{"id":1028,"date":"2014-10-26T18:03:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.invitereferrals.com\/blog\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2022-10-10T06:42:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:42:44","slug":"itimes-customer-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.invitereferrals.com\/blog\/itimes-customer-acquisition","title":{"rendered":"Itimes uses referral program to increase registrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn3.invitereferrals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/itimes_logo_fb200.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1632\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn3.invitereferrals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/itimes_logo_fb200.png\" alt=\"itimes_logo_fb200\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn3.invitereferrals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/itimes_logo_fb200.png 200w, https:\/\/cdn3.invitereferrals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/itimes_logo_fb200-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cdn3.invitereferrals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/itimes_logo_fb200-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Customer Referral program\u00a0is a very effective and low cost customer acquisition channel.\u00a0Itimes.com set up a referral program to increase registrations on it&#8217;s site. The site visitor can refer his friends and get a $10 coupon for every 10 registrations through his referral. Since every visitor is very likely to have a social circle consisting people of his own demography. This was a very effective way to reach target audience.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Goal<\/strong>\u00a0:\u00a0To increase registrations on website<\/p>\n<p><strong>Incentive<\/strong>\u00a0: $10 coupon for every 10 referral registrations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results :\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0500K target audience reached through friend invites in 3 months resulting in a low customer acquisition cost<\/p>\n<h2>Points of Integration<\/h2>\n<p>Success of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.invitereferrals.com\/\">referral program software<\/a> is directly proportional to it&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"How to promote Referral Program?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.invitereferrals.com\/blog\/promote-customer-referral-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visibility and promotion<\/a>. Itimes integrated the referral program on it&#8217;s website as a floating referral button. They could have increased the referral program performance multifold by including it in the mailers as well.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Referral program integration on itimes site<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn3.invitereferrals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/itimes-customer-acquisition.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1029\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn3.invitereferrals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/itimes-customer-acquisition.jpg\" alt=\"itimes-customer-acquisition\" width=\"600\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn3.invitereferrals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/itimes-customer-acquisition.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cdn3.invitereferrals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/itimes-customer-acquisition-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customer Referral program\u00a0is a very effective and low cost customer acquisition channel.\u00a0Itimes.com set up a referral program to increase registrations on it&#8217;s site. The site visitor can refer his friends and get a $10 coupon for every 10 registrations through his referral. 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