RESOURCES
Lay the foundations for
WhatsApp success
Send and optimize your Black
Friday WhatsApp campaigns
Plan your
retention journey
WhatsApp subscribers
(None yet? Skip this.)
Add key events in a diary and share it with the team. The earlier you do this, the better. To keep the team focused on retention, plan for before, during and after Black Friday.
Use the Black Friday consumer FOMO to get people into your WhatsApp channel with website popups, social posts and emails. Plus offer exclusive pre-access to WhatsApp subscribers.
Make sure you’re set up to track how much revenue you’re generating. In charles, this is done through integrations with Google Analytics and/or Shopify discount codes.
Get creative and watch your engagement skyrocket. WhatsApp is the most fun and interactive channel there is. Here are 5 Black Friday WhatsApp campaign ideas to inspire you.
In WhatsApp, the more personalized, the higher the engagement. Use information you’ve gathered so far to narrow down audiences and send each one a highly targeted campaign.
Keep track of how customers are responding to your Black Friday campaigns. Then improve them over the weekend (the extra work will be worth it) so you can be even more successful on Cyber Monday.
Turn website visitors into WhatsApp subscribers with post-purchase WhatsApp flows using Journeys. This will help you build long-lasting relationships beyond Cyber Week so you'll be more than just a deal on Black Friday.
New to WhatsApp as a marketing channel? No worries, here’s a Black Friday toolkit to turn you into a pro from the get go.
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LEARN HOW TO:
Fashion brand SNOCKS was one of the first German eCommerce brands to start a WhatsApp channel. And, as one of our first customers, it has helped shape the charles product. Last year it smashed Black Friday with WhatsApp. Johannes Kliesch, SNOCKS founder and CEO explains how:
Here's what happens when you send a WhatsApp to 55,588 people on Black Friday.
WhatsApp has become a serious sales channel for us over the past year. We collected most of the mobile phone numbers via exit-intent popups and thank you pages.
BEFORE: send a WhatsApp exclusive
A week before Black Friday, we sent a registration for our SNOCKS presale to 24,842 contacts – giving them the opportunity to shop about 1 hour earlier than everyone else. This allowed us to generate additional registrations to those on our website.
DURING: send WhatsApp campaign
On Black Friday itself, we sent our campaign with charles to a total of 55,588 people and generated sales of €144,001. That makes a revenue/recipient of €2.46. Not bad!
The open rate for our WhatsApp newsletters is between 80-90%. You can't ignore that!
THE LEARNING: start earlier
Our lesson for next time: build up the presale even earlier, and be even stronger!
The best way to get a feel for how WhatsApp can work on Black Friday? See real campaigns from our clients. Here are 5 of 100s of campaigns that were sent using charles in 2022, from pre-access to discounts, simple to flashy.
Here are our top 3 learnings from WhatsApp campaigns sent out last Black Friday:
🔑 Early access campaigns perform much better than last day or final call reminders
🎉 People who join your WhatsApp channel during events perform much better (~3x more revenue)
🗓️ Consumers anticipate and actively search for deals earlier and earlier – high WhatsApp subscriber growth started 2-3 weeks prior to BFCM
Take a look at these (hard-earned) learnings we made last Black Friday. These will help you avoid common mistakes, save time and supercharge your revenue in 2023.