{"id":735,"date":"2021-09-02T11:36:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T00:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new212fprod.wpenginepowered.com\/au\/incentive-program-communications\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T17:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T06:43:49","slug":"incentive-program-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/insights\/incentive-program-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalising your Incentive Program Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, you\u2019ve launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/b2b-solutions\/incentive-programs\/\">points-based incentive program<\/a> for your business customers. What now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After any program launch, a well-designed comms strategy does the heavy lifting to engage customers. But unfortunately, we often see communications strategies sidelined, and the engagement approach is a set of generic mass emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such emails might have some basic personalisation, such as point balances, new updates, or activities to drive tactical engagement. The main purpose of these comms is to nudge participants to check the program website and see how they&#8217;re tracking towards a reward. But is this enough?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are already allocating points to customers, there are ways to use this data and improve your program engagement. Leveraging data in your comms strategy will tie everything together and increase engagement via a communications strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Compare the approach. This is how it goes with generic comms: <\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Copy-of-Phone-Template-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1386\" style=\"width:580px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Copy-of-Phone-Template-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Copy-of-Phone-Template-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Copy-of-Phone-Template-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Copy-of-Phone-Template-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Copy-of-Phone-Template-1-125x125.png 125w, https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Copy-of-Phone-Template-1.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"36\" src=\"https:\/\/212f.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/white-line-1024x36.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-282\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">But when you use data, this is how the same message could look like: <\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Phone-Template-2-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1384\" style=\"width:587px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Phone-Template-2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Phone-Template-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Phone-Template-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Phone-Template-2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Phone-Template-2-125x125.png 125w, https:\/\/212f.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/Phone-Template-2.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This example not only shows John his points balance, but he can see how long it took him to accumulate those points. We&#8217;re also saying &#8220;John, thanks for your business&#8221; with a relevant reward that he fancies, and we&#8217;re letting him know how he can earn rewards again and keep his business with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact us if you would like to learn how this approach may benefit your program communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"36\" src=\"https:\/\/212f.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/white-line-1024x36.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-282\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, you\u2019ve launched a points-based rewards program for your business customers.  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