Topic: Nintendo Sales Incentive Program

[TheYoungerPlumber]

Nintendo, Quantam, and Ecount are pushing for the hard Nintendo sale.

Nintendo's Inventive 'Game Crazy' Promotion Fires Up Nearly 3,800 Prepaid Cards to Reward Sales Associates for Selling Targeted Nintendo Products This Holiday Season

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. and CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Loyalty Systems, a leading provider of customer loyalty programs and reward currencies and Ecount, the stored value and prepaid experts, today announced that Nintendo of America Inc., the worldwide leader in interactive entertainment development, is pressing "Start" on an exciting new promotion that will take holiday sales of Nintendo products to an entirely new level.

    Designed to increase the effectiveness of its targeted product efforts during the year's most competitive selling season, Nintendo's 'Game Crazy' campaign, devised by Quantum Loyalty Systems, will use Ecount's Visa(R)- branded prepaid cards to distribute cash incentives to some 3,800 sales associates who sell certain Nintendo products in over 700 stores nationwide. Nintendo Sales Associates will receive a Rewards Card emblazoned with Nintendo's popular Mario character most recently seen in the Nintendo game "Mario Golf: Advance Tour."

    Beginning in October, Game Crazy associates will earn cash prizes for selling specific Nintendo products and achieving stated sales goals during the 2004 holiday season.  The cash prizes will be immediately applied directly to the sales associates' prepaid cards, which can be used anywhere Visa debit cards are accepted.

    "We created a sales incentives program that allows Nintendo to obtain new business while keeping and building on their existing business," says Quantum Loyalty's Chairman, Ron Randolph-Wall.  "And because of the Quantum Rewards Card solution, we believe Nintendo will have its most profitable Holiday Season ever."

    "Ecount's custom prepaid Visa cards totally eliminate the payment distribution and management problems that typically plague sales incentive programs," says Matt Gillin, CEO of Ecount.  "As proven motivators for sales teams, prepaid cards instantly deliver a true cash incentive that can be spent at millions of locations.  And they're more secure and easier to manage, because there are no checks to write; no costly stop-payments for lost checks; and up-to-the-second online monitoring of sales performance by associate, store, product, or vendor.  Ecount's prepaid cards are simply a better way to pay."

The incentive program runs through 2005.

[Bartman3010]

But Game Informer is crap =(

[VideoGamerJ]

I work at GameStop too, so I have to say that...

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

HOW DOES THIS BENEFIT THE BUYERS!?

I want my free life-size Daisy action figure and body massage with my purchase of Mario Power Court-Smack-Ball.

[MaleficentOgre]

All I know is that Game Informer has absolutely no journalistic integrity, and as a journalism student I can't stand the fact that I'm getting into the industry with people like them.

[TheYoungerPlumber]

Hey there, our buddy Billy works over at Game Informer!  Granted, he's head of the online division, but still.  I cannot say I have read enough of the print magazine to have an actual opinion.  I just know GameStop forces employees to push the product (as seen in VideoGamerJ's post).

[Djunknown]

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GameStop Employee says: Now that you have a Nintendo DS, would you like to subscribe to Game Informer Magazine to keep up to date in the gaming world, sir?

I'll try to be fair here.  They have good in-depth 'first looks' at games, and good previews. Though they botched up RE 4. Granted it was a small error (they said the game took place in South America when its in Europe), but when you're the first to break a story, c'mon.

Let's not forget that they got an inside look at Metroid Prime 2, that one turned alright. Its not everyday Nintendo opens their doors to the press.

But for everything they do right, they do more things wrong. I could go on and on, but that's another story. Billy (and his assistant Chris Cook) do a good job on the website.

NOW, on the topic at hand, someone actually trying to sell me Nintendo Products? That's a first! Who knows, maybe I'll try to help some employees out...