For just pennies on the dollar, you can give your customers one of these free travel offers for just making a purchase, renewing their membership, referring a friend, or joining or your mailing list. How about enticing your customers to make a larger purchase by giving them not just one, but twenty of the most popular vacation destinations, which have been jammed-packed in our Lifetime Travel Book. An incredible $15,000 in value!

Or if you prefer, we’ll customize a travel offer just for you!

LifeTime Travel Book:

The LifeTime Travel Book is truly an amazing product. It is made up of 20 of the most popular travel offers. These travel offers never expire so the customer can take a trip every year for the rest of their life and never have to worry about the trips not being valid or the fees going up.

To redeem, the customer simply goes to www.LifeTimeTravelBook.com. Once on the site, they click the button called “Click Here To Register Now.” They will then enter their serial number and click “Continue.” From here, all they have to do is choose the travel offer they are interested in and then proceed to redeem that offer.

Please note that the Travel Incentive Program is built on upgrades. So in some instances, a customer may only pay taxes or boarding fees or some registration fees which is far cheaper then getting the whole trip and paying for it. But the company makes its money by booking each reservation over the phone and trying to then upgrade the customer from a two night stay to a four night stay or from an inside cruise cabin to a cabin with a view, from coach airfare to business class or from a standard vacation from one that includes car rentals, excursions, etc.

To learn about our travel partner please visit www.ClaimYourFunPlanetVacations.com and click on the testimonial button. There you will find 20 or so testimonials regarding the company and their travel program.

Travel has been around forever but there has never been a LifeTime Travel Book. The travel company, is really a travel agency that redeems the products in the LifeTime Travel book. An amazing statistic is that only 3% of the travel offers are redeemed exactly as offered. The other 97% choose some form of an upgrade – and that is how a travel company makes its money.

In the very near future our LifeTime Travel Book will be offered as a Fundraising opportunity for Non-Profits.

Only the Best,

Michael Goulet – Team Leader
Direct Strategies, Inc. – “The Incentive Pros!”
http://incentivesgroceryandgas.com
michaelg@freegrocerycenters.com

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I represent Direct Strategies, Inc., a customer loyalty and incentive company located in Gilbert, AZ.

I’m sure you’d agree that most businesses in today’s economy must offer some type of incentive to retain and/or attract new customers. But the question arises… what type of incentive is best for you and what do your customers really want?

Marketing researcher, Dr. Flint McGlaughlin labels the cash discount as the worst incentive one can offer because offering $100 off is a straight cash loss to the business. And since many customers believe that you simply raised the price of the item or service and then offered the discount, they don’t feel as if they are really saving anything at all. Remember, Perceived Value Is Reality to your customer.

We offer very unique customer incentives; gas, grocery, retail, pharmacy, dining certificates that really work! Right now, the “Perceived Value” of gas (even though prices are lower) and groceries is extremely high. Discretionary income for material things like televisions, stereos, clothing, entertainment and more is dwindling every month in most households. And the cost of prescription medicine, especially for those without insurance, is causing families to make really tough health decisions, not always for the best.

Our Certificate Redemption Program is an incentive that will help your business bring in more customers and make more sales by allowing you to offer your customers up to $600 in gas, groceries, retail, pharmacy, dining purchases for a fraction of that cost.

You may have used a similar incentive in the past, providing gift cards to your customers or to employees as rewards. But you probably paid $25, $50, $100 or more for each and every gift card you gave away. Our program lets you pay pennies on the dollar and your customer will get a monthly $20 Visa debit card back on everyday purchases they’d make anyway … for up to 30 months.

These certificates are exclusive invitations from you to your customers, inviting them to participate in a rebate program -exclusive because customers cannot participate in the Rebate Program without one of these certificates!

Here’s how it works: Your customers can shop at the merchant of their choice. When they spend at least $100 per month and send in their receipts, they will receive a $20.00 Visa Debit Card that they can use anywhere Visa is accepted. They can even use it as part of the next month’s redemption. And offering a Visa Debit Card allows every one of your customers to participate in the program.

The Program has been used, with great success, by many companies all over the United States and Canada.

What can rebate certificates do for you?

• Retain Customers:   Promote the gas/grocery/retail/pharmacy/dining rebate program to your current database to help re-energize old customers.
• Attract New Customers:   Advertise this rebate program and attract new customers for your products or services.
• Avoid Costly Deep Discounted Sales and Loss Leaders:  Rather than deeply discounting your products or service or taking a loss to close sales with more customers, instead offer a rebate certificate with a face value of up to $600.00 for a fraction of the cost.
• Increase Lead Generation:   Give a $300.00 rebate certificate just for allowing you to provide a quote and see a sharp increase in sales leads.
• Gain a Competitive Edge:  Nearly everyone competes on price and customer service, so think “outside the box” and standout from your competitors. Offer significantly enhanced value to your product or service:   gas/grocery/retail/pharmacy/dining rebates.
• Motivate Employees:   Rebate certificates are ideal gifts to reward employee achievement and loyalty in a way that benefits them way more than it costs you! Increase productivity with happier employees and increased business.

Who are we exactly and why should you buy from us?

Direct Strategies, Inc. brokers the sale of certificates across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.

Our long term focus is providing customer incentives to business clients that are looking for ways to increase their customer base as well as their bottom line.

Our redemption company has been in the incentive and Travel industry for over12 years.  The businesses using it have had tremendous results and exceptional growth.

They are a member, in good standing; of the Chamber of Commerce and are a BBB Accredited Business with a BBB Reliability Report of A with the Better Business Bureau.

Here are some final reasons why you should consider using our certificates:

- Visa Debit Cards are delivered in 4-6 weeks after receipts and vouchers are received and approved.

- Absolutely NO intrusive survey asking your customer how much money they make, how many miles are on their vehicle or if they own their home.

- A low registration fee of just $12.95 that is fully refundable in the last month of redemption (Model X). Your customer will get a $33.00 Visa Card the last month after their receipts are approved.

What sort of investment is required?

All certificates come in $100, $250, $300, $500, denominations.  Minimum purchase is 25 certificates. Volume discounts available.

Price list is available upon request.

These are perfect for all of your 2010 promotions, sales or rewards!

Only the Best,
Michael Goulet – Team Leader
Direct Strategies, Inc. – “The Incentive Pros!”

http://incentivesgroceryandgas.com

http://incentivebasedpromotions.com

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P.S. We have businesses running ads that say “Get $1,000 in Gas and Groceries when your purchase totals $XXX.XX”. Since consumers can use ANY of our certificates simultaneously that type of ad sounds extremely appealing to potential customers. If that is of interest… just order an equal number of two different types of certificates and give one of each to your customers or our new (Ask me for details)

P.S. – Check out our full 2010 product line including our EXCLUSIVE SavingsBucks Product or our GiftCardBundle  TravelBook containing $15,000 is projected savings, see sites above.

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When looking for fund raising opportunities, it is easy to get bombarded with options that offer little to no benefit to the agency that needs the funding. For a strong alternative, keep incentives in mind for your customer. What are you selling that they actually need? With our struggling economy, it is getting more difficult to convince customers to purchase trinkets. By using a fundraising program that offers real value, such as gas certificates or free grocery certificates, you are offering a value that will make your fundraising profits soar.

When deciding to use certificates for your fundraising program, you will be issued a catalog. This is a risk free program for you. Simply present the catalog for friends, neighbors and co-workers to look through. They will have the opportunity to purchase either free gas certificates, free grocery certificates, or gas and groceries.

The denominations in free product increase with the amount of the donation. For example, a donation as low as $20 will get $200 in free gas. A $30 donation gets three times that amount – $600 in gas and groceries.

How does this work? The customers who make the donations redeem certificates for $25 Visa gift cards. The customer simply keeps receipts from regular grocery or gas purchases over a month, and once it totals $100, redeems the receipts via an account to receive the gas or grocery certificates. It?s win-win for everyone.

This type of incentive program has long been in place as a hook for new business. Giving away a product that every person must have anyway appeals to 100% of the customer base. Every person has to eat, and nearly every person has to drive, so by offering gas or grocery certificates you are giving back for something they do anyway.

This program is now paired with the KIDZ-IDZ. This program is designed to help customers save money while not changing spending habits. It eliminates the need for clipping coupons, but still rewards them. What?s even better, they can still cut coupons and bargain shop and STILL receive the rewards.

Why would you want to try to sell something that is going to leave customers feeling they overpaid for a piece of junk? With the KIDZ-IDZ incentive program, your customers will look forward to the new gas and grocery certificates year after year. The draw of this program will make this a fundraising event that actually grows every year instead of becoming the dreaded annual fundraiser.

Gas and grocery certificate programs are the new way to raise funds for your organization, by providing value for your customer and keeping money in your organization?s pocket.

Dare to make a Difference,

Michael Goulet – Team Leader
Direct Strategies, Inc. – “The Incentive Pros!”
http://incentivesgroceryandgas.com
http://incentivebasedpromotions.com/ (Product Site)
http://fundraisingandincentives.com/ (Non-Profit Certificates)
http://fundraisingandtravel.com/ (Non-Profit TravelBook)
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• The site is full of information that will help any prospective or current client understand WHAT we do, HOW we do it, and WHY we can continue on the long road
• Pay close attention to the ADVERTISE link (numerous options to our clients) – how about a list option that is growing at close to 50,000 new members per month you could have access to (refined to Zip Code for local impact)
• We are opening dozens of Manufacturer FORUMS over the next 30 days.  We will be connecting the manufacturer with their buyers.  Social Networking is HOT right now and will be for some time to come.  Manufacturers will be able to display audio/video, do surveys, polling, offer specials and coupons all within their own private label forum.  The manufacturer will assign a moderator for the forum.  All users in the forum will be able to communicate with each other as well.  For example if it was the Weight Watchers forum the users could exchange recipes.  And Weight Watchers might be introducing a new meal and offer it FREE for taking a survey or deep discounts.
• We have a FREE discount prescription card coming shortly that will be FREE to every end user that entitles them to up to 60% off prescriptions.  $500 in Rewards Cash that will get them Entertainment coupons that offer 2 for 1 restaurant discounts, and the ability to purchase $25 OFF coupons in restaurants across the USA for ONLY $5.  And the list goes on and on…
• The new Pharmacy/RX certificate is right around the corner.  Stay close!
• If you’re facilitating, sitting on the fence thinking about what you could do improve your business etc…what are you waiting for exactly…
• We have the solution “Incentives That Work“!

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Use gas and grocery incentive certificates to:

·    in exchange for scheduling in-home sales demonstrations
·    get a customer lead to come in and hear your sales pitch
·    get new customers to sign up for new services
·    to get customers to extend the length of their service agreements
·    get dormant customers to order new or repeat services
·    encourage customers to make big purchases
·    as customer loyalty rewards for repeat business
·    reward customers who refer new customers to you.
·    to get more traffic for seasonal businesses (like landscaping) during off-months
·    to encourage customer spending during economic downturns
·    to attract big crowds for grand opening events
·    to create free advertising through a local media buzz
·    to win out over competitors who normally could undersell you
·    as the prize for employee sales competitions
·    to encourage employees to hit sales goals
·    as employee attendance or safety rewards
·    use a few certificates cards for your company’s vehicle fleet – everyone likes free gas, even you!

For Non-Profit Organizations:

·    to encourage higher donations during fundraising
·    as prizes for raffles or other contests
·    to generate attendance and sell more seats at seminars

As you can see, there are tons of ways to use gas and grocery incentive certificates.  A little creative thinking will take you a long way.  As a general rule of thumb, the trick is to find out what the key is to making a sale, then offer the gas and grocery incentive certificates to get customers to do just that.

Let me give you an example.  In automotive sales, for example, if you can get the customer behind the wheel for a test drive, the chances that they’ll buy the vehicle rises dramatically.  Knowing this, a car dealership in New York ordered 700 gas certificates, and offered them to customers during a weekend event in exchange for just coming in and taking a car for a test drive.  By 5:00 AM the morning of the event, they had people lined up outside the door.  By the end of the first day, they had to place an emergency phone call to order more gas certificates just to make it through the weekend.  The sales campaign worked so well, that dealership now orders 5,000 gas certificates per month on a regular basis.

If you try a gas or grocery incentive-based sales campaign, tinker with different approached and conditions for customers to get the incentive certificates.  Experiment and find the approach that works best for your particular business.

Michael Goulet – Team Leader
Direct Strategies, Inc. – “The Incentive Pros!”
http://incentivesgroceryandgas.com
http://incentivebasedpromotions.com/ (Product Site)
http://fundraisingandincentives.com/ (Non-Profit Certificates)
http://fundraisingandtravel.com/ (Non-Profit TravelBook)
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Given how successful free gas and grocery promotions have become as the world has fallen on economic hard times, you might be thinking on doing one of these promotions for your own business. You may quickly discover, however, that there are lots of redemption companies out there who will sell you the free gas and grocery redemption certificates and handle the processing for you. How do you know which company to buy from? What should you be looking for in these companies? How does one know how to shop for free gas and grocery certificates? This article will guide you through what to look for in a company, and what services might be worth paying a premium for.

Don’t be driven by the lowest price alone. There are many other important service factors to consider before choosing a supplier for your free gas and grocery certificates. The two main areas to examine are how easy it is for the customer to redeem the certificates, and how flexible the company is in working with you.

First and foremost, carefully examine the company’s process for customers to redeem their free gas and grocery certificates. Find the company that offers the simplest and easiest method for certificate redemption, with the fewest hoops the customer has to jump through. It is important to do the best you can to make sure your customers do indeed get the free stuff that motivated them to make a large purchase of your merchandise in the first place. Why? Because if they have difficultly collecting their free gas and groceries—and especially if they aren’t able to collect the full amount of their certificate—they’ll feel cheated, scammed, and complain about you to their friends. The last thing you want your company to have is a reputation for failing to deliver on promises and cheating customers.

Some redemption company’s certificates can only be used at certain stores, which may irritate some customers. Other certificates expire in unreasonable amounts of time. Some enforce strict deadlines that if the customer fails to meet, the certificate is forfeit. These are just some of the many terms, conditions, restrictions, and red tape some companies use in an attempt to prevent the customer from collecting the full amount. The customer, naturally, we be frustrated with the redemption company, but take their anger out on you for offering them a bum card.

When shopping for a redemption company to buy certificates from, look for one that has a relatively simple and easy process for collecting the free goods. Look for a company that lets the customer use the certificate at whatever store they want, issues cards that don’t expire, either reasonable or no activation deadlines, and comb the rules carefully and make sure there are no loopholes though which a customer’s certificate may be forfeited altogether.

As for your end, look for a company that’s flexible in working with you. You probably won’t find a redemption company that will give you one free trial certificate, or let you purchase only five or ten. Redemption companies make their profits by selling free gas and grocery cards in bulk. Some companies, however, offer amounts of certificates as low as 25, which provides you with an inexpensive way to do a “trial run” to see if this type of promotion works for your company. Look for redemption companies that offer cheaper per-certificate prices if you buy larger quantities.

Look for redemption companies that offer a wide variety of certificate amounts. The most common are amounts of $50, $100, $150, $250, $300, $450, and $500. Another benefit to look for is a company that will let you mix and match the card amounts in your bulk purchase. Finally, another great bonus to look for is a redemption company that will let you put your company logo on the free gas and grocery certificates. This simple thing can help you turn each certificate into a free advertisement reminding the customer that your company provided them with all that free stuff.

Michael Goulet – Team Leader
Direct Strategies, Inc. – “The Incentive Pros!”
http://incentivesgroceryandgas.com
http://incentivebasedpromotions.com/ (Product Site)
http://fundraisingandincentives.com/ (Non-Profit Certificates)
http://fundraisingandtravel.com/ (Non-Profit TravelBook)
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Marketing minds have come up with a guaranteed incentive program. Our program allows you to purchase grocery gift cards at pennies on the dollar to offer to your customers. Grocery gift cards are something that will get everyone’s attention since 100 % of people eat. By giving grocery gift cards to your customers, you are boosting your business while retaining your sales. How does this work? Well, when marketing minds work in synch, we can find a unique way to help you. When your company buys these certificates from us, you hand them out to customers. Once they have spent a set amount of money with your company, they can be redeemed for groceries at any location.

The ways you can use this incentive program is limitless – you can do this as a Grand Opening incentive, customer loyalty award, new customer reward, or any other way you can imagine. Some businesses use them to schedule in-home demonstrations. The success has been phenomenal for these businesses. Consider this vacuum cleaner sales company: in a test purchase of 25 gas certificates, the promotion worked so well they are now purchase 3,000 certificates each week to schedule in home demos! Why? Because they are offering an incentive everyone can use. It doesn’t matter what business you are in, we can find a way to help you apply these certificates.

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Let us explain how this program works. Your company purchases the certificate for a greatly reduced price. You give your customer the certificate when they spend a certain amount of money with your company, and you are only spending pennies on the dollar to offer this deal. Companies who tested this method of incentives for customers with one hundred certificates are now ordering them every week because of such a huge increase in business. See an increase of up to 30% in sales! This will be invigorating to your employees as they see the increase in traffic.

Now that you have found the secret to increased sales and customer incentives, hurry and contact us so we can help get your business going!

Michael Goulet – Team Leader
Direct Strategies, Inc. – “The Incentive Pros!”
http://incentivesgroceryandgas.com
http://incentivebasedpromotions.com/ (Product Site)
http://fundraisingandincentives.com/ (Non-Profit Certificates)
http://fundraisingandtravel.com/ (Non-Profit TravelBook)
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Fax-480-304-9095
michaelg@freegrocerycenters.com

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