{"id":409,"date":"2021-11-01T15:51:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T15:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lite1.8.siitgo.com\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T15:51:16","slug":"ecommerce-winback-email-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lite1.8.siitgo.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/01\/ecommerce-winback-email-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecommerce Winback Email Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalcentric.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/A-Guide-to-Improving-Ecommerce-SEO-and-User-Experience.png\" alt=\"See the source image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Successful ecommerce marketing includes win-back emails. Bravo if all your contacts open and buy your emails regularly! Some online stores are lucky.<\/p>\n<p>Winback emails are used to keep contacts from abandoning a brand. Let&#8217;s look at best practices for re-engagement campaigns.<\/p>\n<h4>What is Winback Email?<\/h4>\n<p>A win-back email is an ecommerce email sent to inactive (idle) customers. In ecommerce, inactive means people who haven&#8217;t bought anything in a long time and are considered likely to churn.<\/p>\n<p>Winback emails are designed to re-engage lost customers, bring them back to your ecommerce store, and encourage them to re-order.<\/p>\n<h4>Why send a winback email?<\/h4>\n<p>Those customers have previously bought from you. It&#8217;s a waste to let them go. Getting new customers is costly and difficult. So customer retention benefits any ecommerce business. It&#8217;s 5 times easier to get repeat orders from existing customers when you know their shopping habits.<\/p>\n<p>You already know their preferences and shopping habits. Post-purchase email marketing using these data is easier than acquiring new customers.<\/p>\n<h4>Winning Back Lost Customers<\/h4>\n<p>People can lose interest in your brand for many reasons. And it&#8217;s not always a bad purchase. They don&#8217;t always need your products. Not everyone regularly checks online stores. Maybe inactive subscribers just got busy with life.<\/p>\n<p>So, how do we re-engage them? This is not the same as sending promotional emails to your entire list. Many people stop opening brand emails because they are all the same.<\/p>\n<h4>How to stand out in a winback campaign<\/h4>\n<p>Make your winback email interesting, relevant, and actionable. Here are some ideas for your re-engagement email campaign:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fun. Reconnect with an old friend.<\/li>\n<li>Take advantage of limited-time offers to increase FOMO (free shipping or special edition products).<\/li>\n<li>Incentives. Invite them to your loyalty program or give them a discount coupon.<\/li>\n<li>Feedback. Ask about their last order to see if they want more.<\/li>\n<li>New? Announce new products or company news.<\/li>\n<li>Top sellers Feature the most popular items.<\/li>\n<li>Values. Keep reminding people of your values or causes.<\/li>\n<li>Occasions. Send a birthday email to reconnect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Winback Email Tips<\/h4>\n<p>A winback email is easy. Your message, maybe a featured product, and a shop CTA. But the campaign must be done correctly to be effective.<\/p>\n<p>Balance is key in email marketing. Any campaign should be timely and relevant.<\/p>\n<h4>1. Define \u201clapsed customers\u201d for your own company<\/h4>\n<p>The sales cycle varies depending on the product. Not as much as evening wear or appliances. If you sell staples, don&#8217;t wait too long to recoup lost customers. But if people only buy from you once or twice a year, there&#8217;s no reason to worry.<\/p>\n<h4>2. Automate list cleanup<\/h4>\n<p>If your winback email campaign doesn&#8217;t work, automate the process of removing the contact from your list. So you can keep emailing only those who want to hear from you and improve email deliverability.<\/p>\n<h4>3. Hit the inbox just at right time<\/h4>\n<p>Winback emails, especially those with limited-time offers, must be opened immediately. You don&#8217;t want to keep waiting for a customer who has left. So your email campaign software should be able to schedule emails based on past data.<\/p>\n<h4>4. Reactivate email unsubscribers<\/h4>\n<p>What if email subscribers unsubscribe after receiving a winback email? Give them a second chance. Ask for consent to marketing emails at checkout and in order confirmation emails.<\/p>\n<h4>5. Send it from a brand account, not a person<\/h4>\n<p>If people have forgotten the brand, they must be reminded. It&#8217;s not the time to build relationships with strangers.<\/p>\n<h4>6. Personalize it<\/h4>\n<p>Marketing emails often lose their impact because they are too generic. Another mass email won&#8217;t work now, after all this time. They must feel that you have personally contacted them and addressed their concerns.<\/p>\n<h4>7. Don&#8217;t always run winback<\/h4>\n<p>A regular \u201cpromotion\u201d loses its appeal and exclusivity. Winback emails should only be sent when a customer has been inactive for a long time.<\/p>\n<h4>8. A\/B test everything<\/h4>\n<p>Testing will reveal your audience&#8217;s preferred winback emails. You can&#8217;t know what will work best until you test different subject lines, offers, and sequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successful ecommerce marketing includes win-back emails. Bravo if all your contacts open and buy your emails regularly! Some online stores are lucky. Winback emails are used to keep contacts from abandoning a brand. Let&#8217;s look at best practices for re-engagement campaigns. 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