Incentive & Loyalty Points Management System Overview:

The Dashboard's Incentive & Loyalty Points Management system allows you to create your own points-based incentives, promotions and loyalty system to reward your visitors, customers and members for purchases, promoting your site, engaging in feedback, taking tests, and much more. Create your own viral grass roots marketing system, or street team system, to offer rewards to your most loyal members in exchange for promoting your website throughout the internet. Similar to a frequent flyer program, your rewards system will keep your customers coming back as they build their points and redeem them on your ecommerce site in your online auctions. Incentives, points and rewards create the ultimate promotional tools, rewarding frequent purchasers, new customers and your own internet marketing street team to virally promote your products and services.

How You Can Use It:

• Reward customers for purchasing online in your ecommerce store
• Reward members for renewing paid subscriptions
• Incentivize viral "tell a friend" activity by offering reward points
• Create click-through contests and offer points as prizes
• Create promotions online for almost any activity
• Reward member participation with points based auctions
• Offer points for offline marketing and street team activities by allowing members to upload photographs of flyers, in-store promotions and direct marketing
• Show "Points Leaders" to motivate participation

How It Works:

Points are an integral part of incentivizing your users and a great way of rewarding user activity. Points can be integrated into every marketing and promotions feature. Use the Loyalty Points System as a viral component to drive traffic back to your site, increase your registrants, excellent motivation to promote specific campaigns, auctions, contests, more!

You create activities for participation and set the points awards levels. Users are motivated to earn the points to be redeemed in various ways. Points redeeming examples include:

• Redeem in auction
• Redeem in store
• Redeem for gift certificate
• Redeem for membership renewal
• Redeem to enter a contest

Highlighted Features:

Advanced Points Reporting
Dashboard System Reporting allows you to view reports on points associated activities tracked by activity type and by individual user.

Automatic Points Management
Users can be auto-awarded points for participation. The Dashboard Loyalty Points Management System provides hassle free management with automatic points tracking and ability to add / subtract user points at anytime.

Poll Management System
Use the Poll Management System to quickly and easily deploy multiple choice, single answer user polls to any page on your site, public or password protected. When used in conjunction with the Dashboard Loyalty Points Management to motivate user participation, the Poll Management System creates a powerful Market Research and Demographic Profiling tool.

Survey System
Get to know your web site visitors and get valuable feedback on any topic you desire. Create any combination of radio button, check box, dropdown list, multi-select list box and text entry fields. Real time reporting includes response rate analysis, percentage calculations, text answer grouping and more. Highly customizable features allow you to create, approve, publish and review reporting for your surveys at any time. Reward your users for their time and valuable feedback by awarding points.

Referral System / "Tell A Friend" Viral Component
Easily motivate users to tell their friends about your website or promotion! Users who refer friends can be rewarded with points, which are automatically tracked via the Dashboard using referrer name / referral codes provided by you.

Trivia Management System
Use the Trivia Management System to provide compelling content to your users, while providing information about your products/events/etc. When used in conjunction with the Marketing & Promotions Package, the Trivia Management System creates a powerful incentive for users to interact with your site and learn more about what you have to offer.

Quizzes System
Use quizzes to satisfy any number of business objectives, from fun content, incentivizing activities, online testing, online education, and much more! Create quiz questions, quiz types, multiple-choice testing, response reporting, automatically award points / store discounts for answering correctly, configure minimum score level, much more!

Contest Management System
Use the Contest Management System to create contests for your visitors. The system takes all the guess work out of setting up contests, contacting entrants, and awarding random winners:

• Create Text, Links and Images for Contest Description,Rules, and Prize Description using the Integrated Content Management Feature
• Manage Entries Allowed per User, Total Entries Allowed, Etc.
• Automatically Select and Email Random Winners
• Real Time Entry Rates Reporting
• Advanced User Registration Built-in

Auction Management System
The Auction Management System can provide a source of revenue, increases your site's repeat traffic, builds your user database, and reward your community. Provide multiple, ongoing, multi-term Auctions for your users:

• Completely Manage Full Auction Life Cycle
• Choose Cash or Points-based Auction (When used with Marketing & Promotions Package)
• Create Text, Links and Images for Auction and Prize Description using the Integrated Content Management Feature
• Set Minimum Bid Levels
• Pre-publish and Expire Auctions
• Validate Highest Auction Bidders
• View User Information of Bidders and Winners
• Integrates with Marketing & Promotions Package and Loyalty/Points System

Street Team Management System
Dashboard's Street Team System is a completely turn key, easy to use set of online street team tools that allow you or your marketing partner to run an entire online street team with deployment of advanced promotional campaigns daily! Outfit your online audience with the marketing gear they need to spread the word, like trackable banners and icons. Contests opportunities incentivize your team by offering prizes to users who facilitate the most click throughs, either with web gear, trackable links, banners, or message board links.

• Grab and get web gear created by you!
• Trackable links and GUID numbers identify individual user activity
• Comprehensive reporting
• Tied into Contests System and Loyalty Points System to incentivize participation

Related Features:

Complete Ecommerce System
Sell more products! Reward users who purchase a certain product or dollar amount from your store with points, which they may redeem in various ways. Allow user to redeem gift certificates in your store by trading in their points. Reward affiliate activity - give points to users who facilitate new customers in your store via banner promotions.

Customer Service & CRM
Users can log-in to view their points total and personal activity list via their account profile. You can add / take away points of any individual user and view activity history.

Marketing & Campaign Management
Incentivize your users to be your marketing force! Create banner / trackable links, web gear promotions and contests to drive traffic to your site. Auto-award points for number of unique clicks based on IP address. Track and award points to users who refer friends to purchase products and memberships, sign up for mailing lists etc.

Advanced Content Management
You can add images to and customize the content descriptions of auctions, contests, promotions and more! Upload banners and web gear, associate tracking links and launch click through contests for your users. Add images to polls, quizzes and surveys.

Email Publishing & Tracking
Reward users who forward newsletters to others. Place links in emails to points earning activities, so only the recipients who open and read the emails receive the opportunity.

Other Terms For This Module:

Incentive and Loyalty Points Management System, Points System, Loyalty Incentives Program, Points Based Activities, Loyalty Program, Points Management, Incentives, Points-Based promotions, Promotional System.