Client Background
Sonos is a leading sound experience company, focused on creating products and experiences that help the world listen better. Established in 2002, Sonos invented multi-room wireless audio and changed the way people listen at home, known for its premium sound, easy experience, and thoughtful design aesthetic. Sonos started working with Experiment Zone in January 2022 for a comprehensive website audit ahead of a big redesign project. Following 2 research studies for the website, their Customer Relationship Management (CRM) team tapped into our services to identify opportunities to improve the customer journey of their email marketing efforts.
Challenge/Obstacle
The Sonos Client Relationship Management (CRM) program and specifically the email campaigns are essential to generating repeat traffic and growing revenue for Sonos.com by keeping customers engaged and supporting the messaging needs of the business.
Increased send volume started to show waning clicks. This, coupled with an expanded product offering and a brand identity refresh, underscored the need to uncover opportunities for personalization and to ensure communications were meeting customer expectations.
Our Strategy
We uncovered quick conversion wins by analyzing the in-app and email communication using a hybrid user experience and heuristic analysis.
We used two user personas - one of a prospective customer on desktop and one of a mobile customer. The user journeys focused on email campaigns triggered by the action of signing up for emails and on the email and in-app communication series after customer purchase of the product. Our goal was to empathize with these types of users and identify potential friction points in their interactions with the email campaigns.
We reviewed the CRM email templates and the in-app experience against a UX checklist, with focus on content hierarchy, visual elements, and copy. Our checklist included generalized UX heuristics, as well as ecommerce specific heuristics and accessibility guidelines.
We focused on visual elements of the email templates with actionable recommendations for improvements. In the readout deck we added an overview analysis of the email flow for the two scenarios, identifying new opportunities to engage more proactively with new customers.
The Results
The deliverables we produced, including a list of the most important design guidelines, are being used by the client to improve their email campaign strategy and the redesign of their email templates. Our work helped Sonos define a clear long term strategy to improve their subscribers’ experience when interacting with the email and in app templates.