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💬 Why self-segmentation is crucial for your email strategy.
📊 How to make your landing page headlines stand out.
🤔 Using pain points to drive your copy.
🎯 Hyper-local targeting.
🤯 How to QA your number ranges.
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When the data is collected and implemented correctly it creates a better experience for the consumer which makes you (the brand) more money. ✅
Your pop-up is a GREAT spot for self-segmentation.
Surf brand O’Neill uses the style preference segments "Men" and "Women," but every brand will be different.
This information instantly separates customers into a different segment of your list.
Now you can send specific campaigns to those on the men's list and those on the women's list.
Remember, your messaging, images, and CTAs should be customized for each segment you send to.
Build a Typeform into your welcome series to collect even more information on consumers.
Your pop-up provides one discount BUT an additional discount is placed in the welcome series to incentivize users to complete the typeform.
The immediate responsiveness of SMS is ideal for self-segmentation.
For example, when texting customers, show images of different products and ask which they prefer.
Say you're a clothing brand. You could show a picture of shorts, and a picture of a polo shirt, then ask the customer to text back 1 for shorts or 2 for polo.
Based on their response the customers will then be segmented out into a polo or a shorts campaign.
Simple as that!
✏️ Sharpen your pencils! Tomorrow marks the first day of August, which means school is almost back in session.
Anxious? Elated? Either way, DTC brands need to brainstorm how they can creatively market their products for the back-to-school rush.
Why?
According to the National Retail Foundation, in 2020, consumers were projected to spend a total of $33.9 billion for back-to-school materials and $67.7 billion for back-to-college ones. 🤯
Break out your pens, pencils, notebooks, laptops – or whatever materials you use to jot down notes! Klaviyo is here with best-in-class back-to-school email lessons (plus examples).
👉 Click here for your back-to-school campaign cheat sheet.
Test hyper-local targeting in your Facebook ads.
Check out this Olipop example with "Hey, Nashville," and "Hey, Atlanta!"
It creates a personal feeling which increases the likelihood of a purchase.
Test it for your brand!
It’s a scroll stopper that the Pilothouse team has seen big success with.
A great headline promises that you’ll solve a problem.
All headlines should include your value props.
Determine the most important "U" for your brand and make that the headline.
Fit the rest of the "Us" in your subheader or body copy.
1. Question: "Can this Professional Home Teeth-Whitening System Disrupt an Entire Industry?"
2. How-to: "How to Successfully Write a Presell Page Guaranteed to Convert"
3. List: "Ten Copywriting Tips that Are Proven to Convert"
4. Quotation: "The Task Management App Every Startup Should Use -Business Insider"
5. Teaser/Curiosity: "When Fortune 500 Companies Need to Hire Copywriters, This is Where They Go"
Landing pages are CRUCIAL so make sure you're doing everything in your power to optimize them!
Learn how winning DTC brands like Fanduel are crushing their customer acquisition by sending direct mail.
In their free e-book, Speedeon VP (and former Direct Marketing Leader at HelloFresh) Matt Whipple busts the top five myths that hold back digital-first marketers from diving into direct mail and turning it into a top strategy for growing their user base and increasing lifetime value.
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This week’s AKNF features Maia, Head of the Community Engagement department at Pilothouse, and Raven, Sr. Media Buyer and Head of Growth at DTC.
They discuss DTC hot topic: Customer Service.
We’ve said it before, but if you're not actively talking with customers you're doing your entire business a disservice.
Good internal customer service metrics can be defined by: repeat customers, response rates, and purchase price.
But the best way to measure?
Hear it from the customer!
Think about utilizing live chat boxes or linking to a Facebook page where customers can chat in real time.
There’s a time and place for both, but when possible: live responses from real people trumps bots every time.
🚨 Olipop’s head of CX, Eli Weiss, spends numerous hours a week in Instagram DMs chatting with customers.
🚨 DMs are a casual and comfortable spot for customers to share honest thoughts.
If your customers are constantly inquiring about shipping times or prices, use that information to educate customers in your copy.
Ensuring your copy covers the points of friction in the buying process creates happier customers.
Happier customers = less negative comments.
Take a listen to the full pod for tips and tricks to ensure your customers feel heard and appreciated!
Coming in hot with some top-notch "framed creatives" inspiration. 🔥
Feast your eyes on these beauties!
Framed creatives are awesome for incorporating lifestyle images with structured branding.
You can put the CTA into the frame, when there's minimal copy space available!
This style works really well in all placements. 🚀
We’ve said it once, but Tom Brown is saying it again.
The comments, especially on TikTok, are a GREAT source of information.
Here’s a quick QA tidbit from Logan, Pilothouse’s Content Quality Manager:
I know you’ve been holding your breath for my text tip, so here it is:
Common? Extremely.
Exciting? Don’t answer that.
If you want examples, okay, but I’ll give it to you straight:
Ranges aren’t necessarily common in ad creatives, but I see a lot of funky ranges in ad copy, landing pages, newsletters, or just communications out in the wild. It’s not like everyone would notice a bad range – but if you want to look like a real pro, getting the details right is paramount!
Stay tuned for more dispatches from the QA desk.
🍼 Baby care brand Lalo closes on $5.6 million seed round. They were just on our podcast – have a listen here!
💸 Norby raises $3.8M for an all-in-one creator marketing platform.
🧵 ThredUp snaps up European apparel resale company Remix for over $28M.
📈 BigCommerce acquires feed optimization platform Feedonomics.
🧘♀️ Hyperice acquires Core, enters $4.2B meditation apps market.
💰 Customer engagement platform Dixa raises $105M Series C led by General Atlantic.
🐅 Contentful raises $175M at a $3B valuation from Tiger for its content delivery service.
💐 Colvin raises €45M Series C led by Eurazeo to disrupt the cosy flowers industry.
🤑 Exo secures $200M toward commercializing ultrasound device.
🍼 Organic influencers for the win with co-founder and CMO of Lalo, Michael Weider.
✅ How Kellogg’s thinks about DTC and eRetail with Joe Harper and Jordan Narducci.
🥤Slashing Facebook ads in half with Olipop’s Steven Vigilante
💇♂️ Beardbrand’s Eric Bandholz and the DTC long game.
🌴 Product/market fit with Canopy Humidifiers' Eric Neher and Michael De Santis.
💥 Building a bold brand with Ugly's CEO Hugh Thomas.
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