How to prosper with marketing campaigns after GDPR

Juliana Soto von Arnim
Junior Digital Creative

“So, what do I do now?”...That’s the question that you as a marketer might be asking yourself after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force across Europe and the UK in May. The law that aims to give citizens more control over their data and to create a uniformity of rules to enforce across the continent, is set to cause a huge storm in the future: post-GDPR campaigns aren’t going to collect as much data as before, or it might be better to stop running lead generation campaigns because no one is going to submit their email after needing to agree with all those required policies.

But there’s no need to panic, this regulation isn’t as severe as it sounds.

Marketers need to only worry about data permission, data access and data focus on their campaigns:
 

1.   Data Permission

With GDPR you need to make sure that your audience wants to stay in contact with you. Don’t make the mistake of assuming that by filling out a form that says, “By signing up, you agree to our Terms and have read our privacy policy”, they want to stay connected. Ask them to specifically opt-in using easy-to-understand text, to your newsletters and emails by ticking the boxes. Check the examples below:

Not Compliant

GDPR Compliant

2.   Data Access

Part of the control of this new law is allowing individuals to access or remove their personal data collected by companies. As a marketer, you need to make sure that your users can easily access and request copies of their personal information, as well as an opt-out for its use.
 

3.   Data Focus

This is where you, as a marketer, need to ask yourself, “What data do I really need?”. GDPR requires you to legally justify what data you are storing on your users and why, as well as how you are using it. So, if you want to avoid unnecessary justifications, focus only on the data that you really need.
 

Without a doubt, GDPR will impact B2C marketing strategies. The good news is that this legislation is a great opportunity to build stronger relationships with the people engaging with your brand.

Gain insights about your audience

When creating lead generation strategies, instead of implementing a simple yes or no tick box, you can provide a range of options to find out what your audience is interested in. Through consent, you can collect insights that not only help you share information with them about topics that really interest them, but also segment your audience into focused communication groups.

Here's an example from Waitrose, part of the John Lewis Partnership, when registering for an account. While the user consents to receive updates from Waitrose, John Lewis or John Lewis Financial Services, the company identifies what their audience is interested in receiving.

More effective email marketing

The unsubscribe link within an email allows your audience to manage their email preferences. Giving them the freedom to turn communications on or off, helps you keep what’s relevant to them up to date, and allows you to target them with more specific or relevant campaigns.

In this case, Amazon notifies their audience about purchases, shipments, and delivery delays by email, text message, or the app.

Build brand loyalty and trust

GDPR no longer allows you to contact your audience for marketing purposes unless you have their permission to do so. Be open, honest and transparent. Give them a reason to share their personal information with you. Building brand loyalty and trust comes through projecting transparency about who you are and what you’re doing with their data.

How can Whichit help build a loyal customer base?
 

Whichit gives you the perfect tool to create a successful marketing campaign that appeals to your customers while protecting their data. At the same time, you as a marketer, get to build a strong loyal customer base.

Whichit interactive ad units help you generate new customers and strengthen existing relationships by analysing actual user behaviour and intent, as well as perception and attitude towards your brand, to inform your current and future marketing strategies:

Collect valuable information, not personal information

Whichit collects user preferences and behaviour without asking for Personal Identifiable Information (PII).

Transparency and Clarity

Whichit captures only the PII the user has agreed to share after opting into required consent forms, such as email addresses.
 

Give the power to the user

All users can request copies of the data stored within the Whichit for Advertisers platform and have the right to be forgotten i.e. remove all data entries upon request, which will increase trust and create more valuable connections with the brand.

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References

MacDonald, S (2018, June 4).  GDPR for Marketing: The Definitive Guide for 2018

Gravicus (2018, March 2). A Marketers Guide for GDPR

5 Facts to help you plan Mother’s Day Marketing Campaigns

Alexandra Radugina
Senior Marketing Manager

Mother's Day is another great opportunity for all types of retailers to encourage consumers to spend more on beautiful gifts. If you want to create a stellar promotion, you have to start with a plan; below you can find some interesting facts that can help you.

1. Mother’s Day in numbers

Mother's Day is celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent and precisely three weeks before Easter Sunday. The 2017 Mother’s Day spend was valued at almost 1.4 billion pounds, in comparison to the 700 million pounds spent for Father’s Day 2017. 30% of the purchases were made online followed by a Mother’s Day spark in social media posts. According to Facebook, people around the world uploaded 1B+ photos and videos, which shows how much people care about family and how grateful they are.

2. Shoppers' persona

Harvest Digital suggest that 67% of female shoppers purchase more gifts than men. But on average, men spend £10 pounds more on their gifts. Also, the most significant spenders belong to the age range of 25-34 years old. Those insights can give some ideas on who you want to target with your campaign, as well as how to gain social media boost on Mother’s Day itself.

3. What are the most common presents…

Mothers’ Day's gifts aren’t just flowers, cards or chocolates. These types of gifts are a must-have addition to a main treat. Shoppers are more interested in personalised gifts that stand out from the rest. There has been a noticeable increase in personalised presents in the UK, and we estimate an increase in that sector this Mother’s Day.  The hottest gifts for Mother’s Day are:

4. What Mummy really wants…

We found out that what Mothers actually dream of receiving on Mother’s Day are surprisingly affordable:

5. Promotional tactics to attract shoppers:

The goal of this Mother’s Day marketing opportunity is of course to increase sales and revenue. Marketers use the full range of promotional tactics to attract shoppers: special product selection, email marketing, social campaigns, price promotions. According to Bing Ads, more than 60% of Mother’s Day gift searches are made from a mobile device. Searches increase by up to four times in the 48 hours leading up to Sunday as well as most of purchases are made last minute. So, starting a marketing campaign just two-three weeks before the day would be a wise tactic.  Last year’s statistics show us that email remarketing was most effective the week before Mother’s Day.

What do shoppers want? What leads them to make up their mind about a purchase? The main decision-making factors— the same as for any other occasion, will be online search. According to HootSuite, 60% of shoppers use social networks for product search, so consider running a social media campaign to reach your consumers.  Another factor is saving time on shopping: If you can offer consumers all-in-one services like a card, flowers and chocolate there will be a greater chance of success. Adding your slogan, hashtag, or brand to any gift pack can encourage some consumers to thank you online.  Cooperate with local businesses (i.e. flower shops, spas, restaurants) and create offers together.

Shoppers want inspiration for Mother’s Day presents. Look for a personalised shopping experience based on their buying behaviour.  Offering savings and rewards based on past purchases is a proven tactic. You can also offer consumers a personalised gift finder (Whichit example), which will lead them to the perfect present or add the competitive element to keep participants checking back and sharing their contributions for more exposure. How about a mum and daughter selfie competition? Perfect for Mother’s Day.

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Win Your Audience's Heart with 4 Fun Christmas Marketing Campaigns

Phuong Huyen Linh Le
Business Development Intern

Now that Halloween is out of the way, Christmas is right around the corner.

Last year, the average British family spent around £800 on Christmas and it’s expected to be even higher this year. It’s never too early to run the Christmas advertising campaign.

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So… Have you prepared any ideas for your Christmas Marketing Campaigns?


Let us inspire you with these 4 Fun Christmas Marketing Campaigns ideas that we’ve prepared for you to stand out this holiday season and win your audience’s heart:

1. Help to find the perfect gift with a fun Gift Creator Wizard

Santa is coming to town!!! Christmas lights are unpacked and switched on in the street. Have you prepared gifts for the ones you love?? Probably not… right?

AND neither have most of your customers…Well, let’s make their ‘looking-for-a-gift’ task become easy and fun! You can do it with the Whichit Gift Creator Wizard.

Through Whichit’s unique technology, by answering a simple series of questions, users will be directed to the perfect gift that matches their answers and demands. Along the way, they’ll see an array of products and in a fun, engaging manner.

I'm looking for a Christmas gift for...

As a result, customers don’t have to spend a lot of time reading and looking for the perfect gift. Instead, they’ll choose it themselves with a few clicks. They will be able to see an array of your products and be seamlessly directed to the perfect product.

Click the example to see how wonderful it really is! >>>

Amazing? Wait there’s more… This can be easily embedded on your website, as a display campaign and on social media.

 

2. Run a Festive Holiday Contest

Christmas is a great time to say “Thank you” to your loyal customers and reward them. Running a festive contest with some great prizes is a perfect way to do that, raise brand awareness and collect tonnes of email addresses too.

According to Mailchimp, segmented email campaigns have 14.21% higher open rates and 59.82% higher click-through rates. Whichit Contest Campaigns offers affordable Native Lead Gen with auto-segmentation, feeding straight into your CRM and email marketing platforms.

COMPETITION! What's your magical Christmas destination?

After someone submits an email using the Whichit unit, you can retarget them with relevant offers based on their preferences. Super easy & So valuable!

Ask your audience to enter a contest (or to subscribe to a newsletter) with our Lead-Gen Engage Card. With Whichit you can acquire leads for only $0.10 on Organic Campaigns (Social Media or your website).

Now, let’s create a Festive Holiday Contest with Whichit like this one!>>>

How Whichit works? After answering fun interactive polls or quizzes or participating in a contest, the audiences will reveal the ‘Engage Card’ – Engage Cards are the commercial actionable Call-To-Action layer that redirects users to bespoke content, based on their votes, which achieve up to 95% engagement rate per campaign. Whichit Engage Cards are your way to convert traffic into revenue, based on your campaign goals.

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3. Add a sparkle to your Social Media Content

Coming up with a new content for your Social Media channels can be challenging as you need to keep coming up with new ideas to capture your audience’s attention. Christmas is a great opportunity to sparkle up your content!

If you’re looking for effortless and exciting ways to create engaging content for your social channels, Whichit can offer you a great platform to create content that can scale and also turn your social traffic into revenue.

By using Whichit, you can easily create interactive content in minutes, wrap it into a campaign and share it on social media channels like Facebook. On Facebook, Whichit will appear on an ‘Instant Article’. This fast and responsive content, is 10X faster than standard mobile web articles and makes your readers 70% less likely to abandon the article and it also helps in generating high engagement with your audience & new targeted audience.

4. A winning Advertising Campaign

Christmas is the perfect time to try something bold and new to boost your sales. If you've not got a lot of experience or you’re new to Display Advertising, we can totally understand you… It can be quite complex to create banners and publish them. You’ll need designers and developers and it can be a little daunting.

Luckily, Whichit is offering a simple, fun and affordable tool to create, publish and monitor interactive Display Ads. You’ll feel like a pro after a few minutes! You can create a Whichit creative that will automatically run in multiple sizes. Whichit delivers a Click-Through-Rate of 40X than the classic banners and you can gain actionable insights about your audiences at the same time! Defiantly a win-win situation for Christmas Marketing Campaigns.

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Whichit for Advertisers is now live!

Galit Gan
Creative Director & Co-Founder

Let's face it, as marketers there are tons of challenges we encounter: reaching our audience, engaging with them, understanding them and having them understand us, not to mention the amount of time it all takes! Well, what if you had a window into your audience? What if you could engage with them like never before and save time by streamlining your campaigns and marketing efforts?

Great news! Whichit for Advertisers has now launched.

Using the new platform, you can now create rich media interactive ad units that run on multiple channels.
By creating content, connecting to traffic and targeting an audience, discover how Whichit will redefine your digital marketing strategy.

Let’s take a look!

Whichit for Advertisers

Whichit for Advertisers

Build your own creative

Create rich, commercially driven interactive content, delivering a new and improved experience for your audience. The ad units come in the form of polls, surveys, quizzes or simple questions illustrated with visuals of your choice.

If you were looking for a way to make advertising more inviting for your audience, Whichit provides a tool for you to pull them into your world so you can take a look into theirs. 

Try it yourself, check out how to make an awesome post to engage your audience.

Connect to traffic

How do you reach your audience? Twitter, Facebook, your blog, paid advertising? How many posts or ads do you need to create for each and how much time and effort does it take? Save time and create one Whichit Post that can be run on multiple channels and in multiple sizes. Through our three campaign channels, you will be able to run an organic campaign using your own assets, launch on paid traffic or share it to social media in a few easy steps.

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Target your audience

You can now create Whichit posts and use them to target your audience. Target by age, gender, location and more to reach out and engage them. 

Targeting your audience has never been easier thanks to our playful dashboard

Dashboard

Now that your campaign is running, you’ll probably want to see how it’s performed. Our platform includes an integrated dashboard for each live campaign that allows you to monitor and analyse your campaign’s success in real time. It is super easy to navigate and presents you with actionable customer insights.

Closing the Loop

Whichit is a One-Stop-Shop with a full range of marketing services. Engage your audience, find out more about them and retarget with the right message using our integration tools to automate your marketing and sales ops. Check out all the available integrations such as EMAIL, SLACK, MAILCHIMP, IFTTT and more.

Available integrations in Whichit for Advertisers

 

What's in it for me?
 

Anybody can create an interactive campaign in minutes

All services are accessible from our platform in an intuitive way. Whichit will take you by the hand, step by step to run a campaign like a pro. Building a campaign has never been so quick and accessible.

Success

Using our interactive posts’ Engage Card, achieve up to 95% engagement rate per campaign! This will be the perfect way to catch a glimpse into your customers' mind and share with them an experience, a story or a call to action.

Market research as a Bonus

By asking a question, you encourage your audience to interact with you and you also benefit from the insights provided by their answers. Want to showcase your products? Want to know which one is the most popular or which colour they prefer? Just ask!

 

Want to give it a try? 

Want to learn more? Schedule a demo call with us!