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Global Reward Solutions Provider's Checklist for Choosing a Global Rewards Technology to Support a Global Rewards Program
Incentive, recognition and loyalty companies can realize significant cost and time savings by partnering or licensing with a “Reward Solutions Provider”.
Here is our “Top 10 Checklist” of what a Global Rewards Solutions Provider should consider when choosing a Global Rewards Technology to support a Global Rewards Program.
1. Reward Selection: Start with the fact that you no longer need to source, select and aggregate data from many suppliers, with RMS you get one central data feed that includes every major reward category and all invoicing is centralized and paid on-line. Finally paperless accounting!
2. Global Catalogues: Few solution providers get beyond their own border but there is a growing number of Global Reward Solutions that offer a fully built out global solution. Reward delivery on a global scale through one simple API connection…now that Rewards on Demand!
3. Catalogue Management: Most Reward Management Solutions include robust catalogue management tools enabling your account team set up, filter and design client specific reward catalogues.
4. Automated Updates: Possibly the most important feature of a good RMS is the ability to automatically update all reward data but you must look for a RMS solution that offers daily and even real time data updates which ensures your clients are viewing the latest and most accurate reward selection; this feature will dramatically reduce out of stocks.
5. Order Tracking: Your RMS provider must provide you with a robust order management dashboard enabling your Customer Service team to track and verify all orders including courier tracking ID numbers.
6. Translations: Again, good RMS’s provide all data in the language of the host country, for countries like Canada and even across Europe you may need multiple languages for a single country. This is often a deal breaker for most providers since this requires specialized applications to manage dialects such as Russian and many Asian languages.
7. What’s New! Nothing stays the same and this is very true within reward management. One example of this is streaming media which will very soon replace the need for I-pods and MP3’s altogether – all you need is an account and you can build your very own radio station. Your reward provider had better be developing a constant flow of new reward delivery options as well as new sources that provide higher service levels and value.
8. SaaS White Labelled Solution: You should make sure your provider offers a SaaS solution that is fully white labelled; fully data API’s also allow your company to add your own reward display design ensuring a higher degree of personalization over i-frame solutions which are static and cannot be customized.
9. Customer Service Team: Your reward partner will also prove Tier 2 customer service support which is a dedicated team who trouble-shoot any order escalations. This is vital service and this team will be your one-stop-shop when escalations occur; be sure to ask for their Service Level Agreements.
10. Global Currency Management: When you evaluate your provider you must make sure they can also calibrate your points based on each country’s currency; this must be done on a daily basis as most currencies fluctuate daily and several countries like Venezuela have 25%+ inflation rates. Products and services that are bought locally one day are then sold to you by your provider who will convert the reward cost to your local currency and then you will in term convert this displayed your cost based on your point calculation. Your solution provider must be able to convert all costs globally to a single often US dollar equivalent and update these costs everyday!
10 Steps to Hiring the Best Web Design Company for Your Small Business Website (Page 1 of 2)
Websites have become a major necessity of every business now a days as it is a dynamic advertising tool in the world of business. Websites are widely spreading amongst small business and sole proprietors, as earlier used only by tech-savvy and big organizations.
Its become an obvious assumption that if you have a business you should have a website for sure. So if a potential customer wants to know something about you business they would search for you online and if they do not find you there, what kind of impression would it give to your customers.
Being a small business or a sole proprietor you might think that Web Design Companys charge a lot for designing a website, and therefore they think that its a waste of time and money to get a website designed. This is not true many companies design websites, which provide web design services at very nominal rates. There is a simple mantra to be followed if you want to hire the best web design company for your small business website, that is research a lot and get quotes.
You understand that you want best work in the most affordable rates but also one has to keep in mind that your website will portray what you are to your potential customers. So for that there are certain tips that need to be followed:
1.Know your budget:
You must know that when you hire a web design company you are paying for designing and the time. Websites are true investments as they help build you image online and also help grow your small business. Some provide packages which include certain things according to budget, you may choose one of them.
2.Understanding what your website may require:
The objective of your website should be clear in your minds before you plan to get web design services from a company. This way it gets easier for you to explain the designers what do you want in your website and how do you want it to be designed. Its surprising many people dont but this may cause hassles. One must do this homework before contacting or dropping in enquiries.
3.Devote some time in reading about the web design company:
You must give some time to read about the company their services, look through their previous work and their clients. Also you may go through the terms and conditions or the legal disclaimer to get to know about the hidden warnings. Website design companys update their web pages often. One may also get to know a lot about the company by just going through its website as if the company doesnt have time to properly keep their company website running then what would they do to yours?
4.Fix up a meeting with company you want to deal with:
Just talking over the phone is not enough a face to face meeting is also necessary whether you call them or they come to see you. But make sure of one thing that a good company would always give you a presentation and let you know properly what they can do for you with examples from their past work.
10 Steps to Hiring the Best Web Design Company for Your Small Business Website (Page 1 of 2)
Websites have become a major necessity of every business now a days as it is a dynamic advertising tool in the world of business. Websites are widely spreading amongst small business and sole proprietors, as earlier used only by tech-savvy and big organizations.
Its become an obvious assumption that if you have a business you should have a website for sure. So if a potential customer wants to know something about you business they would search for you online and if they do not find you there, what kind of impression would it give to your customers.
Being a small business or a sole proprietor you might think that Web Design Companys charge a lot for designing a website, and therefore they think that its a waste of time and money to get a website designed. This is not true many companies design websites, which provide web design services at very nominal rates. There is a simple mantra to be followed if you want to hire the best web design company for your small business website, that is research a lot and get quotes.
You understand that you want best work in the most affordable rates but also one has to keep in mind that your website will portray what you are to your potential customers. So for that there are certain tips that need to be followed:
1.Know your budget:
You must know that when you hire a web design company you are paying for designing and the time. Websites are true investments as they help build you image online and also help grow your small business. Some provide packages which include certain things according to budget, you may choose one of them.
2.Understanding what your website may require:
The objective of your website should be clear in your minds before you plan to get web design services from a company. This way it gets easier for you to explain the designers what do you want in your website and how do you want it to be designed. Its surprising many people dont but this may cause hassles. One must do this homework before contacting or dropping in enquiries.
3.Devote some time in reading about the web design company:
You must give some time to read about the company their services, look through their previous work and their clients. Also you may go through the terms and conditions or the legal disclaimer to get to know about the hidden warnings. Website design companys update their web pages often. One may also get to know a lot about the company by just going through its website as if the company doesnt have time to properly keep their company website running then what would they do to yours?
4.Fix up a meeting with company you want to deal with:
Just talking over the phone is not enough a face to face meeting is also necessary whether you call them or they come to see you. But make sure of one thing that a good company would always give you a presentation and let you know properly what they can do for you with examples from their past work.