SUCCESS STORY

Inactive people in the CRM database: shortfall or opportunity?

Clarins Canada re-engages its inactive clients: a solution that allowed us to be finalists in the Flèches d’Or 2019 contest organized by the Association Marketing Quebec.

The Challenge

Pioneer of the beauty industry, Clarins offers effective, innovative, and natural products, but the success of the second largest beauty company in Canada is also due to the special attention that they give to the relationship with their customers. Therefore, Clarins faces a challenge that most mature CRM databases meet : it has a large percentage of inactive individuals, more precisely, people who no longer open the brand newsletters. After the implementation of the GDPR in Europe, Clarins Canada has decided to align themselves with the new European contact rules and consequently They have removed individuals who haven’t been active for more than 3 years… Numberly’s goal is to help the brand reconnect with the individuals whose contact data will be deleted.

The Solution

How can we contact individuals that are no longer responsive via email or SMS? We can contact them with another powerful channel called Media Programmatic.

Two priority segments have been identified : those for whom the last interaction was more than 3 years are classified as “to be deleted”, and those who interacted with the brand two or three years ago are “in danger”. Thanks to the data onboarding, Numberly can identify the email address of certain cookies and can therefore target them via display (programmatic). Different pathways have been implemented to maximize exposure and performance on defined populations.

The banners displayed must encourage people to interact with the brand. That’s why Numberly’s teams have created a promotional operation: “Ma routine beauté / My beauty routine”. In this operation, participants register on a dedicated mini-website developed by Numberly and have the possibility to win personalized Clarins products (fixed with a Clarins consultant). Thanks to a targeted programmatic campaign, Numberly has generated traffic to this site.

When the targeted individuals sign up for this promotional campaign, a new email address is collected, and the date of the last contact can be updated in the database   : they are therefore reactivated.

This asset doesn’t only allow the reactivation of contacts, but can also be used for acquisition purposes. To do so, we used algorithms developed by Numberly that allows us to identify the lookalikes of those who participated in the competition and this is based on the profiles of inactive individuals that we managed to re-engage. The most qualified lookalikes are targeted to recruit new engaged prospects at a low cost.

Three possible journeys

  1. 100% Facebook with ad and integrated form (LeadAd)
  2. Sponsored post on Facebook and redirection to the contest
  3. Banner and redirection to the contest

The Results

The campaign led Clarins to achieve both reactivation and activation goals.

This mechanism allowed the reactivation of 8,803 contacts that were about to be deleted or in danger (among them, 80% email opt-ins).

Regarding the activation strategy, it was particularly efficient with 27,109 new contacts recruited (among 84% opt-ins). The learnings of the reactivation phase allowed us to perfect the algorithmic strategy of lookalikes identification. The result is a high conversion rate with a more than competitive cost.

Numberly’s goal is to prove that inactive customers should not be considered lost: far from being shortfalls, they’re an opportunity to learn how to maximize benefits!

Key figures

8,803

re-activated contacts

27,109

new contacts recruited

56 %

of inactive individuals addressed during the campaign

49 %

lowered acquisition cost