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Ripple CX

Customer appreciation and recognition

Our approach to customer appreciation and recognition creates a ripple effect for both you and your customers, winning them over now and setting them up to spread the word and keep coming back. ​

Whether experiencing new touchpoints or enhancements to existing ones, customers remember such standout moments and respond with repeat business — generating a high, significant, return on investment for you.

These moments lead to desired behavior ​ completion and optimized purchase ​behaviors in the short term, as well as ​improved retention, NPS, and lifetime value in the long term.

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The behavioral economics of customer appreciation and recognition

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High efficacy rewards and experiences

The most effective rewards are repeatable, promotable, and sociable — these are the characteristics of high efficacy rewards. They produce a ripple effect of positive sentiment and behaviors from the recipient.

The endowment effect

When you give someone a physical gift, it often becomes more than just an object — it can hold emotional value that goes far beyond its cost. ​ If the gift is rare or hard to find, its limited availability makes it feel even more special and desirable. This idea doesn’t just apply to items — it works for memorable experiences, too!

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Reciprocity

Giving a gift triggers a desire to return the favor.

An investment that pays back in waves

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Micro level

  • Immediate customer sentiment
  • Optimal purchase behaviors
  • Other targeted/desired behaviors
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Macro level

  • Retention
  • Lifetime value
  • Long term customer sentiment/NPS

Effortless end-to-end solutions

We’ll work in partnership with you to design surprise-and-delight moments that happen at the right time, with the right expression of appreciation — with your logo and branding — personalized for your customer.

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Marketing strategy

Strategy development

  • Discovery
  • Program strategy
  • Program design
  • Campaign design
  • Applied behavioral economics
  • Lifecycle mapping
  • Financial assessment

Post-launch

  • Proactive analytics-based insights
  • Program expansion and evolution
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Analytics

Program design support

  • Rule structures
  • Modeling and proformas
  • Forecasting

Program analysis

  • Performance tracking
  • Prescriptive and predictive analytics
  • Data visualization
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Rewards

Reward Marketplaces

  • Merchandise
  • Travel and experiences
  • Mastery classes
  • Choice-based redemption

Reward Design

  • Reward sourcing
  • Reward collection curation
  • Customization and brand expression

Reward Fulfillment

  • Recipient experience
  • Fulfillment and delivery
  • Customer service
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Creative Services

Ad-hoc

  • ADA compliance (WCAG AA 2.1)
  • Art direction and graphic design
  • Brand awareness and identity
  • Content and creative strategy
  • Copywriting
  • Value proposition development

Digital and print

  • Animations and videos
  • Brochures
  • Direct mail
  • Emails
  • PDFs
  • Social media assets
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Technology

Development

  • Website and communications
  • Program rules and logic
  • CMS and administration
  • Audience smart
  • Segmentation and targeting
  • Email and SMS
  • Mobile wallet objects
  • WCAG AA 2.1

Security

  • Participant and program database
  • Data integration point
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Print and production

Print

  • Offset
  • Digital

Shipping

  • Domestic
  • International

Fulfillment

  • Dimensional mailings
  • Mass mailings
  • Bulk

Secure data handling

  • Personalized
  • Variable
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Global reach

Domestic and international fulfillment and shipping

Our work speaks for itself

  • Strategic marketing campaign shifts long-term buying patterns

    A major beverage bottler wanted to acquire customers who had never purchased or win-back customers who had not purchased in the past 3 months to deliver incremental revenue and shift purchase patterns.
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  • Marketing campaign increases pipeline

    A financial services firm wanted to drive newly converted clients to make appointments with sales reps. Their goal was to convert these clients to their corporate payment services offerings.
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