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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:
Despite its years of success offline, Wolseley confronted substantial challenges in its digital transformation journey, particularly in the realm of product discovery. Operating across diverse markets such as the UK and Ireland, the company’s vast array of 500,000 products — with 300,000 of them available digitally — presented a complex task in effectively targeting and serving its varied customer base. This complexity was further amplified by the need to cater to specific industry requirements for products within the plumbing, heating/cooling, building services, and pipe-fitting sectors.
The main factor that was hindering Wolseley in its digital transformation was its reliance on build-it-yourself search technology platforms like Solr, which made it harder to construct a perceptive search engine that understood the nuances of each industry. This limitation affected the precision of search results and also impeded the company’s ability to properly segment its customer base. The segmentation issue was not merely a technical problem but also a strategic one, significantly impacting how Wolseley engaged with and fulfilled the needs of its diverse customer base across different markets.
Additionally, Wolseley’s internal processes were heavily manual, with its small team of merchandisers bearing the brunt of the workload. As a result, the team couldn’t focus its energy on things like expanding the product catalog, increasing the online customer base, and meeting the growing demand for more personalized shopping experiences. Wolseley knew it needed to stop building its own search engine and transition to a sophisticated, AI-powered product discovery platform. This initiative became imperative to meet Wolseley’s biggest e-commerce challenges head-on and aimed to further transform its online shopping experience into one that was seamless, efficient, and deeply aligned with customer needs and preferences across segments.
There’s nothing more frustrating as a marketer than knowing exactly what you want to do but not having the technology or support in place to make that idea a reality. The gap between vision and execution can be daunting and can lead to missed opportunities, stagnant growth, and unnecessary stress. Voyo Croatia found itself facing several of these very issues.
Despite having a clear marketing strategy, the company was continuously hampered by persistent issues with its existing marketing technology. After having problems with glitches, platform constraints, and a lack of customer support, Voyo Croatia knew it needed to move past its marketing limitations and begin working with a partner that would allow it to offer limitless marketing to its loyal customers.
Trying out a new marketing channel is never easy. The essence of marketing innovation lies in exploring new ways to connect with customers and how to adapt these strategies on the fly in real time.
For the Mayborn Group, that new channel was SMS marketing. Using SMS messages to complement a personalized email marketing strategy would help the company connect with customers where they want to be reached to foster more brand loyalty and potentially create an easier path to purchase for customers.
Mayborn Group knew that an omnichannel marketing strategy could drive impactful results, and SMS seemed like a natural progression for the company to implement and use in correlation with email marketing. And, what better time to test out a new channel than ecommerce’s busiest day of the year — Black Friday?
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.
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