Personalization Pitfall 3: Customer Message Overload

Finding the balance between quality and quantity will save marketers from those dreaded mistakes of sending a customer too many messages in a day. But how do you make sure you aren’t sending to many messages across all your channels?

The way to achieve message zen is by smart segmentation of customers who fit a certain criteria based on their attributes and behavior on site. Behavior-based marketing resonates better than single trigger marketing because it tends to be more accurate rather than an in-the-moment action or even sloppy demographic focused bucketing. Grouping together customers who have shown similar behavior and sending a set of targeted messages that are personalized to their persona is a controlled way of using triggers on your site.

“don’t simply focus on the amount of messages you send per channel, look at the aggregate of ALL of your messages sent through all of your channels”

Another way of working around the message overload problem is to build and monitor multi channel campaigns. Marketers constantly compete for inbox space along with numerous other brands. When’s the last time you looked at your inbox and didn’t feel like you were being yelled at by dozens of brands? A quick reminder to complete your purchase and checkout can easily be done via text message or push notification – abandoned cart campaigns are not simply just an email tactic. Dividing your messages across different channels can keep your brand name top of mind and limit annoying your customers. And remember, don’t simply focus on the amount of messages you send per channel, look at the aggregate of ALL of your messages sent through all of your channels. Otherwise, you still run the likely risk of annoying your customers with message overload.