Gamification and Beyond: Designing Rewards That Matter in Your Membership Community (Part 3 of 3)

If you’ve made it to part 3, bless you for eating your vegetables.

We covered prompts. We covered actions. And now… we get to the candy: rewards.

But before you load your community with badges and points, let’s pause.

Rewards alone don’t drive engagement. They just make good behavior stick around longer.

Prompts get people in the door. Supported actions make it easy to participate. Rewards? They’re what signal, “Yes, this was worth it. I’ll do it again.”

In this short video (the final part in my habit formation x engagement series), I walk you through:

• Why dopamine is underrated in your strategy

• How to use gamification without creating junk food engagement

• The 3 types of rewards that actually mean something to your members

• How to layer rewards into your community without relying on a full tech stack

  
  

Watch Part 3: How to Use Rewards to Create Real Engagement in Your Membership Community (And yes, it’s short, sweet, and to the point—just like a good reward should be.)

Want the full 3-part series on engagement strategy through habit formation?

Start from the beginning:

Part 1: How to Prompt Better Interactions in Your Membership Community

Part 2: Supporting the Right Actions for Engagement

Ready to Map Your Member Actions?

I made you a free tool to go with this episode. Use it to sketch out your own member flow and start identifying where your people need more ease, support, or clarity to move forward.