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How to Make Every Email an Abandoned Cart Email

Turn every email into an abandoned cart email with Zembula’s Smart Banners™. Learn how they hlep to re-engage your shoppers and get more conversions.

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Liz Froment

According to research, about three-quarters of the people who visit your site and put something in their shopping cart abandon it. That’s a lot of potential lost sales.

Well, not so fast. Here’s where abandoned cart emails make a difference. The same research shows that in 2022, nearly 50% of abandoned cart emails were opened — the highest since 2017. Click-through rates for these emails hover between 8-9%.

That tells us there are conversions to be made from abandoned cart campaigns. And it helps explain why these are so popular. But what if, instead of relying on a two or three email campaign, you could turn every email into a cart abandonment message?

With Zembula, you can. Here’s how. 

Use the power of performative personalization

At Zembula, we want you to go further with email personalization. Don’t use it just for the sake of it with a single name or message here and there. Instead, go all in on personalization, making every email you send more relevant and timely to your subscriber’s interests and needs. 

That’s what we call performative personalization. It uses a data-driven approach to see what your readers want and respond to and then delivers high-impact messaging designed to generate more clicks and conversions.

A woman with long dark hair reclines with her hand against her head, promoting a beauty product. Text reads, "Alisa, these favorites were handpicked for you! Best-selling beauty you'll love.

By tapping into your customer data, you can see their interests and behaviors, which helps you generate messaging more aligned with their needs and speaks to them directly. 

You’re not guessing what you think they might want, you know. And that serves them better, builds more trust in your brand, and helps boost engagement and drives action. 

How to transform any email into an abandoned cart message

The answer lies in one simple pixel. Once on the platform, here’s how it works:

From there, we do the rest. Our AI-powered Campaign Decision Engine goes through your customer data and the rules you’ve set, determining the best display message — all within milliseconds.

The right Smart Banner™, in this case, an abandoned cart, gets displayed on every email you send your reader — from a weekly newsletter to product announcements.

A banner displaying an abandoned cart message for a microfibre headband priced at $30.00, with an option for four payments through Afterpay and a "CHECKOUT NOW" button.

And if your reader has nothing in their cart, the banner displays the next most important message in your hierarchy — maximizing conversions — or shrinks to an invisible pixel.

Infographic with rules for dynamic banner selection: Browse Abandonment, Cart Abandonment, Loyalty Points, and Shipment Tracking, arranged in a hierarchy from top to bottom.

The best part? It’s all done automatically.

Your marketing team doesn’t have to set up a million rules, play around with code, or manually tweak and segment your list all the time. It’s still easy to run A/B testing, and if you need to change something up mid-campaign, you don’t need to stop the presses. Emails update at the moment-of-open, not send.

Surprise and delight

The top of every email is valuable real estate, and Smart Banners™ help you make the most of it. Use these as opportunities to surprise and delight your readers or offer more incentives to help them buy.

Advertisement for a cleanser featuring text that reads, "Still thinking about The Uncomplicated Cleanser, Julia? Checkout now before it sells out!" with an image of the cleanser tube and a "SHOP NOW" button.

Let them know when something is going fast with inventory changes.

Advertisement showing a gray running hoodie with a 5-star rating and a "Get Free Shipping" button. The text reads: "Adrian, finish your order today with FREE SHIPPING. This is a nice, quality running hoodie.

Highlight how other customers love this product with user-generated ratings and reviews.

Promotion for a black baseball cap. The message addresses Diane and encourages her to use 2,500 points to save $25. A 'Checkout Now' button shows a final cost of $18.99.

Show them how they can use their loyalty points to complete the purchase.

Screenshot of an online shopping cart reminder stating, "You left the Extra Care Perfect Pair in your cart. Checkout now before it sells out!" with a "CHECKOUT NOW" button and Afterpay payment option.

And with animated image personalization, it’s easy to highlight more than one product or showcase different angles. 

Get more from your abandoned cart emails

Now you can see just how much difference personalized, relevant abandoned cart messaging makes. So why not give it a shot in your email campaigns?

We’d love to show you how. Get in touch, and one of our email marketing experts will walk you through the Zembula platform and highlight how it can help your brand convert more abandoned carts. 

Interested? We thought you’d never ask! Click right here to request a demo.

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Liz Froment

Liz Froment is a content writer at Zembula. A graduate of University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Liz is a travel aficionado, Boston sports fan, and maple syrup connoisseur.

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