Loyalty Rewards Program by Billboard Rewards

Do you have the fishbowl in your establishment for your guests to drop a business card so you can add them to your E-Mail list? Or perhaps a legal pad for them to give you their information? Maybe you have to text-a-keyword-to-a-number program to register them for text advertising? Today’s tech savvy customers are getting very leery to give this information by these methods. And you only get a phone number!

What about a rewards program for your best and regular customers? Punch card? Scan cards? Is there a better way?

Billboard Rewards can give you a 21^st century way to gather this information with their high tech high touch terminal that sits on the counter. The touchpad invites people with its attractive custom design. Research shows that customers, especially the younger crowd, are drawn to touch screens and are not intimidated into giving the information you want!

After registering, every time they return they simply enter their mobile phone number to log in. The system registers their visits and rewards them with the special you determine on the number of visits, that again, you determine. Say half off a sandwich with any drink purchase after five visits. For higher visit counts a free lunch or dinner.

The back office, which you can access from any on-line computer, will show you who has visited and when. You can then send them a text or an E-Mail. You can address the whole database to send everyone news of a new menu item or a special sale coming up. You can also sort the list by whatever criteria you desire, like most visits for a special offer or if someone has not been back recently, invite them with a free soda with purchase. Blast a text to the entire list at 10:00 AM when many people are on their morning break and let them know what today’s lunch special is. If this gets to them as they are sitting with co-workers having coffee the discussion will begin as to where to go for lunch. And who is on top of their mind?

YOUR ESTABLISHMENT!

“I’ve been working with loyalty and reward programs for over twenty-five years and I haven’t seen any that combine as many business friendly and profitable features as Billboard Rewards. “ Glenn Boyles, award-winning author, former syndicated radio and TV host and customer service consultant.

Billboard Rewards… Attracting Customers Exactly When You need Them!

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