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. […]
Category: Loyalty Management
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 […]
Why Consumers Love Prepaid Cards
The bottom line is, consumers love prepaid cards. But the question that keeps most wondering is, why? Could it be the simplicity they offer or that these easy to use cards are universally accepted? In this post, we are going to review why prepaid cards have become so popular when it comes to engaging a consumer. Today marketers everywhere innovate towards ease. The easier it is for a consumer to redeem a reward the better engagement a company receives. The important detail to remember to assure that this simple process is just that, simple. There are too many “simple” reward programs out there and they are far from. The more personal information they are required to provide, hoops they have to jump through to activate, and wait on a customer service hold for 20 minutes, the less inclined they are to redeem or use their reward. So long story short, as long as the process to redeem isn’t difficult, then you are on track to a successful program! Benefits: To wrap up why consumers love prepaid cards, the final take away is the simplicity of this incentive. Easy to redeem, easy to use, or even easy to give! “Branded […]
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 […]
Successful Loyalty Program Delivers Channel Sales Results
Your channel sales team drives a significant portion of your company’s revenue. Their performance is important to you – and it’s important to make sure you have the best loyalty program to help ensure your sales team is happy and productive during the campaign. Participation by your partners is essential but can present challenges that can impact your bottom line. To avoid these problems a streamlined and well-organized loyalty and incentive and programs comes into play. As incentive and reward management systems evolve, brands and partners are continuing to modify business models which in turn drive the change which is necessary to work the core programs. These marketing programs are arguably the most important factors for businesses with indirect sales channels and contribute to the overall success of localized marketing strategy. Here is why: -Rewards programs drive channel revenue. Incentivizing your channel with MDF funds based on sales performance encourages branded co-marketing engagements. The more marketing funds that are dispersed through the network, the more likely the partner is to market the brand, which in turn increases foot traffic and sales. -Reward programs energize new products by giving channel sales turn-key access to center dollars and prompt control over how […]
How Incentive Promotions Drive ROI in a Loyalty Program
Does your customer acquisition marketing campaign need a little boost? Something to liven it up and add some pizzazz and excitement to your current recruitment promotion. Or perhaps you need to notify your loyal advocates of a new product and refresh the idea of current programs into a campaign that’s been ongoing for a long period. If any of these apply to you, then you will benefit from a short-term incentive promotion marketing program and drive higher ROI. You may be asking how a short-term loyalty program works. In the Market Research world, you perhaps have a good base of research participants but have just started to notice and drop off in participation. You discover that the rewards have become stale and redundant and panelists are in need of a nudge to engage or update profiles. The offering has not changed in months, and you are on a decline – you are losing your base! This would be a good time when an aggressive attempt to grow the respondent base is needed but how can you acquire new customers or engage past ones? Better yet, how can you keep the ones you already have happy and loyal? This is a […]
Engage Customers with a Points Based Loyalty Program
Have you defined your customer acquisition and retention strategies? Is the process simple and easy to understand or is there unintentional friction and/or a disconnected experience? Do you use brand management technology? These questions are important in today’s evolving digital world as companies are moving to provide customers a seamless brand engagement experience to interacting with their brands when and how they want to. Whether or not you have a solid strategy, All Digital Regards can help increase the lifetime value of your audience by applying a points-based loyalty solution to your loyalty marketing initiatives – turning lemons into lemonade. But how do you make sure your customers are engaged with your brand and not another? One sure way is to continually update and let your loyalty program shine. This can be done by simply updating your reward mix by adding a new virtual prepaid debit via text or email and/or adding a multi-channel communication and reward management process to your program through a points-based reward management system. Points-based loyalty programs are widely available with companies across the country. In fact, three-quarters of US households have at least one membership, and the average household has up to eighteen programs they […]
