Archive for category Value-Added Services
Telcos targeting special offers | Stuff.co.nz
Posted by Chris Woodhams in Software as a Service, Value-Added Services on October 11, 2011
Your mate gets a text message offering them some free calls on their mobile, and you don’t.
Get used to it. Mobile phone companies are targeting special offers to small groups of customers in a move aimed at boosting revenues and profits.
The initiatives are part of a trend towards the greater use of business analytics by utilities that promises more relevant promotional offers, but which has the flipside that customers can no longer be assured they are getting as good a deal as their neighbours.
Telcos targeting special offers | Stuff.co.nz.
Cricket and pizzas….
Posted by Benjamin Buscayret in Software as a Service, Value-Added Services on January 10, 2011
Cricket and pizzas…. | AnalystXpress – the Juniper Research Blog.
An interesting Blog post from Juniper Analyst, Howard Wilcox. With over 2 billion people worldwide expected to watch the Cricket World Cup next month, Mobile Network Operators have a considerable opportunity to generate new revenue by adopting integrated Premium Rate SMS services.
SaaS Subscriber Stimulation Case Study – here’s the proof!
Posted by Chris Woodhams in Software as a Service, Value-Added Services on December 16, 2010
If you are still having doubts about the financial benefit of customer stimulation and think that ‘churn just happens‘, please take a moment to look at the eServGlobal-Orange Niger case study published by Inform at the end of November.
Our SaaS stimulation solution succeeded in increasing the charged minutes of call by 54% within 16 weeks for Orange Niger, a very competitive country facing an annual churn rate of 50 plus.
Mobile advertising set for stellar growth
Posted by Benjamin Buscayret in Value-Added Services on November 12, 2010
According to the latest research from Informa, global revenues from mobile advertising will hit $3.5bn in 2010, following strong growth in the last 12 months. Further growth is expected over the next five years, with the market set to generate around $24bn in 2015.
Our VAS solutions are specifically designed to give operators the tools to capitalise on this growth. SMS advertising is a key tool used by many of our customers to promote and stimulate new service in their market. Easy to launch, our targeted SMS campaigns produce very high response rates. Adding Voice or MMS broadcast provides additional powerful tools to run direct marketing campaigns to other market segments.
More info is available on our website.
PromoMax v3.2 – Invent your own promotion
Posted by Chris Woodhams in Value-Added Services on November 10, 2010
PromoMax, our industry leading solution for delivering automated promotional offers, is about to get even better with imminent release of PromoMax v3.2. This major upgrade will provide our customers even more flexibility and creativity when building their promotions.
Available in late November, the new features include significant benefits in terms of approval flow which offers additional internal controls to ensure protection of revenue at every stage. More types of promotions will be available than ever before. Including promotions based on customer life cycle, pre-determined schedule based events, incoming call usage and service activation based promotions as well as Pull (opt in) promotions.
With these advanced customer intelligence tools, operators have even more options to drive preferred customer segments with retention, up sell and cross sell offers, in real time.
Subscriber Stimulation Success
Posted by Christina Tubb in Software as a Service, Value-Added Services on November 3, 2010
We are really proud of our cost effective subscriber stimulation service. It was recently implemented by an MNO in an emerging market with the goal of improving customer retention and increasing overall usage. These goals are especially important when operating in competitive landscapes with widespread multi-SIM usage, as subscribers use the one which provides the cheapest service. The MNO therefore wanted a solution which would help build a strong sense of community while simultaneously providing a better value service by incorporating personalized, real time rewards.
A mere 16 weeks after launching the service, voice revenue increased by 32% and active customers increased by 50%. The customer stimulation strategy involved encouraging customer usage, increasing minutes of usage and decreasing churn.
eServGlobal worked closely with the MNO to develop a solution which addressed their needs. Initially, segments were established to identify the usage habits of subscribers. Subscribers received ‘stimulation’ messages from the operator encouraging them to use X amount more minutes to receive Y minutes reward. Each week the counter and segmentation were reset and the program recommenced.
To reduce time to market and save on capex, the entire project was delivered via our SaaS (Software as a Service) offerings. We can provide an end-to-end service, which means operators can reduce their IT investments and risks and spend more time finding new ways to delight their subscribers with new services.





