In their Q3 release, marketing platform Dotmailer added an update to marketing preferences and their product recommendations. Both important pieces of personalisation functionality – so let’s have a look.
Marketing preferences
Marketing preferences allows email marketers to store multiple kinds of audience preferences (product, communication and more). Any email marketer can set up individual contact preferences in the Contacts > Marketing preferences section of the Dotmailer platform. The feature helps to populate the preferences and categorize them as well.
You can use the marketing preferences in combination with other features including:
- Set up and send a campaign to preferences
- Segmentation on the bases of preferences
- Provide preferences options in signup forms
- Using the feature in surveys
- Uploading and exporting contacts with preferences
- Using with advanced personalization
- Using it in the program builder
- Tracking the popularity of preferences in advanced personalization
- Using it together with Dotmailer ConsentInsight
Preferences data can then be used to run more targeted email marketing campaigns.
Product recommendations
Recommending products to customers is in vogue because it works. With smart suggestions, the products should be very relevant and do well in terms of conversion. If you want to know more about the insides, of such features – we wrote this article on email marketing recommendation engines.
In DotMailer this feature works by marketers syncing product information with the email marketing software. The “AI-powered” feature then provides personalized product recommendations to show to individual subscribers in their messages.
DotMailer offers four key types of product recommendations:
- Bestsellers
- Most viewed
- Trending
- Personalised (that is the AI part)
DotMailer provides a recommendation builder that’s available as a drag and drop in the email editor and to use on landing pages.
The recommendation builder also comes with “product enrichment”. A marketer can use it to define product attributes to get more accurate recommendations. The tool has in-built resize function for your products for customers to see smooth product blocks. There is reporting on the ROI of your recommendation campaigns and marketers can modify them accordingly.
Unsubscribe and preference centre settings
DotMailer has changed the unsubscribe and preference centre settings as well. These settings are available in the Account > Account settings section. The settings help marketers to choose whether the unsubscribe link goes to a preference centre or a one-click unsubscribe page. With the update, marketers can choose to show the default preference centre or a custom URL on one of the landing pages.
Program builder changes for Dotmailer
As mentioned marketers can use marketing preferences in programs. Here is a short list of what that means:
- Update a contact to be opted into or out of preferences (in the ‘Update contact’ node).
- Set up the condition that a contact must be opted into a selected preference in order for them to progress down the ‘Yes’ route (In the ‘Decision’ node).
- Migrate your preferences if stored elsewhere within the platform.
