There is one constant in every marketer’s toolbox when it comes to incentive rewards – Prepaid Reward Cards such as; VISA and brand named Gift Cards are a still a favorite with participants. If you need to increase engagement in a consumer promotion and if you’re not using them – you should be. Some of the benefits that prepaid cards offer include ease of delivery and use perceived value, and being universally accepted. Businesses continue to use them in their promotions to reward participants and to increase engagement. Below are some facts to consider when creating your incentive and promotional strategy and why choosing the right prepaid reward card providers are important. Business can deliver rewards in a variety of ways, either digitally or by a physical card and participants can receive their reward when and how they like it. A prepaid card is practically a cash equivalent to your participants – easy to store and use. Another awesome bonus is that prepaid cards limit fraudulent activity. VISA Prepaid Card: Users able to use the card practically anywhere to make purchases, both in store or online, just as they would with a debit or credit card. Gift Cards have numerous […]
Category: Customer Loyalty
A Rewarding Experience – The Building Blocks of a Successful Panel Loyalty Program
Panel loyalty programs increase research firm’s panelist retention, survey frequency, and panelist acquisition programs, making them foundational in increasing your research firm’s profitability and revenue. An effective panel incentive program can build brand advocacy and increase the lifetime value of the panelists. The four basic building blocks when creating an effective panel loyalty program strategy include objectives, gaining program support, rewarding participants and measuring the program. There are a few steps you must take when creating your panel loyalty program. When preparing for a panel incentive initiative, panel managers often face roadblocks in the approval phase of their proposal. Be prepared to show upper management that you have a sound business case, including measurable and accurate metrics. Loyalty incentive programs have proven vital in cultivating and rewarding repeat panelists. You must ensure your loyalty program will be valuable to your key stakeholders. With a strong plan in place with clear financial objectives, management is more likely to understand the benefits of your program and see that it warrants their support. When in the program design phase, take the following steps: There are several types of incentives to select from, including: Pick incentives that fit your budget and will motivate your […]
Unlock the Power of Loyalty Management Systems
Enhancing Customer Engagement and Retention Strategies Loyalty management systems have evolved beyond mere earn-and-redeem processes in the fast-paced digital landscape. Today, they are pivotal in driving customer engagement, encouraging brand loyalty, and offering valuable insights into customer behavior. It is important to understand the need for modern loyalty software to provide maximum flexibility and intuitive user interfaces, ultimately empowering businesses to achieve their engagement targets and strategic objectives effortlessly. Why Loyalty Management Systems Matter To create successful loyalty programs, businesses require feature-rich and flexible loyalty software. This software should facilitate quick program setup, effective management, and seamless customer engagement. The system’s key features are essential in achieving these goals, including member account management, targeted promotions, status levels, benefits, and support for multiple currencies. Understanding the Core Features Now that we have established the importance of an ideal loyalty management system let’s delve into the essential top-tier features that should be included. At All Digital Rewards (ADR), we provide comprehensive digital rewards and incentives recommendations, ensuring mutual benefits for your customers and your business. User Management: Look for a platform that provides robust user management capabilities, including member profiles that allow you to gather and track important customer information. With role-based […]
Top Technology Trends in Loyalty Program Development For 2018
Good news for program managers – loyalty technology continues to evolve making their jobs more convenient, but are they considering technology enhancements that keep pace with today’s customers’ expectations? Loyalty program development innovation is more critical than ever, and finding new ways for brands to focus on delivering seamless experiences and the when and where their best customers want them will always present challenges. In a recent webinar, Creating the Right Loyalty Technology Solution, Kathryn Felke, CEO of All Digital Rewards, spoke of the innovative ways loyalty technology can be developed to collect and analyze loyalty data to create long-lasting experiential moments, and to keep loyalty members engaged in real-time driving a better more profound relationship and consumer value. Consumer behavior continues to shift between the ever-evolving online and offline channels, placing marketers under increasing pressure to establish long-term relationships based on customers behavior and preferences – and then to leverage the acquired member data to drive a personalized experience. Think of this process as a closed loop cycle that the member engagement produces more than enough data that will yield insights enabling a brand to create experiential moments and interactions that hopefully will trigger more member engagement, advocacy, and […]
Incentive Management Technology – Why is it Important?
We thought so, and we’re glad you’re exploring what it takes to create, launch and manage a successful incentive program – Technology! Developing a well thought out incentive program strategy is just one aspect of creating a reward incentive program. Thinking beyond the types of the rewards offered in your program, you need to make sure you are shopping around for the right loyalty program provider and management tool to ensure your program’s transparency, performance, and ease is just as important as the selecting the right rewards to offer, maybe even more important. Bottom line, a fully custom tool that works for your program’s needs is definitely the best option to include at program launch, but sometimes the budget doesn’t allow for this option (or so we think) and you might not be exploring the best available options in today’s loyalty technology market space. But what if we told you that you could have a program management tool tailored to your specific program needs, at an affordable price? The following is what you can expect from All Digital Rewards, a leading reward management technology provider, and what you should be on the lookout for when shopping around for other providers. […]
Ordering Prepaid Incentive Reward Cards, Which Option is Best – Batch or Bulk?
When ordering Prepaid Incentive Reward Cards, companies have several options when working with All Digital Rewards. ADR continually works to bring clients the best possible experience, making back-office processes more efficient and easier whenever we can. All Digital Rewards offers multiple options for placing prepaid incentive reward card orders—you can order in batch, bulk, via API or in some cases, a combination of all three. Card orders are supported with advanced, cloud-based reward payment solutions. We ensure that when clients use our reward payment solutions, ordering is faster, easier and protected against fraud. We make it our business to making placing orders for physical, and virtual digital prepaid cards more efficient, faster, more flexible and protected. Whether your incentive program requires a single load or re-loadable options, unfunded or funded cards or shipment distribution by way of a digital process, direct to a single location or to end user recipients home address our incentive reward payment technology can handle it. Incentive prepaid card orders are processed from a variety of sources, each with a unique format. Prepaid incentive card orders come to us through custom platforms, out of EDI-based systems, and can even be sent manually. Today, clients interested in […]
Top Six Ways to Drive Higher Engagement in a Loyalty Marketing Program
Increasing engagement is at the top of every marketer’s list, and sales depend on it. Driving engagement is becoming more tedious and complex as technology advances, so you need to make sure your bases are covered to ensure marketing initiatives are successful in maintaining brand loyalty and you have aligned your brand with the right loyalty management partner. With years of experience in a growing, rapidly changing industry, All Digital Rewards continues to drive behavior and increase engagement with our Reward Management System, SaaS with Stack™. SaaS with Stack™, fully automated, cloud-based reward management system that is designed to offer real-time instant reward delivery. Putting the right reward management system into play will boost a program’s chances of being more successful. Once a loyalty platform solution is implemented you create financial and operational efficiencies that can drive real-time feedback that makes rewarding participants the easy part. Let’s face it – we all want to increases the lifetime value of our participants and turn even the most difficult participant into a real brand advocate. Our best customer is the one we already have. Below is six points to consider adding to your loyalty marketing campaign to drive user behavior, brand loyalty, […]
How To Create Your Own Loyalty Program
The reason you’re reading this post – is it is likely you are curious about how to launch an awesome loyalty program. And it’s not as complicated as you think – so stop worrying. There are great options out there: Well, if you are looking to spend a lot of money and human resources, the do-it-yourself (DIY) route is where that happens. DIY not only takes a lot of money and time, but it also forces you to invest an enormous amount of time into investigating customer behaviors, UX trends, and the how-tos. You may come up with a truly unique idea for a loyalty program, but it could take months – even years – to complete the process on your own. Unless, of course, you have a whole department of developers focused solely on your loyalty program needs, it’s going to be quite an investment. The first step is looking for an agency with experience working in the loyalty and incentive fields. Agencies can help create custom and attractive loyalty programs. Their expertise is in developing programs from start to finish and managing all the marketing communication surrounding the development. There’s one consideration: How much will it cost. The […]
6 Things to Expect from Your Reward Card Vendor
The incentive industry has undergone a complete transformation since gift cards,and prepaid cards hit the scene. Case in point – reloadable prepaid cards have become the favorable choice amongst not only incentive providers, but also participants being rewarded. Why? Who doesn’t enjoy utilizing instant currency right at the tips of their fingertips versus waiting on a check in the mail? Or what incentive provider doesn’t like low-cost incentives and higher engagement, which translate to more saving more $$$? Exactly. Incentive purchasers are counting on vendors to establish an Incentive Plan that clearly identifies the best prepaid card and gift card solution for consumer, employee and Channel Sales incentive programs. What should you expect to be on your vendor’s radar in order for them to help you develop that best prepaid incentive plan strategy? Below are six things to expect from your prepaid provider: Partner with a vendor who knows their stuff. A currency provider should have an extensive reward portfolio, vast knowledge of prepaid reward options available or up and coming options, along with a great strategy that works for what your participants want. A prepaid card provider should be able to offer you: The Platform and Reward Mock Up […]
Comparing Loyalty Reward Management Solutions
The current landscape of changing consumer preferences and countless brand opportunities drive companies to embrace customer loyalty is the answer to increasing the lifetime value of their customers. Loyalty service providers looking to find companies in need of extending their customer’s lifetime value are more and more turning to content and lead generation providers who are not necessarily experts in the field of loyalty or technology. These 3rd party providers are experts in generating content to meet the needs of Google’s search requirements, as well as lead generation. Once you fill out a lead form, they will track you to the end of time. Sound familiar? Companies in need of a dependable and affordable loyalty program provider are just looking for a loyalty service provider that can provide the technology to support incentive and reward issuance that is aligned with customers user preferences that will successfully induce their customers to keep coming back. Be careful not to fall prey to companies who are employing a wide variety of content, lead generation tactics while attracting your attention. You are looking for a qualified loyalty provider not necessarily an expert in lead generation. What should you be concerned with when comparing and […]
All Digital Rewards is Continuing to Expand
Scottsdale, AZ. – (August 17, 2017) – All Digital Rewards, an industry-leading loyalty platform technology provider, is pleased to announce the company’s expansion. All Digital Rewards has moved its Headquarters to Scottsdale, AZ to accommodate its rapid growth, including particularly the business and implementation development team. The new office is conveniently located at The Scottsdale Financial Center III, 7272 E. Indian School Rd. Suite 540, Scottsdale, AZ 85251. “We have a mission that encourages being ahead of technology innovation and access to skilled employee resources and we wanted our location to reflect that,” said Kathryn Felke, CEO and founder of All Digital Rewards in a statement. “We knew that we were quickly outgrowing our office in Lake Havasu City, and we felt it was time to shift locations and move our headquarters to a more convenient location to accommodate growing client demands as well as employee and client travel needs. Lake Havasu City will continue to be an important location for account servicing services that include fulfillment, accounting and customer service.” Founded in 2009, All Digital Rewards develops reward management software that helps businesses attract, manage and engage promotion participants throughout their life cycle. ADR Senior Vice President of Business […]
Build a Winning Loyalty Program Strategy For Your Panel
Creating a loyalty program for your panel is the foundation for increasing profitability and revenue by increasing panelist retention, survey frequency, and supporting panelist acquisition programs. Panel incentive programs, when done correctly, build brand advocacy and increases the lifetime value of the panelists. But to get to this point, you will need to have panelists to enroll and be engaged. Your program needs to capture all the necessary data because getting the critical insight into your panelist for your clients sets the stage for the goldmine of information needed for future panel projects. Let’s take a quick look at four basic building blocks of creating a great panel loyalty program strategy: objectives, gaining program support of key stakeholders, rewarding the participants, and measuring the program. Organizing the logistics of the panel is one of the most crucial steps in order to conduct a successful loyalty program. Below are a few examples of what can jump start the planning phase: Great, you planned your loyalty platform, so just find someone and prepare for launch! Unfortunately, it isn’t that easy. There are so many loyalty platform designers, ensuring you choose the right one is essential. A designer who takes shortcuts, doesn’t focus on […]
