98% increase in bookings with personalised pet postcards

Combining properties personalised by distance, taste and partner offers to drive incremental increases in bookings.

98% increase in bookings with personalised pet postcards

Combining properties personalised by distance, taste and partner offers to drive incremental increases in bookings.

Challenges

PetsPyjamas offer over 10,000 dog-friendly hotels & cottages in the UK.

They had a large database of lapsed enquirers and bookers, despite ongoing regular promotional email campaigns 2-3 times a week. The vast majority of these had details of their pets including name and breed. Based upon an affiliate model discounting isn’t an option as margins don’t allow meaningful reductions.

Alongside this many of the hotel and cottage providers offered exclusive promotions in return for added exposure of exclusive offers, something CRM needed to prioritise.

Solution

To create more impact than the standard email campaigns we arrived at a postcard creative, addressed to the owners dogs from the PetsPyjamas office dog Wilson.

Within this creative a personalised recipe of properties was shown that took into account:

  • Whether they had a preference for self-catering cottages or dog-friendly hotels
  • Boosting venues in locations within 2-3 hours of their home location - a key influence on their location preferences, or using locations they booked or enquired about previously
  • Prioritise venues with live exclusive offers, both to attract more interest from customer but also increase exposure for key partners
  • Ensure a mix of inspirational locations featured by restricting to one venue per county

Results

The use of personalisation not only created a more impactful email with click-rate jumping 3X compared to existing generic campaigns, but also saw an incremental increase in enquiries and bookings compared to the control group of 98%.