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Email Commerce: How to Drive Opens, Conversions, and Revenue. Part 2 of 3.

August 25, 2015 by Johnny Russo 1 Comment

Email Commerce - How to Drive Opens, Conversions, and Revenue. Part 2 of 3.

Part 1 of the email series talked about welcome and cart abandonment emails, which everyone should at least be launching and testing. Part 2 of this series focuses on other lesser-known, yet equally effective ways to drive revenue via email.

So while cart abandonment is gaining in popularity, what about the little talked about act of browsing and abandoning? So when someone comes to your site and browses different products, but does not add them to their cart, why not retarget them?

Browse and Abandon Can Have Open Rates Higher Than 37%

They obviously had some kind of interest in your products. These campaigns generate the highest open rate of any email series at over 37% with an average conversion rate of 4%, which are amazing numbers. And not many brands are doing this, so take that opportunity to get ahead and test these campaigns.

Post Purchase Campaigns – Follow The Customer Journey Even After The Sale

We all have friends who call us just when they need something. If you’re not checking up on your customer port-purchase, you are doing a similar thing. Post purchase campaigns are not order confirmation or transactional emails, although they can be. What I’m talking about here is the post purchase emails that can be designed to be triggered a few days after the purchase; maybe it’s for a review of the product or service; perhaps it’s just to check up on your customer or ask them to respond to a survey; or it can be an upsell email to get them to buy something again.

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Filed Under: Digital Marketing, Ecommerce Tagged With: Automation, Back in Stock Emails, Browse and Abandon, Cart emails, Email, Email marketing, Email personlization, Email reporting, Email Service Provider, Email tool, ESP, Replenishment Campaigns, Segmentation

Email Commerce: How to Drive Opens, Conversions, and Revenue. Part 1 of 3.

July 29, 2015 by Johnny Russo Leave a Comment

Email Commerce: How to Drive Opens, Conversions, and Revenue. Part 1 of 3

On June 24-25, 2015 I was asked to speak at ClickZ Live in Toronto about driving email revenue. It was a good digital conference with some powerful brands in attendance. This blog post is a summary of what I spoke about. This is a series of 3 emails on driving email commerce. This is the first email in the series, which will outline potential welcome and cart abandonment email strategies.

In the last few years, many marketing pundits have declared email alive, dead, alive again, and dead again. Well, Email is very much alive and should be a healthy source of Ecommerce revenue and traffic for your site. But how do you effectively drive email revenue? How do you do that when talking about email, especially when much of email is not personalized for each stage of the buying cycle or purchase phase?

Well, I think we can all agree that when it comes to email, for the most part, your goal is to move a customer from awareness and consideration, to conversion and loyalty.

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Filed Under: Digital Marketing, Ecommerce Tagged With: Automation, Cart abandonment series, Cart emails, Email, Email marketing, Email marketing series, Email personlization, Email reporting, Email Service Provider, Email tool, ESP, Segmentation, Welcome offers, Welcome series

Surprising and Delighting Customers When Receiving Their Parcel

May 17, 2015 by Johnny Russo Leave a Comment

This year, Etail Canada was held on May 11-14. Etail Canada brings together the greatest Canadian Ecommerce and Digital Marketing minds, as well as some of the strongest brands in Canada, for some solid sessions, panels, roundtable discussions, and some great networking.

I sit on the Advisory Board for Etail Canada, and always leave the event inspired and relieved. Inspired because there are many people like me who love this industry, and are passionate about it; relieved because I feel with the leaders that were at that conference, we are in good hands while Ecommerce in Canada tries to play a mega game of catch-up to our friends to the South.

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Filed Under: Ecommerce, Leadership, Uncategorized / Personal Tagged With: Branding, Customer Experience, Customer Service, Ecommerce, Online Shopping, Packages, Shipping

Why Groupon Stores Could Be a Game-Changer for Brands

April 25, 2015 by Johnny Russo Leave a Comment

Why Groupon Stores Could Be a Game-Changer for Brands

Towards the end of March 2015, Groupon announced that it was piloting a project called Groupon Stores.

Everyone’s familiar with Groupon, the pioneer of daily deals, and the incessant emails that follow. However, in the last few years, they have launched cash back deals for groceries, a travel app, a platform that allows companies to set up their own Groupon deals, and now Groupon Stores is set to launch.

Sources inside the Chicago-based Groupon told Re/code that they are testing out a concept with a few brands that will eventually allow any product brand or retail operation to set up its own storefront.

How Does Groupon Stores Work?

In an effort to slowly chip away at Amazon and eBay, the premise of Groupon Stores is essentially to liquidate items. They do not want to compete against your own webstore or Ecommerce site, or to remove your marketplace from Amazon, eBay, or any of the many other marketplaces.

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Filed Under: Digital Marketing, Ecommerce Tagged With: Alibaba, AliExpress, Amazon, Digital Marketing, Drop-Shipping, eBay, Ecommerce, Group Buying Sites, Groupon, Retail, Website

Why Facebook’s Change to Page Counts is a Good Thing

April 3, 2015 by Johnny Russo Leave a Comment

Why Facebook’s Change to Page Counts is a Good Thing

On Monday, March 16, 2015, many agencies, brand managers, social media gurus, and numerous other entrepreneurs who manage their brand’s Facebook page woke up to disaster. Facebook likes on their page crumbled. Ok. Maybe that’s stretching it, as most brands saw only a slight decrease in brand likes, perhaps as much as 5%-10%.

But here’s what happened.

Facebook Eliminated Deactivated Accounts From Brand Page Counts

Deactivated accounts are accounts that users have chosen to turn off but not completely delete. Many people want to step away from Facebook for a little, and if they deactivate their account temporarily, then when they return, all their friends and liked pages would be turned back on. So a Facebook Page liked by these deactivated accounts loses the like count on the Page for now. However, the like will automatically come back when the account is reactivated.

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Filed Under: Digital Marketing, Facebook, Social Media Tagged With: Facebook Brand Pages, Facebook Changes, Facebook Insights, Facebook Likes, Facebook Updates, Social Media

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I have 13+ years experience in the Retail, Start-up, Technology, and Manufacturing industries. I have led growth and strategies in Ecommerce, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Branding Social Media, Mobile, and Omni-Channel … Read More

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