Description

AGENCY: Create Direct
CLIENT NAME: Philip Morris International
Campaign started: 03/01/2021
Campaign ended: 08/01/2022
Created at: August 23, 2021

BRIEF

  • The company was interested in creating a campaign for IQOS through which retailers are being incentivized;
  • Focus on increasing profitability and strengthening retailers’ loyalty;
  • Create a campaign based not just on quantity (high sales), but also based on quality (promotional materials presentation).

STRATEGY:

Solution & Strategy

  • Create a rewards program based on cashback for shop owners
  • To receive cashback, shop owners buy PMI IQOS products. PMI uploads the transactions in the system, and the system calculates and allocates the money into the user accounts.
  • The users may redeem the money, to be paid, on 2 options:

1. Uploads an invoices to Promotiful Portugal – a company that manages the cashback campaigns

2. Chose to be invoiced automatically, on their behalf, in order to receive the money

 

Mechanic:

Step 1 – The shop owner access the PMI Partner Portal (Open).

Step 2 – If he has rights on the Owners Campaign, he will be transferred automatically via SSO to our platform

Step 3 – In the Owners platform, he can see his transactions and how much money he has accumulated as cashback

Step 4 – If he wants to redeem, he must do the following:

1.Confirm his fiscal data

2.Confirm the IBAN account and uploads a statement from the bank as proof that it is his account

3.Choose how the cashback is transferred:

-> He can upload an invoice to Promotiful, with the amount and campaigns he received cashback

Or

-> He can choose Promotiful to make an automatic invoice on his behalf, which is instantly approved

Step 5 – After the invoice is validated, a SEPA file is being generated in order to make the payments

Philip Morris International had a specific target defined for each retailer. When meeting the target set, the retailer receives cashback. Retailer is rewarded monthly / quarterly depending on the target achieved.

Cashback based on high quality presentation of promotional materials:

-> For each store there is allocated a Brand Builder (PMI representative)
-> Brand builders have a portfolio of stores selected based on location
-> Brand builder pays monthly visits to retailers and collects data on the target achieved
-> The information is centralized and sent to us for the loading of the incentives

RESULTS:

The program has been recently launched (in March 2021). However, over 300k Euro were paid as cashback until now.

The program has a high success due to the:

  • – Automatization of processes and payments
  • – Management of PMI rewards campaign
  • – Easy to be managed by the agencies
  • – Transparency to the users / shop owners
  • – Integration with Primavera – the ERP of the Promotiful Portugal

DOWNLOADS:

Philip Morris International – Create Direct 2021