Project description
Innovative solution for loyalty programmes
Customer loyalty is big business. It’s also expensive. Currently, large organisations like big retailers can afford to invest millions of euros in loyalty programmes. But this is not something that most SMEs can afford. Moreover, existing solutions in the market allow only isolated applications that do not permit broader knowledge of customer behaviour and delivery of enhanced services. The EU-funded SME LOYALISER project presents a retailing-customised platform that connects all players in the retailing chain and applies the latest advances in customer data exploitation to allow SMEs in the retail sector to benefit from advanced loyalty programmes. The solution will facilitate implanting loyalty programmes and additional services in SME retailing businesses enabling them to identify profitable customer behaviour, increase the customer base and drive wallet and loyalty programme profitability.
Objective
In a world where your competitors are only a click away, customer loyalty really is the new marketing. Indeed, large organisations like big retailers invest millions of euros into loyalty programs. However, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) like the bakery in front of your house or the lifelong toy shop that you already visited as a child, cannot invest that sort of money. So how can these SMEs remain competitive facing the all-powerful big companies?
Both from the Business-to-Business (B2B) or the Business-to-Customer (B2C) perspective, a mobile loyalty solution like SME LOYALISER builds not only a new sense of affinity between consumers, brands and merchants, but works in line with consumers’ interests. However, the current solutions in the market offer only isolated applications that are not able of smartly interconnect to acquire broader knowledge about the customers and to allow enhanced services.
We, bluesource - mobile solutions GmbH, are developing SME LOYALISER, a retailing-customised platform that brings together all players in the retailing chain and applies the latest advances in customers’ data exploitation (predictive and behavioural analysis) in a holistic hub where any kind of company, especially SMEs in the retailing sector, can leverage the benefits of advanced loyalty programs.
SME LOYALISER will facilitate implanting loyalty programs and additional services in SME retailing businesses that enables to identify profitable customer behaviour, increase the customer base and drive wallet and loyalty program profitability. This way, we permit SME retailers provide the features of big Internet retailers, fostering the competition and strengthening the SME industrial tissue.
With this project, we estimate €14.4 million revenue by 2022 and the generation of 20 new direct job positions, besides another 20-30 indirect ones throughout sales partners and advertising activities.
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H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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H2020-EU.2.3.1. - Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-SMEInst-2016-2017
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4232 HAGENBERG
Austria
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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