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The Challenge
UK’s leading online holiday package company, On The Beach offers fully customizable travel packages – mixing flights, hotels, dates, and more – giving customers complete flexibility. However, this makes personalized marketing a real challenge for On The Beach.
The Challenge
Hobbycraft‘s ecommerce journey hit a wall with their previous rule-based search solution that couldn’t handle the vibrant complexity of their 27,000+ SKU universe spanning dozens of creative verticals, resulting in:
The Challenge
TFG was aware of recent advancements in AI technology that would open up new ways to connect with customers. However, since conversational AI is still a new technology, TFG had concerns:
Proffsmagasinet faced a challenge that many modern ecommerce companies face — the company had customers coming to their online shop to purchase products, but lacked a deep understanding of those customers.
In order to offer the best possible online experience to its customers, Proffsmagasinet needed to have an understanding of the ins and outs and twists and turns of each customer’s journey online. Using different SaaS tools for email marketing, web push notifications, product recommendations, and SMS caused the company to lack a single customer view and have siloed customer data that could not be used to paint an accurate picture of each customer’s journey to purchase.
Proffsmagasinet needed an intuitive platform that could collect customer data and make it usable for its marketers to create customer experiences that would keep customers coming back to make repeat purchases online. In short, it needed a single solution to be able to put its collected customer data to work via personalized marketing campaigns.
Proffsmagasinet needed an intuitive platform that could collect customer data and make it usable for its marketers to offer limitless customer experiences that would keep customers coming back to make repeat purchases online. In short, it needed a single solution to be able to put its collected customer data to work via personalized marketing campaigns.
Arriva UK Bus holds itself accountable to providing best-in-class communications while putting customers at the heart of the business.
Attaining such a goal is challenging in itself, but doing so without the support of the right marketing technology makes it even more difficult.
Arriva UK Bus recognised that its personalized marketing communications could take a large step forward. The company was not able to effectively segment its audiences, gain access to key insights, and have first-class marketing automation.
In order to increase customer engagement and retention, Arriva UK Bus wanted to dive deeper with ecommerce personalization.
While SMS marketing has proven to be a successful marketing tactic, boohooMAN was experiencing some frustrations when it first began sending SMS campaigns to customers.
Using the channel mostly as a one-off on big shopping days such as Black Friday, boohooMAN began its journey with SMS campaigns by sending non-personalized messages to unsegmented customers in the United Kingdom and Ireland to showcase big offers. These communications were sent to largely inactive customers and the return on investment was subpar at best (never better than 2x on any given occasion), as boohooMAN’s previous SMS solution did not have the same targeting capabilities as Bloomreach Engagement.
While data shows that SMS campaigns are successful, they are only successful when the messaging can be personalized to the customer and the right customer receives the right message at the right time. Using natively integrated SMS channels to send messages is most effective when the messages are personalized with zero- and first-party data captured by your company. Tailoring promotions and notifications with customer-specific content is proven to boost engagement and retention.
But boosting engagement and retention in this way is impossible without the right marketing technology that supports compliantly collecting customer data and making that data actionable for marketers. boohooMAN found this out firsthand when it changed its SMS strategy and saw incredible uplift with Bloomreach.
When customers enter a Tatry Mountain Resorts ski liftgate with a Gopass card, a datapoint is tracked for each gate entered. This helps track where skiers exited the lift on top of the mountain and allows TMR to calculate the skied distances based on liftgates located at different points on the mountain.
TMR’s challenge? Collecting all of that data and using it to help optimize the customer experience at its ski resorts. The hope was that by delivering personalized ski statistics to valued customers, TMR could create a more complete and impactful experience on the slopes.
As customers’ desires for personalized experiences in digital commerce grow seemingly by the day, marketers across the world rely even more heavily on A/B testing to deliver these experiences.
But A/B testing for conversion rate optimization is limited. Only one out of eight tests drive significant change and only 33% of marketers regularly use A/B testing or multivariate testing. Many organizations do not have the right marketing technology solutions to consistently deploying these tests.
But, as bimago learned, what A/B testing really does is it ignores the preferences of some segments and leads to missed opportunities to drive revenue. A/B testing allows you to understand what your audience prefers but does not always allow for your audience to see the portion of the test that was chosen as preferred.
Bloomreach Engagement’s contextual personalization can fill in this gap and allow each individual customer to see a personalized variant.
Time is of the essence for every company in today’s market. But for Abo and his team, when you have 15 brands in six different markets, efficiency is essential.
Abo’s team wanted to get away from manual processes so it could reach the incredible volume of customers Alshaya serves on a daily basis. Previously, the team used a combination of multiple tools with tiresome processes to send a campaign. This meant it spent far too much time working with each tool.
One of Alshaya’s key objectives is to become truly customer centric. To do this, an all-in-one solution that would allow the team to produce marketing campaigns at scale was needed — one that would support Alshaya’s omnichannel strategy.
Canadian Tire desired to stay relevant with its customer base and provide the best possible experience for its consumers as they navigated the depths of its vast product catalog. It needed a more efficient way of powering relevant search experiences that would drive online revenue.
STAUFF openly admitted that it had quite a few business challenges to overcome while attempting to rev up its digital transformation initiative. The company was aware that new technology was needed, but they didn’t have an in-house development team, and in turn, had no idea where to begin the nuanced and complex transformation process. As its customers continued to expect manufacturing partners — like STAUFF — to be easy to do business with and personalize buying experiences, the B2B brand could no longer put their expectations on hold.
These customer expectations were as vast as they were varied. For instance, its maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) customers wanted real-time order status information (e.g., tracking) and instant checkout without any barriers, while the distributors STAUFF worked closely with were seeking quick-order functionality for large quantity orders and seamless access to partner assets.
Finally, its original equipment manufacturers (OEM) customers now preferred cohesive technical consulting interfaces with rapid prototyping services. The various customer necessities combined with the company’s pain points quickly accelerated STAUFF’s need to digitally innovate efficiently and effectively.
Apple announced new privacy-focused features for Apple Mail that impacted the way that many companies did business. In particular, this affected key areas such as targeting, personalizing, and evaluating emails.
The privacy-focused opt-in stops senders from using pixels to collect information about users. It also prevents senders from knowing when users open an email and masks their IP address so it can’t be linked to other online activity or be used to determine their location.
Great for user privacy, but not so great for companies relying on email marketing.
Over the past 16 years, Crafter’s Companion has built an extremely loyal customer base via TV shopping channels and its own Crafter’s TV. Many customers spend hours watching tutorials and crafting sessions, fostering a community that feels more like a fan base.
However, Crafter’s Companion found that it was facing some challenges with its previous solution when trying to connect with its audience:
Not enough flexibility. With frequently updated content, time-sensitive offers, and new products with very short promotional windows, Crafter’s Companion needed a flexible setup that could handle rapid adjustments without disrupting the email workflow.
With real-time data and AI fueling every campaign, you can unlock the next level of customer experience.