About
The second largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom partnered with Sakha for a segmentation and targeting model for one its branches on a pilot basis to better understand its customer base and create more effective marketing campaigns.
The Challenge
A large supermarket has a wide range of products and services that appeal to different customer segments. However, the supermarket’s marketing campaigns are often generic and not targeted, leading to low response rates and wasted resources. The client needed a segmentation and targeting model to better understand its customer base and create more effective marketing campaigns. The segmentation and targeting model aimed to solve several problems that the supermarket faced, including:
- Lack of personalization: Marketing campaigns are often not personalized, leading to low engagement and response rates.
- Wasted resources: Generic marketing campaigns waste resources by targeting customers who are not interested in the products or services being promoted.
- Inefficient marketing: Without a segmentation and targeting model, the supermarket cannot efficiently identify and target specific customer segments with relevant promotions.
Solution
Sakha designed & developed the segmentation and targeting model to help the supermarket create more personalized and effective marketing campaigns, through:
- Data collection: The model collects data from multiple sources, including customer transactions, demographics, and behaviour, to build a comprehensive view of the customer base.
- Customer segmentation: The model segments customers based on common characteristics such as demographics, purchase history, and product preferences.
- Predictive modeling: The model uses predictive modeling techniques to identify which customers are most likely to respond to specific promotions.
- Targeted marketing campaigns: The model enables the supermarket to create targeted marketing campaigns for specific customer segments, based on their characteristics and predicted response rates.
- Performance tracking: The model tracks the performance of marketing campaigns, enabling the supermarket to evaluate the effectiveness of the campaigns and make data-driven decisions.
- Increased engagement: By creating more personalized and relevant marketing campaigns, the supermarket could increase customer engagement and response rates. After implementing the segmentation and targeting model, the supermarket saw a 25% increase in customer engagement, as measured by click-through rates and conversions.
- Reduced waste: Targeted marketing campaigns reduced wasted resources by focusing on customers who are most likely to respond to the promotions. By creating targeted marketing campaigns, the supermarket was able to reduce its marketing spend by 30%, while maintaining the same level of customer response.
- Efficient marketing: By identifying specific customer segments, the model enabled the supermarket to efficiently create and execute marketing campaigns. It effectively reduced the time required for campaign planning and execution by 40%.
- Data-driven decisions: The model provided data-driven insights into customer behaviour and preferences, enabling the supermarket to make more informed marketing decisions. The supermarket was able to realize a 20% increase in sales revenue.