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[June 2025] 🤘 Referral Ideas Contest ($500 in prizes), Reward Updates, Features Coming Soon
$500 referral contest: What's your craziest referral idea?
Mica 🔷 Referral Rock
July 01, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes
Hey it’s Mica,
After re-reading our last feature update on reward management, it got me thinking … I haven’t tested the one-off reward feature myself.
So I got approval from the boss to run a contest for our loyal email subscribers. We’re giving away $500 in Amazon gift cards for the craziest referral ideas.
Before that, we’ll recap our latest reward management improvements and review our next feature update.
Let’s dive in,
-Mica
Head of Operations
🎁 5 Reward Management Upgrades
Speaking of rewards, this month we released 5 major updates that solve some of your biggest reward management frustrations. These updates give you more control and insight into your rewards:
Reward anyone in 10 seconds - Got an employee who deserves recognition? Customer who gave great feedback? New reward quick action lets you reward anyone (even people outside your program)
End reward detective work - Enhanced reward profiles show you payment status, recipient details, transaction history, and quick actions from a single view, optimized for mobile. No more bouncing between screens wondering what happened to a reward
Complete reward history - See every payment attempt, failure reasons, and rollback amounts from the reward profile and via API/Webhooks/Zapier
Delete unused coupon codes - Coupon codes expired? Need to change coupon value? Bulk delete all unused coupons at once
Configure your reward views - Single view for all your reward data with adjustable columns, advanced filtering, and exportable data
🚀 Coming Soon: Address Fields + Data Enrichment
Many customers collect address information in Referral Rock to qualify/route referrals or to offer physical rewards (think checks, swag, unique gifts, etc.). Until now, they’ve had to use custom fields for this, which can be difficult to setup and manage.
Our next newsletter will go into detail on the new address fields and explore other ways to enrich your member and referral data. Stay tuned!
🏆 Submit Your Crazy Referral Ideas (win $$$)
What's the craziest referral program idea you've had but never actually tested?
A few team members had fun coming up with some, and the results were interesting. A few made us laugh, while others stretched our imagination on what might be possible.
Here are some examples of ideas and why they work:
Idea | Why it works |
|---|---|
Wood lasered QR codes sent to every customer | Stands out as a physical thing in a digital first world to get more people to share |
Name a Goat After Them | Funny, unexpected, and super viral if you share a photo. Bonus: partner with a goat farm or animal rescue. |
Custom Bobblehead of Referrer | Silly and memorable — they’ll show it off on their desk. |
Office Chair Throne | For the top referrer, send a ridiculous throne-style chair (gaming chair, velvet seat, etc.) — “You rule!” |
We're putting real money on the table, not just because we know rewards work but because we genuinely believe the best referral innovations come from the people and businesses running (or planning to run) actual programs.
Prizes:
🥇 $250 gift card - Best idea overall
🥈 $150 gift card - Runner up
🥉 $100 gift card - 3rd place
How It Works:
Submit: Reply to this email by July 11th, 2025
Select: Our team will narrow it down to the top 10 ideas
Vote: We’ll ask you to vote for your favorite
Win: Announce winners end of July newsletter
Don't hold back - the crazier, the better! We want ideas that make people stop and say "wait, that's actually brilliant" or "that's completely insane... I love it."
To enter just reply to this email with your referral idea and why it will work by July 11th, 2025
