5. Is BellyCard Worth it?
Bundling
1. Digital Loyalty Program
2. Auto-engage: Marketing Automation for SMBs
3. Belly Bites: Acquire New Customers
4. Merchant Success Manager: Customer service from BellyCard
5. Analytics on Usage Behavior: BI & Reporting
6. Something For Everyone
Versioning
Basic - $129
Services:
• Digital Loyalty Program
• Automatic Customer Data
Capture
• Mobile Discovery
• Actionable Data Analytics
• Merchant Mobile Application
Core - $159
Services
• All services under Basic along
with the following
• Campaigns via Email and mobile
• Auto-Engage
• Belly Supported Marketing
• Customer Email Upload
• Belly Bites
• Social Media Integration
Complete - $209
Services
• All services under Core along
with the following
• Prioritized Customer Support
• Premium iPad Stand
7. • Race To Acquire Users
Used a freemium model to attract
businesses
• Permanent Subsidies
Customers permanently subsidized.
Businesses are charged.
• Exclusivity
Partnering with big brands.
Platform Mobilization
http://belly-marketing-emails.s3.amazonaws.com/GetBelly-Official.pdf
8.
9. Same Side Effect for
Customers
Same Side Effect for
Business Owners
Cross-side
More Users Attracts More Business Owners
Cross-side
More Businesses Attract More Customers
The Strength of a Network
Network Effects
10. Who can be in Belly’s belly?
Platform Envelopment
• Emerging market
• Possibly in the future
11. Proposal for Winner take all
• Cross side Network effects are high; more consumers attract more
businesses and vice versa.
• Same side network effects high for consumers; neutral for businesses
• Make Multihoming costs high for consumers.
• Demand for differentiated features will be weak.
12. It’s a big bad world out there
Competitors
Belly Fivestars The Loyalty Box
Platforms
supported iOS
Android
iOS
Android
Web based
iOS
Android
Windows
Target Business
type Small
Midsize
Small
Midsize
Small
Midsize
Enterprises
Pricing
Free Trial
$129/month
$159/month
$209/month
Free Trial
Stand-alone- $40/location
100+ stores- 12$/location
Free Trial
Loyalty tool -$50
Analytics Tool-$150
Features
Custom Ipads
Customer data Analytics
Email integration
Social media marketing and
campaigns
POS integration
A/B Testing
Customer Segmentation
Email Integration
Text Message Integration
Card independent
Custom solutions
Marketing and Analytics insights
13.
14. Strengths Weaknesses
Opportunities Threats
• Digital Loyalty on Smartphones - Convenience
• Largest Number of Users
• Customized Reward System
• Blue by Belly for large businesses
• Reward points are not proportional to
purchase value
• Fewer businesses outside Chicago use Belly
• Increase in online shopping
• Growing competition
• Gamification
• Local businesses on the West Coast
• Introduce mobile wallet in Belly’s app
15. Opportunities and Future Prospects
• Local businesses on the West Coast
• Gamification is the future
• Introduce mobile wallet in Belly’s app
• Incremental customer rewards plans
• Communication through feedbacks and incentivized surveys
• Aspirational awards: Surprise and delight
• Shift customer spending to higher margin products.
17. Citations
https://www.merchantmaverick.com/reviews/belly-review/
Comparisons:
https://www.merchantmaverick.com/fivestars-vs-belly/
https://www.getapp.com/customer-management-
software/a/fivestars/compare/belly-vs-antavo-vs-the-loyalty-box/
Future scope:
http://marketingland.com/8-reasons-loyalty-programs-imperative-marketers-
109077
2016's Best Gamification Platforms | TechnologyAdvice
technologyadvice.com
Loyalty Startup Belly Builds On Opportunities Of Apple Partnership, Launches
New Marketing Suite | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com
Loyalty a key tool to drive retailer app adoption, says Belly
marketingland.com
Awards & Press - Belly
www.bellycard.com
Business Customer Loyalty Program | Belly
www.bellycard.com
Belly Customer Loyalty Program: Members Page
www.bellycard.com
How the Belly Card Makes a Meal Out of Other Loyalty Programs - Techonomy
techonomy.com
www.google.com
SCVNGR’s New Mobile Payment Solution LevelUp Goes Device Agnostic With
A Web App | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com
Customer Loyalty And Rewards Platform For Local Businesses Belly Raises
$10M From Andreessen Horowitz | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com
A comparison between Belly and RewardMe - by the stats - Yu-kai Chou:
Gamification & Behavioral Design
yukaichou.com
Fivestars Review 2016 - Merchant Maverick
www.merchantmaverick.com
https://growthhackers.com/growth-studies/belly
https://medium.com/evergreen-business-weekly/the-power-of-network-effects-
why-they-make-such-valuable-companies-and-how-to-harness-them-
5d3fbc3659f8#.djx80q8kn
https://www.quora.com/How-did-Belly-gain-initial-traction
https://growthhackers.com/growth-studies/belly
The Future of Loyalty Programs
www.sweettoothrewards.com
Marketing Automation For Small Business | Belly Auto-Engage
www.bellycard.com
Business Customer Loyalty Program | Belly
www.bellycard.com
Business Customer Loyalty Program | Belly
www.bellycard.com
Email Campaigns for Small Business | Campaigns from Belly
www.bellycard.com
Bites Customer Acquisition for Small Business | Belly Bites
www.bellycard.com
Notes de l'éditeur
-digital loyalty program platform founded in 2011 in Chicago
-Integrates multiple brands and small businesses
-avoids clutter in the wallet due to multiple plastic cards.
-Belly acts as a platform which connects businesses with users. Creates a lock-in for the business.
an in-store iPad is used to validate paying customers right at the point of sale and serves as the check-in point.
With every purchase, the business rewards the customer with 5 points.
Points are specific to a business and cannot be shared with other businesses on the belly platform.
A recent survey found that while 54.7% of people use loyalty programs to save money, 37.5% of people are looking to receive any type of reward.
-People can check reviews and make a decision based on other people reviews without actually using the product.
-In addition to word of mouth, social network causes news to travel very fast today.
-Hence, loyalty programs can advertise the companies using these media, post upcoming deals, membership programs
Harvard Business Review stats 73% of customer want a universal loyalty program where they shop.
Return of behavior review 65 % customers say they would recommend a loyalty program.
Forbes - 88% of businesses with loyalty program are more profitable than businesses without them.
The map shows the market penetration of Belly. The blue circle is indicative of geographic spread of active customers and merchants throughout USA.
1. Digital Loyalty
No paper punch cards, one aggregated platform for multiple loyalty programs
Identify habits of loyal customers and reward them
Track customer activity, what drives them back in, engagement with loyalty program
Customized rewards that suit business, eg; Meet Jerry of Ben & Jerry’s
Word of mouth marketing by integration with social media
2. Auto-engage: Marketing Automation for SMBs
Choose an offer type: send text 1 days after their first Belly check in, sent after 30 days of no visit, or ‘lapsed’ (sent after 30, 60, 120 days etc.)
Customers who satisfy these criteria will be sent requisite message/promotional email
Upload existing customer’s list along with Belly-related customers’ list
3. Belly Bites: Acquire new customers
Over e-mail, send schemes to Belly’s customers who already have Belly cards, but are not customers of SMB/business
Steady customer growth – not a surge
Choose a free offer to attract new customers who already have Belly cards, but are not customers of SMB/business. Send them a ‘bite’ or a free sample of the product, Belly advertises this to the customers, sending up to 30 new customers every month
Number of good impressions, repeat customers based on ‘Bite’ - analytics
4. Merchant Success Manager
Customer service from BellyCard
Other features:
Collect Data
Keep track of history of customer visits, demographic data
Maintain dashboard to measure success
E-mail and Mobile Communication
Send marketing campaigns visa e-mail and mobile.
Customizable, to capture in-store activity. E-mail required to register for Belly; e-mail not revealed to businesses - respect customer privacy, build loyalty
Following the goldilocks pricing strategy. Automatic Customer Data Capture
Seamlessly collect and track real-time customer data like email address, visit history, age and gender.
Mobile Discovery
List your business in Belly’s iOS and Android mobile apps.
Actionable Data & Analytics
Measure your loyalty program’s success from the web.
Merchant Mobile App
Right from the Merchant iOS app, measure loyalty program’s success, view your customers & make point adjustments.
Email & Mobile Marketing: Campaigns
Create, send and track email and mobile marketing campaigns.
Marketing Automation: Auto-Engage
Incentivize 10% of your lapsed customers to return with automated offers.
Belly-Supported Marketing
Belly Members receive introductory emails to the brands loyalty program, showcasing potential rewards.
Customer Email Upload
Upload customer email addresses the brand has already collected to send Campaigns to 100% of their customer base.
Social Media Integration
Connect to Facebook, Twitter and Yelp to get more ‘Likes’, shares, and reviews from the most loyal customers.
Customer Acquisition: Belly Bites
Grow customer base every month with targeted offers to Belly Members near the location of the brand who haven’t visited the business yet.
Prioritized Customer Support
Skip the line and get your questions answered first.
Premium iPad Stand
Showcase loyalty program with premium, all metal, WindFall stand.
Racing to acquire users
The user base of Belly increased from 15,000 users to 1 million users in just 15 months. Belly focused on establishing localized network effects, a no-lose proposition for small business owners and a highly valuable and enjoyable user experience. Solutions provided by Belly are now used by over 5,000 merchants across 46 states, helping them reach over a million customers. According to Belly’s CEO Logan Lahive, the reason for Belly’s growth has been their traditional form of advertising, i.e. one-to-one interaction between customer and a cashier. However, a closer look reveals that Belly’s growth has been driven by an affordable solution, aggressive local sales, and direct marketing efforts, strategic business development and a phone based consumer experience.
Permanent Subsidies
Customers are permanently subsidized. Businesses are charged for the services of Belly Card.
Exclusivity
Partnering with big brands like 7 eleven, Papa johns, McDonalds, Dunkin Donuts, Gatorade, Ben and Jerry’s etc has helped garner marquee users.
Integration
Integration of high end analytics program that mines customer data. This data can then be used by brands to create customized loyalty rewards programs.
Track customer activity
Manage features
Immediate support/help
View data and stats-what your analytics mean and how the loyalty program is performing i.e how total visits, total customers, total customer, weekly visits
1. Belly exploited deep understanding of its customer’s needs by developing a loyalty platform focused on retention which also addresses customer acquisition needs for Small Business with new products such as “Belly Bites” in numerous key markets.
2. Belly harnesses word of mouth through ‘their deep Facebook integration’ with ease of sharing check-ins and rewards claimed, and the engaging online rewards experience. Seeing a status update on Facebook of a friend getting rewards at an unknown place in your proximity promotes a tempting bait to click through and learn what he or she knows but you don’t.
3. Large franchise model stores are using Belly to enable their store owners to build up customer loyalty, increasing revenue per customer and critical same store sales metrics. Combining awareness of data about user base (obtained from local markets) in the potential partner markets creates a compelling reason for chains(franchises) to partner with Belly.
4. The playbook that maps the launch strategy Belly implemented in Chicago and detailing adoption strategies (internal resources and data) that can be executed in each city, allowing Belly to successfully “launch” a market and create powerful in-city momentum. Based on this playbook, Belly can launch multiple markets quickly and effectively—compounding the momentum across the country and exponentially growing the business.
As customers see Belly in more places, more customers and merchants begin to talk about it and request it, driving adoption in the area and making it a fixture
As the number of vendors increase, it attracts more customers to use the belly app; advertently giving an incentive for more businesses to subscribe.
There is a possibility of platform envelopment since the whole point of having one place where all your points are stored will be lost if people are a part of more than one encompassing loyalty programs.
How to envelop? Adopt check-in and reviews
Apps like foursquare and Levelup simply allow users to check-in to a particular merchant establishment ( restaurant, nightclub, fun locations, shopping) via their apps. Foursquare is currently beginning to enter the loyalty program domain. Bellycard already has a wider web of businesses and users as compared to Foursquare. We speculate that it will be easier for belly for introduce the gamification feature than for four square to create its own web. If Bellycard integrates this gamification feature(check-in) with their loyalty programs, they could bundle their loyalty programs with the check-in game feature which could help them to possibly overtake the above apps.
Belly already has a large customer base in this market and it can effectively stop the advance of foursquare and other competitors by including these features
Belly is not a WTA currently, but has the potential to become one.
Network effects: Consumers side will have positive same side effects because of word of mouth, social network and the fear of being left out
Businesses have neutral same side effect, since the reward points points for a business can only be used for the same business. It does not affect other businesses.
Cross side are positive since more consumers attract more businesses and vice versa
Multihoming costs – Add a wallet to the Belly feature portfolio which compels the user to stay loyal to the Belly platform, since the user will have some credit in their account. Changing the loyalty program means going through the hassle of removing your account and finishing the money in your account.
Differentiated features- The various loyalty programs focus on rewarding customers with points, discounts or exclusive offers. Hence, customers has little reason to opt for multiple loyalty programs for the same business.
Belly will beat the competitors in the future
What belly is doing right and wrong
Blue by Belly
Integration of high end analytics program that mines customer data. This data can then be used by brands to create customized loyalty rewards programs.
Track customer activity
Manage features
Immediate support/help
View data and stats-what your analytics mean and how the loyalty program is performing i.e how total visits, total customers, total customer, weekly visits
“Gamification” is the future - tie-up competitive social media games with loyalty program; “new e-commerce is based on missions and rewards and game mechanics”, eg: FourSquare has games based on number of check-ins
Social standing - Customers achieve some ‘status’ instead of just points, eg: Sephora
Mobile wallet in Belly’s app - linked with each brand’s account - for quick and easy payments, eg: Starbucks
Instant rewards - to leverage the ‘now’ instead of redeeming points later - for VIP customers.
Communication through customer- or retailer-initiated feedback loops