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	<title>Comments on: Back to Basics</title>
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		<title>By: Rick Barlow</title>
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		<description>Mike,

Well put, and hard to argue with on the surface. I&#039;m now 7 years disconnected from the loyalty world, but I wonder if being big isn&#039;t the price of being in the game these days. In an age of &quot;loyalty ubiquity,&quot; maybe the huge net is an unavoidable first step. If technology isn&#039;t making that essential step more affordable, maybe the day has finally arrived for a couple of large coalition programs to emerge here, vastly reducing the cost per member &quot;to identify and maintain,&quot; and allowing the partners to focus the majority of their investment, as you suggest, on &quot;increasing the yield.&quot; Just a thought. Keep up the good work.</description>
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<p>Well put, and hard to argue with on the surface. I&#8217;m now 7 years disconnected from the loyalty world, but I wonder if being big isn&#8217;t the price of being in the game these days. In an age of &#8220;loyalty ubiquity,&#8221; maybe the huge net is an unavoidable first step. If technology isn&#8217;t making that essential step more affordable, maybe the day has finally arrived for a couple of large coalition programs to emerge here, vastly reducing the cost per member &#8220;to identify and maintain,&#8221; and allowing the partners to focus the majority of their investment, as you suggest, on &#8220;increasing the yield.&#8221; Just a thought. Keep up the good work.</p>
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