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Maintaining World Cup betting momentum is crucial for sportsbooks looking to convert casual bettors into long-term customers. In this article from European Gaming, Flows’ Sales Director Domenico Mazzola shares insights on leveraging data and no-code automation tools to sustain engagement beyond major events. Discover effective strategies to keep the World Cup excitement alive and drive continuous customer retention.
With the World Cup in Qatar creating a surge in new sign-ups, the main challenge for sportsbook operators now becomes finding new ways to convert these “big event” bettors into regular customers. As is so often the case in the gambling industry, the key here is customisation and personalisation, but in a way that really focuses on bettors’ needs and offers them something different, something special.
The tournament was a great opportunity to gather data insights and the best way to do this was to add a bit of fun to their promotions while also collecting data that could be used to keep customers betting throughout the World Cup and beyond.
So how could they have done this? Well, as we know some punters can be very competitive and leader board promotions are a proven retention tool for operators. Therefore, one stand-out way for operators to engage with customers could be to offer a promotion where players battle against each other for the title of “best bettor and where bettors fill in their predictions to collect points and climb the rankings.
In fact, why not get a little more creative and offer a challenge such as “who can make the best predictions and score the most points on our World Cup leader board or Premier league leader board?”. Using this as a base, operators could even take things a step further and use Flows to drill down into their data to create a series of leader boards separated by country, allowing them to add an additional level of localisation to their promotions.
Of course, the applications of this type of offer extend far beyond the World Cup – operators could also use it to engage with players during the Champions League or the next Euros. After they’ve gathered the necessary data and fed it into Flows, many new promotions become possible. They just need to use their imagination and provide something special that keeps their customers coming back.
However, for this to be successful, it’s important for operators to think about what promotions they want to offer going forward and how to factor these into their marketing strategy. If they were smart during the World Cup, they would have used the tournament to gather data on users’ betting behaviour – i.e. the teams or markets they wagered on – as well as the location that these bets were placed from.
The knock-on effect of this would be that they would now be able to offer tailored promotions based on bettors’ favourite teams or home countries, creating a personalised link to them for future marketing. I really can’t stress enough how important data collection is for this process – it’s the key to enabling operators to offer something that’s relevant to customers’ activity, habits and personal circumstances.
Looking specifically at the World Cup, bets were being taken on countries rather than specific teams, so operators will need to get a bit creative in terms of how they use this data going forward. Now that the tournament is over, there are still opportunities to utilise information gathered to target bettors for friendlies in the lead up to the Euros, which will be the next round of fixtures for the national sides.
Read more of what Domenico has to say in European Gaming.