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We often see that email marketing is still underestimated. Yet, it is one of the best converting online marketing channels. 72% of marketing companies in the Netherlands also believe that email has become more important since the corona crisis. How can you benefit from this without having to spend a lot of time on manual emails? Easy. Automated email marketing or email marketing automation. 😉
We don’t believe in a 1-size-fits-all approach. We do believe in an automated, but specific approach per company. Every company is different, so email marketing works just a little bit differently for every company. This is also the case for the Ruwinkel estate.
Through a combination of automated campaigns and human touch. Automate what can be automated, but don’t forget what is important to guests. The Five Stages of Travel model helps us to think about automating the customer journey with new cool campaigns.
1. Lead campaigns from Facebook
The target group of the Ruwinkel estate is very active on Facebook. Using the scarcity principle of Cialdini, we have obtained more than 1,500 new e-mail addresses for € 0.35 per lead. All from people who did not want to miss out on the discounts and promotions of the Ruwinkel estate.
2. Welcome campaign including segmentation
After “registering” to receive short promotions, the lead will see a welcome campaign. A series of 4 emails in which we welcome that person, tell more about the park, use segmentation and send the offer from the Ruwinkel estate in the last email. This campaign even has a conversion rate to bookings of 0.70%, fully automated.
3. Reactivation campaign
Have readers been inactive for a while? Don’t worry, that happens every channel. We have created a reactivation campaign with the Ruwinkel estate, in which we encourage people to keep reading the newsletter.
4. Monthly newsletters
The Ruwinkel estate sends out mailings at least once a month. In these mailings, inspiration is given about the future holiday period, promotions and discounts are highlighted and news is shared. TIP: with a smart content calendar you can already think of many themes during a year. This way you can easily pick up on the different holiday periods such as Easter and important moments such as Valentine’s Day.
5. Exit Book Street campaign
Recently we added the “abandon booking street” campaign to the pallet of mailings. This e-mail campaign sends out an e-mail after someone left the booking process. Continue to read en find out how we used this type of collaboration with Stratech and Holiday Media.
You often get inspired on a site, but you talk later with friends or family. In order to stay top-of-mind, we send out the deserted book street campaign. And with success… this campaign has a conversion rate to bookings of 12.5%
6. Pre-fun and feedback campaigns
Of course, a pre-fun mailing will also be sent for someone staying at the park. Feedback is also requested afterwards. The Ruwinkel estate itself does this in a very special way (we will not reveal anything 🤐). As a result, the park has an 8.8 on Zoover (consult 10 February 2021) and 4.3 out of 5 stars on Google.
- € 56,000 more revenue from email marketing in 1 year
- 6% better conversion rate
- 84% more bookings and total increase of online bookings of 15%
- 66% more sessions and total increase of online sessions of 37%
Together with the Ruwinkel estate, we always look carefully at what works and what does not work in terms of online marketing. Of course taking into account the guests and what these guests would like to see and read. The Ruwinkel estate is a holiday park in Scherpenzeel in Gelderland, The Netherlands.
Since their departure from the Landal GreenParks group, the holiday park has grown significantly in turnover every year, partly due to our curiosity and to always wanting to go a step further. We previously had success with the use of Smart Display campaigns, implementation of call tracking and we helped the holiday park grow in turnover and occupancy.
We developed various automated campaigns together with Stratech and Holiday Media. A triangle that works smoothly together, but where the customer retains 1 point of contact. We spoke to the customer and together with Stratech and Holiday Media developed, among other things, the deserted book street campaign, based on everyone’s expertise.
