Thanks for your feedback (I lead the EAG team)! We value EAG referrals very highly and are really grateful for anyone who refers someone to us. As discussed in the post, rewards are intended “as small tokens of appreciation, not as financial incentives”. We hope they’re fun ways to show our appreciation and draw people’s attention to the fact that they could be referring people.
We want to make sure we’re not trivialising referrals though, and we’ll bear this feedback in mind. Are you suggesting it would be better to have no incentive, or a more substantial monetary incentive?
Yeah, I expect that a financial incentive would get more signups, and I even think that no incentive might be better than giving out stickers and other little trinkets.
But what I would actually want are better non-financial incentives. Instead of starting with a sticker and needing 10 referrals to get a t-shirt, 10x the quality of the prizes and have them start at a t-shirt. The prizes are so trivial now that if you think referrals are very valuable, this adds a negligible cost to the program.
Thanks for your feedback (I lead the EAG team)! We value EAG referrals very highly and are really grateful for anyone who refers someone to us. As discussed in the post, rewards are intended “as small tokens of appreciation, not as financial incentives”. We hope they’re fun ways to show our appreciation and draw people’s attention to the fact that they could be referring people.
We want to make sure we’re not trivialising referrals though, and we’ll bear this feedback in mind. Are you suggesting it would be better to have no incentive, or a more substantial monetary incentive?
Yeah, I expect that a financial incentive would get more signups, and I even think that no incentive might be better than giving out stickers and other little trinkets.
But what I would actually want are better non-financial incentives. Instead of starting with a sticker and needing 10 referrals to get a t-shirt, 10x the quality of the prizes and have them start at a t-shirt. The prizes are so trivial now that if you think referrals are very valuable, this adds a negligible cost to the program.