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NEED TO BE INCENTIVISED?

Incentives & rewards, recognition & awards. Whether your need is to motivate customers, staff or channel, turn performance into profit with Creative Incentives' solutions. You don't always need outright winners! Points-based scalable systems can improve anyone's performance, rewarding them for the increments they achieve - all related to your objectives, and your budget. Let your market exceed targets, not your budget.

'We have literally everything anyone would want to aspire to - available to you either online, or by catalogue, generic or personalised, from R100 to R100 000. Like digital camera's, kid's bikes, computers, cellphones, hi-fis and TV's you-name-it, to any gift voucher anywhere in SA, all delivered to their doors as part of our administrative service, backup and support that we give to every valued client' comments Geoff Saner, MD.

And here's a first in South Africa - the personalised, (your) company branded, and incentive debit card! Sure to ensure success every time your participants, employees or members reach into their wallets to pay for something, anywhere throughout SA! Or if you prefer, any gift voucher from any brand or any store that would suit your target market, again personalised, wrapped in your theme, and delivered to their desks. Or cheque books of preprinted and themed vouchers to pre-set values your line managers can write out to your achievers…

Or how about incentive travel trips, tailored to your winner's expectations - still the leading reward for improving performance, depending on your participants profile. We have planned and implemented trips for winning groups from 10 to 500 people, all over the world - with personalised service and the added incentive Wows! that surprise everyone, and makes their trip, your reward, more memorable. And at better prices than the average travel agent can provide!

Then there are experiences to thrill the adventure seekers, or pamper and relax your audience, all neatly packaged so you don't have to do a thing. Just set the levels you want them to achieve, and let them reward themselves with whatever takes their fancy - from over 1000 choices ranging from spa days and beauty treatments to bungee and rap jumping, dining for two at home with a chef or a night out by limo, to go-kart and motor racing, 4x4 adventures and jet fighter flights. And they're all available for teambuilding enquiries too.

And if you need someone to plan it with you, put it all together, communicate to your customers, staff or channel, and keep track of them all, Creative Incentives' trained and professional incentive marketing staff will assist you, providing that full support your investment deserves. visit our website at www.creativeincentives.co.za. We're standing by, ready to give you Return On Investment !

In September 2006 we took South Africa's single biggest group of incentive winners to Mexico!

Yes over 400 happy achievers will enjoy the popular Mexican holiday resort of Puerto Vallarta - unique, different, and sought after by international holidaymakers and corporates who want to reward their top achievers.

The trip was meticulously planned for Cancun, but after the devastating effects of hurricane Wilma last year, it was decided to move the group to a 'safer' coast right across the country. And Puert Vallarta is the ideal choice!

Don’t you wish it was you who…..

	stayed in 5 star luxury
	Tasted proper tequila
Parasailed		Cruised the sunset in a schooner

It's also about those who didn't make it

Johannesburg, Gauteng, 13 July 2006 - You may have suspected it all along, but now someone brave is coming out and saying it. Here it is: there's more to incentive schemes and loyalty programmes than recognising and rewarding the same top 20% that always 'makes it'.

It's also about motivating the vital 70% that always works adequately, and incentivising that segment of the workforce to improve both their individual productivity and the corporate bottom line.

This is the revolutionary position of Creative Incentives, one of South Africa's leading full-service incentive houses.

Using combinations of tailored travel itineraries, lifestyle experiences, merchandise, vouchers and debit cards to meet clients' recognition and reward objectives, Creative Incentives has aligned its philosophy with Jack Welch's innovative vitality model: the '20-70-10' system.

According to this model, the top 20% of any workforce is most productive, while the middle 70% ('the vital 70%') works adequately. The 'vital 70%' may not be visionaries or the most driven members of the company, but they are vital simply because they make up the majority of the group.

To maximise this philosophy, Creative Incentives has a clever trick up its sleeve: subtle repetition.

"I believe that the secret is to offer programmes that are mind-blowing; that have brag value; that are truly memorable - and then repeat them the following year, with small tweaks." says Geoff Saner, MD. "This gives the middle 70% something big to dream about, motivates them to re-assess their own 'best levels' and, at the same time, serves as a tool for enhancing productivity. Imagine the results companies would see reflected in their bottom line, if their middle 70% achieved its maximum potential!"

Issued by:
Nadine Symington, Creative Incentives, Group Marketing Manager
Cell: 072 582 6699
E-mail: nadine@creativeincentives.co.za

Is there allure in going local?

Johannesburg, Gauteng, 13 July 2006 - The incentive industry gets more creative every day, with spectacular overseas travel and once-in-a-lifetime experiences becoming the norm rather than the exception. It's no surprise, then, that travel pundits are curious about the way forward. Is local still lekker?

Creative Incentives, one of South Africa's leading full-service incentive houses, believes that locally-tailored travel itineraries can certainly motivate participants to achieve great things for their companies - provided that they are designed with care and closely aligned with participants' profiles.

"We always examine the participants being recognised and rewarded," says Geoff Saner, MD. "Are they less well-travelled and likely to be wowed by a trip to Cape Town? Or are they extremely well-travelled and impressed by exclusive, remote getaways? Participants need to be offered opportunities that are beyond their frames of reference."

Creative Incentives is also convinced that there's more to local incentive travel than just attractive destinations. The promotional activities inherent in the programme and the unique events conceptualised for participants must appeal to the client's winning workforce.

Issued by:
Nadine Symington, Creative Incentives, Group Marketing Manager
Cell: 072 582 6699
E-mail: nadine@creativeincentives.co.za