CPG pain relief brand sees 212% increase in revenue from email marketing
CPG pain relief brand sees 212% increase in revenue from email marketing
212%
Increase in email revenue
1,700%
Return on investment (ROI)
4
Emails per month
Client
The client is a CPG company that produces topical pain creams. They sell online directly via their own e-commerce website as well as on Amazon.com and Walmart.com. Competitors include Bengay, Biofreeze, and Icy-Hot.
Challenge
In 2020, the client was facing a slowdown in sales as COVID-19 shattered consumer confidence and household budgets. So, they approached us to help identify and execute cost-effective digital marketing strategies.
Solution
After completing a thorough audit of the client’s marketing channels and strategies, we identified that email marketing was a significantly underutilized channel that could offer a serious boost to sales.
Because the client didn’t have an in-house marketing team, we took a hands-on role in executing the strategy—from brainstorming topics and promotions to writing the email content, designing graphics, formatting and sending the emails in their email marketing software MailChimp, and measuring and reporting back on results.
Our team wrote relevant, compelling content for every email—hooking into salient customer pain points (like the surge in people experiencing back pain as they started to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic), gift giving holidays and events (like Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day), customer reviews/testimonials (social proof), and more.
We also created new HTML email templates with better readability, more eye catching imagery, and other improvements.
Also, because, we are a full-service marketing agency and not just an email marketing company, we were able to go beyond email and also make other impactful changes across the buyer journey—things that would ensure email recipients convert to sales on the website at a higher rate.
For example, we re-designed the product pages on the client’s Shopify website to better highlight their products, showcase positive customer reviews, address frequently asked questions (FAQs), and more.
Another particularly effective strategy involved utilizing dynamic website popups to generate more revenue from upsells and cross-sells.
Lastly, we also deployed a number of strategies to amplify results more efficiently (i.e. work smarter). One such strategy involved email re-sends, which nearly doubled the number of email opens, clicks, and sales per campaign without us having to generate twice as much content.
Results
After 12 months of working together, the client saw a 212% increase in sales coming directly from their marketing emails—that represents six figures in additional revenue and an ROI of 1,700% including our fees! As a result, we scaled up these efforts and have continued to see email marketing be a growing source of revenue in subsequent years.
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