Are you looking for what it takes to create, launch and manage a successful rewards program – Technology! Developing an effective rewards program strategy requires the best enterprise reward solutions. You need to think beyond what types of rewards are offered in your program. You need to find the right rewards program provider and management technology to ensure your program’s performance, ease, transparency, and success. It is every bit as important as selecting the right rewards to offer A fully custom technology solution that will work for your program’s needs is the best option, but it can be difficult to find something that fits both your need and your program’s budget. With a little effort shopping around, you can 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. The Must-Have’s: -The provider should be able to accommodate full Admin access for you and any other users that will need to get in to control the program. Your Own Branded Marketplace/Participant Portal -A […]
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ADR Introduces EzePlay Rewards
All Digital Rewards Introduces EzePlayRewards™ to Create a Personal Relationship with Customers with Point Based Games The new EzePlayRewards™ product gives companies an engaging affordable end to end solution to increase customer satisfaction and support revenue-generating loyalty programs All Digital RewardsNovember 9, 2021 SCOTTSDALE, Nov. 9, 2021, a leader in Reward Management Technology, today announced EzePlayRewards™, a new product for companies to increase customer trust and engagement across industries, including retail, market research, health and wellness, manufacturing, travel, and hospitality. Built on the ADR Customer RewardSTACK™ Platform, EzePlayRewards™ allows companies to create highly engaging code and point-based loyalty programs using game technology for B2B and B2C customers with a flexible, configurable, and quickly deployable solution that fits their specific needs. Companies offering an EzePlayRewards™ product can target their participant’s specific demographic and reward preferences with games and prize mixes to provide a more personalized experience with the use of games to engage hard to please participants and or for smaller incentives budgets. ADR helps companies across industries, to stay current with customer expectations and help drive business value by creating loyal, lifelong customers with highly responsive gaming experiences. Loyalty programs help companies drive growth and develop long-term relationships with their […]
White Paper: What Are Best Practices for Creating a Consumer and Customer Rewards Program?
Consumer and customer rewards programs are a widely popular method of engaging with an organization’s customers, increasing brand loyalty, sales, and more. Over the years, our team at All Digital Rewards has seen changes in participant reward delivery preferences. Evolving participant preferences has sparked a much-needed innovation in promotional and loyalty technology, the security systems that protect it, and the type of rewards and incentives issued through it. Experience has shown All Digital Rewards that some best practices need to evolve to meet ever-changing market demands for reward and incentive promotions and programs. Here are our top 10 best practices. Having objectives is essential to any venture, but unfortunately, it is more common than not for an incentive program manager to outline the program objectives inadequately. You’d be surprised at how many companies want to start a customer incentive program with the vague goal of simply boosting sales. Increasing your sales isn’t the only target, but more profound questions to answer to hone into the program’s true objectives. Consider, is your problem 1) that you’re not bringing in enough new customers, or 2) that your competition is getting all your potential customers? If it is the latter, why? Is it […]
Incorporating Virtual Rewards into Your Incentive Program for Remote Workers
As vaccine rates rise and life begins to return to a more normal state, it is clear that some changes brought about by the pandemic may be permanent. A PWC survey showed that around 80% of companies are planning to maintain some amount of remote work post-pandemic. Additionally, a PR Newswire survey showed 1 in 3 employees would consider changing jobs if the company they are working for makes them return to the office. In the face of this changing workforce, companies are looking for ways to retain and motivate their employees. Employee recognition and engagement is essential to the morale of a company and in maintaining high standards of productivity from their workers. Remote Employee rewards programs are excellent for employee recognition and with the right employee rewards program, you can see higher levels of retention, engagement, morale, and profits. You may also see higher levels of customer acquisition as motivated employees often prove to be the best brand advocates. Remote Employee Incentive programs benefit employers by: A points-based incentive program can be incredibly effective for remote workers. Your workers will adore earning points in incentive programs, which can be spent on an extensive range of prizes such as […]
White Paper: The Secret To The Right Rewards
An effective rewards program benefits both recipients and the sponsoring organization. When participants get recognized for targeted behavioral outcomes, they have an increase in interest, satisfaction, and involvement in organizational activities. As a result, the organization experiences greater outcomes, efficiency, and an increase in revenue and productivity. According to one popular theory of human motivation, actions often are inspired by a desire to gain outside reinforcement. In other words, human beings are programmed to perform when they know they will be rewarded or recognized for their actions. This motivation theory suggests an eagerness for the addition of a reward and that it may not only be wanted but needed to motivate behavior. Rewards have a range of uses. They can be good for recognizing people who have stopped performing specific actions, as can be seen in health programs that reward activities like smoking cessation. More importantly, rewards are used to reinforce desirable behaviors, such as increases in sales, engaging in healthy living, performance improvements, and more. The more importance an individual put on the reward offered, the more influential it becomes in changing their behavior. An extensive offering of rewards increases your chances of building better behavioral outcomes for audiences […]
2020 Incentive Trends and What Incentive Trends to Expect for 2021 – ADR
2020 has been a crazy year full of changes and surprises. In the incentive industry, some interesting things have been happening. The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) recently released their report on the Industry Outlook for 2021, which included some trends from 2020 and what they are predicting for 2021. When IRF conducted their 2019, 85% of companies expected to have a strong financial performance in 2020. The IRF’s new study showed that only 64% believe their companies will have a strong financial performance in 2021 and 50% think that the U.S. economic outlook is strong for 2021. These percentages are still reasonably optimistic, considering the situation with COVID-19. There was a 10% rise in incentive program cancellations in 2019 from 18% to 28%. The rate of incentive program cancellation in 2020 remained fairly steady at 29%. The IRF study showed an increase in preference for gift cards and merchandise, but a sharp, but not unexpected, decrease in offerings of experiential rewards. Many people still desire experiential rewards, but most program managers have chosen to exercise caution in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The IRF believes that the distribution and adoption of COVID-19 vaccines may cause these trends to change in […]
Why your channel strategy should include introducing new incentive technology
Whether you’re starting your first channel sales incentive program, or your company has been using an incentive program for years, choosing the right technology is essential to your success. Does your current incentive management software adequately support your channel marketing strategy? Does it have enough incentives for sales team members to choose from such as gift card rewards, merchandise, and virtual rewards? How ell does it handle security issues? Is the user interface clunky or overly complicated? Are you paying too much? It may be time to consider upgrading your channel partner incentive program technology. Your incentive program channel sales management technology is the core of your incentive program. If the foundation isn’t good, the whole thing will have problems. The right choice of technology can lead to success, high ROI, and greater channel partner engagement and satisfaction. The wrong technology can turn your incentive program into a giant money pit, swallowing up your cash and productivity. When you pick the wrong incentive technology, your only return on investment will be stress. How do you pick the best technology for your organization when comparing different incentive program technology providers? There are many things you can do to make sure you’re […]
Instant Win Drawings Reduce Points-Based Incentive Program Costs and Improve Engagement
Every incentive program manager is faced with recruiting, engaging and retaining participants. They are constantly looking for new promotions to deploy to drive behavior to ensure that company and client stakeholders stay happy. Common problems reward managers are faced with: When we hear this from marketers, the first thing we look at is the marketer employing games in their product marketing mix and if they are how are they implementing the game within their program. Specially we look at how they Reward drawings are designed and deployed to impact a targeted audience’s behavior and are meant to engage low point-based participant earners with an opportunity to exchange points and win a high perceived value prize item that is enticing enough to impact consumer behavior by increasing consumer engagement and build brand advocacy of a points-based program. A well-designed promotional drawing or sweepstakes will accomplish all the above. However, there are pitfalls to be avoided. Reward drawings need to be carefully created, deployed and managed to avoid legal, operational and financial pitfalls. Legal issues associated with a promotional drawing can have considerable ramifications. To avoid the considerable issues associated with drawings, it is often best to partner with a reward and promotions marketing […]
Incentives In a Changing World
The world is changing, and with it, the way we conduct business is changing as well. Companies are seeking new methods of customer acquisition. Employee recognition ideas are a high priority. Sales incentives are becoming more common as part of channel marketing strategy. Virtual incentive options are being sought out. You can spend thousands on advertising, but that doesn’t guarantee customer acquisition. You can experiment with both new and existing models to retain employees. You can look into new ways to increase sales from your direct channel marketing. All of these are reasonable ideas, but you could say yourself some time and money and use a strategy that works: Incentives. As we go forward in the years to come, incentives are going to continue to be an essential part of daily operations for businesses in nearly every industry. If your company is needing a change, and you have the budget and organizational support to execute, it may be time to either start an incentive program or upgrade your existing program. One of the biggest challenges facing businesses is choosing the right rewards and technology to manage their incentive programs. Incentive programs, whether sale incentive programs, employee recognition incentive program, customer […]
Review Employee Engagement Solutions
There is no better time than now to review your employee engagement program. A recent Forbes article highlighted the importance of employee engagement. Higher levels of employee engagement are key to your organization’s success. A 2013 report on the state of the American workforce, conducted by Gallup, showed that businesses with high levels of engaged employees had 22% higher profitability, 48% fewer safety incidents, 28% less theft, and 10% higher ratings from their customers. Those averages were even higher when looking at just Millennial workers. According to the Forbes article, the first step to increasing your employee engagement levels is to assess current levels of engagement so you can identify the pain points that need answering. It is good to survey your employees to get a pulse of your company’s employee engagement. Are your employees happy? Are they motivated? Do they feel a sense of buy-in with your organization? Once you have an idea of where your employees are at and what needs to be improved, you can start planning out your strategy to reengage your workforce with employee motivation rewards. When reviewing employee recognition ideas and engagement strategies, it is worth noting that incentives are consistently shown to be […]
Digital Rewards For Employee Recognition
As more and more people are working from home, companies are looking for employee recognition ideas and ways to motivate their employees. Employee recognition and engagement is essential to the morale of a company. Employee rewards programs are excellent for employee recognition and with the right employee rewards program, you can see higher levels of engagement, morale, retention, and profits. You may also see higher levels of customer acquisition as motivated employees often prove to be the best brand advocates. Employee Incentive programs benefit employers by: A points-based incentive program can be incredibly effective. Employees adore earning points in incentive programs, which can be spent on an extensive range of prizes such as gift cards, merchandise, experiential rewards, additional paid vacation time, or cash equivalents. Employees are well acquainted with what is required to participate in points-based reward programs and will respond enthusiastically to them.When creating employee rewards programs, particularly for remote employees, the right rewards are very important to your program’s success. The effectiveness of your digital or virtual incentives depends on the type of the virtual reward and how much it is valued by your participants. Virtual rewards can come in many forms; some of the most popular […]
Why You Need Virtual Incentives For Your Rewards Program
Virtual rewards are a fantastic, bordering on necessary, incentive for any rewards program. Why do virtual visa prepaid cards, digital gift card rewards, e-code redemptions, and other virtual rewards continue to dominate incentive rewards programs? Because whether they’re used for sales incentives, customer incentives, health and wellness, market research programs, or something else altogether, they meet a vital participant need: immediacy. Benefits of Virtual Incentives: Participants in your consumer incentives programs, channel partner incentive programs, or sales incentive plans all have one thing in common. None of them want to wait to be rewarded. With merchandise, bulk visa prepaid cards, or checks, your incentive program participants will have to wait, sometimes for weeks, from the time they redeem their reward to the time they receive it. Virtual gift card incentives and visa virtual cards don’t have that problem. When considering market research, consumer, or sales incentive program ideas, think about your demographics. Are virtual incentives a good fit for them? If so, look at your options. To properly offer virtual incentives for your points-based loyalty programs, sale incentive programs, customer incentive programs, or others, you will need a few things, to include the right reward options, a good reward management […]
