Incentive Options

Customer Incentive Programs

Customer incentives are vital to attract and retain customers

Rewarding customers and recognizing their importance by offering customer incentives and rewards is an effective motivating tactic to boost customer loyalty.

Customer loyalty and appreciation incentives are a useful tool for thanking existing customers, increases repeat business and also helps entice new customers to engage with you.

Thanks to Incentive Automation, the tools are available for you to successfully run these programs in-house.

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Proven Tactics For Boosting Relationships

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Customer incentives – giving perks and rewards is awesome for bringing in and keeping customers.

Of course it isn’t the whole story.

Building real relationships and trust is important. When people feel like you genuinely care about them, they’re more likely to stick around.

Customer incentives are just one reminder to them of the value you place on them. It’s all about letting them know that they are valued and respected.

Incentive automation makes it possible for any organization to offer these types of programs. And the tools allow programs to be economical and reduce the waste that used to be associated with gift card and incentive programs.

Effective Strategies for Customer Incentives

Typical situations where customer incentives can prove effective

The value of customer incentives should be balanced to accomplish business objectives and delight your customers. Regularly evaluate and adjust your customer incentive strategies based on feedback, competition, and an absolute focus on business ethics.

Loyalty programs are great for acknowledging and reward customers. In addition there are many other possible reasons to offer incentives to prospective customers.

Celebrating Milestones:

Recognizing important milestones in the customer relationship, such as birthdays, anniversaries, or reaching a certain spending threshold, is an opportunity to provide incentives as a token of appreciation.

Repeat Purchases:

Providing incentives to customers who make repeat purchases helps increase business. Loyalty programs, discounts for frequent buyers, or personalized offers based on past purchases are effective strategies.

Launch New Products:

Offering incentives to existing customers to try out new products or services can help generate interest and excitement during product launches and drive adoption.

Customer Feedback:

Offering incentives in exchange for customer feedback, for reviews, and recognizing social media engagement can help increase participation and also provides valuable insights for improving your products or services

Boosting Seasonal Sales:

During slow periods or seasonal downturns, offering incentives to existing customers such as limited-time promotions or bundled deals can help stimulate sales and increase revenue.

Generating Referrals:

Encouraging existing customers to refer business peers, associates or colleagues by offering incentives for successful referrals can drive new customer acquisition.

Market Research:

Gift cards can be used as incentives for participation in market research studies, focus groups, and product testing. This encourages valuable feedback from customers, aiding in product development and decision-making.

Re-engagement:

When customers become inactive or stop purchasing from you, offering incentives can help bring them back. It’s an excellent way to reintroduce your organization by offering a special discount or reward.

Incentive Value

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Make the incentive appropriate to the task at hand. Tie the incentive value to the amount of effort a customer may have to expend in order to fulfill the terms of your offer. The aim is to move folks to take action on something (such as buying your products, or responding to your request for a renewal discussion meeting) that they had already expressed an interest in.

Avoid presenting rewards that may seem excessive or are far too extravagant. Also keep in mind the potential success of your offer. Make sure it isn’t a value that is unsustainable.

Incentives are fun and casual offerings. They should not be extravagant. Keep in mind that almost every organization has limits on what is appropriate and ethical for employees to receive.

Plan accordingly with incentives that fall within the guidelines of your target audience.

Tips for Successful Customer Incentive Programs

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Return on Investment is a key focus for any successful customer incentive program.

By closely monitoring and assessing the financial return you can ensure that your incentive program remains aligned with your new business generation objectives and maximize effectiveness.

Recognizing and remembering milestones for customers builds emotional connections, enhances loyalty, drives engagement, and differentiates you from competitors.

Recognition makes customers feel valued and appreciated by the organization.

Recognition of anniversaries for customers strengthens the bond to the company making the relationship more personal than just transactional.

Choose a scalable, easy to use incentive and rewards platform that simplifies the implementation of your program.

Incentive automation solutions automate repetitive tasks and reduce expenses by streamlining the incentive process. Automated incentive systems also ensure that reminders and follow up occur so that offered rewards and that incentives are redeemed.

Incentive automation is meant to make your life easier, so we make TruCentive easy to use for both administrators and reward recipients.

If you ever run into a problem, need some assistance or suggestions, your real-life client support manager is just a quick phone call or email away.

Send Ready Projects

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“Send Ready” projects are completely configured with your logo, messaging, personalization, curated incentives, reminders, and more.

Use them as is, or completely or partially customize them and add your personal touch.

It is easy to design and configure email reminders, SMS messages, and landing pages to your own design specifics.

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Our design sessions are the perfect way to show you how TruCentive can help you realize your rewards, gifts, or payout goals in a real-world scenario, building a complete project with everything from your logo, design options, and messaging to incentive selection, deliveries, and reminders. 

When we’re done, you’ll:

  • Possess a solid grasp of constructing your project.
  • Have a comprehensive understanding of best practices for incentive delivery.
  • Learn the secrets of the incentives industry and the savings and advantages of utilizing TruCentive for your next program.
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