The Done For You Loyalty Program that Rewards Customers for Promoting Your Business.
In a joint study published by Manta and BIA/Kelsey, 61 percent of SMBs say that repeat customers drive more than 50 percent of their sales. Meanwhile, only 34 percent of these small businesses have a loyalty program in place.
Local businesses have been using loyalty programs like punch cards since the late 1700’s. Back then, local retailers would hand out copper coins to customers every time they purchased goods from them and they could bring those coins back in to redeem for future purchases. In the 1900’s, businesses like Betty Crocker started using box tops that customers could peel off, collect, and redeem for various rewards. Fast forward to the 1990’s and punch cards really started to take hold. Retailers wanted a way to reward customer loyalty and was easy to track and these are still popular today.
Customers have always been willing to spread the word about the businesses they love, but maybe not the means to do it at scale. But now, social media allows them to do just that and we think it’s time to not only take loyalty programs digital, but to allow them to do much more then just “punch” a digital card.
Customers are already telling their friends and family about the businesses they love, we’re just giving them a way to do it easily and at scale.
Share the Local allows your customers to spread the word about their favorite businesses, while having a chance to earn exclusive rewards. Your customers will be liking and sharing your social media posts, filling out surveys, visiting your website, providing feedback, leaving great reviews, uploading pictures taken at your business, and more while participating in this program.
You’ll see a huge increase in social engagement, bring in new customers, have current customers coming back more often, and a ton of other benefits by using Share the Local. PLUS, your customers will absolutely love the program too. Like we said, they want to spread the word about their favorite businesses, we’re just giving them an easy way to spread the word about yours.
What Exactly Makes Share the Local Different then Every Other Loyalty Program?
Done For You
Our DFY System means you don’t have to worry about it, it’s set it and forget it! When’s the last time you sent an email out to your customer base? How about a text message? If you’re like most business owners, it’s been awhile. With Share the Local you can be as hands on or as hands off as you want. Either way your marketing engine will be running non-stop when you join Share the Local.
Customers Promote Your Business
Your regular customers are coming back tomorrow whether they “earn 2 points” or not. So why not give them other ways to earn credit at your business? Share the Local provides a fully integrated solution that allows your customers to promote your business through social media and other outlets and when they do, they earn points with your business that can be redeemed for prizes that you choose. Your customers will be able to easily tell their friends, family, and co-workers about your business, win cool prizes, and you’ll get MORE customers! It’s a WIN-WIN!
All-In-One Platform
As business owners, we all know we should use all the tools available to us to promote our businesses. Tools like email, text messaging, and promoting our posts on social media. However, running a business isn’t easy and you’ve got enough to worry about, which is why we take care of it for you. When you join Share the Local, we’ll begin to automatically connect with your customers via email and text and help to promote your posts on social media getting your business more exposure then ever before.
Pay for Performance + Low Cost
We know when you join Share the Local, you’re going to get awesome results. So when we were creating this program, we thought about every reason you would say no. Funny thing is, they were all reasons we said no in the past running our own businesses as well. One of the biggest hurdles for us in the past when trying something new, was high price tags and no guarantees. So with Share the Local, we created a low cost, high ROI platform that you only pay for if we deliver results. It’s better then Pay for Performance, because it’s also low cost. You only pay for results, when you do, it won’t break the bank so you can invest back into your business!