Boost newsletter conversions with Salesforce Marketing Cloud! Tailor content, track ROI, and engage subscribers with personalized, data-driven strategies.
Where delivering generic newsletters once sufficed, today’s competitive market calls for a more structured approach. While sending out broad newsletter blasts to your entire subscriber base may capture some engagement, this one-size-fits-all strategy isn’t the best approach for a high return on investment (ROI).
In fact, personalizing your newsletters using Salesforce Marketing Cloud and technology for individual customer segments is the best way to engage the unique interests of your target audience segments and ensure positive ROI. If the end goal of your business newsletters is to drive new revenue, then a tailored approach is your best bet as it allows you to nurture qualified leads and encourage return business from existing clients.
By utilizing the Salesforce Marketing Cloud and adjacent technology, you can generate highly impactful newsletters that go beyond traditional marketing tactics. While catchy subject lines, aesthetic designs, and perfectly placed call-to-action statements are still important, your targeted audience segments need a customized approach to achieve true engagement that leads to meaningful conversions and long-term success.
Taking the traditional marketing approach to newsletters leads to plateaus or even dips in conversions. This is because a generic approach doesn’t appeal to the unique beliefs, needs, and motivations of individual customer segments.
By leveraging the machine-learning capabilities of Salesforce technology, you can effectively implement the three cornerstones of dynamic newsletter creation and implementation— personalization and segmentation, continuous evolution, and ROI tracking.
Want your newsletters to be viewed more than just spam by new and existing leads? Utilizing Salesforce’s customer data platform (CDP) will help you categorize your subscriber base, empowering you to deliver personalized newsletters that speak to their needs and beliefs.
Among business-to-business (B2B) brands, it has been discovered that 80% are more likely to react to bespoke experiences. Interestingly, it has also been reported that more than 70% of customers expect to receive personalized content from companies, and 76% become frustrated when they receive generic marketing content. This underscores the necessity for a tailored approach to email and newsletter marketing
How-To: Salesforce Newsletter Personalization & Segmentation
Use Case: The marketing team of a furnishing company utilizes Salesforce Marketing Cloud and their Customer Data Platform to effectively segment their existing subscribers and past customers. Each segment is divided based on persona, needs, wants, motivations, and consumption habits. For example, this could include sporting them by industry, by workforce size, or even by order value to identify high spenders. The marketing team then analyzes the segments and creates individualized newsletter marketing content geared toward each segment. Since the marketing team leaned on Salesforce for these steps, their processes are automated, scalable, and efficient.
Anything and everything can influence consumer behavior. From economic trends and societal shifts to technological breakthroughs and even global events, it can be difficult to anticipate every variable.
Although consumer behaviors will continue changing, as long as you have automated segments and technology to render personalized and relevant content to customers, you can keep up with user preferences and more. Salesforce empowers you to complete these tasks in minutes!
How-To: Salesforce Newsletter Continuous Evolution
Use Case: After creating their initial consumer segments, the furnishing company’s marketing team conducts further research to determine what each group's consumer lifecycle looks like. Using this data, they then update their segments every six months to stay on top of changes and emerging trends as they are relevant to their target audiences. Anticipating the changing needs and preferences on the individual segments, the marketing team leverages the capabilities of Salesforce AMPscript and Email Studio to generate made-to-measure content every 1-3 months.
With a limited budget, it is essential for resources to be utilized toward initiatives that are both data-driven and impactful. Companies who successfully implement the three cornerstones of newsletter best practices can expect to see a return of at least 2-5 times their newsletter program’s investment.
How-To Salesforce Newsletter ROI Tracking
Notably, with Salesforce Marketing Cloud, you gain tag management, URL tracking, and seamless integration with web analytics tools for precise conversion rates and email impact recognition. Furthermore, the reporting and dashboard features of Salesforce offers both pre-made and customizable reports that can be automated and distributed across all levels through a centrally managed user access hierarchy and permissions system.
Use Case: The furnishing company’s marketing team knows that segmenting their subscribers and customers into groups and delivering routine, personalized content isn’t enough for sustainable success. They calculate the total cost to run their newsletter program and take into account all expenses, including customer analysis, infrastructure licensing, setup, integration, etc. in addition to ongoing segment management, content creation, attribute updates, newsletter design, delivery, and even monitoring and reporting. Then, they take a close look at their personalized newsletter efforts to ensure their initiatives see a positive ROI.
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