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Client examples

Three short examples from client programs. Two are dormant email lists brought back with List Revival. One is a program in which email was paired with direct mail. Each states the starting situation, what was done, what happened and what it shows.

A quiz site: five years of silence, and the audience was still there

Client. A quiz website.

Situation. Its email list had not been mailed in five years. The open question was whether the people on it still remembered the brand.

What we did. Ran the list through List Revival: hygiene first, then a gradual warm-up of the validated segment.

Result. Subscribers confirmed they still want the emails. They became active again, the way they were before the pause.

What it shows. A list that has been quiet for a long time is not a dead list. Five years on, the same people were there, and they remembered the brand.

Read next. How a dormant list is brought back, step by step →

An entertainment publisher: a legacy horoscope list that earned at least $1 per subscriber

Client. An entertainment publisher whose list was built on daily horoscope emails.

Situation. The publisher had a legacy base of horoscope subscribers and wanted to know how much of it could be brought back.

What we did. Ran the legacy base through List Revival: hygiene first, then a gradual warm-up of the validated segment.

Result. Part of the legacy base came back into active mailing. Each returned subscriber brought in at least $1.

What it shows. For a publisher, a recovered subscriber has a dollar value that can be measured. Reviving a legacy list is a revenue line, not housekeeping.

Read next. Estimate what a dormant list could return →

A brand for older adults: direct mail and email together lifted local stores

Client. A brand that sells products for older adults through local stores.

Program. A joint omnichannel program: direct mail and email, sent to a lookalike audience, with a promotional offer.

Result. This audience responds well in both channels, so the two reinforced each other. The combined effect showed up where it matters for the brand: in its local stores.

What it shows. When an audience reads both the mailbox and the inbox, email works harder as one half of a pair. The gain is cumulative, and it lands in the store, not only in the email report.

How to read these examples

These are short accounts of client programs, written from EngageMKTG client program data. Clients are described by category and are not named. An example shows what happened on one list under its own conditions: its consent history, its age, its content and its sending record. It is not a forecast for another list. The estimate for your list comes from the free List Health Audit, which fixes the baseline before anything is sent, so the result can be measured against it.

Find out what your dormant list is still worth. The free List Health Audit returns a dormancy map, a domain risk score and a recoverable-revenue estimate in 72 hours. Get the free List Health Audit →

Source for all figures: EngageMKTG client program data. Clients are described by category and are not named.