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In 2006, Souper Salad, the nation's largest all-you-care-to-eat soup and salad bar restaurant chain, was looking for a better way to stay in touch with its customers. The company's headquarters contacted Cesar D'Onofrio, founder of Common Sense, a web technology company, for a solution. Cesar proposed an E-mail Marketing solution called, "Doppler" a Common Sense innovative and proprietary E-mail Marketing product designed to build powerful, long-lasting relationships with customers.

Zvonimir Gluhak. Director of Information Technology. Souper Salad, Inc.

Background:

Doppler sends e-blasts and also tracks who opts into the e-mails, the time and date the e-mails were opened, who responded to the e-mails, where the viewer clicked on the message, and whether the viewer opened the English or Spanish version of the e-mail.

As a results-oriented, highly accurate E-mail Marketing tool, Doppler is used to "test" different promotions. This way, Souper Salad can strategically choose the most effective promotion to blast to all customers who opt-in for coupons and information about specials. On the cutting edge, Doppler is the only e-mail marketing program today that can feature highly appealing "flash like" changing images in e-messages.

Goal:

To build a loyal base of customers who would stay in touch with Souper Salad through e-mail so the company could inform customer of specials.

Strategies:

Create a "Super Fresh Club" where people who joined would receive e-alerts, birthday coupons and notices about specials. The Web site was changed to include information about the "Super Fresh Club" and to allow customers to opt-in to receive information.

Doppler E-mail Marketing was used to assure deliverability and tracking.

For additional tracking purpose and to measure ROI more specifically, coupons were made available through e-mail campaigns.

Results:

Today, Souper Salad has well over 100,000 members of the Super Fresh Club who receive information every two weeks. The number of subscribers who opt in for information continues to grow. When an e-mail campaign is released, some 17,000 customers respond. That's a 20 percent response rate, which is much higher than the standard industry response rate for direct marketing campaigns, which is a mere 2 percent. Souper Salad also saves significant costs on printing and postage required by direct mail. Also, the company knows who opens the e-mails and who responds to the call to action, which strengthens the company's ability to target customers with the most successful promotions.

Doppler Services:

  • Strategic Planning
  • Research
  • Marketing Consulting
  • Creative Development (E-Mail Blast template)
  • Web Site support and updates
  • List development
  • Production Support
  • E-mail Marketing Consulting from Best Practices
  • Custom Software Development
  • Quality Assurance and Testing
  • Project Management
  • Tracking and Reports

In 2007, DELL was looking for a way to automate its complex e-mailing process. When a customer buys DELL equipment, shipping is confirmed when DELL sends an e-mail to the customer with all pertinent shipping information. The goal was to make this process easy and simple, despite that DELL has to meet diverse business rules and regulations involved with sending e-mails in 32 languages in hundreds of regions around the world.

Background:

DELL also had to find a way to allow its personnel in different departments to customize messages from their specific departments. For example, the footers in e-mails have to be changed, in order to reflect the address for the particular DELL distribution center from which equipment is mailed. In some places, DELL has to change the information in disclaimers for regulatory purposes. In Europe, for example, regulations require that the company include in its disclaimers information about adapters to connect to printers. But this information is not necessary in other parts of the world. For DELL, this process took a lot of valuable programming time and it was tough to implement on a worldwide basis. With extensive experience in the development of customized software and e-mailing marketing background, Common Sense developed a solution for DELL.

Goal:

To simplify DELL’s e-mailing process to confirm shipping information in 32 languages while meeting business rules and regulations in hundreds of regions around the world.

Strategies:

1. Find a long-term partner with extensive custom software development skills and proven experience in E-mail Marketing.
2. Develop user-friendly, customized software using Microsoft .Net and XML/XSLT.
3. Train users and programmers.

Results:

Today, DELL is using Common Sense’s proprietary, customized software to handle its "now simplified" e-mail communications with shipping information in 32 languages in hundreds of regions throughout the world.

Doppler Services:

  • Strategic Planning
  • Research
  • Marketing Consulting
  • Creative Development (E-Mail Blast template)
  • Web Site support and updates
  • List development
  • Production Support
  • E-mail Marketing Consulting from Best Practices
  • Custom Software Development
  • Quality Assurance and Testing
  • Project Management
  • Tracking and Reports

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