Marketers who are willing to take a hands-on approach can achieve dramatic results with personalized data strategies
Regardless of what your short- or long-term business goals are, an imperative part of achieving success is knowing who your prime audience and decision-makers are, and then identifying the best way to reach them.
Major advancements in technology and data analytics have certainly helped shed some light on who ideal audiences are and how to reach them in a specific, hyper-targeted way.
Natural air freshener brand Citrus Magic, which creates sprays and air freshening products free from harsh chemicals, had a few ambitious marketing goals:
Increase brand recognition and exposure
Drive foot traffic
Promote an in-store sales lift
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Learn how we updated and improved our key membership pages to increase conversion and improve the quality of leads with simple customer-centric copy changes
To stay ahead of the competition, you need to keep monitoring and reviewing your key sales pages - are they converting, how much is it costing per user to convert and how can you improve conversions?
At Smart Insights, we'll hold our hands up and admit our key Business Membership sales pages were due an update and so we started work on these at the beginning of the year. Here's how it went...
The problem
We had four landing pages that were designed to describe the value proposition of Business Membership and direct users to relevant pages to find out more:
The overall generic filter page that is used to capture leads who would like to learn more about the different types of Business Membership, without delving too deep into…
Discover how AWA digital defied "best practice" to drive up conversion rates for a global car rental company
Discover Cars, a fast-growing car rental comparison and booking site, came to conversion rate optimization (CRO) agency AWA digital for help with increasing the profitability of their website.
To Discover Cars, "profitability" meant an increase to both conversion rates and average revenue per session (RPS). Car rental sales are always important, but most of the RPS boost came from their highly profitable upsells, so maximizing uptake of these was key to getting the best ROI. Using their proven methodology, AWA started the deep research that defines its process before creating a roadmap of hypotheses and split tests.
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Why your email campaigns might not be going directly to your subscriber’s inbox
Despite being one of the oldest forms of digital marketing, email marketing campaigns still boast one of the best returns for investment.
The effectiveness of email campaigns really relies upon the success of your email deliverability and whether your email reaches the main subscriber inbox. This is something that is often overlooked by many email marketers. Email open rate and click-through rate are helpful, but if your email campaign isn’t delivered to a subscribers main inbox and ends up in spam or other email folders, it’s likely that these statistics might be distorted.
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Find out how Southbank improved their open and click-through rate with a simple email welcome sequence
First impressions in life are all important. This is certainly true in the world of email. Welcoming a new subscriber is a key point in a customer’s journey, and can be a substantial factor in their retention.
At Southbank Centre, the UK’s largest arts centre, one of our challenges is around clearly communicating our vast and varied events programme. So what did we do? We sent a warm and welcoming email to those that signed up to our email list, either through our website or wifi. The first step in our strategy for a seamless email journey.
Our messaging reflects the warm and friendly nature of our site. This is accomplished with the upfront greeting and upbeat copy to complement our newly introduced branding. Paired with…
Learn how AWA digital helped Superfi increase conversions by a data-driven header test
Hifi retailer Superfi came to conversion rate optimisation (CRO) agency AWA digital wanting to increase the conversion rate from their ecommerce website. Using their tried-and-tested research framework (see figure below) AWA gathered quantitative and qualitative data, cross-referencing findings to form test ideas.
It became apparent early on that the website suffered from distracting links, leading people to non-sales funnel pages at key stages of the buying process and in the sitewide header.
How research feeds ongoing testing
Among the various research strands used for the project, heat mapping, Google Analytics and survey data stood out as offering some great insights for this test. As well as being able to…
Case studies on global brands and how they've created a story to support their content marketing strategies
According to a recent CMI survey, just 37% of B2B marketers and 40% of B2C marketers have a written content marketing plan in place. At the same time, content marketing continues to become more mainstream as a recognized channel to help brands communicate, story-tell and convince their own audience and prospects.
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But there is a growing challenge - there appears to be a lack of true understanding as to what and how content can help meet the many different types of organizational objectives? In many examples, the reason why so many content marketing strategies fail is because there simply is no business case.
Where a number of content strategies fall flat is that they run right into the…
A case study showing how marketing helped this global retail brand move from struggling to surviving and prospering
Even the most successful brands occasionally face choppy waters. One wrong move, or more likely, a succession of poor moves as competitors 'up their game' can lead to decline. When this happens, not only is the brand's reputation threatened, but its bottom line as well.
The Tesco brand is synonymous with shopping in the UK. After questionable investment decisions and multiple scandals rocked the business in 2013 and 2014, the company began facing unprecedented quarterly losses. Consumer confidence in the brand plummeted and sales began to reflect that new reality.
Yet the commerce giant managed to turn things around and has been posting financial gains over the past year. How did it manage to do this? As it turns out, a lot of it had to do with improved marketing. Let's review one of the…
A case study of how a retail brand ran a personalisation program to improve engagement
Jack Wills, a retail fashion store, has used personalisation to boost conversions for new and returning customers.
What results have Jack Wills seen since running their personalisation program?
12% increase in conversion rates
8% increase in Add-to-basket
Reduced basket abandonment
Using Monetate, a personalisation software for consumer-facing brands, not only has Jack Wills increased their conversion rates, they have also reduced their basket abandonment.
Personalisation is key
A number of changes were made to their online store - including 'sticky filter' functionality and personalised rules for displaying products to give customers a better and more engaging user experience.
Through personalisation, new customers to the online store are shown product category pages with 'bestseller' products, whilst returning customers are shown 'new arrivals' on the same pages. This is because extensive…
Case studies showcasing the positive affects of PWAs
PWA technology isn’t exactly new, but it isn’t completely old either. However, as more and more internet users spend more and more time (as well as more and more money) via mobile applications, and because of the high and increasing level of mobile penetration globally, it comes as no surprise that the meteoric rise in popularity of mobile internet usage has led to more companies both big and small incorporating PWAs as part of their digital marketing strategy.
Two questions still remain, though: what exactly are Progressive Web Apps? And why have they suddenly become so popular?
To be able to better understand how things have gotten to where they are now, we should take a step back to look at some web development history.
History and background
The past decade or so…
