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Built for complex loyalty programs
Easily create unique loyalty experiences that go beyond the typical “spend and earn points” model.
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Overview
With the boom in retail media, advertisers are demanding more. A loyalty program adds compliant zero-party data for improved audience analysis, segmentation, ad targeting and a personalized customer experience. Offering advertisers multi-channel access to your loyalty program members expands your retail media inventory.
Challenges
Building a retail media channel is a challenging and expensive proposition that requires extensive customer data, accessible inventory and attribution to sales.
- Limited to transaction and first-party data
- Ad inventory is primarily online
- Hard to measure performance
Expected outcomes
Leverage a strong loyalty program to build a relationship with customers and deliver personalized experiences.
- Collect consensual zero-party data
- Loyalty data powers advanced segmentation and personalization
- Offer ad inventory in email, text and social channels
Capabilities to use
Progressive profiling Advanced segmentation Surveys, quizzes, contests Reporting Social loyaltyOverview
A B2B-focused loyalty strategy that rewards partners, resellers, or customers for completing training modules, certifications, or educational milestones.
Challenges
- Encouraging participation in training programs.
- Tracking completion and rewarding appropriately.
- Ensuring training translates to improved business outcomes.
Expected outcomes
- Higher training participation rates.
- Better product knowledge and customer satisfaction.
- Stronger, more capable partner and customer networks.
Overview
A loyalty program structure that uses tiered benefits to motivate smaller or newer customers to increase their engagement and purchase volume, supporting long-term growth.
Challenges
- Designing meaningful tiers that motivate incremental growth.
- Providing non-transactional benefits (e.g., training, priority support) that add real value.
- Transitioning customers from transactional to emotional loyalty.
Expected outcomes
- Increased customer retention and lifetime value (CLTV).
- Stronger long-term relationships with customers.
- Higher engagement as customers strive to reach higher tiers.
Overview
A loyalty approach designed to encourage customers to shop across multiple departments or categories, increasing their exposure to new products and driving incremental purchases.
Challenges
- Getting customers to explore and purchase from new or less familiar departments.
- Tracking and rewarding cross-category behaviors efficiently.
- Maintaining increased engagement over time.
Expected outcomes
- Higher average order value (AOV) and purchase frequency.
- Broader customer knowledge and engagement across product lines.
- Sustained or increased sales as customers discover more of the store.
Overview
A loyalty strategy that drives engagement and repeat transactions without relying on traditional points, instead recognizing and rewarding desired behaviors such as social sharing, reviews, and purchases.
Challenges
- Overcoming liability concerns associated with points-based systems.
- Keeping engagement high without the tangible “currency” of points.
- Encouraging a variety of valuable actions (not just purchases).
Expected outcomes
- Increased engagement and frequency of interaction with the brand.
- Higher average transaction size.
- Enhanced brand affinity through recognition and non-monetary rewards.
Overview
Recognize and reward profitable behaviors with loyalty.
Challenges
Most brand-to-customer relationships are purely transactional, missing opportunities to:
- Reward other profitable behaviors
- Collect more in-depth data and insights
- Cross-sell, upsell and drive advocacy
Expected outcomes
Turn desired behaviors into habits with an attractive value exchange.
- Gamification can increase sales performance by up to 60%
- Combining less frequent behaviors with frequent increases the likelihood by 50%
- Incentivize referrals, completing profiles and surveys, and more
Overview
Combat rising marketing and customer acquisition costs.
Challenges
Customer acquisition costs have risen 60 – 70% in the past six years.
- Brand trust is at an all-time low
- Most B2C companies lose 60% of their new customers annually
- Recommendations are the highest-ranked source for new purchases
Expected outcomes
Emotional loyalty is the key driver of word-of-mouth and referrals.
- 86% of loyal customers will recommend a brand
- Referrals have a 30% higher conversion rate, 37% higher retention rate and 16% higher lifetime value
- Recommendations are 50X more likely to trigger a purchase
Overview
Increase customer retention by protecting and focusing on the customers that deliver the lion’s share of your revenue.
Challenges
B2C companies lose 60% of their customers annually.
- Without a loyalty program, only 20% of first-time customers will make a second purchase
- It’s 16X more expensive to bring a new customer up to the same level of an existing loyal customer
Expected outcomes
Proactively retain high-value members and re-engage inactive members.
- Increasing customer retention by 5% can increase profits up to 75%
- Existing customers buy 90% more frequently, spend 60% more per transaction and bring in 23% more total revenue
Overview
Build personal and profitable customer relationships that drive growth.
Challenges
80% of B2B buying decisions are based on experience, only 20% on price and product.
- Lack customer data and relationship
- Buyers want a seamless experience across channels
- Most B2B tech stacks are outdated and disjointed
Expected outcomes
Build meaningful customer relationships that create lasting bonds.
- 59% of loyalty members actively make repeat purchases
- B2B loyalty members spend 13% more than non-participants
- B2B customer retention is 27% higher among companies with a loyalty program
Capabilities to use
Progressive profiling Advanced segmentation Integrations Incentive engine GamificationAnnex Cloud delivers real business results
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