Direct mail to prospects and email to current customers? Modeling and field-testing multichannel marketing
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Author(s)
Valenti, Albert
Srinivasan, Shuba
Yildirim, Gokhan
Pauwels, Koen
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Multichannel retailers need to understand how to allocate marketing budgets to customer segments and online and offline sales channels. We propose an integrated methodological approach to assess how email and direct mail effectiveness vary by channel and customer value segment. We apply this approach to an international beauty retailer in six countries and to an apparel retailer in the United States. We estimate multi-equation hierarchical linear models and find that sales responsiveness to email and direct mail varies by customer value segment. Specifically, direct mail drives customer acquisition in the offline channel, while email drives sales for both online and offline channels for current customer segments. A randomized field experiment with the beauty retailer provides causal support for the findings. The proposed reallocation of marketing resources would yield a revenue lift of 13.5% for the beauty retailer and 9.3% for the apparel retailer, compared with the 6.5% actual increase in the field experiment.
Date Issued
2024-05-01
Date Acceptance
2023-06-28
Citation
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2024, 52, pp.815-834
ISSN
0092-0703
Publisher
Springer
Start Page
815
End Page
834
Journal / Book Title
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Volume
52
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Date Publish Online
2023-08-05