Ellipsis Blog

Customer loyalty tips to help you find, understand, manage, and grow customer value. Each blog post offers practical strategies and expert advice to support your loyalty goals.
The Loyalty Technology Maze
The Loyalty Technology Maze
There are now more technology options than ever before and new platforms and innovations are frequently launched into the market. To help you select your next technology partner, we suggest following these 6 selection criteria.
To Tier or not to Tier your Loyalty Program?
To Tier or not to Tier your Loyalty Program?
Here at Ellipsis, we have designed over 200+ loyalty programs, in a lot of markets and cultures, and we are often asked by our clients ‘should we have membership tiers in our loyalty program?’.
Is Your Loyalty Program Betraying You?
Is Your Loyalty Program Betraying You?
A Loyalty Program Manager, a Marketing Manager and a Chief Financial Officer walked into a bar... Find out how they learn to measure Return on Loyalty®.
Why a customer data strategy will help you outperform competitors
Why a customer data strategy will help you outperform competitors
Creating a competitive customer data strategy helps you understand and retain your customers by enabling you to offer a better service and a more engaging experience.
Strategy into practice – nailing the implementation of a new loyalty program
Strategy into practice – nailing the implementation of a new loyalty program
As loyalty experts, we share the pitfalls of implementing a new program, from how to choose the right platform and service provider, and develop a robust and reliable financial model, to the criticality of program performance management
Loyalty Program or a New Data Source?
Loyalty Program or a New Data Source?
Ellipsis Consultant, Aleksandra Zotkina provides insight into the recent privacy regulation changes and the importance of understanding the value of your customer data to create long-term loyalty.
Desirability, Viability and Feasibility of Loyalty
Desirability, Viability and Feasibility of Loyalty
Your customer loyalty strategy and program design should be desired by your customers, viable economically, feasible technically and operationally. We dive into each of these with tips to help your next loyalty program design.
The 5 Ellipsis stages to deliver a thriving loyalty program
The 5 Ellipsis stages to deliver a thriving loyalty program
In this blog we share a little of how we help our clients on their journey to customer centricity with tips to help you diagnose, design, implement, operate, and optimise your loyalty proposition.
The story of Sue-Chef, a recipe for customer success
The story of Sue-Chef, a recipe for customer success
Here at Ellipsis, we understand that stories are the most effective way to learn. That’s why we created ‘Sue-Chef: A recipe for customer success'', in this blog we provide a summary with highlights to easily digest.
Accommodating gender differences in Loyalty Marketing
Accommodating gender differences in Loyalty Marketing
We have clients with loyalty program memberships that overwhelmingly (over 95%) identify as female, so we ‘sat up straight’ when we found this peer-reviewed research paper on gender differences in loyalty programs
The Mismanagement of (Covid) Customer Loyalty
The Mismanagement of (Covid) Customer Loyalty
During Covid lock-downs loyalty programs grew in membership. A disciplined but different marketing approach to this customer ‘windfall’ is required if programs are to benefit, not suffer.
Meet Sasha
Meet Sasha
Introducing Ellipsis Junior Consultant, Sasha Zotkina. Sasha shares her tips to be successful starting a career in consulting.
The Power of Loyalty Partnerships
The Power of Loyalty Partnerships
Loyalty Partnerships are a popular and effective way to enhance customer value propositions and to drive outcomes for all parties involved in influencing customer loyalty.
How to design a world’s best loyalty program
How to design a world’s best loyalty program
The Ellipsis team love designing customer loyalty programs that engage and grow the value of customers. We are happy to share a few of our tips on how to design the perfect loyalty program (just a few).
We are ISO 27001 Certified
We are ISO 27001 Certified
We are proud to announce that Ellipsis has been awarded ISO 27001:2013 Certification in Information Security Management.
5 Steps to Building Customer Loyalty
5 Steps to Building Customer Loyalty
Getting your customer loyalty strategy right can be complex. At Ellipsis, The Customer Loyalty Experts, we recommend 5 steps as a simple framework.
Cash for Your Data! Best Prices Anywhere!
Cash for Your Data! Best Prices Anywhere!
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has recently notified businesses that loyalty programs are in fact a financial product. What does this mean for Australian businesses?
What Does the AusPost eCommerce Report Tell Us About Customer Loyalty?
What Does the AusPost eCommerce Report Tell Us About Customer Loyalty?
AusPost has just released their revered Inside Australian Online Shopping report for 2022, Strategy Consultant Nicholas Bills highlights the key findings of the report from a customer loyalty perspective.
Why isn’t every loyalty program cash-back?
Why isn’t every loyalty program cash-back?
There has been a rise in the popularity of loyalty programs that offer cash as an instant reward for members. We discuss why cash and non-cash reward programs continue to co-exist.
Meet Nic
Meet Nic
Team Spotlight: Introducing Ellipsis Strategy Consultant, Nic Bills. Nic discusses the challenges and benefits of creating data driven automated campaigns
Steps to a data-centric mindset for your business
Steps to a data-centric mindset for your business
We came across ‘steps to a data centric mindset’ created by Temkin Group some time ago, and we often refer clients to these steps for simple tactics to build a data-centric mindset.
Ellipsis Perspective on 40 Years of Loyalty Programs
Ellipsis Perspective on 40 Years of Loyalty Programs
On the Ellipsis "Must Read List" recently is a report by Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science on the effectiveness of loyalty programs. We share some of their findings and our thoughts.
Segmentation Tips
Segmentation Tips
We present our tips on how to understand who your customers are, what value they bring, and what future value they could potentially generate.
Meet Ana
Meet Ana
Team Spotlight: Introducing Ellipsis Data Analyst, Ana Popovic. Find out Ana's tips on how to get started with data visualisation.
Guess What, Loyalty Programs do Make Money
Guess What, Loyalty Programs do Make Money
We discuss research that sets to find out if companies who launch loyalty programs perform better than their peer companies who do not.
4 reasons why many points programs don’t work
4 reasons why many points programs don’t work
We present our top 4 reasons why your points program might not be working...
The Rise of First Party Customer Data
The Rise of First Party Customer Data
We share our thoughts on the demise of surveillance capitalism and the rise of first party customer data…
What is good CX?
What is good CX?
How much more will customers spend because they are happy with the experience we provide?
Cutting Through the Customer Experience Confusion
Cutting Through the Customer Experience Confusion
We hear a lot today about this concept of ‘Customer Experience’…how brands need to focus on it; how important it is to customers. But where do you start?
How to Create a Winning Customer Loyalty Strategy
How to Create a Winning Customer Loyalty Strategy
In our recent Webinar with our friends at Antavo we discussed how to create a winning loyalty strategy. Here we share some of the highlights including how to get started and the characteristics of successful loyalty programs.