Tagged: loyalty

Kickers Forever

Back in the summer of ‘89, when Soul II Soul topped the charts with Back to Life, and rumblings of a crumbling Berlin wall filled the news, I was a 14 year old preparing to go back to school. Aside from a budding holiday romance, there was only one other thing on my mind – my new school shoes. One pair, one choice, for one year.. a big decision.

I’ve always had a shoe fetish; at three I’d only wear red shiny shoes and nothing with a T-bar (I blame Dorothy) and I was really hard to please when it came to school shoes. I could tell Dad was preparing for the usual showdown but as I dragged him into Shelleys, and pointed out the chunkiest, clunkiest (funkiest) shoes I had ever wanted – Dad had never looked so happy.

The shoe du jour..? Kickers.

Arriving at school in my Kickers a few days later was the best I think I’ve ever felt. After a few days of pointing, laughing and later, a bit of inspection and shoe swapping, my whole year at school – boys and girls – had Kickers.

20 years later, Kickers are still kicking butt.

1989 Me at the Berlin Wall with my beloved Kickers (and best mate).

Let’s talk Sirius

Sirius, the Recognition and Rewards programme from Jumeirah are a respected and leading player in the Hospitality loyalty game. We wanted to build on their very generous rewards and privileges and engage on a more personal and added value way.

In order to do this we have recently launched a suite of new comms going out to targeted segments of the base:

Sirius Delights focuses on the Dubai dinning market specifically. From our research our insight was yes offers are important, but actually reviews and recommendations are what really make people decide where to go. We connected this insight with the fantastic reputation Jumeirah restaurants have, and have actually embedded 3rd party review links into the communication. It’s open, honest and cuts out the time finding out whether the restaurant with the great offer is any good.

An additional clever feature we included was super personalisation – so that from a redemption perspective each individual member can see whether they can redeem instantly or how many Sirius Points they will need to get that reward.

Initial results have shown considerable revenue and footfall increases in Sirius business units.

Here it is shown on an i pad because it’s cool.

Sirius Travels is a different kettle of fish. The objective here is to build a long-term relationship with Jumeirah’s overseas members. Firstly we have to convince the recipient to come to Dubai, London or New York. Once achieved we need to make sure it’s with Juemriah that they stay. Editorially led with cool what’s going on widgets and 3rd party links to sell the ‘big 3′.

Results show a marked increase in click-throughs to specific stay packages and overseas booking information.

Sirius Statement does exactly what it says on the tin – but further than this moving forward plans to hyper personalise – offering members redeemable rewards which are affordable based on their Sirius Points balance, but also appealing based on profile and spend habits.

Sirius Celebration

Slide 3We were briefed by Sirius (Jumeirah Hotel Group’s loyalty programme) to communicate multiple Jumeirah festive offers to the Sirius database.

We identified that there are many hotels and restaurants offering ways to spend the festive season in Dubai and that our target audience don’t have time to be spoilt for choice – there’s no time to ‘organise’ the season and they definitely don’t have time to learn about a complicated loyalty programme

So in summary, our target market is busy. It’s all too much… they can’t be bothered. They just want to celebrate

Strategy

Make Jumeirah the ‘home of celebration’.

Remind people that by spending time at Jumeirah, they’ll be earning points on their Sirius cards to spend on themselves later. Doubly nice.

Idea

Rewrite the message of Earn then Redeem as Celebrate then Celebrate meaning: Celebrate with Jumeirah then celebrate again with Sirius

Execution

Stylish website at the heart of the communications – if simplified the process of gaining information, and aimed to excite and inspire the user to book their festive celebrations with Jumeirah.

Radio promotions across four stations for the whole month supported by on and offline advertising and social media, owning ‘celebration’.

An amazing competition allowing a lucy couple to fly Upper Class between Dubai, London and New York staying at trademark Jumeirah properties (including Burj Al Arab) over a ten night extravaganza.

And we took the stress out of the festive season with the Sirius Celebration Planners which included offering members access to ‘real’ Celebration Planners , a guide to the holiday season with a pull out festive planner and an 800-celebrate hotline.

siriuscelebration.com homepage

Sirius celebration deliverables cgi

Results

5,000 new Sirius members – up 23%

26,000 earn transactions – up 10%

2,500 redeem transactions – up 15%

20,000 web visits, 45,000 page views

6,000 competition entries

Over 40 hours of radio air time

Over 100 ‘celebrations’ given away on air

One lucky winner who won the ‘Jumeirah Jet Set’