Sailthru did a study this past quarter of consumers across the US, the UK, and Western Europe to identify the drivers of brand loyalty for retailers and media publishers and opportunities for marketers to inspire loyalty, and we’re here to share some of the results from that study for the first time.
3. What % of consumers say that retail
and media brands don’t mean
anything to them?
0-20% 21-40% 41-60% 61-80% 81-
100%
4. Fewer than 6% of consumers say
that “brands don’t mean anything
to them.”
Source: Sailthru Q3 Consumer Loyalty Study, n=1,005
5. Loyalty is a Two-Way Street
of brand loyalists say they want the brand to acknowledge their
participation in loyalty programs.40%
Source: Sailthru Q3 Consumer Loyalty Study, n=1,005
For publishers, loyalty can’t be bought
Less than a quarter of consumers (23%) say their loyalty to media publishers would be
improved by changes in prices or discounts, and just as many said they best way to
encourage their loyalty was to improve content.
6. Are there any media outlets,
publishers, or brands you
consider yourself loyal to? If so,
please list up to three.
Source: Sailthru Q3 Consumer Loyalty Study, n=1,005
7. US, Canada, Western Europe
Source: Sailthru Q3 Consumer Loyalty Study, n=1,005
9. Three out of four retail brand
loyalists (76%) have interacted
with a favorite brand in some way
that could have been
personalized over the past 12
months
Source: Sailthru Q3 Consumer Loyalty Study, n=1,005
10. Loyalists Interact Digitally
7%
8%
12%
17%
22%
22%
22%
23%
24%
26%
51%
61%
Enabled push notifications from the mobile app
Signed up for/received Text (SMS) Messages or alerts
Interacted with their official social media accounts
Downloaded or used a mobile app
Received direct (physical) mail
Received/downloaded a digital coupon/code
Signed up for/participated in loyalty program
Received a physical coupon
Received an online message
Signed up for or received an e-mail newsletter
Visited a physical store location
Visited their website
Loyalist Brand Interactions, past 12 months
Source: Sailthru Q3 Consumer Loyalty Study, n=1,005
11. Almost every interaction with a
media publisher can be can be
personalized in some way for the
reader
Source: Sailthru Q3 Consumer Loyalty Study, n=1,005
12. Loyalists Interact Digitally
10%
11%
15%
16%
18%
21%
21%
35%
66%
70%
Signed up for/participated in a loyalty program
Signed up for/received Text Messages/Alerts
Received physical mail
Enabled push notifications from a mobile app
Received an online message
Interacted with official social media accounts
Signed up for email newsletter
Downloaded/used mobile app
Visited the website
Read/watched/listented to content
Loyalist Brand Interactions, past 12 months
Source: Sailthru Q3 Consumer Loyalty Study, n=1,005
13. We open 49% of all emails on our
mobile devices
Source: Sailthru Open Rate Benchmarks, 2015 - 2016
12% Tablet29% PC 10% Other
14. “My Tesla read my
emails for me while
running
autonomously.”
15.
16. Loyalty, Retention and Personalization
of retail brand loyalists say they only want to be shown products or
services that are relevant to them.31%
of those retail brand loyalists want their purchase history to be used to
tailor messaging content for them.41%
of those retail brand loyalists want to be addressed by name.
34%
of those retail brand loyalists want those brands to acknowledge
something specific about them, such as their hobbies and interests20%
Source: Sailthru Q3 Consumer Loyalty Study, n=1,005
20. Method: Attribute-Based Personalization
Attribute-based systems look at attributes
assigned to a given item. When a person
shows interest in or purchases that item,
these systems find other items with
similar attributes to recommend to that
customer.
Generally, attribute-based
recommendation systems are Product-
based.
21. Method: Collaborative Filtering
Collaborative filtering systems use data
from multiple customers to fill in “gaps” in
a person’s profile, identifying things they
might like based on their similarities to
other customers.
Contextual: similarities based on what
the person is doing or looking at right now
Historic: similarities based on what the
person has done throughout his or her
lifetime
22. Method: Model-Based Collaborative Filtering
Applies machine-learning to the product
and person datasets and uses statistical
techniques to predict the probability of a
customer acting on a given
recommendation (or set of
recommendations) using the entire dataset.
Model-based approaches are both product-
and user-based (A person like X is most
likely to respond to products A, B, and C)
23. Examples of Each
Attribute-Based
Collaborative Filtering
“Because you watched…”
“People who bought this also bought…”
Model-Based
Collaborative Filtering
Discover Weekly
“Top picks for you…”
28. Personalization Drives Higher Engagement
Source: Sailthru Customer Benchmarks, 2015 - 2016
No Personalization Personalized
Interaction Rates with Emails, Non-Personalized
vs. Personalized
+27%
29. The Real Cost of Not Personalizing Content
Sent by media publishers between October 2015 and September 2016
28 Billion Emails
5.3 Billion Opens
211 Million Lost Interactions
6.5 Billion additional lost page views
Source: Sailthru Customer Benchmarks, 2015 - 2016
30. Loyalty matters more than ever
Loyalists interact digitally more than ever
Those interactions can be personalized
Personalization methods vary; choose
wisely
(Person)alization drives real results
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Editor's Notes
We did a study this past quarter of consumers across the US, the UK, and Western Europe to identify the drivers of brand loyalty for retailers and media publishers and opportunities for marketers to inspire loyalty, and we’re here to share some of the results from that study for the first time.
We asked them how they'd describe their loyalty to brands with response options like:
very loyal
generally loyal
sometimes loyal
not at all
brands don't mean anything to me
Because you’re all consumers in the room [click]
3% for retail
8% for media
These two categories are important to this room because they represent real-world sandboxes of human behavior – the nature of media consumption and purchasing behavior – something humans do every day. By studying these behaviors, we can learn from and influence strategies across the entire B2C (and a healthy part of the B2B) landscape.
I had this experience last week with a order problem with Amazon. "Thank you for being a Prime customer" – in chat, as well as on the phone
And yet Facebook would say that it’s “Not a media company?”
The results here are as much about survey design as they are about the logos on screen. Remember, this was an open-ended question on loyalty.
This chart also affirms the importance of thinking in a multi-channel way - can't just look for just one engagement signal.
Melody / Symphony metaphor - need to see the notes and the chords
Any smart marketer can figure out retention tactics, but retention does not breed loyalty. Bed Bath and Beyond is great example - I shop there because I never don't have a 20% off coupon, but I am not loyal to them. If I got same coupon for Williams Sonoma, I'd go there.
So Sailthru sends a lot of email (one of our many talents). In fact, we’re the largest sender of personalized email on the planet.
1.6 Billion profiles under management.
By the time this presentation is done, during a peak holiday period, we’ll have sent 5.7 million emails.
And so we understand a lot about human behavior, because humans are at the receiving end of email, and at least half of them hold onto a single email address for 10 or more years, which is even longer than the life of a cell phone number!
Here’s what we know: [click]
Eve – Tesla’s ’KITT’
Definitely an improvement for Geoff over this ride.
And while we’re not suggesting responsive design for camels, or even Teslas, the proof is incontrovertible that we’re communicating in a mobile first world, and so everyone in this audience need to consider their mobile communications strategies for 2017.
Loyalists - your BEST CUSTOMERS.
Earlier this year we conducted a study with senior executives from retail and media companies worldwide and found that those who invested in retention significantly increased market share 180% more than those who focus on acquiring new customers
Not to mention Bain’s study from a few years ago which shows that it costs 6x more to acquire a new customer than it does to retain them.
So let’s focus on these gems, these loyalists.
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Relevancy
Name
Purchase History
Hobbies
Interests
% of room ever eaten at Per Se? Or one of Zagat’s top 10 restaurants in NYC? Or Open Table?
How many of you have ordered “the red” from the list?
Well you’re lying because none of those restaurants have just a ‘red’ – the very best ones want to learn something about you first.
Manfred Krankl and his wife Elaine started Sine Qua Non back in 1994 (cult wine, Rhone varietal)
Red
White
Use customer data to learn about customers – Implicit & Explicit data - the best customer data doesn't come from the user profile they self-select...
- time of day –
- price point, etc.?
Make a decision about what content or product to recommend to a person
Personalized Send Time – How many people here send emails to their customers at exactly the same time of day?
3. Monitor customer response and use that to inform future recommendations
Create a learning flywheel
PLEDGE VS. DONATION – WHAT THEY DO
Collaborative filtering can be user-based (“people like you bought X”) or item-based (“people who also bought this item bought X”).
LinkedIn employs several different recommendation engine techniques. "Companies you may want to follow" uses a mix of content-matching (attribute-based) and collaborative filtering, ditto for "Jobs you may be interested in," where the engine needs to match information about the job to information about you in your profile, while also looking at how similar people responded or expressed interest to similar postings.
A customer came to us with an engagement problem ... we looked at their engagement history over a year, and here's what we found (re: fish chart)
So imagine if you have 2x the number of customers you could speak with in any given year.
(on average), a single interaction in an email (click) can result in as many as 31 additional page views for a publisher
6.5 - Generated by readers post-click
In short, retention doesn't necessarily breed loyalty but loyalty DOES breed retention