How Omnichannel Marketing Helps Boost Profits For Your Business

Sanjana Sankhyan
3 min readJun 6, 2021

Omnichannel marketing is the practice of sending a relevant message to a brand’s customers through digital and/or traditional marketing channels, regardless of how the consumer interacts with the brand or the channels via which they interact.

From the first touchpoint to the last, omnichannel marketing provides consumers with a fully seamless and integrated shopping experience. Some examples of Omnichannel Marketing are-

  • When shopping in-store, a customer receives an email or pop-up message about a promotion.
  • A customer receiving an SMS about a promotion and a mailer with physical coupons in their mailbox

Ways In Which Omnichannel Marketing Boosts Profits

Lead Generation

It goes without saying that your business is nothing without leads, and the more leads you have, the more profit you’ll make. Brands have more opportunities for lead generation as the number of platforms for interacting with consumers grows.

Businesses today have many choices for capturing the attention of the masses, including email, SMS/MMS, push notification, chatbot, social media, and location-based services. All of these channel operations are orchestrated by Omnichannel in order to improve the overall efficiency of the interaction.

Retaining The Customers

Customer retention was just 34.8 percent for single-channel campaign marketers, while it was 66.12 percent for marketers who used three or more channels. For omnichannel campaigns, this translates to a 90 percent higher retention rate.

What causes this to happen? On average, it takes 6–7 touchpoints for a consumer to feel confident enough in an e-commerce brand to make a purchase. These touchpoints are successful not only on the first purchase but also on subsequent purchases.

Customers react better when you use various digital platforms to reach out to them because your goods and brand are more apparent where they are.

Enhance brand awareness

Brand consistency across all of a company’s channels will boost sales by 23%. Furthermore, 60% of millennial customers expect a brand to be consistent across all platforms. By definition, omnichannel marketing provides a customized and seamless experience for each customer. As a result, brand awareness improves, consumer satisfaction improves, and revenue rises.

Customers are at least familiar with your brand name and products or services if your brand is promoted first. This will help you gain a major competitive advantage.

Tactical Marketing

One tactic of omnichannel marketing is that you can put “suggested” or “similar” products in your customers’ online carts before and after they complete an order, or display an ad on their Facebook feeds after they visit your website.

This form of targeted marketing using such tactics will help the consumers remember their previous actions and bring them closer to conversion, which leads to a completed sale. There are many other such tactics that work together to achieve the end goal of increasing profits for your business.

EndNote

Omnichannel marketing is one of the most powerful methods for engaging with today’s customers. Increasing customer loyalty, retention, and profitability requires creating a consistent experience across all channels where consumers engage with brands is the key to more sales which leads to more profits. Don’t wait any longer to build an omnichannel marketing strategy and earn more profits!

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Sanjana Sankhyan

Hello! I am Sanjana, a freelance web content writer. I mostly write about freelancing tips, stories and struggles here. I hope you enjoy reading!