This series of blogs goes into detailed campaigns that growth marketers can run for specific industries. These campaigns are tailored towards goals and revenue that growth marketers are responsible for. Our third industry deep dive takes a look at the digital travel booking industry and campaigns specifically tailored for growth marketers to move users along the buying cycle fast and keep them coming back for more purchases.
The digital travel industry has come a long way in the past decade. What started from a handful of booking sites has grown into thousands of websites all fighting for attention through price comparisons, user experience, loyalty benefits, convenience, etc. Everyone is working hard to differentiate themselves from their competition. What they all have in common is thousands of people coming to their site everyday, ever changing inventory and prices, and millions of unique searches of what people are looking for. This creates the perfect recipe for growth marketers to cook up something new in digital engagement campaigns.
Below are 4 personalized email and notification campaigns growth marketers at digital travel companies launch to reduce churn.
Abandoned Search
For your known users who make a search on your site and do not make a purchase, you can recommend fares based on their recent search with the dates and location from the search. This has to be sent out 1, 3, & 7 days after the search since it is a time sensitive search.
Add a Hotel/Car
A great up-sell campaign for customers who have recently booked a flight on your site is a personalized offer to add a hotel or car to their booking on those same dates based on the flight location/dates. This has to be executed immediately or between 1 and 3 days of the customer booking the flight.
Trending Getaway Deals
This is a great evergreen campaign for all your users to send them the latest and trending weekend getaway deals personalized based on their specific location. It can be sent on a weekly or monthly recurring basis. below is an example using a visitors location to deliver weekend getaways within relatively close distance to them.
Location based recommendations
Promotions
Promotional Sale
Another great evergreen campaign that requires little work on the marketers part is a promotions campaign. Airlines and hotels put out promotional offers every now and then and those can be used to send personalized offers of deals from nearby airports/locations based on the user’s location to your active customers on a weekly or monthly basis.
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