AIQ: The Complete 
Multi-Channel Marketing Platform, Unlike SMS Focused Attentive

Attentive is great for SMS marketing, but AIQ offers more. With multi-channel marketing (email, SMS, in-app) and built-in loyalty programs, AIQ drives deeper customer engagement and retention—something Attentive lacks. For long-term growth, AIQ is your all-in-one solution.

Key Features:
Loyalty Programs
Integrated loyalty and rewards programs
No loyalty features
Multi-Channel Engagement
Email, SMS, In-App Messaging
Primarily Email, limited SMS
Customer Segmentation
Real-time, behavior-driven segmentation
Basic segmentation
Analytics
Detailed insights across all customer channels
Basic SMS analytics
Automation
Multi-channel automated campaigns
SMS-focused automation
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Loyalty Programs
Integrated loyalty and rewards programs
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Multi-Channel Engagement
Email, SMS, In-App Messaging
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Customer Segmentation
Real-time, behavior-driven segmentation
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Retail-Specific Analytics
Detailed insights across all customer channels
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Automation
Multi-channel automated campaigns
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Why AIQ is Better Than Attentive?

AIQ empowers businesses with marketing and loyalty strategies that drive growth and engagement.

Multi-Channel Marketing

While Attentive excels in SMS marketing, AIQ enables you to engage customers across multiple channels, including email and in-app messaging, providing a more holistic approach to customer communication.

Integrated Loyalty Programs

AIQ includes loyalty programs that reward repeat customers, driving long-term engagement and customer satisfaction. Attentive doesn’t offer any loyalty features, leaving businesses to look elsewhere for retention solutions.

Comprehensive Analytics

AIQ delivers deeper, multi-channel insights that help you understand your customer journey and optimize engagement strategies. Attentive’s analytics are limited to SMS, which may provide a narrower view of overall customer interactions.

Ready to be more Attentive? Switch to AIQ for complete engagement

While Attentive specializes in SMS marketing, AIQ’s complete multi-channel capabilities and loyalty programs make it the better choice for businesses that want to engage customers across all channels and build lasting relationships.

You have questions? We’ve got answers

Discover answers to common questions about maximizing your marketing efforts with AIQ.

Why shouldn't I rely on email to reach my customers?
Email alone increasingly fails to engage customers effectively. Filters, delays, and unread messages can hinder your marketing efforts, while other customers simply prefer to communicate throught other services. A modern marketing platform like AIQ delivers messages across multiple channels and ensures your campaigns reach more customers at the right time and place, driving higher conversions.
What should I look for in a marketing platform?
Competition is fierce. To stand out, businesses need more than basic email marketing tools like Mailchimp. AIQ offers advanced features such as loyalty campaigns, AI-driven analytics, and omnichannel outreach to help attract, retain, and drive repeat business. Learn more in our blog, Five must-have solutions to boost customer loyalty.
Isn't it hard to build and manage customer loyalty programs?
Compared to Mailchimp, AIQ simplifies the process of creating and managing customer loyalty programs, making it a more efficient choice for businesses focused on customer retention. While Mailchimp centers around email marketing, AIQ offers a comprehensive, automated approach to loyalty programs, including features like loyalty rules, points systems, rewards, and personalized communication, all ready to use without complex setup. With AIQ, you can start building loyalty programs immediately.
I've invested heavily in my POS and ecommerce environments. Do I need to replace everything?
AIQ’s marketing platform integrates with today’s leading retail POS and ecommerce solutions, so you can centralize and harness the value of all of your customer data without having to rip out and replace your existing investments. AIQ also works with other email, data, and communications solutions to give you even more value from your AIQ environment.

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Ready to experience the difference?

Products

Marketing

Create and scale brilliant marketing campaigns

Loyalty

Turn pitstop customers into long-term patrons

Ecommerce

Order management and SEO foundations made easy

Analytics

Uncover insights and make smarter business decisions daily

Data / CDP

Power your marketing and operational strategy with clean, reliable data

Apps

Retailer-owned and fully branded native and web mobile apps

Use cases

Text Messaging

Automate fully personalized, intelligently timed text messages

Email

Emails that drive real revenue and form customer loyalty

Push Notifications

Capture attention with customer web & native app notifications

Voice Drop

Deliver memorable voice memos straight to your customers

Direct Mail

Intelligent mail printed and shipped via behavior triggers

Abandoned Cart

Recover abandoned customer carts and the associated revenue

AI in AIQ

Leverage AI to craft dreamlike customer comms and optimize shopping experiences

Contests & Lotteries

Sustain rapid growth by running unique contests

Winback Campaigns

Keep your customers engaged with our automated win back technology

Birthday Offers

Show your customers that you care by sending them some love on their birthday

Free support

LIVE System Status

Minute by minute system status and major downtime incident responses

Platform User Guides

Get started quickly and learn about each of our features

Video Demos

Demos of our features and latest releases

Integration Guides

Consolidate multi-market business units through clean data they can trust

Developer Docs

Build amazing apps on top of API’s built for regulation and privacy

AIQ Blog

Up to date news and quick tips/ tricks from your favorite Alpine experts

AIQ Academy

Exclusive courses designed to make you an Alpine IQ certified expert.
By business type

Premium Support

Hands on help from our team of dedicated experts

Certified Partners

3rd party experts certified by Alpine IQ
Products

Marketing

Create and scale brilliant marketing campaigns

Loyalty

Turn pitstop customers into long-term patrons

Ecommerce

Order management and SEO foundations made easy

Analytics

Uncover insights and make smarter business decisions daily

Data / CDP

Power your marketing and operational strategy with clean, reliable data

Apps

Retailer-owned and fully branded native and web mobile apps

Text Messaging

Automate fully personalized, intelligently timed text messages

Email

Emails that drive real revenue and form customer loyalty

Push Notifications

Capture attention with customer web & native app notifications

Voice Drop

Deliver memorable voice memos straight to your customers

Direct Mail

Intelligent mail printed and shipped via behavior triggers

Abandoned Cart

Recover abandoned customer carts and the associated revenue

AI in AIQ

Leverage AI to craft dreamlike customer comms and optimize shopping experiences

Contests & Lotteries

Sustain rapid growth by running unique contests

Winback Campaigns

Keep your customers engaged with our automated win back technology

Birthday Offers

Show your customers that you care by sending them some love on their birthday

By business type

Premium Support

Hands on help from our team of dedicated experts

Certified Partners

3rd party experts certified by Alpine IQ

Free support

LIVE System Status

Minute by minute system status and major downtime incident responses

Platform User Guides

Get started quickly and learn about each of our features

Video Demos

Demos of our features and latest releases

Integration Guides

Consolidate multi-market business units through clean data they can trust

Developer Docs

Build amazing apps on top of API’s built for regulation and privacy

AIQ Blog

Up to date news and quick tips/ tricks from your favorite Alpine experts

AIQ Academy

Exclusive courses designed to make you an Alpine IQ certified expert.