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The average email open rate is <\/strong>25.85%<\/strong><\/a>. You aren\u2019t the only one struggling to get your promotional emails noticed. B2C email marketing is a tough, overcrowded space.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet email marketing has been a major promotional channel for a lot of B2C brands for years. How do you make it work for your business?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whether you\u2019ve been doing B2C email marketing for some time or you\u2019re about to get started, read on to learn how to bring your campaigns to the next level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n B2C email marketing is a marketing technique that involves promoting a B2C (business-to-consumer) company\u2019s content and products through email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ultimate purpose of B2C emails is to encourage customers to buy. However, not all email campaigns should directly drive conversions. You can use B2C email marketing to generate prospects\u2019 interest, increase brand awareness, boost brand reputation, or foster customer loyalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oftentimes, brands complement B2C email marketing with other marketing tactics, like paid advertising, content marketing, or social media marketing. That\u2019s what\u2019s called omnichannel marketing<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n B2C email marketing is often opposed to B2B email marketing<\/strong>. If you have experience with running B2B email campaigns, it\u2019s important that you understand the difference between these two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The buying cycles of B2B and B2C customers <\/em>are quite different. It might take months before a B2B prospect converts into a paying customer. B2C customers usually need from a few minutes to a few hours to make a buying decision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n How is it reflected in your email marketing strategy? <\/strong>To convert a B2B customer, you\u2019d need to build a long, complex customer journey, starting with top-funnel content and gradually moving towards the bottom of the funnel. Also, the B2B customer journey often involves in-person interactions with sales reps, product demos, and trials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In a B2C customer journey, you don\u2019t have much time to nurture your leads. Your message should be catchy and straightforward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s why B2C marketing emails usually include discount offers and create a sense of urgency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These are nine types of B2C emails you should include in your email marketing strategy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n How do you work all these types of emails into your strategy and make sure your subscribers won\u2019t feel bombarded by your brand communications? Here are 12 proven best practices you should follow to create B2C emails that achieve your goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The wrong choice of an email marketing platform will limit your capabilities. Before you decide on a service provider for your business, make sure it has all the features you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A good email marketing platform should:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not every marketing platform supports different email types, let alone multichannel campaigns. Discover email marketing services<\/a>, transactional email tools<\/a>, and email autoresponders<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Most importantly, when choosing an email service provider, pay attention to its pricing model. Are you charged based on the size of your mailing list or email sending volume? Platforms that charge you for the number of contacts on your list quickly become more costly as your audience grows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The success of your email marketing campaigns is determined by the quality of leads on your mailing list. If you attract the wrong audiences, you won\u2019t reach your email marketing goals no matter how hard you try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When building a lead generation strategy, define clear criteria your leads should meet to make it on your mailing list. With this data, you\u2019ll be able to create a lead magnet that attracts the right people and choose a channel where your potential buyers are most likely to come across it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keep monitoring and optimizing your lead generation strategy to fill your list with the right type of leads. And don\u2019t hesitate to <\/strong>clean your email list<\/strong><\/a> when leads have gone silent for a while.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Poor email deliverability is one of the main reasons behind low email marketing performance. The good news is you can optimize deliverability by improving your sender reputation<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sender reputation, or sender score, measures the trustworthiness of your IP address. It signals to your recipients\u2019 email inbox providers whether your emails are quality enough to reach the inbox or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are a few steps to help you maintain a strong sender reputation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n List segmentation is the practice of grouping your subscribers into smaller lists based on common traits. By segmenting your audience, you can create more personalized emails for different subscriber groups and drive better results from email marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can segment your list based on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n There\u2019s no single right way to segment your mailing list. You\u2019ll need to test different approaches before you create segments that work for you. But you don\u2019t have to do it manually. With the right email marketing platform, you can set up automated audience segmentation<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Create automation workflows that dynamically send contacts to a specific group based on predefined criteria. Auto-segmentation will save you time and provide you with opportunities you wouldn\u2019t have with manual segmentation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For instance, a proper automation workflow will be continually adjusting your audience groups and email content to the changes in subscriber behaviors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are countless factors affecting the effectiveness of your campaigns. To eliminate the guesswork and bring your emails to stable performance, try A\/B testing<\/a> your content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A\/B testing is the practice of sending different variations of a campaign to an audience segment split into two groups. The method allows you to better understand your audience\u2019s preferences and send more campaigns that convert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Below are some A\/B testing best practices to get you started on the right foot:<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s tempting to use a catchy subject line to improve email open rates. And you should definitely do it. What you shouldn\u2019t do, though, is create clickbait subject lines that have nothing to do with email content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not only do clickbait subject lines deceive subscribers and hurt brand reputation, but they also lead to low click-through rates and conversions. To prevent this, always make sure your subject lines set the right expectations for your subscribers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n How do you increase email engagement without using deceptive practices like clickbait? By being creative and using dynamic personalization!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dynamic personalization is the practice of automatically tailoring email content to each user. One of the most common examples of dynamic personalization is changing user names in the email body. But there are even more creative personalization approaches such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Personalized product recommendations by Brooklinen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Automated segmentation and dynamic personalization are true time-savers. But you can do even better. Create automated email sequences that will nurture your prospects all the way through their customer journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are some examples of B2C email sequences you may want to start with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n With marketing automation<\/a>, you can design complex if-then-else sequences that seamlessly move leads along the funnel without you interfering in the workflow. Include automated audience segmentation in your workflows to build sophisticated sequences that create exceptional user experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The process of creating an automated workflow in Brevo<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sending emails to inactive subscribers will not only hurt your performance statistics but also affect your email deliverability. To maintain a good sender reputation, you should be revisiting your email list regularly. Monitor user engagement so you can keep your list up-to-date and clean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also personalize your campaigns based on how subscribers interact with your emails. Set up automated workflows that will trigger different scenarios based on how subscribers interact with previous emails in a sequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Post-purchase emails have high open rates because the relationship has already been established. This positions them perfectly for further conversions, namely upsells and cross-sells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s no secret that selling to repeat customers is easier. Use email marketing campaigns to drive repeat purchases and increase customer lifetime value (CLV)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Upsell emails should encourage your customers to buy a more expensive version of the product they\u2019ve already purchased. This approach is particularly effective for B2C brands that provide subscription-based services and offer tiered pricing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n An upsell email by KiwiCo<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, cross-sell emails will work for almost any B2C company. Cross-selling involves suggesting complementary products to customers based on their purchase history. For instance, after a person has bought ski boots, they\u2019ll very likely start receiving discounted offers for skis by email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A customer journey is never linear. Before they finally decide to buy from you, your prospecting customers will come across your Facebook ad, read one or two emails, visit your website, see another ad on Google, and interact with your brand in a dozen of other ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can control this journey by mapping out customer touchpoints. To do so, you need to set up tracking for each channel in your digital marketing mix, collect the data, and build automated workflows that will seamlessly switch between different channels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So whenever your subscriber interacts with you on any other platform, you\u2019ll know about it and use this data to create more targeted campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If your brand has physical stores, this advice is for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Are you struggling to see the results you want from your B2C email marketing? Don\u2019t answer before you revisit your attribution strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Multichannel marketing makes attribution somewhat complicated. But brick-and-mortar stores have the biggest attribution hurdle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 75%<\/a> of consumers conduct online research before buying. Despite this fact, 71%<\/a> of customers prefer to make first-time purchases in a physical store. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It means that regardless of the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns, you\u2019ll never be able to attribute the vast majority of new customers to your email marketing efforts. Unless you design a proper attribution strategy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n With that in mind, build an attribution strategy that considers every customer touchpoint, be it email marketing or in-store shopping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Email marketing in B2C markets is a competitive space. But with these 12 tips, you\u2019re well on your way to building out a strategy that converts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sign up for a free Brevo account today and get started sending top-notch emails!<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat Exactly Is B2C Email Marketing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Specifics of B2C Email Marketing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
9 Types of B2C Emails<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
12 Best Practices to Make B2C Email Marketing Work for You<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Choose the right service provider<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Have a lead generation strategy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Keep up your sender reputation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Set up automated audience segmentation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
A\/B test your campaigns<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Avoid clickbait subject lines<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Use dynamic personalization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Create automated email sequences<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Monitor how subscribers interact with your emails<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Run upselling and cross-selling campaigns<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Use the data for cross-channel marketing campaigns<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Revisit your attribution strategy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Launch your B2C Email Marketing Strategy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n