How Business Owners Can Use MatesGate To Retain Customers

There is a way and in fact it doesn’t cost a single penny to the business owner.

Quite simply, if you run a business then you can use the MatesGate social network to give your customers loyalty points (known as credits on MatesGate) which they use to earn cash from MatesGate.

How It Works – The Basics


The business would need to join MatesGate and refer its customers to join – for each one that joins MatesGate, the business will earn 5000 credits.

When a customer buys something from the business and the customer is also a member of the MatesGate social network, the business can transfer some of its creidits to the customer based on how they want to reward their customer (say 1 credit for every $1 spent).

The credits earned by the member for shopping with the business, earns money for the customer as part of MatesGate’s revenue share.

As long as your business account on MatesGate has credits to give, you will be able to give your credits away as loyalty points. Given that your business will get 5000 credits for every customer that it gets to join MatesGate, there should be plenty of credits available. Your business will also earn credits if you log into MatesGate everyday, therefore this option will suit 90% of small businesses out there.

A Pro Version

If you have a business that has a high turnover and is therefore likely to use up its credits quickly, we have a separate plan. You can simply buy Gold Business Membership for your business and then you will never run out of credits to give to your customers. Gold Business Membership currently costs $100 a year.

What To Do Next

To get started giving your customers loyalty points, simply join MatesGate by clicking here. Fill out the sign-up form as follows:-

* Username – use your business name if possible
* Email – your business e-mail address
* Password & repeat password – whatever you choose as your password
* Real Name – the trading name of your business
* Gender – whatever you choose
* Birthday – whatever you choose
* PayPal E-mail address – leave this blank (this is for individuals who earn a share of the site’s revenue)
* Who referred you – leave this blank (unless you’ve been referred by an existing member)
* Your IP address – leave this blank
* Upload Photo – upload your business logo (this will be used as your avatar so it’s free advertising!)

Once signed up, you will receive a welcome message from the site Admin posted on your wall – this can take up to 12 hours to be posted at peak times. When it has been posted, click on the Admin’s avatar to go to his profile and then click on send Private Message – send a message stating that you want to take part in the free loyalty points scheme for your business and remember to include a link to your website in the message.

The Admin will then reply back with details on how to implement the system and what you need to put on your website/store to get your customers to sign up to MatesGate and start earning loyalty points.

The Benefits

The benefits of using MatesGate to give your customers are:-

* increased customer loyalty – if customers earn money through buying from you then they are more likely to keep buying from you
* free advertising – by joining MatesGate, your business is exposed to thousands of potential new customers who will buy from you because they earn money from MatesGate plus you will get a free banner for your business in the site’s advertising rotation
* free promotion – we will produce a directory of businesses using our service and your business will be listed with a link to your website

The Future

Once we have a sufficient number of businesses signed up, we will produce loyalty cards for our members which will simplify the system but of course it has to be cost effective for us to do so. But we have big plans to help small businesses because at MatesGate, we aim to put the social back into social networking!