When should you add freebies to an order

Adding bonus gifts to orders is a way to build up customer loyalty.

Done right, the customer can feel like you're over-delivering value and there's a touch of surprise.

Deciding when to add bonus gifts can get complicated through.

The simple decision is every time. If your bonuses are inexpensive and you have enough to vary them, just add them. Even if you have to do a little bit of product development to create a low-cost order bonus, it could pay off.

The more complex decision would be to look at your metrics:

If you have the order volume, you could do a holdout test. That's where you mail some customers the bonuses while "holding back" the bonuses from other customers. Then compare if the bonuses were effective.

Eric Davis

Retain the best customers and leave the worst for your competitors to steal

If you're having problems with customers not coming back or defecting to competitors, Repeat Customer Insights might help uncover why that's happening.
Using its analyses you can figure out how to better target the good customers and let the bad ones go elsewhere.

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