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Cross-marketing: new customers without ads

How to gain new customers from partners almost for free

Ads keep getting more expensive, yet you always need new customers. Cross-marketing solves this differently: partner businesses exchange customers, and each gets an inflow with no ad budget.

In shortCross-marketing is an exchange of customer bases between neighbouring businesses. A partner credits your guests with its bonuses, and they come to it as new customers. You pay only for those who actually arrive.

What cross-marketing is

It is a partnership where businesses share an audience. A coffee shop and a nearby store serve the same people. Instead of competing for attention, they bring customers to each other.

How the mechanic works

  1. A guest spends 5000 KZT at the coffee shop and gets its bonuses.
  2. At the same time the partner store credits its own virtual bonuses.
  3. If the guest does not visit the store, the store loses nothing.
  4. If they visit and spend the bonuses, acquisition cost is about 1000 KZT, many times cheaper than ads.

Why it is cheaper than ads

In advertising you pay for impressions and clicks with no guarantee of a purchase. In cross-marketing you pay in bonuses only to those who actually arrived and bought. The risk is minimal, and the customer comes with trust borrowed from the partner.

Case. A clothing store gained 100 new customers in 2 months through cross-marketing with a coffee chain, at about 1000 KZT per customer. A cafe chain brings in 15 new guests a month with no ads.

The Sagi Cross network

Sagi Cross is a network of 1000+ businesses that exchange audiences. By joining you get access to customers of neighbouring businesses as a source of new guests.

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FAQ

How much does acquisition through cross-marketing cost?
You pay in bonuses only to those who actually arrived and bought, in practice about 1000 KZT per new customer, cheaper than ads.
Who can I do cross-marketing with?
Neighbouring, non-competing businesses: a coffee shop and a store, a barbershop and a cafe. Sagi Cross helps find partners.
Is it safe for my base?
Yes, the exchange runs through bonus mechanics, not by handing over contacts directly.