straight talk

A road to fresh financial services thinking

Could high-tech credit cards boost real-time rewards usage?

Out of Control

The Durbin Game-Changer?

DMA2010 - Loyalty Leaders Tell All: Harness the Power of Cause Marketing

DMA2010 - How Harley-Davidson Builds Champion Customers One Rider at a Time

DMA2010 - COLLOQUY covers the gathering of 10,000 marketers

An Us. vs. Them Mentality

COLLOQUY announces new publication: Enterprise Loyalty in Practice

Deploying Social Media to Cultivate Customer Loyalty

United's Mileage Plus 2.0

Reflections on the 2010 COLLOQUY Loyalty Summit

Are you ready for more R's?

And the winners are . . .

It's the reign of the Rs, at COLLOQUY's 2010 Loyalty Summit

What did your colleagues and competition find most interesting last week?

To increase customer loyalty, how are companies budgeting dollars for social media?

Results of DMA/COLLOQUY Social Media Survey

There is such a thing as Too Much Information

What stories shined in last week's Market Alert?

Alleviating emotional baggage

Most popular breaking news items from last week

The Convergence Quotient Library

Dead to rights

We get a kick...out of mobile loyalty

What was most popular in last week's loyalty breaking news items?

The melding of loyalty and social networking goes prime time

What's most popular in loyalty breaking news?

Starbucks' grande effort to elite customers

Speedway doesn't slow down . . . its rewards options, that is

Simplify Simplify Simplify

The Durbin Effect: Which Path Will the Industry Take?

Qantifiable benefit

Opportunity knocks for credit card engagement, through loyalty

O yeah?

A lesson from LeBron James for loyalty marketers

Luxury has gone to your head

Playing Offense: TRB Takes Hold at Regions Bank

Feeling hungry for carrots? The healthcare industry hopes so

A Sea Change for Card-based Loyalty Strategies

At Close Range
Touching the mobile-toting consumer through NFC technology

Don't let the points burn a hole in your pocket

Previews of coming attractions

Announcing the 2010 COLLOQUY Loyalty Awards Finalists
And now it's your turn to help select the winners

Savings and goal orientation

A toast, and an invitation

Does Starbucks' new free Wi-Fi offer really raise the loyalty bar?

The Search for Program Clarity

Update: The COLLOQUY Loyalty Awards

While I still have your attention

What was most popular in last week's COLLOQUY Market Alert?

Fuel perks plus retail equals savvy loyalty play

While I have your attention . . .

Video Game Loyalty-No Rule Book Required

Card Forum 2010: Accounting for Customer Loyalty
A Recap of the 22nd Annual Card Forum and Expo in Orlando, Florida

The Mayor of Starbucks, or just your average coffee addict

The Audacity of Hope, Credit Card-style

COLLOQUY's 20th Anniversary Flashback, 1992
COLLOQUY talks with the creators of Neiman Marcus' InCircle

From the Front Lines: Program Gut-Check

Retail, Telecom, Word of Mouth

Today's Moms deserve marketing R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Loyalty inspiration, loyalty awards

Trendwatchingwatching

The West of the story

Rite Aid uses health/wellness loyalty benefits to stand out

COLLOQUY's 20th Anniversary Flashback, 1993
Keith Mills discusses the lessons of AIR MILES US

Brand championships

Wherefore, Foursquare?
How Foursquare's check-ins are making location-based loyalty play

Is this pizza pie sliced . . . or segmented?

Bank-hopping more common in a loyalty-lagging sector

Na'vi newbies

Red Light, Green Light

COLLOQUY's 20th Anniversary Flashback, 1990
The COLLOQUY Retrospective: What Was the First Loyalty-Marketing Program?

A COLLOQUY Green Thumbs-Up

Most popular breaking news from last week's COLLOQUY Market Alert

No Sgt. Pepper Involved

Sound bites

COLLOQUY's 20th Anniversary Flashback, 1992
The COLLOQUY Retrospective: Candid Conversation With Frequent-Flyer Pioneer Mike Gunn of American Airlines

COLLOQUY's most popular news items from last week

Beware the fine print backlash

Not Coming Soon to a TV Near You: FSI: Pittsburgh

Hey buddy, can you bump me $5?

Retail loyalty's big leap

Fee Fie For Some

What was most popular in last week's COLLOQUY Market Alert?

Welcome to the COLLOQUY Blog

Loyalty Trend of the Month

Jeeves, sans Wooster

Refresh & Easy

Fifty cents could have been really special

Loyalty 2010, Kuala Lumpur: An Onsite Report
A recap of a vibrant, fascinating loyalty conference held this year in Malaysia

"New frugality" remains, says new shopping behavior study

Hey big spender…credit cards target the money-full

Expansion in the works for department store loyalty programs

Is health care a gamble? Or vice versa?

Loyalty marketers never want to hear the word "betrayal"

Kitchen coalition

Spiderman need not apply

Mobile barcodes continue march towards mass adoption

What was most popular in last week's COLLOQUY Market Alert?

Consumers don't believe their peers give good advice

A tip of the bottle cap . . .

A possible wedding ring reward spurs Tesco loyalty

India's next-generation loyalty landscape
Coverage of the 3rd Loyalty Summit at the Taj Lands End, Mumbai, Jan. 27â€"28, 2010

Chapter 1: I Love You More Than My Dog
A COLLOQUY Preview Read

Maybe you can win for losing

What loyalty news was most popular on COLLOQUY last week?

Is Toyota loyalty unshakeable?

Up, Up and Away on Bail!

Boomers connecting via social media

Craftsman tools can take a licking

Retailers sing stirring rendition of "I Will Survive"

Easy Does It
Why Clubcard has not yet stretched across the Big Pond to Tesco's Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets

Rewards for Relief
The power of charitable member engagement

Isn't the sound of turning a magazine page kind of like the sound of a gentle wave splashing on a beach?

What was most popular in COLLOQUY last week?

Another grocer takes advantage of loyalty data for recall alert

Big Pizza is watching you

Ready for the hook plus line and sinker in the store?

Location location location . . . and what hotel am I in anyway?

A Magic Mountain of Information

Is it poor taste to solicit reward-point donations for charity?

Moms love free stuff, technology and talking.

Luxury retailers see glimmer of light or shimmer of diamonds? at end of tunnel

Tweet me please

Loyalty Charity from a consumer perspective

Quick take: Details on JAL's bankruptcy filing

Procter & Gamble's new eStore test: A move to boost CPG loyalty?

Retail Reconnaissance
A recap of 2010 conference highlights

Tasti D-Lite to reward for social networking

Do good, get rewarded

Outback to launch loyalty program this month

New frequent-flyer benchmark

Hardees offers free drink with order of new bacon cheddar fries

New Motorola mobile loyalty solution targets retailers

If not for the courage of the fearless crew . . .

New Deloitte study shows food retailers most resilient

The ancillary app

Playing the Cards Right
Winning hands at the 2009 Cards & Payments Loyalty Conference

Frequent-flyer program members participate in security test

E-commerce feels flush once again, but what about loyalty?

U.K. Pub offers cash back on beer

And, oh yeah, happy holidays

Ripping paper still rules for clipping coupons

Want to accept credit cards? There's an app for that.

Odds and Ends

The App Trip
Hotel chains turn to smartphone applications to target tech-savvy travelers on-the-go

Subject Line: Proofreeding neaded

Retailers warm up despite the wintry chill

Earn Nectar points for walking

Get Out of Jail Free

Air Time

Equity, Continuity and Dialogue at 2009's Loyalty World Conference
COLLOQUY's Highlight Recap

CMO Council Research Report: DMA09 Conference & Exhibition
A COLLOQUY DMA09 Report

Loyalty Leaders Panel: Coalition Loyalty Takes Center Stage
A COLLOQUY DMA09 Report

Kelly Hlavinka: Neural Marketing—Is There a Buy Button in Our Brains?
A COLLOQUY DMA09 Report

Ford's Scott Monty: Putting the Car in Karma
A COLLOQUY DMA09 Report

Omnipresence at the DMA09 Conference & Exhibition
A recap of 2009 conference highlights

C Level

Despite recession, program participation jumps 20 percent

Hammer Time
It's time to nail down market-savvy customers

Two Tales of One Conference: The 21st Annual Card Forum and Expo
April 21-22, 2009

A Tale of One Conference: The 21st Annual Card Forum and Expo

A Tale of One Conference: The 2009 Spring FTMA Conference

Counting on Change in an Era of Saturation
The impact of emerging loyalty trends on the airline and hotel loyalty-marketing industries

A Tale of Two Conferences

COLLOQUY releases 2009 Census

Spinning Wheel
A smooth ride into the third wave of loyalty marketing

The Speed of Choice
Upgrading rewards fulfillment for the 21st Century

Who Are Your Word-of-Mouth Champions?
Who Are Your Word-of-Mouth Champions?

Loyalty Leaders Tell All
Loyalty Leaders Tell All

Topics 1, 2 and 3: The Economy, The Economy and The Economy
Reports from the 2009 National Retail Federation Convention and Expo (The Big Show 2009)

The DIY Corporate Bailout Kit
Forget Washington—marketers need a sound, self-reliant customer strategy to build for the future during these economic storms

Insight That Still Doesn't Stay in Vegas
COLLOQUY leaks even more secrets . . .

Insight That Doesn't Stay in Vegas
COLLOQUY leaks the secrets . . .

Value Exchange Marketing
Leveraging the long-term strategy of customer control

A Certain Stage
COLLOQUY's Coverage of Loyalty World 2008

The Answers, My Friend . . .
A report from COLLOQUY's 6th Annual Loyalty Marketing Summit

I Thought We Had Something Here

Closing the GAAP
At-a-glance comparison of current U.S. GAAP common practices and IFRIC 13 guidance

Hammurabi's Liability Code
New international liability standards are cause for rejoicing, not panic

Introducing: LoyaltyOne
LoyaltyOne to Target International Marketplace Opportunities

COLLOQUY Unveils Retail Loyalty Index
Costco and Macy's Generate Top Customer Loyalty

Customer Advantage
Boots has the right prescription for customer loyalty

The COLLOQUY Interview: Elizabeth Ames
Senior vp, product development & services, NetCentives

COLLOQUY's coverage of the FTMA 2008 Spring Conference

COLLOQUY covers the Freddies

Fashion Accessories

uTANGO and Cash

Helping Those Who Elf Themselves
Quick Studies in Database Marketing—Part 3: How OfficeMax Reads—and Reacts to—Customer Signals

Sixteen Going on Seventeen

Dream On
Banks who think image advertising builds brand loyalty are merely dreaming

Sure Bet
Quick Studies in Database Marketing—Part 2: How Harrah's Improves the Odds of Building Lasting Customer Relationships

Gate-Crasher
Program perks that are right on queue

Screen Test
Quick Studies in Database Marketing—Part 1: How Warner Home Entertainment Finds Data Star Power

On the Other Side of the Aisle
The Expedia partnership from ThankYou Network's perspective

Top 10 Tips To Save Holiday Green Using Reward Points, Airline Miles
COLLOQUY Releases Loyalty Rewards Playlist To Ease The Squeeze On Your Wallet

Canada Beats US in Program Participation
With surge in CDN dollar, Canadians bank even more in loyalty currencies

Loyalty Trends In the Hottest Segments

Passion and Words of Power
A recap of the 2007 COLLOQUY Loyalty Marketing Summit

Group Tour
A guided tour of the Dotz Travel Club

Measure for Measure
How Caroline, Vanessa and Sophie will tell CVS if they'll stay in line with ExtraCare Plus

The COLLOQUY Interview: John Briesch and Jeff Ratner, Sony Corporation of America

B2B Loyalty: A look at the best

The COLLOQUY Interview: Wayne Malone, Citibanking North America

The COLLOQUY Laws of Debit Card Loyalty

The colloquy.com Guide to Debit Card Loyalty

The COLLOQUY Interview: Fabio Garcia Banco Popular

Introducing...the COLLOQUY Analytical Growth Chart

Yeah, we can do that
Deciding which analytical solution is right for you

The COLLOQUY Interview: Steve Sickel Six Continents Hotels

The COLLOQUY Interview: Andrew Jordan

The COLLOQUY Interview:Jeffrey Diskin, Hilton HHonors

The Rosetta Stone: Constructing a Loyalty Program P&L

The COLLOQUY Interview: Joe Giordano, ExxonMobil Corp.

The COLLOQUY Interview: Patrick Gauthier, Visa USA
The COLLOQUY Interview: Patrick Gauthier, senior vice president, new product development, Visa USA

The IXE Effect

Global Coalition Report Card
The view in 2001

Branded!
The Co-branded Credit Card Is Not an End in Itself

Adding Value to Frequency Programs
Marketers Around the World Are Finding Answers

The COLLOQUY Research Review
The Impact of Loyalty Programs on the Buying Behaviors of Small Businesses, from Warrillow & Co.

The COLLOQUY Interview: Bill Powanda of Griffin Hospital
Conversation with the Vice President of Hospital Operations about an innovative employee reward program

Loyalty Marketing: What Is Its Role in a CRM World?

Ordering Off the Menu
Loyalty Is a Mystery to Restaurant Operators

Loyalty in Sports
The Ultimate Customer Lock-in?

The Big Show
Loyalty for Computer Screen, Silver Screen Compete With Live Entertainment Programs

Foco de atención internacional: México

Executive Inns Straddles Loyalty, CRM

The COLLOQUY Expert Witness Program: Claudio Marcus, Gartner Group

The COLLOQUY Interview: Chase Rewards Plus
Chase enters the merchant rewards fray

Give Me Loyalty or Give Me Debt
Wherein we proudly and mischievously introduce COLLOQUY's new Banking Crank columnist

You Had Me at Hello
Our Customer Diva reminds us of the basics in building loyalty—a superior employee engagement strategy—lest she bid you goodbye

Tongue-Tied
In which COLLOQUY's Communications Curmudgeon tells the sad tale of customer-facing employees having to fight with two hands tied behind their backs

COLLOQUY's European Forum Report - Part II
A Tale of Two Countries, Part II

COLLOQUY's European Forum Report:
A Tale of Two Countries, Part I

Next Generation Loyalty Shopping
If you build it, they will come

Feeding the Soul
Is the way to the heart of affluent customers through the stomach?

COLLOQUY Floor Report: Card Forum

COLLOQUY publishes 2007 Loyalty Census
Average U.S. Household Belongs to 12 Loyalty Programs

Answering the Ultimate Question, Part II
A top loyalty and marketing consultant joins us for the ultimate question-and-answer session

Paper, Plastic or Electrons?

Bloodstreams and Message Streams
How loyalty communications provide the heartbeat of a blood-donor center

Kick-Starting the Coalition
How strategic marketing and attention to customer value coalesce into success

Itchy Trigger Finger
In which COLLOQUY's Director rejects her inner Elmer Fudd

Playing the Name Game
Taking names and kicking. . . well, just kicking

Stumbling Down Fee Street
Where did all the great ideas go?

Program Spotlight: Freedom of Expression

The Asian Evolution
It's that old familiar refrain — evolve or perish

Who's In Your Wallet?

No Static at All
Loyalty is not a radio contest, nor is it a scavenger hunt

The Accidental Tourist II: Revenge of the Diva
In which COLLOQUY's Customer Diva fails to be dazzled by gold

Back to the Future
The Futura Rewards program looks forward

Chief Unifying Officer
A top corporate customer zealot talks the unifying corporate language.

Talking Turkey about the Flexi card
When it comes to innovation, smaller companies are schooling the big boys.

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