
Why Don’t Email Re-engagement Campaigns Work All the Time?
By now, you have certainly experienced the occasional “We Miss You”, “We Want You Back,” or “It’s been awhile” emails, either in your inbox or as a campaign specialist who has sent these to your un-engaged subscriber base.
Everyone likes to ask: Do these sorts of emails work? Well, for some brands they do. Other brands have mixed results, and for quite a few, they are a complete waste of time. I say this because most often these campaigns tend to be one-off batch emails where some arbitrary line in the sand of 5 or 8 months of some combination of no opens/clicks or purchases are segmented, usually using a template with a discount or incentive that's typical of what is normally sent out to the engaged subscriber base. The batch send is scheduled, and if you’re lucky, you get decent open rate and a super low conversion rate. In the following few months, when things are slow or upper management...