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Indoor tracks: how to attract customers during the summer?
Focus on… The Kiosk software
Emailing: reach your customers for your promotions and events
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Indoor tracks: how to attract customers during the summer?
Focus on… The Kiosk software
Emailing: reach your customers for your promotions and events

"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide."

William Bernbach

Indoor tracks: how to attract customers during the summer?
For the majority of the indoor tracks, summer usually means low season. In order to get as many customers as possible, several promotions could be effective. We will show you now how to raise the bar in terms of turnover.
Step 1: define you communication strategy and schedule
You have to answer to the following questions:
  • When will I launch the promotion?
  • Shall I announce it for July and extend it for August?
  • Will I place the promotion on the home page of my website or should I make a dedicated page?
  • When will I send an emailing?
  • Should I use a cell phone mailing?
  • Should I use the advertisement space on my print-outs?
Step 2: define the commercial offer
This is the core of your campaign strategy. You have to tease your drivers by announcing that they can drive as many sessions as they want for the price of 2 sessions. But there is only one condition: you decide when they can drive after the 1st session.

Explanation: most of the time, drivers will want to drive 3 times, since they paid 2 sessions and they obviously want to get at least a 3rd for free. After the 3rd session, either they get tired or they have to leave. The trick is played before the 1st and after the 3rd session. Your receptionist and bartender have to be well-prepared on how to deal with customers during this promotion. The goal is to keep enough time between the sessions, but not too much to avoid angry customers. You should aim at selling at least one round of drinks and maybe food between the sessions. If you handle this the right way, you will increase your bar's turnover with ease!

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Focus on… The Kiosk software
Our kiosk software allows you to build a customer database. If you don't know who is visiting your business, how much they are spending and how you can contact them, you are losing good opportunities to increase your revenue. Let's take a look at how the Kiosk software can directly and indirectly assist you in your daily tasks. We will focus on 3 aspects that are important to any business.
Le logiciel Kiosk
Organization
Direct
  • There is no risk of misspelling your customers' details, since they fill it out themselves. As a result the quality and therefore the value of your database increase.
Indirect
  • Your sales clerk doesn't have to waste time entering the pilots' details to book them into a session at the Point of Sale
  • Simply drag and drop the go-karts on the names at the Timing software. Once again, you don't need to enter any names
  • At the pit, the names, pictures and go-kart numbers are displayed on a screen to avoid chaos in that area. Everybody knows which kart to take place in.
Marketing
Direct
  • Before driving or even before having a drink at your club house, the customers will have their first 'experience' in your center by subscribing on the Kiosk. Using the touch screen and taking a picture with the webcam is fun for most people, especially when they are together with a few friends to subscribe at the same time!
  • It's easy and quick to fill your marketing database (you should force every driver to subscribe. We know tricks to help you do this, so feel free to ask us how)
Indirect
  • Every driver's picture is shown on the TV screens before the start of every race. After the race, it shows a podium with the pictures of the first 3 drivers. The (nick)names are always automatically displayed as well.
  • After every race, the race results are automatically sent by email to the address the driver entered at the kiosk.
  • Automatic posts on their Facebook and Twitter walls when they start and finish a session.
  • Automatic emails on their birthday, when their member card is about to expire and when they have not visited your business for a while.
Finance
Direct
  • You don't need to pay a staff member to enter the customers' data into your database after you receive subscription papers.
Indirect
  • Every person obtains a race license (member card) with their subscription. These sales can be a significant source of turnover for you
  • These cards can be charged with credits, points and money. These assets can then be used to make purchases at your center.
More information and a demo movie about the Kiosk can be found here: www.sms-timing.com/software/kiosk
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Emailing: reach your customers for your promotions and events
Although an emailing is one of the oldest online marketing tools, it still has the highest return on investment if it's done well.
E-mailing
What do you need to do a successful emailing campaign?
First of all, the era of mass-mailing is over. Forget about that. Sending the same email to your whole database at once is the best way to get the worst results. Nowadays, your customers want to feel that you know them. You have to get as close to a 'one-to-one' feeling as possible. Thanks to your data acquisition (see the article above), you already know your new customer's basic details: gender, age, city. You can use this information to better target them in your mailings.

Example: When you organize a 90's party in a package deal with karting (or other activities). For this, you only want to target the people who are born between 1970 and 1985.

When you get to know your customers better, for instance based on their buying behavior, you can push your segmentation even further.

Example: Thanks to your database, you know what part of your customer base show up less on a specific day. You can design a promotion to target them specifically. They will be stimulated to do something out of their normal behavior, which can render them more loyal.

After you have sent a few emailings, you get to know your customers better. Every click on the email means something different.

Example: on your last emailings, you have added a picture with a link to your website's restaurant page. All the people who have clicked this link might be interested in what your restaurant has to offer. Later on, you can send a special promotion or invitation to these customers about the restaurant. This is how you reach a high ROI.

You can understand that the more targeted you send your emailings, the more response you will get and less people will unsubscribe.

E-mailing
We can help you to reach your customers
We are proud to launch the B&MI emailing platform. We are now able to guarantee our customers a higher delivery rate. In addition to this, we can offer a whole list of options that will boost the success of your emailing:
  • Personalization per recipient
  • Accurate statistics to optimize your campaign
  • A spam check to reduce the number of 'spam-words' in your content
  • Hard-bounced addresses (those that are not valid) can be imported in your Fast software. When you swipe a customer's card, a message will pop up if the email address is invalid. Just ask them for the correct one and improve the quality of your database.
  • Dynamic campaigns. See the example above with the restaurant. We can set up a process like this. This process can be followed automatically, with even more steps if you wish. We will decide upon a marketing strategy together with you.
Only our software customers can take advantage of our emailing platform. We work with a credit system: 1 email address targeted = 1 credit.

The emailings can be paid with free credits, which you receive by:

Credits can also be purchased directly.
How to order an emailing?
1- Go to www.sms-timing.com/emailing-order and fill in the form
2- Our designer will send you a preview that you have to confirm
3- We send the emailing on the date we agreed
4- The cost (if you use paying credits) will be added to your next software invoice, together with the amount of credits left and their validity date.

If you have any question about the new emailing system, feel free to contact us.

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