Home | About Us | Support | Sales | Downloads | Contact Us
Industry Reports | Quick Dataservices | Partner Program | Get Price Quote | Articles | Testimonial | Templates
B2B Industry and Association List, Contacts With Email: 50,000, Released on 8th Jan 2010
 

Quick guide to email segmentation

The advent of new digital marketing using e-mail has enabled markers to maintain continuous quality dialogue with customers and prospects. Every forward-thinking company is using various innovative techniques to get the maximum mileage from the limited marketing budget. Among the various strategies used to narrow down targeting customers/prospects, is through segmentation of the customer database.

Email segmentation as core strategy lies in the identification of layers of buyers within a market sharing similar needs, customer behavior and buying strategy. The essential knowledge and identification of each customer from the universal database of the organization helps to reach them with quality offers.

Contrary to the general belief, email segmentation doesn’t have to be complicated.

Major understanding of the customer should be as follows:

  • What messages will be make them to react favorably to your product or service?
  • Which all groups within your database are happy to get a discount offer, and how many will purchase when free shipping is offered?
  • What portion of your target audience are ‘early adopters’, who need to be among the very first to hear about your new products?
  • How often do they want to hear from you?

Here are the popular divisions in which email segmentations are done:

By geography
By demography
By psychographics
(divides market into groups based on)
  • City
  • State
  • Nation
  • Distance from your store
  • Age
  • Sex
  • Education
  • Income level
  • Quantifiable customer characteristics
  • Lifestyle
  • Social class
  • Personality traits
By online behavior
By customer type
By purchase history
  • Customer's email use
  • Past opens or click- through
  • Web page visits and conversions
  • Repeat buyer
  • Inactive
  • New customer
  • Frequency of purchase
  • Recency of purchase
  • Monetary value
  • Category of products/service purchased
  • A customer's past experiences with your company
  • Recent action or an upcoming event such as a purchase or a subscription renewal

Finally, Segmentation is to be adopted keeping in mind your customers, your line of business and the available resources. In the end the efficacy of this exercise should be to acquire higher responses rates and maximum results to your email campaigns.

   
Top Million Business Executive Database

Over 1 million top executives from the top 100,000 plus companies across USA includes Company Name, Contact Name and Title, Address, email, phone, fax etc

business lists
 
   
This Week's Featured List

Top Finance-Executives
Number of Contacts 150,313 Contacts with email 150,313

business lists
 
   
Residential Sales Leads & Mailing Lists

Find the right consumers or neighborhoods to sell to Select by age, income, homeowner, home value, lifestyle and more.

business lists
 
   
Fortune 1000 Company Executive List

Number of Contacts 19,863
Contacts with Email 19,863

business lists
 
   
Top Sales And Marketing Executives List

Number of Contacts 452,154
Contacts with Email 452,154

business lists