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INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTOR OF CONSUMER PRODUCTS: SUCCESS STORY

Industry
Food Distribution - Retail - Ecommerce
Solutions
Marketing Cloud Engage, Marketing Cloud Engagement and Marketing Cloud Intelligence
Region
Spain
Work Areas
Analysis, consulting and development of the solution

A leading Supermarket chain with more than 10 million customers in Spain. In recent years they have expanded their business throughout Europe and LATAM, with a clear, client-based business strategy.

What does the company do?

Leading company in the distribution of food, household and beauty products.

Consists of more than 6,000 stores in Europe and America. It employs close to 60,000 people and serves more than 20 million customers worldwide, more than half of them in Spain.

Challenges detected

  • Need to improve engagement with customers.
  • Coordination in sending communications from the different business areas, reducing database saturation and increasing the interaction rate.
  • Create a global vision that shows how saturated the database is. Improve segmentations based on interest and interaction with the brand, allowing 1:1 communication.
  • Adapt the communication channel to the needs of each contact.

S4G’s solution for the client

Due to the complexity of the requirement, a process was defined to first analyze the initial situation through an audit, assessing the associated risks.

Once the discovery session had been prepared, an action plan was established based on tasks organized by topic and order of priority.

The first action put in motion was an audit of the communications carried out by the company, paying special attention to the Newsletter, an omnichannel communication coordinated with the retail area. This analysis yielded interesting results, such as:

  • The database showed a high saturation rate.

  • All contacts received a generic email, regardless of their relationship with our client (it was not differentiated if they were members, if they had downloaded the App or if they placed an order online). There was no personalization.

  • We identified that some of the existing contacts in the database were not accionable, and therefore generated a cost with no return for the client.

This study revealed that there was a risk of saturating the database which, together with lack of personalization of the mailings, could contribute to increasingly scarce interactions and decreased engagement, proportionally increasing the risk that they would ask to unsubscribe from communications.

With a clear idea of the points to be addressed, a series of solutions were proposed:

S4G proposes the implementation of Einstein Engagement Frequency, the main Salesforce AI tool that analyzes the degree of saturation of the DB.

The parameters used for this categorization include the number of emails received and their interaction. Monitoring is proposed on a weekly basis. And segmentation groups are created:

  • Undersaturated: Could receive more emails.

  • Target: Receiving ideal number of emails.

  • Almost: Could become saturated with more emails.

  • Saturated: Already saturated with communications

At the same time, Einstein Scoring is used to predict, thanks to Artificial Intelligence, the possibility of a contact interacting with communications.

The engagement data of each contact is used to calculate the likelihood that they will interact with a communication. The following groups are assigned:

  • Loyalist: High possibilities of open and click.
  • Selective Subscribers: Low chance of opening the email but if they do, high chance of clicks.
  • Window Shoppers: High chance of opening but low click-through rate.
  • Winback: Low possibility of opening and clicking.

Combining the data obtained from Einstein Engagement Frequency and Einstein Scoring, the following measures were taken:

  • Management of saturated contacts, including dynamic view of database evolution.

  • Establishing communications governance in which users who are part of relevant campaigns are discarded from other irrelevant communication impacts.

  • Exclusion from sending newsletters to contacts categorized as Winback.

  • Channel change (Push message by App) for Winback users who have the App active.

  • Adaptation of dynamic parameters to personalize and adapt communications to the characteristics of each contact and the group to which they belong.

The proposal was implemented over a period of six months, during which the metrics of the proposed solutions were collected and the solution adapted according to the results obtained to optimize communications with each contact in the best possible way.

Results

x 2

increased newsletter clicks

+15 %

decrease in DB saturation

x 3

increased email open rate

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