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February 18, 2004
Innovations in E-mail Campaign Followup

CRMIQ: Wilson: E-mail marketing as a contact sport

Aside from the fact that this reads like a press release for RightNow’s eService Center, there are some terrific insights in here about how Wilson Sporting Goods gears up their customer contact center and practices 'iterative updating' on their website in the wake of each email marketing campaign they send out.

If your concerned about what to do with the flood of customer inquiries that could result from a mass mailing, here's a few ideas that you can apply, regardless of what CRM package you're using...

  • Manage customer service inquiries across both traditional and online customer channels.

  • Offer Web self-service and live chat capabilities to your customers via your website.

  • Drive customers to a specific "customer service-supported" URL loaded with links to self-service content

  • Stagger e-mail messages to allow the customer service/web marketing team time to create knowledge items specifically for the active campaigns as customer inquiries roll in

  • Identify common questions and quickly post new knowledge items to the landing page/microsite so that customers quickly find answers themselves

  • Benchmark each e-mail and microsite combo to identify strengths, weaknesses and make necessary adjustments

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