The Chesterford Group connected with their customers and boosted sales by £15,000
The Chesterford Group, a rapidly growing chain of fish and chip outlets, recently trialled Impact Data’s automated customer retention solution in 10 sites.
A series of Surprise, Delight and Reward emails and SMS messages were set up to increase sales. Revenue grew by almost 9% equating to an additional 15,000 pounds over 5 months.
Connecting TCG to their customers with TalkBox and QikServe
The Chesterford Group’s digital transformation began with an online ordering system that dramatically improved the customer experience.
QikServe’s touchless ordering and payment solution provide businesses with a way to capture and view customer details, unlike ever before. Looking to leverage and action the data captured from online orders The Chesterford Group implemented Impact Data’s customer retention solution.
New customers were encouraged to sign up when placing an order, which helped to grow their contact list by an average of 602 contacts every month. With all their customer data in one place, TalkBox’s insights engine analyses and understands visitation and spending patterns and triggers emails and SMSs targeted to influence behaviour and drive demand.
Combining the convenience of QikServe online ordering with the power of TalkBox’s behavioural-based communications a significant amount of revenue was unlocked. The connection between Impact Data and QikServe meant The Chesterford Group could now communicate with customers who had previously ordered online.
Influencing demand to stay busy all week
Every business endures quiet days, which can cause a significant hit to weekly revenue. The Chesterford Group sent reminders about their deals on Wednesdays and Thursdays to boost quieter mid-week days. Regular communication with their continually growing contact list helped boost sales for the mid-week specials by 176%. Emails and SMS promoting the specials were timed for when customers began to plan their next meal.
The results prove how powerful the right message, sent at the right time can be in influencing demand.
Driving repeat visits with clever communications
Regular communications sent with TalkBox kept The Chesterford Group’s customers coming back on average every 24 days. Impact Data’s customer retention solution monitors visitation patterns and automatically triggers an email or SMS when a customer misses a visit. When customers were close to reaching a loyalty milestone but hadn’t visited within the 24-day period they automatically received an email reminder. This element of our retention strategy worked to entice 22% of customers back.
Improving loyalty and keeping more customers
New customers are critical for business, but keeping them is just as important. A welcome message set up to send after a new customer ordered and sign up, increased first-time customers returning by 10%. The 10 sites using TalkBox had a repeat visitation rate 7% higher compared to the sites not using TalkBox.
Reactivating lost and winning them back
Tracking customer visitation patterns via QikServe meant TalkBox identified 2721 customers who had not made a purchase in at least the last 12 months. These customers were sent an offer with a 50% discount to encourage them to come back. 134 customers redeemed this offer and 42 customers continued to make additional purchases at full price over the next 2-month period.
This win-back campaign was able to change behaviour while orders from the reactivated group covered the cost of the initial discount plus the added benefit of generating additional revenue from lost customers.
Discover what customers really think with Net Promoter Score (NPS)
NPS provides insights into business operations and an opportunity to gain valuable customer feedback. With each store sending an NPS feedback survey after a customer orders management can understand and track customer sentiment across each store. NPS also gave the Chesterford group the ability to benchmark against industry standards.
Regular communications sent to surprise, delight and retain customers proved to drive revenue, increasing total orders by 8.99%. The overwhelming response from The Chesterford Group customers indicated they were eager to receive updates and offers via email and SMS.
With a projected ROI of between 2.7 and 8.3, The Chesterford Group has since signed up 40 venues.
“Working closely with Impact Data has revolutionized the way in which we use our customer database. Due to the large movement in customers placing their delivery or click and collect orders through our white label app solution, we now have a huge amount of customer data that we wanted to utilise to drive sales performance within the business.
Using Impact Data’s automated customer retention solution, we can automate our e-mail and SMS campaigns, gain invaluable consumer insights and re-engage inactive and lapsed customers.
We have complete trust and confidence that Impact Data will deliver outstanding service every month, allowing us to focus more of our time on creating an effective sales & marketing strategy that utilises the actionable data provided which results in positive ROI’s.
The team at Impact Data provided us with the tools needed to optimise and accelerate our email and SMS marketing campaigns.“
—James Lipscombe, CEO, The Chesterford Group
