This episode is sponsored by Points, a Plusgrade company.

Read more about their Exchange solution as a growth channel for loyalty programs here.

"Beyonde" is a customer experience consulting firm based in Sydney Australia, with a single-minded focus on identifying, evaluating, and implementing the best global solutions to create compelling loyalty concepts.

This episode features the latest customer strategy and inspiring loyalty propositions that the Beyonde team are exploring.

Listen to hear Managing Director Simon Rowles talks about data – no longer as “the new oil” but as an even more powerful and profitable asset now that it is becoming increasingly share-able even despite our increasingly restrictive privacy laws worldwide.

We also hear some incredible statistics around a way to drive customer or employee loyalty using the power of fractional ownership, as well as increasingly important option to allow loyalty members to aggregate their rewards across programmes.

Show Notes:

• Simon Rowles - Managing Director, Beyonde
• Beyonde
• Favourite program : Commonwealth Bank of Australia – Yello : https://www.commbank.com.au/latest/recognition.html
• Yello is a loyalty program (“The end game – you framed it as a loyalty platform – is exactly that,” said Norton-Smith).
• Data is the new "nuclear waste" from David Birch
• Cross Company Customer Data Sharing from Ixup
• Banks launching data sharing services
• Points pooling with Swapi and Bakkt
• Fractional shares as loyalty rewards with Upstreet
• Fractional Carbon Credits as loyalty rewards with BetaCarbon
• Renting instead of buying at an apparel retailer with RNTR
• A secondary market for fashion with Reflaunt
• Carbon Tracking in bank apps with Cogo
• NFTs before they were NFTs – Ben & Jerrys and BlockV