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 […]
Category: Loyalty Program software
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Visa® Prepaid Card Can Benefit Your Bottom Line
Visa® prepaid incentive cards can help your company drive efficiency and lower costs. If you are currently using checks to reward your customers imagine being able to save thousands of hours in processing time and lowering costs by more than 30%. You will also decrease the payment and delivery time thus making your clients happier so they will return and be your advocate. […]
