#Asia 2 simple ways to further personalise your marketing outreach

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Here’s how you can use email service providers and Facebook’s Ad Manager to target different audiences

When a new company attacks a market, it often takes a niche approach. It tries to speak to an audience that is currently underserved by existing players with a message or feature that resonates. Whether you call it the thin edge of the wedge or establishing a “beachhead,” the logic is that every group, down to the individual person, has slightly different preferences. That’s why there are so many cereal options at your grocery store.

With digital marketing, you’re able to take this personalisation to the extreme. In fact, according to a recent Forrester survey, 63 per cent of marketers rated personalisation as “extremely important” to their long-term goals. What’s more, an Adobe survey of marketers tapped personalisation as the most important feature, above Big Data and social.

The two easiest ways to bring personalisation into your marketing programme are through email campaigns and Facebook ads. Here’s how you can implement these tactics into your customer strategy.

Also Read: 7 ways to supercharge your startup’s email marketing campaign

Email campaigns

If you do any kind of email marketing, you should almost certainly be using an ESP (email service provider) that integrates with your database of customers and allows you to sort based on different attributes. We use the ESP Klaviyo, though I’ve also heard good things about Customer.io and Vero.

When someone places an order with our company, Blank Label, we send basic purchase information to Klaviyo, including customer name, product, price and time of purchase. From there, we can create different lists, such as one for customers who have only purchased dress shirts, and another for people who haven’t purchased in the last 12 months. The purpose of this list segmentation is to be able to send more tailored messages.

As an example, customers who’ve only purchased dress shirts will be the first people we email when we get new ones in. Plus, we can send them specific emails to cross-sell them into other products. We can send our customers who haven’t purchased in 12 months something like, “Hey Jim, we noticed you hadn’t visited us in a while. We just wanted to send you a courtesy email to make sure your garments are treating you well.”

These new personalised ESPs can also take website data. So when the customers who haven’t purchased in 12 months visit the site, log in and don’t make a purchase on that visit, you can send them a personalised email asking if they have any questions.

Facebook Ad Manager

After you have different lists created in your ESP based on the different attributes you want to target and send personalised messages to, you can export the email addresses in these lists and upload them to Facebook’s Ad Manager.

If you navigate to the Audiences tab and create a new group (such as “Inactive 12-month customers”), Facebook will match those emails with profiles from its user database. You won’t be able to reach everyone on Facebook from your ESP list, but there should be a high percentage of coverage.

You can now send tailored messages using Facebook’s banner ad format to these different groups using a similar message to your email campaigns. Some of our more successful Facebook campaigns using this tactic are targetting our highest spend customers and reminding them about our referral programme. We also notify people geographically close to one of our stores about upcoming events or new store openings. If you have a segment list of a few thousand people, you’ll be able to reach them once a week for as low as 10 dollars a day.

When determining how to best distinguish your brand from the competition, consider using personalised email campaigns as well as Facebook banner ads to underscore your understanding of each customer at the individual level.

Also Read: What will it take to disrupt email?

Fan Bi is the CEO of Blank Label, an award-winning custom menswear brand. Since founding in 2010, Blank Label has shipped over 100,000 custom garments to customers all over the world, and has stores in the US in Boston and Washington D.C.

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