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4–6 WEEKS · FIXED SCOPE · PRICING ON REQUEST

Loyalty Strategy

Loyalty as a revenue lever — not a points programme.

You have a loyalty programme. You do not have a loyalty strategy.

Most loyalty programmes are launched fast as a product feature and never audited. They reward behaviour the business would get for free, miss the high-value cohorts that actually move revenue, and burn margin without measurable lift. Status tiers were designed three years ago. Reward catalogues grew by addition, not by design. Nobody can tell you which cohorts the programme actually moves.

Loyalty done well is the most defensible revenue lever in CRM. Loyalty done badly is an expensive habit. This advisory engagement is for leaders who want senior judgement before they spend more margin and money on rewards.

This is for you if:

How it works.

Week 1 — Loyalty Diagnostic

  1. Audit where loyalty currently sits in your business: programme, status, rewards, comms, points

  2. Map the cohorts driving your revenue today and the ones at risk

  3. Review what you reward, why, and whether the unit economics work

  4. Benchmark against comparable programmes in your vertical

Weeks 2–3 — Strategic Loyalty Framework

  1. Define what loyalty is for, in your business: transactional, emotional, or both

  2. Apply the behavioural framework: status, rewards, exclusivity, experience — and which levers matter most for your cohorts

  3. Map where loyalty integrates with the rest of lifecycle — it is not a silo

  4. Design the cohort and tier model: which users sit where, how they move between tiers, what each tier earns

Weeks 4–5 — Programme Design

  1. Tier architecture: how many tiers, the thresholds, the upgrade and downgrade mechanics

  2. Currency design where applicable: points, coins, badges, streaks, status

  3. Reward catalogue: what to offer at each tier, what costs what, what is emotional vs functional

  4. Loyalty economics: cost of rewards vs LTV uplift, cannibalisation, margin impact

  5. CRM operationalisation: the triggers, segments, journeys and comms that bring the programme to life

  6. Measurement framework: incrementality of the programme, not surface engagement metrics

Week 6 — Workshop and Senior Leadership Presentation

  1. Workshop with your loyalty, CRM, product, and commercial leaders: walk the framework, agree the programme design

  2. Build the senior leadership and strategy deck

  3. 90-minute presentation to your C-suite or VP layer, designed to secure commitment and budget

Deliverables.

A loyalty strategy that earns its margin back.

You leave with a programme designed against your unit economics, your high-value cohorts, and the behavioural levers that actually drive retention in your category. Your leadership can see what the programme costs, what it returns, and which cohorts it moves. Your CRM team has the operating playbook to deliver it.

Pricing on request. Free 30-minute scoping call first. Pricing on request. Engagements often follow a CRM Audit or a Lifecycle Strategy engagement.

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salome@playerjourneyai.com