Micro-Targeting

• Why Micro Targeting
• Use Cases
• Examples
• Terms and Terminology

Why Micro Targeting

SendX provides various tools at your disposal to target your users. You can use lists to group your contacts and tags to associate the activities or interests these contacts may have. You can further go one level deeper and use segments which are dynamic group of conditions ( eg: all users who opened last 3 campaigns and belong to list All Users and have tags subscribed and updated profile information).

Now using drip sequences and automation provide you more capability to target right users based on right triggers at the right time. However sometimes even these tools at your disposal are not sufficient enough. Let us illustrate with an example.

Say you are a SAAS company where a user comes and signs up and has a trial period of 21 days. Now during these 21 days you send 9 emails to a user. The entire objective of the email sequence is to get users to realize the value of your product, engage with them and hopefully convert them to your paid plan. So you created a drip sequence with these emails and whensoever a user gets added to Trial Users list this sequence gets automatically triggered.

Now the problem is some of your users will become active rightaway. Say for a product like SendX some of you would have created a list right away. Others would have created a tag. And yet others, would'nt have done much. Similarly some of you would have imported contacts via CSV and send a campaign. Others would have created a drip and applied an automation rule.

Now the ideal way to convert the users is to provide them information based on context. This is exactly what micro-tageting makes it possible. Users who haven't done anything in the first 3 days likely need help with setup. However users who have sent a campaign need to be nudged towards using drip and automation so to get more value from the product.

Note that all users are sent mails on Day 1 -> Day 3 -> Day 7 -> Day 10 -> Day 12 -> Day 15 -> Day 18 -> Day 20 and Day 21 However the email content changes based on specific actions which a user performed on our platform. This is the power of micro-targeting

Use Cases

Some of the use-cases where micro-targeting makes a lot of sense are:

• User nurturing: Micro targeting can be used very effectively to nurture leads who sign up for your product or platform or blog. Based on their activity the messaging can change for improving conversion rates
• Broadcast campaigns: Say you are an e-commerce company. Now some of your users belonging to the same user segment ( eg: female 18-32) may be interested in different types of fashion like trendy, casual or bohemian. You can use micro targeting to send all these users same broadcast email campaign but with different content. So someone interested in bohemian is surfaced more products from that category whereas a person interested in trendy is shown trendier selection of clothing.
• Outbound prospecting: When doing outbound prospecting you can have same email but with different messaging based on custom fields of a user. Say a user has a designation CEO and belongs to IT industry. The other user is a marketing director and belongs to Media. The email content can vary based on these custom fields.

Examples

Dropbox Growth Strategy

Let's take a simple example. Dropbox as a part of their growth strategy decided to give 128 MB free space for users who:

• Connected dropbox account on FB (128 MB )
• Followed Dropbox DM on Twitter (128 MB )
• Gave feedback to dropbox (128 MB)

For simplicity let's assume, based on the activity which user's did it plans to send them email ( using drip sequences ) with appropriate image. So for connecting FB account user's will get facebook logo email, for following twitter user's will get twitter logo and for giving feedback user's will get dropbox logo.

Let's assume whensoever a user performed these activities we are adding appropriate tags using our API:

• For connecting with FB connect_fb_with_dropbox tag gets added
• For following Dropbox on Twitter following_twitter_dropbox_account tag gets added
• For giving feedback to Dropbox tell_us_why_you_love_dropbox tag gets added

So using micro-targeting we can craft an email similar to below example:

Hi ,

Cheers, Drew from DropBox

Now let's take this example a step further. In the above example some of Dropbox user's would have completed all three activities whereas other's would have performed say 2 or 1 of those. And yet few won't have performed any of these actions. So our email using micro-targeting should ideally cover all these permutations and combinations of cases and send a well crafted and targeted email to Dropbox user.

Below is an example illustrating that:

Hi ,

Cheers, Drew from DropBox

Terms and Terminology

For using micro-targeting various semantics and constructs are possible:

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Some even more advanced constructs for using micro-targeting are assigning values in variables and using them with if and or

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