Newsletter content strategy for Boutique Béluga

Increase your monthly sales by 36% from 2020 to 2021

La Boutique Beluga is a Quebec-based company that sells children’s clothing and accessories from over 100 brands, including a wide variety of apparel and accessories from local brands. 

As a family business, Boutique Beluga’s fundamental values are care, respect and integrity, and they make it a point to apply these values in all areas of the company.

Having grown significantly in 2020, Boutique Beluga gave Pure Commerce the following mandate: To amplify its traffic and revenues.

Being in the children’s clothing industry, we knew we were dealing with a company that targets a relatively limited customer base. But, as babies and children grow, their needs and that of their parents continue to evolve, which added an additional layer of complexity to our chosen strategy.


Our initial assessment

  • Loyalty is a key element in the children's clothing industry.
  • Acquiring (and keeping!) customers with babies or very young children means securing future purchases as the children grow older.
  • A second driver of growth is multiple purchases or upsells. You can never have too many nice clothes for your baby!

Our objectives

  • Optimize the customer’s experience upon their first interaction with Boutique Beluga’s website and build trust.
  • Build an excellent reputation with email service providers (ESPs).
  • Attract and retain recurring customers month after month to ensure loyalty. 

Our strategy

  • Create 5 basic email marketing flows to highlight the quality of Boutique Beluga’s selection of products
  • Implement a progressive warm-up sequence to ensure we set off with a solid customer database and strategy.
  • Plan and create weekly newsletters to get subscribers to discover products and visit the website.

Execution

Create 5 basic email marketing flows to highlight the quality of Boutique Beluga’s selection of products

  Welcome Series

  Cart Abandonment

  Browse Abandonment

Pure Upsell

Customer Winback


Implement a progressive warm-up sequence to ensure we set off with a solid customer base and strategy.

Email 1: Top 10% of customers

Email 2: Top 20% of customers

Email 3: Top 40% of customers

Email 4: Top 80% of customers

This allowed us to generate open rates higher than 30% for our subsequent emails

Plan and create weekly newsletters focusing on

New products

The change in seasons

Special offers and sales

Tips and tricks

Featured products


Results

39% increase in customer value

Each customer generated more and more revenue for our client as their child(ren) grew older.

Over $3750 in sales per newsletter

By appealing to customers’ emotions and needs, we created a sense of urgency. This convinced existing customers to make more purchases.


6 orders per recurring customer

As soon as we managed to sell to the same customer more than once, they kept on coming back! The magic of the upsell.