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Is your brand tapping into these three unshakeable pillars of guest loyalty in 2025?
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Feb 10, 2016
You’ve launched a great loyalty program and your staff members are handing out a lot of activated cards to customers. Why aren’t enough of your customers registering these cards? Until the customers register their loyalty cards by entering their information, you don’t know anything about them and they can’t redeem any rewards. Your program depends on these registrations, but they’re not happening enough. Sounds like a lose-lose, right?
One restaurant chain figured out how to turn this scenario into a win-win. National Coney Island (NCI) is a quick-service restaurant serving Coney Island-style hot dogs and cuisine to the Metro Detroit area. They realized during the summer of 2014 that only 30% of their Coney BucksTM rewards cards were being registered. That means that a whopping 70% of customers were accepting rewards cards but not registering their account. Because NCI couldn’t get to know those guests or track their information, they weren’t able to give them the most relevant offers possible.
NCI set out to fix this problem, and they came up with a savvy solution: an instant win campaign. This surprise and delight strategy worked magnificently. Guests with activated rewards received vouchers for prizes such as free menu items or event tickets. Once they actually registered their card, the voucher then became a redeemable reward. As a result of this campaign, registrations nearly doubled for the month of July, and that success was sustained over the following three months. That is some serious success. Hear this story straight from Martyna Nowak, Marketing Director at NCI.
Whether your company is a restaurant or retail concept, the approach to increasing reward program registrations is the same. You’re asking something of your customers, and thus you should offer something to them in return. An instant win promotion is an excellent solution mainly for these reasons:
When customers trust your brand, are excited, and know they will be rewarded, it’s a no brainer that they’ll register their rewards card. National Coney Island’s story is just proof of this logic. They’ll also spend more – check out this quick-service chain’s 21% lift in spend!) If you choose to run an instant-win campaign to increase loyalty card registrations, consider these tips:
Running an instant win promotion to increase your loyalty card registrations is an excellent strategy, but it’s not the only one. A convenience store, for example, could run a charitable promotion to increase registrations where every time someone registers their rewards card, the brand donates a mini toiletries kit to a local homeless shelter. What has your company done to increase reward program registrations? What promotion ideas do you have? Share your thoughts in a comment below!
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