Fragmented data and manual campaign production
- Customer data was fragmented across multiple systems, making a single, reliable view of each customer difficult to build and forcing broad, generic segmentation rather than anything tailored to the individual.
- Campaign creation relied on manual effort at every stage — 15 analysts to hand-build segments, two resources spending three weeks on creative imagery, and four analysts spending two weeks on content — which meant a full campaign took roughly 8 weeks from creation to launch.
- Without personalisation, campaigns were built around just 3 broad segments and a single generic email, and performance reflected it: weaker open rates, weaker reactivation of dormant customers, and lower conversion than a targeted approach could achieve.