4 Tips for Making Your Remarketing Campaign a Success

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How SMBs are embracing remarketing

It used to be that only large, data-centric organizations could invest in data mining, according to Raj Beri, vice president of grocery and new verticals at Uber. But small businesses across all industries now have access to the tracking tools necessary to take advantage of digital remarketing.

“With simple-to-use third-party tools and services available now from companies like Google, it has never been easier for small players to set up their own remarketing campaigns,” Beri said.

Remarketing is an accessible tool even for small businesses for whom every online sale counts.

“Remarketing helps to encourage those lost conversions to come back,” said Jeni Garrett, founder of Woodhouse Day Spas. “It is great for small business owners because it has a lower cost per acquisition, so with the impression conversion rates, you are able to move through your sales cycle fast and for a much lower cost.”

Remarketing is helpful in an age where customer attention is limited; consumers may want to revisit purchase decisions later, and remarketing allows them to do that.

“Remarketing is so powerful because it allows marketers the opportunity to continue the conversation that otherwise may have only been a 30-second decision on the part of the consumer,” said Jason Hobbs, founder and president of marketing platform Found.ee (acquired in January 2021 by Downtown Music Holdings). “When someone comes across the website of a small business, the potential consumer’s initial experience may not be enough for [them] to make a decision. That’s where remarketing comes in.”

4 tips for success in remarketing and retargeting

How can you incorporate remarketing and retargeting into your company’s overall marketing campaigns? Industry consensus suggests the following four steps.

1. Segment and go for the larger groups.

Although visitors may have a general interest in your broader range of products and services, many will visit you with just one or two items in mind.

To go back to our previous example, in addition to a lighting department, an online furniture store may have departments for bedroom furniture, living room furniture and dining room furniture. It may also stock wall decor and general stylings.

But e-commerce stores should not assume that because someone has shown interest in wall lighting, they’ll be interested in finding out about a corner sofa. Focus on the types of products in which a visitor has already shown interest.

To narrow down the target customers most likely interested in a product or service, customer segmentation by product interest, demographics, geographics and other factors is helpful. Customer segmentation performs best with remarketing when we address and satisfy our customers’ immediate needs and wants.

Hobbs also recommends segmenting your list of web visitors by behavior. For instance, if a consumer gets to the last page of an e-commerce checkout process and doesn’t complete the purchase, you should add that person to a different segment for a different messaging set than a visitor who visited only the homepage.

“This consumer was very interested in buying something but decided not to at the last second, perhaps to do a little more price-comparison shopping,” Hobbs said. “That should inform you to run ads that address price-matching guarantees, which will put people back into your e-commerce system so they don’t buy the competition’s product instead.”

2. Mix up your remarketing channels.

Most businesses choose a specific channel for their remarketing campaigns, such as display ads, banner ads, and Facebook or video ads, said Mike Hans, founder and former CEO of Forge Group (now part of TPA Digital). But consumers aren’t on just one channel.

Just as in any other marketing effort, it’s essential to reach consumers where they are. This means spreading your campaigns across various channels, including (and perhaps especially) mobile devices.

3. Don’t be afraid to test and fail.

Beri says that there’s no straight line to success. How you initially thought about your product and how people use it will change daily. The key is to “fail fast”: Learn from what worked and what didn’t, and keep improving your product and business model.

4. Make the most of what you’ve got.

The direct email addresses you have for your existing customers and newsletter subscribers (who may or may not have yet made a purchase) are of tremendous value.

Email marketing campaigns return an average of $36 for every $1 spent. Each represents a personal invitation by someone interested in your products and services to contact them directly.

It’s a good idea to segment your existing lists by product interest and by regular and irregular purchasers to achieve the highest possible returns.

Ensure you send emails frequently and over the most reliable and dependable platforms. The best email marketing software and services often consider unique e-commerce marketing concerns.

Remarketing gives you and your customer another chance

Getting potential customers to your website and maintaining their interest isn’t easy. In fact, 58% of visitors leave your site immediately after finding it, and, based on data collected by the Baymard Institute, 70% of shopping carts are abandoned.

Timing is also critical yet difficult to pin down. If a potential customer who abandoned their shopping cart visited your site on another day, they might have made a purchase.

Remarketing is a way to ensure potential customers get more than one chance to learn about your brand, find the products and services they need, and purchase from your e-commerce site.

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This article is written by BND and originally published here.