Personalised engagement and rewarding shopping habits will be key to rebound post COVID-19.
While it may seem premature to be thinking beyond COVID-19, we know it will pass. Australia’s latest figures show promising signs of a flattened curve, however it is likely to be some time before we’re completely free to get back to life as we knew it. Restrictions will likely be lifted slowly, and incremental relaxing of isolation measures will be repeated for many weeks/months until the government is confident we can go freely about our business. Despite the uncertain road ahead, I’m confident that shopping centres will again see strong traffic and sales and will once again become the heart of the community.
Shopping Centres have been, and always will be, a critical place for local communities to socialise. Many people are feeling the effects of social isolation and are craving interaction. Beyond the pandemic, centres have a great opportunity to capitalise on encouraging customers back to spending at bricks-and-mortar retail.
Traditionally, this would be done with a series of brand campaigns, activations and tactical sales drivers, but we are no longer operating in traditional times.
Short-term tactics and what has been done before will not be enough – retailers will be relying on Centre Marketing more than ever for support.
Finding, connecting with and rewarding loyal customers will be critical.
Learning from more than 120,000 Norbit customer accounts and millions of shopper data points collected over five years, we’ve found that this is best achieved through:
- Offering rewards for visitation and spending money
- Exclusive discounts and offers
- Promotional competitions based on purchasing behaviour, and
- Incentives to collect more customer information.
This data can be used to create real-time targeted and personalised sales promotions and empower centres to reach customers wherever they are, allow them to reserve an offer, and drive them directly to your retailers to collect.
For example, using data collected, centres that leverage Norbit can send rewards to customers based on their age, demographic, most shopped at category or stores, birth date and more, and can do so with any combination of filters.
Unlike other channels, these campaigns are received directly and willingly by the customer on their smartphone, and the centre can track when the offer was reserved, when they visited the centre, and when they redeemed in-store.
Traditionally, this would be done with a series of brand campaigns, activations and tactical sales drivers, but we are no longer operating in traditional times.
Short-term tactics and what has been done before will not be enough – retailers will be relying on Centre Marketing more than ever for support.
Finding, connecting with and rewarding loyal customers will be critical.
Learning from more than 120,000 Norbit customer accounts and millions of shopper data points collected over five years, we’ve found that this is best achieved through:
- Offering rewards for visitation and spending money
- Exclusive discounts and offers
- Promotional competitions based on purchasing behaviour, and
- Incentives to collect more customer information.
This data can be used to create real-time targeted and personalised sales promotions and empower centres to reach customers wherever they are, allow them to reserve an offer, and drive them directly to your retailers to collect.
For example, using data collected, centres that leverage Norbit can send rewards to customers based on their age, demographic, most shopped at category or stores, birth date and more, and can do so with any combination of filters.
Unlike other channels, these campaigns are received directly and willingly by the customer on their smartphone, and the centre can track when the offer was reserved, when they visited the centre, and when they redeemed in-store.
The richer the data, the better equipped the centre is to target campaigns that drive follow up visits and sales.