Functionality : Rewards
Overview
Loyalty allows you to collect basket details, act on them and suggest additional items, incentivizing members to take additional actions.
Challenges
Consumers are scrutinizing where and how much they spend.
- Inflation
- Rising acquisition costs
- Shrinking margins
Expected outcomes
Loyalty members spend up to 60% more per transaction.
- More relevant promotions
- Higher spend per order
- Increased CLTV
Capabilities to use
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
Capabilities to use
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
Capabilities to use
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
Capabilities to use
Overview
Collect profile information to learn what motivates your customer, then use loyalty to personalize experiences that’ll drive additional purchases. Annex Cloud’s Loyalty Experience Platform™ allows unlimited attributes and many ways to engage customers.
Challenges
Simply offering discounts cuts margins, devalues your brand and creates customer expectations.
- High early-stage churn
- High acquisition costs
- Shrinking margins
Expected outcomes
Knowing your customers helps you keep them coming back. And loyal customers buy 90% more.
- Reduced churn
- Increased repeat purchase rate
- Increased CLTV
Capabilities to use
Overview
Using loyalty and the data collected to personalize customers’ experiences and create emotional bonds will increase their lifetime value. In fact, Forbes reports loyalty is proven to increase CLTV by 30% or more.
Challenges
Most brands have a transactional, discount-based relationship that doesn’t maximize growth.
- Low repeat purchase rate
- Infrequent purchases
- Low average order value
Expected outcomes
Loyalty members spend up to 18% more than non-members each year (Accenture).
- Increased purchase frequency
- Increased average order value
- Build lasting emotional bonds
Capabilities to use
Overview
Imagine universal gift cards, coupons, vouchers and other offers. Annex Cloud’s Incentive Engine gives you a solution that connects ecommerce and POS for a seamless customer experience.
Challenges
Brands struggle to allow members to redeem rewards anywhere they shop.
- Lack of integrations
- Limited redemption options
- Delivering a consistent, omnichannel experience
Expected outcomes
Deliver an exciting range of rewards your customers can easily redeem anywhere they shop.
- Simplify promo management and distribution
- Reward customers with gift cards, products, credits and more
- Let customers redeem partial or full rewards anywhere
Capabilities to use
Overview
nsumers have had seismic shifts in their needs and behaviors, yet most industries are built for mass marketing. Use loyalty to serve up personalized experiences at every touchpoint. Execute relevant communications, promotions, rewards and offers.
Challenges
Consumers don’t just expect personalization, they demand it.
- Major gap in ability and expectations
- Difficult to execute
- Siloed data
Expected outcomes
Companies that grow faster drive 40% more revenue from personalization (McKinsey & Company).
- Improve customer experience
- Increase revenue
- Improve marketing efficiency