EPISODE · Feb 28, 2024 · 13 MIN
How Licorice.com uses email to collect inspiring customer feedback (with Jonathan Packer of GOAT Foods) | Survey Sweets
from Email Swipes | Email marketing teardowns for SaaS brands · host Nikki Elbaz | Email marketing strategist for SaaS brands
When you sell out of thousands of pounds of licorice mere months after launch, how do you learn why? And how to do it again? Especially if – like most brands – you’re hesitant to bother your customers? Listen in on how Licorice.com’s customer survey email gave them – not just decision data – but warm and fuzzy validation that has them hitting send on feedback requests without any hesitation.Timestamps:(1:31) How a domain name (and COVID-19) moved Jonathan from corporate to ecomm(3:40) The crazy inspiring feedback this email generated – and how it led to a relationship with one of the world’s wealthiest(5:19) How the team knows when to survey their customers(6:40) The survey questions they asked – and the one that got the best responses(8:02) The A/B test results from their “best practice” sender name(11:55) The brand Jonathan swipes from for design and structure inspiration(12:08) The brand that convinces Jonathan that he’s getting real, personal 1:1 emails – despite him knowing he’s in a funnelAbout our guestJonathan is the co-founder of GOAT Foods, parent company to seven gourmet snack companies.Links from this episode:Take a look at the email we’re talking about todayFollow Jonathan on LinkedInMunch on some goodies from the GOAT foods family: licorice.com or pretzels.com or chocolate.com or caramels.com or cashews.comGet design inspiration from hexclad.comDare to remember that the flockfoods.com email’s are automatedGet Nikki's email musings at nikkielbaz.com/subscribe Subscribe to Email Swipes and never miss another episodeApple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle PodcastsOr find on your favorite podcast player
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When you sell out of thousands of pounds of licorice mere months after launch, how do you learn why? And how to do it again? Especially if – like most brands – you’re hesitant to bother your customers? Listen in on how Licorice.com’s customer survey email gave them – not just decision data – but warm and fuzzy validation that has them hitting send on feedback requests without any hesitation.Timestamps:(1:31) How a domain name (and COVID-19) moved Jonathan from corporate to ecomm(3:40) The crazy inspiring feedback this email generated – and how it led to a relationship with one of the world’s wealthiest(5:19) How the team knows when to survey their customers(6:40) The survey questions they asked – and the one that got the best responses(8:02) The A/B test results from their “best practice” sender name(11:55) The brand Jonathan swipes from for design and structure inspiration(12:08) The brand that convinces Jonathan that he’s getting real, personal 1:1 emails – despite him knowing he’s in a funnelAbout our guestJonathan is the co-founder of GOAT Foods, parent company to seven gourmet snack companies.Links from this episode:Take a look at the email we’re talking about todayFollow Jonathan on LinkedInMunch on some goodies from the GOAT foods family: licorice.com or pretzels.com or chocolate.com or caramels.com or cashews.comGet design inspiration from hexclad.comDare to remember that the flockfoods.com email’s are automatedGet Nikki's email musings at nikkielbaz.com/subscribe Subscribe to Email Swipes and never miss another episodeApple PodcastsSpotifyGoogle PodcastsOr find on your favorite podcast player
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