Six weeks, five countries, four conferences and a pile of travel expense receipts that desperately needs to be sorted. That has been the reality here at Loyalty Truth as we have been on the go while making the most of the final business push of the year before the holiday season settles in and thoughts [...]

Loyalty marketing is about much more than “marketing”. The essence of influencing consumer behavior has its nexus at the intersection of marketing, payments and technology. If Hanifin Loyalty had a business address that was indicative of focus rather than where we receive our mail, it would be at that interesting little corner of commerce.
As smartphone [...]

Mark Cavendish is the fastest person in the world on two wheels. At the moment, the professional cyclist, riding for HTC Highroad, holds the lead in the sprinter’s competition in the Tour de France and is a favorite to hang on to the “green jersey” until the race wraps up next Sunday in Paris.
With all [...]

Loyalty Truth has been giving a lot of thought towards the shaping of loyalty and rewards programs to engage the interest of Millennials and the broader digital consumer group we are calling Consumer 2.0.
With many merchandise offerings lacking imagination as well as value, and airline miles tough to redeem given capacity restraints on available reward [...]

There are two forms of brilliance in business – one displayed by people who invent things we haven’t thought about before (Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare) and those that find a way to incorporate these new communications channels into mainstream business to generate revenue.
In many aspects of social media, we are waiting for the dots to be [...]

If you want to get a sniff of where Location Based Marketing is headed, you have to go where the leaders are and listen. A good friend of Loyalty Truth, Ron Stack attended the Location Based Marketing Summit held recently in New York. Ron is CEO of Zavee.com, a social shopping network based in Boca [...]

After spending two days documenting my recent experiences with location based service Foursquare, I thought it was time for another type of check-in – this time with the threat of data theft in our world and the many ways we are exposed to this important risk.
I’m a JP Morgan Chase customer and suffered through last [...]

In the past week, business has taken me to Vancouver, BC and San Jose, Costa Rica with a pit stop in South Florida for a day or so at home. None of that was a big deal until my colleague Mike Atkin noted at dinner that we’ve been hitting these spots in conjunction with some [...]

In the past week, business has taken me to Vancouver, BC and San Jose, Costa Rica with a pit stop in South Florida for a day or so at home. None of that was a big deal until my colleague Mike Atkin noted at dinner that we’ve been hitting these spots in conjunction with some [...]