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The Challenge
With a lean marketing team, an audience of diverse fandoms, and dozens of product drops every month, Sideshow needed a faster, more relevant way to launch campaigns.
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:
Global Industrial started as a small material handling company when it was birthed in 1949 and has transformed into a B2B industry-leading distributor with over 1.7 million products in 21 industrial and commercial categories.
But just as Global Industrial differentiated itself in its first 70+ years of business, the company wanted to differentiate itself in the thought leadership realm as well. It wanted to create a platform to generate and distribute educational content to customers that could empower them with the resources they needed to be successful with Global Industrial products and to better understand the marketplace at large.
Global Industrial’s challenge? A product-focused and product-led website experience as well as a homegrown website platform that offered little flexibility for expanding content storytelling. Stack that on top of an increasingly competitive digital commerce marketplace and all of these factors left little room for differentiation in an already crowded space.
Not only was MKM’s tech stack reaching its end of life, but the company was also highly aware of the issues surrounding its website — from slow load times and costly maintenance protocols to its digital experience being a subpar reflection of its stellar in-person experience. MKM recognized that the industry was changing, and within the next five to seven years, 45% of its current customer base would be retiring. Therefore, the business needed to lean into the “expectation economy,” or the idea that consumers, especially those who identify as millennials and Gen-Z, have greater expectations than ever around every purchase decision.
The wholesaler also needed to address that its website only accounted for a limited amount of its business revenue. Additionally, MKM did not want the website experience to continue to reflect poorly on them as a provider of much-needed products and services and leave a potential channel of revenue untapped. The brand was also concerned about its website being the first touchpoint in the buyer’s journey, since it may deter a prospect from visiting one of its branches.
Finally, the existing website had no way to provide cohesive reporting, customer relationship management (CRM), or personalization. All of the product data was siloed, too — meaning that there was no single source of truth. Essentially, these shortcomings left MKM in a serious bind. The company had no way to evaluate the marketing and merchandising tactics that were working, differentiate customer and buyer types from one another, or ensure customer lifetime value.
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.
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.
In the highly competitive travel industry, maintaining customer loyalty is one of Kiwi.com’s most pressing challenges. The brand knew that building strong, meaningful relationships with travelers was the key to long-term success, and that understanding every customer’s unique needs was essential for ongoing engagement.
To make sure that important every touchpoint — from Kiwi.com’s website and campaigns to its mobile app — nurtured a valuable connection with its audience, the company needed to:
With a lean marketing team, an audience of diverse, dedicated fandoms, and dozens of product drops every month, Sideshow needed to deliver marketing campaigns that were fast, relevant, and effortless to execute.
But demanding campaign-building processes were slowing things down. Each launch required new content, audience segmentation, and journey building, with multiple steps and collaborators involved. These bottlenecks made it difficult to launch campaigns quickly, limiting Sideshow’s ability to react to real-time opportunities.
To keep pace with demand and personalize its messages across channels — without adding complexity — Sideshow adopted Affinity, Bloomreach’s autonomous marketing solution.
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:
With real-time data and AI fueling every campaign, you can unlock the next level of customer experience.