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How To Win Back Customers Who Stop Engaging With Your Emails

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Do you have a long list of subscribers who stopped engaging with your brand?

Many marketers and business owners use email marketing as a way to build connections with their target audience and to deliver personalized content and promotions.

Estimates show that by the end of 2020, over 306 billion emails will be sent and received every single day. Despite the usefulness of email marketing, it’s hard to break through to your audience if you’re not engaging with them after they've subscribed to your email list.

We are going to take a look at several ways you can win back customers who stop engaging with your email campaigns. But first, we are going to show you how to figure out why consumers stopped responding to your emails in the first place.

Let’s dive in!

Understand why they stopped engaging.

Before you can win back customers who abandon your business after subscribing, you have to figure out why they stopped engaging with your brand. In some cases, people will discover that your company isn’t the right fit for them and move on. There’s nothing you can do about those situations, but there are ways to discover other reasons consumers have stopped engaging with your company.

We suggest segmenting your email list and creating a campaign for consumers who haven’t responded to or opened an email in six months. Send out a simple contact form where you ask them if there is anything you can do to help.

If someone is genuinely interested in what you’re offering, they will respond. Keep your eyes out for people who directly tell you their concerns; these customers are the easiest to understand. When you can see why someone invested in your niche benefits from your products and services, it gives you a better grasp on their pain points and needs as consumers.

Streamline your customer service.

Believe it or not, many customers stop communicating with brands because they’ve had one poor customer service experience with the company in question. If you want to win back customers who stopped engaging with your emails, you could revamp your customer service strategy and send an email out to all your existing subscribers.

There are plenty of ways to make your customer service options more accessible. For starters, you should consider adding your contact form to the sidebar of your website. In many cases, inexperienced users have trouble locating the contact page if the link is at the footer of your website. An always-visible contact form will give customers peace of mind if they come back after reading your email but have questions.

Chatbots are also a great way to streamline your customer service for new and existing customers. Many marketers and business owners use chatbots to help consumers with simple problems, such as changing their password, predicting shipping costs and more. These features make it easier for customers who gave up on your business to have a chance to come back and check out your products and services.

Make your emails personal.

When you segment your lead list for customer feedback, you can use those lists to send out personalized emails to inactive subscribers. We like to create campaigns where we ask consumers who signed up with our product but never activated their license if there is anything we can do to help them succeed.

These personalized messages that pay attention to how consumers interact with your brand will help you win back stagnant customers. Additionally, you can send a questionnaire where you ask them what kind of content they would like to read from you in the future.

You can take their choices and set up email campaigns that send them weekly newsletters with content gathered from your blog tags. Personalized emails generally have a much higher open rate and see more engagement.

Back to you.

Email marketing is a great way to increase your sales and website traffic, but it takes some time to practice. You’re going to encounter customers who are no longer interested in your brand. But there are people you can still win back if you understand their goals and interests.

Research your audience, and deliver personalized emails that address their questions or offer content that they will find valuable. If you have an inactive lead list, you can use our feedback strategy to learn more about why customers stopped engaging with your messages. Once you understand their reasoning, you can make changes that will drastically improve the effectiveness of your email marketing campaign.