The Bowling Rewards program was designed to serve the bowling industry’s pressing need of how to market to the growing open play (casual) bowler demographic in the midst of a declining league membership base. There are 67.5 million casual bowling participates in the US alone. Bowling Rewards is focused on building a consistent revenue model by increasing the value and attraction of bowling via a proprietary and customizable suite of loyalty applications to synergize large numbers into attractive value propositions for sponsors in order to increase prize funds, membership benefits and revenue. The program combines prepaid gift and games with rewards, database building, and fundraising all on a single card. Email marketing, mobile text messaging, and campaign consulting services are available inside a comprehensive marketing solution designed specifically for entertainment centers and pro shops.

AmeriCardGold Stored Value Networks created the Loyal Patron brand and private label website to board deals from the general retail and restaurant industry sold by our company’s growing network of authorized Resellers. Loyal Patron’s sales focus is on a monthly subscription billing model where multiple features are bundled, including unlimited transaction processing, database hosting, fundraising, email marketing and mobile text marketing. Resellers are expertly trained in loyalty marketing strategies and closing techniques and work toward earning their Wild B.O.A.R.S. (Bachelor of Arts in Rewards Science) degree. AmeriCardGold’s training curriculum is the best loyalty sales training available anywhere and is not taught in a traditional classroom. Please visit www.wildboarstraining.com to learn how to run with the B.O.A.R.S.

Many people have heard of Clipper Magazine, a subsidiary of the Gannet Co Inc. (GCI: NYSE) which offers a local coupon magazine direct mailed to homes in over 500 markets nationwide. However, what is lesser known is Clipper Magazine’s Total Loyalty Solutions division, which operates interrelated services under the “Clipper” umbrella. These businesses include: Loyal Customer Club (email marketing) The Menu Company (restaurant menu design), and Spencer Advertising, a full-service advertising agency that serves a mix of local, regional and national clients. Clipper Magazine contracted with AmeriCardGold Stored Value Networks to design and brand the Total Loyalty Solutions program and market a complete loyalty marketing package to its thousands of retail and restaurant clients nationwide.

Preferred Loyalty Solutions (PLS), headquartered in Oak Grove, Minnesota, specializes in coalition marketing to help schools and sports boosters raise money inside their local community. Preferred Loyalty Solutions has used AmeriCardGold’s coalition marketing technology to convert a decades old discount card fundraising model used throughout the country and modernize it on steroids. Each coalition comprises 10-30 local merchants, depending on size of the organization and expected card distribution. Cards are preloaded with rewards currency at each participating merchant ($5 to $10 for example) to encourage consumer visits throughout the local directory. Cardholders earn rewards after every sale which also triggers donations back to the cardholder’s charitable organization. PLS has helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for their local non-profit organizations and pocketed equivalent levels of administrative fees in the process on top of sponsorship revenue and card sales.

Xpect Restaurant Marketing Solutions is a national consulting and creative agency head- quartered in Commerce Township, MI. Xpect’s team of marketing experts and consultants provide a full line of services to the restaurant and hospitality industry including: menu design and engineering, server training, web services, social media, email marketing, secret shopping, surveys and direct mail programs. Xpect Restaurant Marketing partnered with AmeriCardGold Stored Value Networks, LLC to upgrade the Xpect services portfolio and provide a full range of loyalty program services under the Xpect brand. The new brand, Xpect Rewards, helps Xpect’s clients do a more efficient job of collecting customer data while enhancing sales revenue and overall profitability.

Get Healthy! Michigan™ is a statewide movement dedicated to encouraging individual health and wellness through partnerships with local health experts, businesses and media. Get Healthy! Michigan Wellness Centers are strategically placed throughout Michigan so that everyone can seek out the resources to live a healthier lifestyle. Wellness Centers are the only place for community members to receive and activate their Get Healthy! Michigan Reward Card. The Get Healthy Rewards program is a prime example of coalition marketing in action involving a myriad of different businesses throughout the state that can accept the card and process transactions. Cardholders earn special discounts and cash back rewards on products and services from any of the participating businesses, including: nutritionists, health clubs, vitamin shops and restaurants.

Reward 4 Orgs is a coalition fundraising program started by a merchant services ISO that helps local schools and non-profit organizations in the Springfield, MO area earn money through patronizing local participating businesses year round. The program leverages the full marketing power of AmeriCardGold's fundraising module, including preloaded cards, cash back rewards, and donations back to charitable organizations. End user merchants are offered considerable discounts and even a measure of category exclusivity to join the fundraising coalition when switching merchant services. As a result, Reward 4 Orgs is a terrific case study of a successful merchant services ISO leading with loyalty and fundraising to secure lucrative merchant services contracts as part of the deal. It sure beats simply competing on just price when you can offer merchants exclusive access to local schools and non-profits in a way that actually grows their business.

AmeriCardGold designed and built the front end Internet and Verifone credit card interfaces in addition to the back-end administrative and reporting web server infrastructure that runs the Family Bundles loyalty program. Based in the Seattle, WA area, Family Bundles is a unique loyalty program that rewards cardholders with credits for shopping anywhere inside the vast network of independent businesses inside a pooled coalition network. The concept originated out of a plan to help small businesses fight back against the "Big Box Stores" taking over the retail landscape.