Companies are always looking for unique and creative ways to incentivize customers, reward employees, and strengthen ties with their partners. Depending upon the stakeholder type - whether they be customer vs. employee vs. partner - the options available to companies have usually boiled down to the giving of gifts or cash. Now there is a better way: the sales incentive gift card.

Sales incentive gift cards look like credit or debit cards, usually with a Visa, MasterCard or American Express symbol on them. They can be loaded up with cash of any denomination (up to around $2,500 in most cases) and given to somebody whom the company wants to reward or incentivize.

Use Anywhere You Can Use a Credit Card

A sales incentive gift card works just like a credit card. It can be used to purchase goods and services in any of the millions of locations around the country where major credit cards are accepted.

Reward Customers, Partners & Employees

Your company's use of these cards to boost your business is only limited by your imagination. Examples include:

* Give your best customers an incentive to sign up for a new, experimental service and then to give you detailed feedback on what they thought about it

* Reward customers or prospects for participating in a focus group

* Reward personnel referrals

* Use the sales incentive gift cards as a way to reward sales staff who have met certain goals

* Reward HR, accounting, manufacturing, marketing and other departments for meeting certain business objectives

* Thank partners and suppliers for their help with a recent big project

* Use for business travel and for tracking expenses

End-to-End Rewards Management Tools

Most major issuers of these incentive cards also offer full incentive program support and a suite of management tools at your disposal. These end-to-end rewards management tools make it easy for you to purchase cards, send them to recipients, reload them with funds (when necessary), and track balances and usage. Everything from ordering to fulfillment to tracking is top-notch, making your life easier as the internal program manager.

24-Hour Reload Capability

Planning on using the sales incentive gift cards to reward employees when certain goals are met? With these cards, there is no complex "red tape" to get through to get the cards loaded with more funds. In fact, you can reload them within as few as 24 hours. This instant reward/instant gratification capability makes them especially attractive to card recipients, which in turn strengthens your brand.

Available as a Bulk Purchase

If you have a large organization, you can purchase the cards in bulk in increments of 50 or more at a time and have them shipped to your office or individually to each recipient.