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    Mining the CRM Gold Within Giftcards

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    Evan Schuman
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    December 10, 2007
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      Another giftcard exchange site company has emerged, but this one—a company called Leverage—is focusing on the tremendous customer information inherent in a pile of giftcards.

      Leverage’s vision is not radically different than other giftcard firms—such as PlasticJungle—but it’s focus on the CRM aspect is.

      Some 40 percent of the cards will come directly from retailers (retailers selling the cards to Leverage) with the rest from consumers selling to consumers. Leverage plans on selling information about its consumers to retail and manufacturing advertisers, said Leverage CEO Mark Roberts.

      What will differentiate these pitches from Spam? Roberts argues it’s all about context. If the ads hit a consumer while that consumer is trying to read e-mail, it’s disruptive and bad. But if that ad hits the consumer when that consumer wants to buy and needs information about purchase options, it suddenly becomes information and fairly useful information at that.

      Click here to read more about gift cards and security.

      “E-mail is never the place where retail-based communications should happen,” Roberts said. “You’re not ever in the mood to be sent all this junkmail while trying to read your e-mail.”

      Leverage’s plan is to create virtual spaces where consumers can log all of their giftcards, loyalty cards and coupons and then sell that content—in aggregate only—to advertisers. If they wanted women of a certain age group with giftcards of certain value with certain retailers, they could send messages to those people.

      Leverage is also going to ask customers to volunteer more information, including travel plans, gift occasions and lifestyle issues.

      If a consumer is preparing a vacation in Canada, they might create a space called Canadian Trip. When they open that space, there would be airline, hotel and entertainment offers related to that trip.

      The site will also feature ways, according to Roberts, for consumers to control “a virtual volume control.” Let’s say that a retailer was bombarding a consumer with offers. That retailer might be told to slow down or to even be banned. “Depending on how retailers behave, you can give retailers a time-out for three months.”

      Retail Center Editor Evan Schuman can be reached at [email protected].

      Check out eWEEK.com’s Retail Center for the latest news, views and analysis on technology’s impact on retail.

      Evan Schuman
      Evan Schuman is the editor of CIOInsight.com's Retail industry center. He has covered retail technology issues since 1988 for Ziff-Davis, CMP Media, IDG, Penton, Lebhar-Friedman, VNU, BusinessWeek, Business 2.0 and United Press International, among others. He can be reached by e-mail at [email protected]

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