Drip Campaigns and Autoresponders For Web Push Notifications 

Drip campaign is a way of nurturing leads through sharing information with the prospect. Autoresponders or Drip campaigns have been a favorite of marketers. Drip Marketing is mostly known in e-mail marketing where you can send a series of promotional e-mails to users. You can send push notifications in a similar fashion. They solve the problem of a new person who joins your website or signs-up. On signing up, you can welcome them with welcome e-mail. You can now use web push notification to create a drip campaign. Create a welcome drip notification trigger campaign to onboard all your new customers and all users will have a consistent experience. Drip push notifications can be used to create multiple campaigns depending on your business. It can also increase CTR for your push notification by 312%. Follow the best practices for drip push notification campaign to increase CTR for push notification.

• Tech Product/Service – you can create a series of notifications to teach customer about your product
• E-commerce – Create a series of notification for multiple segments of users
• Travel – You can create drip campaigns based on user segment. For e.g. its summer season and the user are interested in a hotel. Create a series of drip notification showing the best places to visit in the summer and also the top hotels.

Drip notification is very powerful and you can get higher engagements with your subscribers.

Automatic Segment + Auto Responders = Personalized Push Notifications on Auto-Pilot

How to Use Drip Campaigns in Web Push Notifications?

These are known by many names and popular in the email marketing – automated emails, lifecycle emails, autoresponders, marketing automation or drip marketing campaigns are the several names that people use.  We bring the idea to Web Push Notification world, and now you can schedule a series of push notification after the users subscribe, at fixed intervals–  example in 30 mins after subscription, and another one after 1 day.

With PushEngage, you can run autoresponder campaigns or drip campaigns. Nurture and nudge your customers slightly each time, and convert them into a customer over time.

PushEngage allows you to automatically segment your users based on where they subscribed or based on what they browse on your website. Based on different site actions, like watching a video, or downloading an e-book, you can send them a series of automated push notifications and implement drip web push notification campaigns.

Using this you can decide on several different sets of Drip Campaigns for each set of users.  Even better you can manage the segments for the user dynamically. So if a user is moved out of a group, they would be unsubscribed for any subsequent messages in that Drip.

See the below example, where once a user subscribes we can Nurture them with various kind of content, on different days.

How to Configure an Autoresponder Web Push Campaign in PushEngage

Drip campaigns and Autoresponders are a new concept in Web Push Notifications. We will try to make the task easier and describe specific steps to run these in PushEngage.

You can enable a Web Push Notification Autoresponder campaign and send to all subscribed users or to a list/segment of users in PushEngage. To segment your users into specific lists, this can happen on specific pages, or when the user specifically subscribes to a curriculum of notifications – like – 7 days of Blogging Tips.

How To Create a Drip Marketing Web Push Notification Campaign in 5 Minutes

If we have defined subscriber segments either through Automatic Segmentation or using Javascript code, we can define a specific Drip Marketing campaign for that segment.  See the Section Below on how to do the same, if you already don’t have segments.

While segments are not mandatory, we recommend them for personalization.

Campaign Idea:   For all subscribers who are automatically added to Videos segment will be automatically sent a link to a new video based on the GATE curriculum and we will eventually by sending 1 video a day, cover all the videos in 30 days.

How to implement Drip Campaign using PushEngage:

1. Create Drip Auto Responder

   Go to Create Drip Auto Responder, under Automation
   

2. Create Auto-Responder Series

   Now Create the Auto Responder Series and we configure the UTM variables for tracking
   

3. Set The Delay

   Now Create the series of Notifications to be sent after 10 mins and after 1 day as an example

Installation Video for a clear understanding of how to Create Drip Auto Responder

Measuring the Result of Drip Campaigns

Once you have complete these Drip Campaigns, you would be interested in seeing how each of the stages of notification is performing.  For that Visit Autoresponder Analytics and Click on the Just Created Drip Campaign

To see details of each stage, please click on the Drip Campaign name and you will see detailed analytics.  That is it, sit back and watch traffic increase and visitors engage and come back to your site with the Drip campaigns.

How To Segment Your Users or Automatically Segment Them

You can have a separate landing page or a segment a subscriber on an action on your site, or on subscribing from a specific page.

Method 1 – Automatic Segmentation –

In our earlier example for automatic segmentation for GateStudy.com, we had automatic segmentation enabled, and  the subscribers who landed on

• http://www.gatestudy.com/multiple-choice-questions and subscribed => Were moved to Segment MCQ
• http://www.gatestudy.com/gate-ece-video-lectures and subscribed => Were Moved to Segment Videos

Here are the steps to follow –

1. Manage Segments

   Go to Segmentation – > Manage Segments,

2. New Segment

   Create Segment Name MCQ.

3. URL Auto Segment

   Now Go to Automatic Segmentation. Select a segment MCQ as segment name and define the rule. We define the rule as URL at time of subscription contains multiple-choice-questions.  

4. Multiple Segment For Different Conditions

   Do the same for segment Videos. After rules are defined it will look like this.

5. Test the Rule

   Check if this Rule is working fine, and take an example URL where the customer subscribes

6. Segment Analytics

   After a few days you will see the live data of how many subscribers are in each segment

 Method 2 –  Using Custom Javascript based on Site Actions

 To use this method of segmentation, just add the following line of code where you want to add the customer to a segment.  This can be when the visitor browses the page, or on some condition, watching a video, or clicking a video.

<script> _pe.addSubscriberToSegment('segmentname'); </script>

Bonus Tip: If you want to remove a customer from a segment, use the below call. Using a combination of adding a customer to a segment and removing it, you can manage the customer context accurately, and thus can personalize notifications.

<script> _pe.removeSubscriberFromSegment('segmentname'); </script>

  For more details check our Web Push Notifications API.

Drip Automation is available from the Large Business plan, so go ahead and register and try it out.  For more questions email us at care@pushengage.com or you can check out the support for further queries.