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WeChat CRM Customer Nurturing Guide

By | IParllay Marketing Blog, WeChat Marketing

WeChat CRM Customer Nurturing Guide

There are three objectives for customer nurturing. One is to nurture potential customers into factual customers, the second is to nurture small customers into large customers, and the third is to nurture customers into long-term loyal customers.
Targeted content for customers at different stages, sales conversion rate and repurchase rate can be increased by more than 30%.
nurture customers mainly through content development.

Content nurturing potential customers, to provide appropriate content at the right time for different user types, to pull potential customers into the purchase journey, and ultimately to purchase. On the one hand, attracting potential customers through attractive content. On the other hand, through the content, the submarine is introduced into the next stage of the sales funnel, and sales are accelerated and finally purchased.
Providing the right content is based on insight and understanding of the potential. The more you know about your customers, the more content you provide will be in line with their needs, and the easier it will be to achieve the goal of content marketing. For customers in WeChat official account, we understand a lot of ways, basic information to understand gender, city and other basic information; behavior track to understand the activities of WeChat, determine hobbies; tags and interactive tracks to understand customer behavior and sales stage.
By nurturing small customers into large customers through content, we need to continuously input product benefits to our customers, so that they will always keep their enthusiasm and expectation for the products. The prerequisite for nurturing is to identify small customers from the user community. The methods of identification include methods such as source identification, purchase behavior tracking, and lifecycle management.
Nurturing a customer into a long-term loyal customer requires us to produce high quality content on a regular basis. The scope of the content should include product feature updates, industry trend insights, customer growth cases, and more.
We want to ensure that our old customers have sufficient reliance and confidence in the long-term use of the products after receiving our content, satisfying the added value brought by the products and emulating other successful customers.
Nurturing customers is to identify customers at different stages of sales, and to provide appropriate content for each type of users in a targeted manner. Such content marketing is effective.

WeChat Official Account Migration

By | IParllay Marketing Blog, WeChat Marketing

WeChat Official Account Migration

We will face different problems when operate a WeChat Official Account, such as how to transform a Subscription Account to a Service Account, how to combine several Accounts into one Account or how to change the entity. Such problems can not be solved through one direct function in WeChat Official Account Platform. 

However, we can use the function of account migration to solve such problems. Account migration refers to the migration of an account’s followers, violation records, articles and creative library (optional) to a new account. 
Through Account Migration, we can change the type, the entity of the WeChat OA. Or we can migrate several accounts to another account. We will benefit a lot from the function.

How to use Account Migration?
Log in WeChat OA Platform->Settings->Account Info->Entity Info->Details Account migration

Details:
1、Agree to the agreement;

2. Fill in the account and confirm the content of the migration;

3、Fill in the application information;

4、Confirm the name;

5、Fill in the invoice;

6、Pay the fee;

So, through Account Migration, we can change the Subscription Account A into Service Account B or migrate Account A, B and C to Account D.

Can iParllay integrate with Salesforce or other CRMs?

By | IParllay Marketing Blog

Can Parllay integrate with Salesforce or other CRMs?

In general, HubSpot integration is one of Parllay-WeChat CRM standard functions and capabilities, so if anyone had the requirements about to integrate the WeChat OA with CRM for unified management of leads/contacts who are generated from WeChat, we normally would suggest to choose the HubSpot CRM. the reasons are:

Easy to get started-no technical work required

Do not need any extra development

HubSpot CRM is generally powerful enough and user-friendly than other CRMs

HubSpot CRM is for free when separately using

You don’t need to extra pay for the HubSpot WeChat integration capability as it is included in Parllay WeChat CRM’s Professional/Enterprise version.

Parllay haven’t made the integration with Salesforce for the time being, but if any enterprise has the expectation and specific requirements to integrate Parllay with other CRMs and with the enough budget, we could achieve as well.

For example, in addition to HubSpot CRM, Parllay did the case by case integration with the Microsoft Dynamic CRM before.

However, in that case we will need to do the on-demand evaluation and development, this will generate development costs other than the software accessing fee on a daily basis, so the total cost will probably be high.

On the other side, a new integration may not be available in a short time, as the evaluation and development may take a while as well.

We also have customers who are using Salesforce at this stage, but they finally choose the Parllay-Enterprise for the HubSpot integration, and to use the HubSpot Salesforce integration application at the same time to solve the issues of data transferred between these three platforms after the evaluation and consideration.

We are looking forward to integrate with other CRMs.

iParllay new features | play around with Workflow

By | IParllay Marketing Blog, WeChat Marketing

iParllay new features | play around with Workflow

Parllay workflow is based on the whole or part automation of WeChat Official Account management process, allowing enterprises to perform multiple operations in a specific time, matching specific actions according to the follower’s interaction location, interaction type, interaction characteristics, etc., such as pushing messages, tagging, scoring, etc.c

Personalized and automated marketing is the marketing idea that enterprises have always adhered to. Workflow is an important technical guarantee for efficient marketing campaigns. Parllay workflow has been deeply used by many customers because of its comprehensive and convenient use. They unanimously reflect that Parllay workflow is very helpful to the development of its automation business on WeChat, which can significantly improve the marketing efficiency and the conversion rate from followers to customers.

Parllay has upgraded three important features of workflow recently——

1. Lead Scoring| Automatically manage follower scoring

When more and more people are marketing, their main goal is to get enough leads through various channels. Once you have a large number of sales leads, you may need to find out who is really interested in your product among them and who is just for looking around casually. This requires the introduction of a Lead Scoring mechanism, that is, scoring leads. This helps the sales and marketing team prioritize leads, follow them up appropriately and improve the speed at which these leads can be converted into customers.

There are two main aspects of Lead Scoring in Parllay workflow.

First is to score followers according to their properties and actions, including plus or minus scores. For example, the scores of followers can be automatically added when their phone, email and other contact information left in the Official Account background, jump from the menu to automatically add scores for it, and so on.

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Second, personalized marketing is carried out according to the followers with different scores, such as pushing different contents, adjusting different life cycle stages, etc. For example, set the life cycle of followers whose score are between 0-10 to Followers, send message A to them; set the life cycle of followers whose score are between 11-20 to MQL(marketing qualified leads), send message B to them.

2. Short Link| automatically track and follow up followers who have interacted with short links

Leverage Parllay workflow, we can automatically follow up the action of followers’ click / link to short links, automatically sending messages, scoring, tagging or adjusting their life cycle stage, so as to realize the tagging, segmentation, target management and precise nurturing of followers.

What kind of Short Link scenes can be triggered by Parllay workflow in WeChat official account? The answer is all, as long as the official account followers click / link to the set short links.

The short link can be the CTA which guides the followers to click in the articles, the link domain inserted in the text message/menu bar, the domain be inserted in the platform QR code, or the domain be inserted in the personalized articles that be pushed.

Leverage Parllay workflow, we can send articles, text message, picture message, personalized message and template message to the followers who click the short links, add or remove platform tag and wechat tag for them, adjust their scoring (including plus and minus), modify their life cycle (Followers, Sales leads, High-quality leads, Marketing-qualified leads, Prospects, Opportunities, paid customers, loyal customers, others).

3. Workflow Reports|measure the effect of the marketing automation

Marketing data analysis can help marketers to make scientific judgments and decisions, and data analysis on the effect of workflow is particularly important in decision-making, implementation and summary. Based on this, the operation data of Parllay workflow is presented clearly in report form. Marketers can clearly measure and understand the conversion effect of Parllay workflow, followers retention rate, and can obtain interactive follower information in each branch process of workflow.

The workflow reports of Parllay shows the number of start nodes, the number of triggers of each node and the proportion of triggers number. Marketers can clearly understand the participation and conversion rate of followers in each workflow branch.

In addition, Parllay workflow clearly shows the list of interactive followers of each node, clicking the followers’ avatar in the list can directly link to the follower profile page of each follower.

Workflow technology can support enterprises to realize process control and decision support for business management and production organization. It can meet the requirements of modern enterprises that “transfer the right information to the right person at the right time”, and it can also be integrated into decision support system to provide accurate information for users and help users make decisions. The application of workflow technology in Wechat ecosystem can greatly eliminate the marketing blind spots faced by enterprises, improve marketing conversion, and realize business growth naturally.

How to use HubSpot to manage Sales leads on Wechat

By | HubSpot, IParllay Marketing Blog, WeChat Marketing

How to use HubSpot to manage Sales leads on Wechat

HubSpot has different ways through which you can acquire new leads via your website: form submissions, live chat or conversational bots. Until now acquiring leads from WeChat was not possible, but you can do so now thanks to HubSpot WeChat Solution launched by Parllay.

The minute you authorize Parllay account in HubSpot settings, new leads generated from your WeChat Official Account which according to the scenes set by you will be synced to HubSpot. Change the default properties set to “view all properties” to show the contact’s WeChat properties inside HubSpot so that all behavioral trace data for contacts that you created on WeChat end (Official Account-Mini Program-H5 page) will be automatically added to the contacts timeline event. This allows you to create lists and segments of leads based on your WeChat personalized campaigns or Ads campaigns. You’ll be able to get this functionality only from the official HubSpot integration as third party integration can’t do it.

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If you’re using Parllay to manage WeChat users – it’s important to take advantage of this integration as it will allow you to start nurturing the leads you have generated right away. Data shows that the faster you start nurturing your leads, higher is the chance that you will close it.

More than just lead WeChat users – Expand HubSpot’s more automation capabilities.

All the WeChat properties of sales lead contacts can be used to trigger actions in workflows, which is HubSpot automation tool. I.e: the HubSpot property lifecycle stage can be combined with the WeChat tags, gender, location, WeChat language, or the HubSpot property deal amount can be combined with the type of Official Account (WeChat Subscription or Service Account), number of WeChat Official Account; or you could automatically follow up the specific WeChat users or contacts from WeChat on a regular basis according to their openID.

Remarketing – For customers who have closed the deals and were from the WeChat, they can be segmented on HubSpot according to their WeChat properties. A series of interesting and targeting campaigns or the similar products which they had purchased are planning for this part of users on the WeChat Official Account. Convert your customers into ambassadors.

Topics: HubSpot, HubSpot CRM, WeChat Official Account, HubSpot connect WeChat, WeChat Automation, leads from WeChat, WeChat CRM, HWS, Parllay, Remarketing, HubSpot Integration with WeChat

How to focus on User Retention when using SCRM

By | IParllay Marketing Blog, WeChat Marketing

How to focus on User Retention when using SCRM

I believe companies and brands both have to face the user retention.

For WeChat Official Account, as long as without unsubscribing that is equal to users be reserved.

But many marketers will say that there are many inactive followers in the official account, though they are not unsubscribe, but they are not interactive. Therefore, in the actual level, the meaning of retention is different for each companies, for example:

  • For B2B, user retention means followers visited the website and downloaded the white paper(or form submission) within 2 weeks;
  • For B2C, if the followers link to Mini Program several times in a month, registered as a member or ordered;

The awful retention rate reflects in the extreme performance of WeChat Official Account, which is the follower to unsubscribe immediately after they just followed your account.

Another kind of invisible bad retention rate is that no matter what you do, your followers don’t respond.

SCRM can help you segment audiences who have engagement.

What marketers need to know is that – when you face the issue of User Retention, you’d better have a useful tool in hand or a technical team could support you. 

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The retention of new followers shown in the above figure is not a good performance. Most new followers do not take any action the next day after their first-time follow.

If you haven’t got suitable tools for retention analysis or get technical support, I’d suggest that you can change to focus on the analysis of conversion, because the active audience can be easily defined and captured in SCRM.

By designing your conversion funnel, you can see the loss ratio of each step. Although you can’t know who they are, you can improve your marketing journey based on conversion rate, such as reducing one click or replacing text messages with pictures to increase the conversion of followers.

How to find sales leads in WeChat official account?

By | IParllay Marketing Blog, WeChat Marketing

How to find sales leads in WeChat official account?

The WeChat official account has become an important platform for companies to promote products and services, so the opportunity of communication between users and enterprises have increased significantly.

How to find users with purchasing needs in the WeChat official account in a short time, quickly realize sales lead mining, improve sales lead management, and promote purchase, becoming a challenge that every enterprise must overcome when operating WeChat.

Users who have an intention to buy but have not yet made a deal are called sales leads.

In the WeChat official account, although we can see a lot of user-related information, such as new users, reading rate of articles. However, it is difficult to find out who clicked on the menu to enter the online store of the company, which generated an interest in purchasing products.

Or after a promotion, it is impossible to identify whether a large number of unfollowed users came just because they received promotional gifts and left at the end of the campaign.

Therefore, although there are a large number of users in the background of the WeChat official account, how to find these sales leads that play an important role in the marketing and sales of the enterprise is the key to helping enterprises achieve higher profits.

Ignoring the management of sales leads can lead to the loss of a large number of sales leads and miss valuable sales opportunities.

Short-term marketing campaigns aimed at user growth masked the fact that the long-term production ratio was unhealthy.

For those users who have specific behaviors, such as clicking on the electronic mall in the corporate menu, that it is a group of people who are more interested in the products.

Parllay will record their personal attributes in the system according to their behavior, and help companies find those who are interested in buying products, which is what we call sales leads.

When an enterprise accesses its Wechat official account background to Parllay, Parllay will track the users comprehensively. Users’ click menus, scan QR codes, registered members and other behavior information will be fully recorded in the user’s personal behavior. This will facilitate the management and communication of different customer。

For those who have specific behaviors, such as clicking WeChat Mall, it is a group of people who are more interested in corporate products. Parllay records them in the system according to their life cycle, behavioral interests, and geographic geographic attributes, and calls them “sales opportunities,”  which we call sales leads. To find more sales clues with Parlly will shift the focus of marketing to marketing returns, from simple content output, brand promotion, to product-effect integration and data-driven marketing stage.

Four Practical Strategies to Promote User Binding to Membership

By | IParllay Marketing Blog

Four Practical Strategies to Promote User Binding to Membership

The first thing for traditional enterprises in the transformation of Internet is to register the WeChat official accounts. This brings a new trouble to marketing department and member department: how can the huge member information be imported into WeChat official account?

Generally, there are four problems faced by enterprises:

Old customers do not follow the WeChat official account.

Enterprises do not know who are members among the users in WeChat official account.

The users just do not bind to membership.

Although using strong CRM and customer big data, the effect is still not obvious.

In view of the above four problems, we present four practical strategies to activate users and promote membership binding.

Strategy 1: Use the Wechat system as a platform to provide membership benefits

The reason why customers don’t follow is simply that they feel troubled and useless. For example, after changing tires in 4S shop or making a 400-phone appointment to install water purifier at home, why must we subscribe to the corporate official account? But if users can benefit from the WeChat official account after following, the results will be different. Don’t underestimate this simple change. One of the world’s top tire brands puts member benefits in the official account. Nearly 50% of the hundreds of thousands of customers who buy tires in a quarter convert into members. The enterprise has not only increased the number of users, but also acquired new customers.

Strategy 2: Upgrade WeChat CRM to identify members in the users

It’s often mentioned that I have hundreds of thousands of users, but I don’t know the members. First, it’s impossible to know, so there’s no need to be nervous. Second, after upgrading the WeChat CRM, we use technology to identify customers among users, but the time and cost are not low, so we need to be prepared in advance. If you are afraid of trouble, you can use Parllay (WeChat CRM), which is ready to use without maintenance.

People often say that users are customers who buy our products, but why did they unfollow? So if we want to solve the membership problem, we still need to think further.

Strategy 3: Start with marketing scenarios to promote users binding as members

Example 1: Offline customers have purchased products but have not completed member activation: For users who do not fill in key information such as mobile phones in time.It is better for enterprises to follow up automatically with in the next 48 hours. Send 1-3 members’welfare information to encourage them to complete online activation.

Example 2: Users who participated in online H5 membership activities but did not complete membership activation: Find users who visit H5 pages but don’t leave mobile phone information. Follow up in time that day and tell them that many users like them are bound to become members. Continue to follow up on the next day, and again push member benefits to these users in order to promote the activation of members.

Strategy 4: From paying attention to paid customer data to potential customer data

Enterprises with such problems usually have powerful CRM and data processing capabilities. Data from CRM (age, gender, home address, mobile phone, consuming power, purchasing products, everything), and even user behavior acquired from cross-media cooperation, can produce accurate customer profile. But in this scenario, the challenge facing marketers is not to push customers to buy, but to push users to bind to become members. For example, in Strategy 3, what users do in the WeChat official account, and what content prompts them to leave their phone numbers. At the same time, we also need to know what the users who purchased my product but unfollowed did and why they left. Once we have a clear understanding of the various behaviors of potential members, we have the ability to promote their binding to membership through personalized communication. But the core issue is that we need to understand what stage of the customer life cycle big data solves.

FAQ about Chinese Liebian (Affiliate/Referral marketing)

By | IParllay Marketing Blog, WeChat Marketing

FAQ about Chinese Liebian (Affiliate/Referral marketing)

LieBian is a Chinese popular marketing term regarding Referral or Affiliate Marketing that what you are familiar with. It is a low-cost and high efficient way to get traffic and leads, with the help of the social relations of users to achieve brand communication and leads generation.

Its essence is to use social sharing and various incentives to bring new users by existed users.

The core elements include initial users, game design, sharing channel, sharing guide, and landing page etc.

What are the ways of Liebian?

  1. Referral: reward after sharing
  2. Invite: the inviter and the invited are rewarded at the same time
  3. Group/PinTuan: the inviter and the invited enjoy rewards / discounts after buying together
  4. Distribution: to develop subordinate sales to earn the commission
  5. Crowdfunding: inviting more peopleto help get rewards

What are the functions of the Liebian Poster based on the WeChat Official Account(WeChat OA)?

  1. custom Liebian marketing campaign
  2. Setup multi step task
  3. display of multiple products
  4. winner ranking list
  5. Blacklist detection
  6. Data statistics and reports
  7. Practical Liebian guidance

Get Parllay Liebian free

How to plan a Liebian campaign based on WeChat OA ?

  1. Setup and create a Liebian poster
  2. Inform the OA followers to share the posterto participate in the campaign
  3. Initial followers sharing the poster and inviting friends to help
  4. reward reminder after the help
  5. Get reward

What types of WeChat OAs suppot Liebian campaign?

Both the Subscription and the Service account type be supported

*Parllay Liebian only support the Service Account type for the time being

Can multiple prizes be set for the same Liebian campaign?

It can meet multi-level tasks, the number of helpers required at each level is different, and the rewards that can be got are also different. In general, the reward of multi-level task is superposition. There is also a ranking list that can be used for followers to compete.

How do users/followers get rewards/prizes after participating in the campaign?

The system will issue prizes automatically. Rewards can be actual items or virtual products. The delivery methods include express delivery, baidu cloud link or lottery link. The exchange code is mostly used for companies with their own verification system.

Drive Users to Your WeChat Official Account with QR codes

By | IParllay Marketing Blog, WeChat Marketing

Drive Users to Your WeChat Official Account with QR codes

WeChat automatically creates a QR code for each WeChat official account, and the app itself has a built-in QR code scanner. You can also customize the QR codes to match your branding. These codes can be posted in all of your marketing channels, such as on other social media networks (not Weibo you might get penalized), product packaging, brochures, or even in your brick-and-mortar stores.

WeChat Pay
WeChat pay is similarly based completely around QR codes. Businesses hoping to accept WeChat pay will need to get very familiar with QR codes very fast. As we all know phones can both generate and scan QR codes allowing users to receive and make payments with just their phone alone.