Poll: What entices you to try a new casino?

[PlexRep]

Interesting Poll... Food for thought for webmasters.

It's interesting to me that information portals have such an impressive influence

Webmasters should take account the audience this particular poll was aimed at. The majority of CM members are a well informed and savvy lot who understand the power of information.

Taking this into account, it's not much of a shocker that portals are doing so well in the poll, and it would be interesting to cast the net a little wider here.

I'd be happy to include a quick survey link in my next mailer to players with a copy of Simmos Poll. This way we can get the same feedback from players who may or may not be active in the forums for comparison.

Any other webmasters or reps want to join me in this little experiment?

 

[vinylweatherman]

Crikey, you're like a retention teams' worst nightmare

Well, if casinos looked after their existing players, rather than giving all the best offers to NEW ones, then maybe the "churn" rate would be less.

KK does NOT just go after the welcome bonuses, he also plays where the loyalty bonuses are worth having.

It seems casinos are far too quick to "bonus ban" their existing players, yet these same players are welcomed with open arms, and decent welcome offers, by the new casinos they haven't tried. Unless a player is "bonus banned" EVERYWHERE, they can move their custom in search of the best deal. Given that almost all casinos market with bonuses, this essentially means a search for the best bonuses.

In common with 99% of businesses, loyalty is PUNISHED, rather than being rewarded, and the modern customer has been taught to continually re-evaluate their "service provider" to see if taking their custom elsewhere will get them a better deal. In many cases, it DOES.

 

[jetset]

Webmasters should take account the audience this particular poll was aimed at. The majority of CM members are a well informed and savvy lot who understand the power of information.

Taking this into account, it's not much of a shocker that portals are doing so well in the poll, and it would be interesting to cast the net a little wider here.

I'd be happy to include a quick survey link in my next mailer to players with a copy of Simmos Poll. This way we can get the same feedback from players who may or may not be active in the forums for comparison.

Any other webmasters or reps want to join me in this little experiment?

Great idea!

I'm all for having as representative a poll as possible from a player perspective, so the more the merrier!

 

[onlineprime08]

I frequently try out new casinos. What I mostly do is to investigate about a certain casino site, reviews about it, and the games it offer, and then write something about it. I only try out new casino site when I feel and I am in the mood, and also if I see a reasonable and good match up bonus. Well, as the poll says, it's like good match up bonus is what most players want.

 

[andreea]

As an affiliate manager of a casino site, this info is welcomed as we try and provide better bonuses to new players, and especially the addition of the fact that the room should maintain good deals for existing players (which I'm sure everyone can agree with).

One of the top two rated answers were regarding what you read here in the forums. I need to submit this site to you to try out and rate in order to have this Thanks again for the useful poll and thread.

 

[PlexRep]

Hi all.

It took me a little while, but I have the results of sharing that poll here too. Not too many surprises in the differences. The 'no deposit bonus' did a lot better, but that's probably down to the fact we ran one a while ago and a high % of the players who responded to the survey may have received one.

'Things I read on a forum' actually did better than I expected (I added 'heard from a friend') but this was still almost 20% below the CasinoMeister result.

'Something else' did twice as well, but like an idiot I did not ask for a section where they could type in what the something else actually was. D'oh.

Did any other reps send this out to see what results they get? if not... it's never too late

For what it's worth, here are the comparisons:

A good signup Match bonus (amount/WR)
CM Poll - 51.09%
Our Poll – 52%

A No-Deposit signup bonus
CM Poll - 26.09%
Our Poll - 40%

An 'X Hour / $X' Freeplay promotion
CM Poll - 10.87%
Our Poll – 8%

A 25/30/50/X Free Spins Offer
CM Poll - 16.30%
Our poll – 5%

Good things I have read in a forum/Heard from friends
CM Poll - 55.43%
Our poll – 36%

Has a specific game I want to play
CM Poll - 18.48%
Our Poll - 6%

Uses a favourite software platform
CM Poll - 25.00%
Our Poll - 11%