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Did you know that 76<\/span>\u00a0percent of consumers<\/span><\/a> say they’re more likely to buy from brands that offer a <\/span>personalised experience<\/span>?<\/span><\/p>\n To make your customers feel special and turn them into brand loyalists, you must understand their preferences and tailor your marketing to their needs. Your website content, product listings, email messaging, and advertisements should be relevant to your audience’s interests to drive <\/span>conversions<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n But you can’t do that without using automation and personalisation tools.<\/span><\/p>\n In this article, we’ll show you how you can create personalised <\/span>marketing campaigns<\/span> for your <\/span>small business<\/span> using automation and <\/span>CRM software<\/span>. In addition, we’ll discuss different examples of<\/span> automated marketing<\/span><\/a> personalisation and how <\/span>small businesses<\/span> use them to create tailored <\/span>customer experiences<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n In simplest terms, marketing personalisation is tailoring your messaging and content to your audience’s needs, interests, and preferences. Instead of showing generic content, personalised <\/span>marketing campaigns<\/span> are optimised around audience interests based on their past activity, their unique <\/span>customer journey<\/span> stage, and their interaction with your brand.<\/span><\/p>\n Amazon is an excellent example of how brands use personalised marketing. When you first visit Amazon, it shows you products based on your region’s consumer preferences. However, Amazon tailors its product recommendations for repeat visitors based on previous browsing patterns.<\/span><\/p>\n Why does it matter? Research shows that marketing personalisation can<\/span> increase revenues by 40 percent<\/span><\/a> because today\u2019s customers have short attention spans and do not have the patience to browse generic product catalogs. Personalising experiences by providing content that addresses your <\/span>customers\u2019 needs<\/span> saves them time and simplifies their buying decisions, leading to higher <\/span>conversions<\/span> and increased <\/span>customer retention<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n However, unlike real-world <\/span>customer interaction<\/span>, online marketing personalisation is only possible through automation. To offer <\/span>custom experiences<\/span>, you must collect <\/span>customer data<\/span> and analyse user behavior. Based on these insights, you can create automated and personalised <\/span>marketing campaigns<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n This is where an <\/span>all-in-one<\/span> marketing automation<\/span> and CRM<\/span>\u00a0software<\/span> solution like Act!<\/span> comes in.<\/span><\/p>\n Customer relationship management<\/span> (<\/span>CRM<\/span>) software tracks <\/span>customer engagement<\/span> and interaction with your brand across multiple touchpoints. It also provides <\/span>real-time<\/span> insights into <\/span>customer behavior<\/span>, preferences, and interests.<\/span><\/p>\n For example, when visitors sign up for your <\/span>email list<\/span>, your <\/span>CRM<\/span> records their name, email address, location, referral touchpoint, and other critical information. Whenever this visitor contacts you via email, you can track their complete details through your <\/span>CRM<\/span>, including their past interactions with your <\/span>marketing team<\/span> or responses to your surveys, <\/span><\/p>\n Marketing automation software<\/span><\/a> allows you to turn the insights from your <\/span>CRM<\/span> into automated <\/span>marketing campaigns<\/span>. Using the data from your <\/span>CRM<\/span>, <\/span>marketing automation tools<\/span> let you <\/span>segment<\/span> your audience, track their peak activity times, approach them on their preferred platforms, and <\/span>optimise<\/span> their engagement with your business.<\/span><\/p>\n Act! is both a <\/span>CRM<\/span> and <\/span>marketing automation platform<\/span> and it empowers your sales, marketing, and <\/span>customer support<\/span> teams by providing a central tracking interface where you can <\/span>streamline<\/span> and learn everything about how customers interact with your brand.<\/span><\/p>\n It also provides you with the tools to create automated <\/span>workflows<\/span> to generate leads and launch personalised <\/span>marketing campaigns<\/span> that speak directly to your audience. Act! helps you create fully personalised and automated <\/span>customer experiences<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n Let us show you a few examples to help you understand how <\/span>marketing automation<\/span> and personalisation help your <\/span>small business<\/span> grow.<\/span><\/p>\n Have you ever noticed how emails from your favorite brands address you by name? This is a small example of personalised <\/span>marketing automation<\/span>. Brands use<\/span> email marketing automation<\/span><\/a> tools<\/span> to trigger <\/span>email campaigns<\/span> with <\/span>personalised messages<\/span> geared to answer your questions or provide relevant offers because you signed up for their distro list. <\/span><\/p>\n Even if there are a million subscribers, everyone gets an email with their name because <\/span>marketing automation tools<\/span> fetch this information from their databases.<\/span><\/p>\n Abandoned cart emails are another example of email personalisation. When you leave an <\/span>e-commerce<\/span> site after adding products to the cart, it automatically sends you a personalised reminder email to complete the purchase. Research shows that these emails have a<\/span> 39 percent open rate<\/span><\/a> and help brands recover a significant chunk of their lost sales.<\/span><\/p>\n You can use them to offer discounted <\/span>pricing<\/span> or offer additional incentives to <\/span>potential customers<\/span> to incentivise them to complete the purchase.<\/span><\/p>\n Tailored product recommendations are another classic example of how personalisation enhances <\/span>customer experience<\/span> and increases sales. Instead of showing the same products to everyone, brands use personalisation to display relevant products based on a visitor’s past purchases and browsing activity.<\/span><\/p>\n Similarly, automation tools enable brands to email product updates and enhancements to users who’ve shown interest or purchased from them in the past. Email software uses <\/span>customer segmentation<\/span> to organise subscribers according to interests, <\/span>demographics<\/span>, activity, and other critical <\/span>metrics<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n For example, if you have a special discount offer in a specific product category, personalisation allows you to notify people who’ve purchased products in that category instead of spamming everyone. This drastically improves your <\/span>conversion rates<\/span> and <\/span>marketing strategy<\/span> ROI.<\/span><\/p>\n Personalisation is critical to the success of <\/span>social media<\/span> advertising campaigns. This is why Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Google, and other online platforms give advertisers detailed targeting filters, allowing them to show ads based on user location, behavior, interests, gender, and other attributes.<\/span><\/p>\n But retargeting takes personalisation to another level.<\/span><\/p>\n It allows you to show ads to users who’ve recently visited your site and left without taking action. So, let’s say you create a <\/span>landing page<\/span> with your <\/span>marketing automation tool<\/span> and add your Facebook Pixel code to it. Now, Facebook will track every visitor to your <\/span>landing page<\/span>. If they use Facebook, too, they’ll see your ads.<\/span><\/p>\n Advanced automation platforms let you approach such users through email with personalised discounts and offers. Naturally, the <\/span>conversion rates<\/span> for these ads are higher because they’re more specific to the user’s recent browsing trends.<\/span><\/p>\n CRM integration<\/span> helps you fully automate your sales and <\/span>marketing efforts<\/span> and <\/span>customer support<\/span> follow-ups<\/span>. Instead of manually tracking the users whose subscription expires soon, you can use an <\/span>email template<\/span> and quickly configure an automated email sequence for your <\/span>CRM<\/span> to trigger as soon as a current customer enters the last quarter of their subscription.<\/span><\/p>\n Similarly, you can schedule fully personalised and automated <\/span>follow-up<\/span> emails by defining your targeting criteria. For example, if users don’t click on the URL in your first email, they’ll automatically receive a <\/span>follow-up<\/span> email three days later.<\/span><\/p>\n This <\/span>functionality<\/span> allows you to automate your whole <\/span>lead generation<\/span> process, simplifies your sales and support team members’ jobs, and drastically increases retention rates due to timely communication.<\/span><\/p>\n An automated <\/span>CRM system<\/span> tracks all user interactions and provides service agents with a complete service history. <\/span>CRMs<\/span> also have <\/span>lead-scoring<\/span> systems that automatically gauge a user’s satisfaction and likelihood of converting into a customer or renewing their business with your brand.<\/span><\/p>\n Tracking these <\/span>metrics<\/span> allows your teams to offer a personalised<\/span> service experience<\/span><\/a>, regardless of the agent handling the customer issue. They don’t need to annoy the customer by repeatedly asking the same questions or investigating the same problems. Instead, they can rely on the <\/span>CRM<\/span> records and focus on resolving the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n With the rise of AI, integrated <\/span>marketing automation<\/span>, and modern <\/span>![\"Did](\"https:\/\/dev-inproduct.pantheonsite.io\/uploads\/CO-1-3.png\")
<\/p>\nWhat is marketing personalisation, and why does it matter?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nHow marketing automation and CRM tools enable personalisation<\/span><\/h2>\n
5 ways CRM and marketing automation software can personalise your communications<\/span><\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\n1. Personalised email marketing campaigns<\/span><\/h3>\n
2. Tailored product recommendations<\/span><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\n3. Targeted advertisements<\/span><\/h3>\n
4. Timely follow-ups and reminders<\/span><\/h3>\n
5. Consistent service experience<\/span><\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nEmbrace automated personalisation to scale your business<\/span><\/h2>\n