AVA is a Belgian retailer with over 50 stores and a successful online shop. The family-run business offers everything to make every moment in life unique: birth, birthday, communion, anniversary and other celebratory moments. The DIY, hobby and office supplies department also provides everything to make it happen.
In today's competitive e-commerce landscape, driving revenue growth and ensuring customer satisfaction are top priorities for businesses. AVA has achieved remarkable success in both these areas by leveraging the power of Custobar, a comprehensive customer data platform.
Due to AVA’s diverse offering, their customer base naturally has a broad range of customer behaviour:
AVA wanted to reach all of them with messages specifically tailored to meet their needs and interests.
In addition, AVA wanted to combine sales data from their brick-and-mortar stores and their e-commerce business and make it actionable – one of Custobar’s key features.
Here's an example of a newsletter campaign that AVA created right out of the RFM matrix.
The biggest continuous success for AVA is the steadily growing revenue from the e-commerce side of the business ever since they took Custobar into use. In general, Marketing Automation saves them time guiding customers to their website, and specific email automations, such as abandoned shopping cart reminders, have proven effective for AVA.
Moreover, AVA’s regular targeted newsletters receive outstanding results. One example is a newsletter sent to a specific group of VIP customers. While, according to Mailchimp, for example, B2C newsletters in the hobby sector reach average opening rates of around 27 %, AVA could almost double this with an opening rate of more than 43 %. Click rates are usually around 5 %, while 7,6 % of AVA’s recipients engaged with the newsletter content, and the average conversion rate of 3 % is more than three times higher in AVA’s example (10,3 %).
During the five years of working together, AVA learned to appreciate especially the customer approach Custobar follows and the steady team taking care of the customers.