Effective email marketing targets the future relationship between you and the customer to ensure that the customers you are retaining, are spending more with you, This gives you more budget to go and acquire new customers. Having robust automated email marketing campaign management takes the workload off the day to day and makes managing customer relationships easier.
Email marketing is so much more than sending blast email to everyone in your database, focus on these 7 elements, you will be set up for success...
We work with brands to help develop their email marketing strategy so it underpins their other marketing efforts. Creating an editorial calendar to help tell the story of the brand and communicate core retail messages to the right customers at the right time.
Having robust automated flows in place take the pressure off the day to day and make managing customer relationships more efficient and effective. We want to ensure customers are receiving targeted and personalised messages throughout their lifecycle.
The design of your emails needs to resonate with your audience. We create email templates in line with best practice to ensure they are engaging and are consistent with your brand, whilst giving you the flexibility to send out messages frequently and tailor them to your audiences.
Did you know that 99% of all texts are read within 3 minutes? Get those important messages straight into the customer's hand. SMS should be used to leverage other channels and deliver personalised or key brand messages. When developing your SMS proposition, we take the following into consideration to ensure it complements your existing marketing.
If you don’t talk to your customers, how will you know how to talk to your customers when you want to start?
We recommend A/B testing every single communication you send to your customers. This allows you to optimise the performance of your communications, but also provides you with more of an understanding of your existing customers. We can run tests on your campaigns and automations to ensure we are optimising each stage of the funnel. Here are a few examples of what you could test:
We will closely monitor the key areas throughout the funnel in order to continually improve your email campaigns. These areas are:
CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and email marketing are strategies used to build and maintain relationships with customers. CRM involves using software and processes to manage and analyse customer interactions and data throughout the customer lifecycle, with the goal of improving business relationships, customer retention, and driving growth. It helps businesses track customer behaviour, preferences, and history, enabling personalised communication and better-targeted marketing.
Email marketing, on the other hand, is a direct marketing approach that involves sending targeted, personalised messages to a group of recipients via email. It’s used to nurture leads, build brand awareness, and drive conversions by delivering relevant content, offers, and updates to customers. Together, CRM and email marketing work synergistically to enhance customer engagement, optimise marketing efforts, and improve overall customer experience.
CRM and email marketing are highly beneficial for eCommerce brands because they help businesses build personalised, long-term relationships with customers, drive repeat purchases, and optimise marketing efforts.
Through the development of CRM strategies, eCommerce businesses can provide personalised experiences, increase customer retention, and boost sales, ultimately leading to higher ROI and long-term growth.
Whilst Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and email marketing are related concepts, they are not wholly the same thing.
CRM is usually used as a term to refer to all forms of direct to customer communication, which includes email, but also SMS and others, at every stage of the buying cycle. This includes marketing, sales, customer support, and asking for customer feedback. While marketers may use the term CRM as a catch all term to mean email marketing, email marketing is but one element of a fully fledged CRM system. And similarly, marketers may use the term email marketing when referring to customer communications that fall outside of marketing, such as asking for customer feedback. So, try not to place too much stock in the terms themselves, but know on an individual level what you want to implement to grow your business.
There is no golden formula for email marketing, but a good starting point is to have your email marketing at least be an extension of your other marketing efforts across your owned channels such as social media and your website.
Email marketing allows you to speak more directly to your customers. So, although you may be sending wider sweeping emails, there is the opportunity to tailor some of your communications to subsections of your customer base, or, by using customer browsing history, to tailor them to each individual too.
Some of the most common campaigns for eCommerce businesses are promotional campaigns, product announcements and re-engagement campaigns, which are especially useful for tapping back into customers that haven’t viewed your site in a long time.
Like most things with marketing, consistency over a long period of time is going to be the most beneficial and impactful thing in increasing the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns. But outside of this, the quality of your copywriting and design are equally important.
Email marketing, more so than most other marketing channels, depends heavily on the trust built up between you and your audience, so ensuring that your entire brand is cohesive and has clear messaging will ultimately lead to increased customer loyalty, more email sign ups and more return on investment as a result.
Every great relationship starts with a conversation. We’d love to talk with you about your next project and answer any questions you might have about Shopify. But be warned… once we get talking about this stuff, it’s hard to shut us up!