Recover eCommerce Visitors without Collecting Their Email

How to Collect Email Communicate Directly Without Collecting Email

Technology #1 – Chatbots

Chatbots are very effective at gathering the emails of visitors to your site because people only interact with chatbots when they want to.

Unlike other requests for email, which are presented to all visitors to a site or page, chatbot requests for email come after a visitor has interacted with a chatbot, often for the purpose of assisting a customer with an inquiry.

The fact that customers choose to use chatbots means that they are prepared to enter information and are actually engaging with the responses of the bot. This choice makes visitors who interact with chatbots much more likely to convert into customers.

Unlike lead forms, which can have over a dozen fields to fill out, chatbots give visitors information they specifically ask for and allow visitors to opt-into providing their email instead of demanding it in exchange for information.

Technology #2 – Anonymous Email Retargeting

Anonymous email retargeting is a technology that matches your anonymous visitors to a registry of over 1 billion opted-in email addresses created in the United States. It then allows you to create email campaigns for this audience, launched by behavioral triggers, such as abandoned shopping carts, leaving after viewing products, or completing an on-site search.

Whether a visitor leaves after browsing your products, viewing a page or saving items to their cart, noCRM email retargeting lets you pick up where they left off with targeted and personalized emails specific to visitor behavior.

For instance, emails triggered by customers abandoning carts before making a transaction are especially effective for increasing revenue. On average, 44.1% of abandoned cart emails are opened, 11.6% of emails lead to a click back to site, and almost 30% of those clicks convert to purchases.

TowerData’s email retargeting technology helped a major women’s fashion retailer, with 3M unknown visitors per month.

Our solution was able to match and email 23.2% of the unknown shoppers who visited the retail site (over 500,000 people) and the open rates of these emails were leaps and bounds ahead of typical email open and click-through rates.

Match Rate ~23.2%
Open Rate ~20.45%
Abandoned Cart 47% Open rate
Abandoned Product 32.7% Open Rate
Abandoned Page 21.8% Open Rate
Avg Click To Open Rate (CTOR) ~17.3%

After 30 days of using email retargeting, the retailer recovered over $1M in revenue from visitors who had visited their site, but had stopped somewhere along the way to making a purchase.

By collecting email communicating directly without collecting email, you remove the pop-ups that visitors hate and by triggering email campaigns based on visitor behavior, you help to give continuity to their experience with your site and company.

It’s like a helpful store employee assisting visitors in their buyer’s journey and creating a personalized experience for visitors to your site, rather than a greeter asking for a favor.

TowerData offers you a way to reach site visitors who, for whatever reason, dropped out of their buyer’s journey without making a purchase. If you want to see how much revenue you can recover from email targeting visitors with pre-purchase behavior, you can get a free test.