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Increase Interaction With Your Brand With These Lead Nurture Campaigns

Here at Onyx Digital, we can attest to the power of email as a lead and customer nurturing tactic. There’s no doubt many – if not all – marketing teams have regular newsletters and other standard emails in their tool belt. While these kinds of lead nurture campaigns are essential, there are others that are sometimes easy to overlook. We break it down below.

Welcome Campaign

If you wander into a store looking to find something specific, you’d expect the sales associate to greet you. That same idea should extend to your email subscribers. If someone signs up for one of your email newsletters or you get a new customer, it’s only polite to introduce them to whatever they signed up for, right?

That’s where we recommend a welcome campaign. This is the first step in building a relationship with a lead or customer and your chance to introduce the company, talk about what they signed up for, and showcase what makes you stand out amongst competitors. According to research done by Experian, a welcome email has an average open rate of 57.8% and an average click-through rate of 14.4%. Comparing that to a standard email’s 14.6% open rate, and 2.7% click-through rate, it would be almost silly not to utilize welcome emails.

A series of these emails help educate your new email subscriber on your company and what they can expect from you. Examples of welcome campaigns include:

  • When a person signs up for your blog, you can send them an email welcoming them and detailing your blog. Then you can help catch them up to speed by sending the most popular posts for a few weeks. This method, known as “blog onboarding,” basically lets you put your best foot forward by sending your strongest content first. When they complete this onboarding, you can begin sending them your most recent posts by adding them to your regular email workflow.
  • If they signed up for your weekly or monthly newsletter, you could send a series of featured case studies, client testimonials, or short videos.
  • For signing up for a free trial, you can welcome them by offering a new level of free service or discount on a future product in a series of emails.

Upselling or Cross-Selling

An upsell, or cross-selling campaign operates on the notion that communication with your customers should never stop once they buy something. This is particularly true if you sell various products or services – especially if any of them work in tandem to deliver extreme value.

Emails to use in these types of nurturing campaigns are:

  • Recommendations for similar products
  • Suggestions for auxiliary products that will enhance what they already have
  • Examples of how an advanced or paid version of something they’ve already bought will propel their business forward (this is useful if you have freemium or low-cost options)

Re-Engagement

Before embarking on a re-engagement campaign, you must determine what qualifies as an inactive contact for your business. Is it someone who hasn’t opened an email in three months? Six months? More often than not, inactive contacts are generally those who haven’t interacted with you for a longer length of time.

Once you’ve determined who’s inactive, you can start reawakening them through a sequence of emails. And, if at the end, they end up being real duds, you can remove them from your database and t your lists and data will be cleaner!

Choose from re-engagement email strategies such as:

  • Showing them what they’re missing, like links to the most viewed blogs or best downloads
  • Offering them something special like a discount or free trial
  • Asking them if they want to remain on your list or not

What Else Should I Know?

When it comes to nurturing campaigns, your content and strategy options are endless. Focus on picking the campaigns that fit with your business. And don’t forget that it’s a multi-step approach and to stay true to your brand’s personality.

If you would like help coming up with any ideas or technical support setting them up, reach out to us today!

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