If win-back campaigns aren’t a part of your retention strategy, you’re leaving money on the table. But how do you build the targeting for those campaigns? As acquisition costs continue to soar, brands are honing in on retention more than ever before. There’s no better way to keep customers engaged and coming back for more than with a win-back campaign that’s backed by data. In our new Segment recipe on win-back campaigns, we teach you how to: Send Shopify events to Klaviyo with Littledata’s Shopify source for Segment Identify a group of inactive customers to reactivate Build and schedule automated campaigns in Klaviyo to run systematically and optimize for efficiency Zeroing in on retention can have a massive uplift to your bottom line. On average, it’s five times more expensive to acquire a new customer than it is to retain an existing one, and improving your customer retention by as little as 5% can boost your revenue up to 25%.  At Littledata, we have been honored to see the number of high-value use cases that have come out of our Shopify source for Twilio Segment. Using our Shopify source with a trusted CRM destination like Klaviyo, brands are able to push accurate sales, marketing, and customer data to Klaviyo, build data-driven email and SMS win-back campaigns, and retarget their churned customers with hyper-targeted messaging in the perfect timing.  The key to building an effective win-back campaign lies in complete customer data. To have a real impact, your definition of customer data must include core data points like purchase history, average order value, and products a customer has been interested in but not bought yet. With these insights, you can reach the right audience at the right time and serve them the right piece of content to reactivate them. With brands like Rothy’s, Lick, and Sheertex using Littledata’s Shopify source for Segment, we’ve seen first-hand how top DTC brands on Shopify Plus use the data we track to target customers more effectively, reducing CAC while improving LTV. Our latest Segment recipe leverages Twilio Engage to help you build an audience of inactive customers and re-engage them in Klaviyo.To go a step further, we’ve added insights into how you can create a computed trait to continually refine your audience – in this case, based on average order value (AOV). Want to send Shopify data to Segment? Littledata's Shopify source for Segment enables you to automatically send ecommerce events to any of Segment’s hundreds of destinations. Capture data at every touchpoint and attribute results from your marketing campaigns with 100% accuracy thanks to our server-side tracking. Did we mention that we also handle identity resolution? Get started for free with a 30-day trial or book a demo today!

Will you join us today at Twilio SIGNAL? Powered by Shopify, Littledata and Twilio Segment, Veronica Beard used 1st-party data to elevate paid social, turning it from a place where they sold markdowns to the channel with the best lifetime value customers (online shoppers with the highest LTV). Find out how >>> Since debuting at New York Fashion Week in 2012 Veronica Beard has continued to expand both offline and online. How did they do it? Not only with good design and solid materials, but with a data-driven approach to growth. Veronica Beard's Head of Data, Maxime Lagresle, is speaking at SIGNAL today to share insights into using first-party data to grow an industry-leading fashion brand. Maxime’s chat is on “How Veronica Beard moved to first-party data, reduced CAC by 20%, and stopped worrying about cookies”. You can register for free here and not to worry about timing -- all sessions are available on demand videos to accomadate different time zones! Powered by Shopify, Littledata and Twilio Segment, Veronica Beard used 1st-party data to reduce CAC by 20% while increasing customer LTV Interested in learning more about how Shopify Plus brands like Veronica Beard use Littledata and Segment together? Dive into a recent case study we did with our friends at johnnie-O who built a personalized user experience with Shopify, Littledata, and Segment. As their agency puts it: "Littledata’s Segment connector saved the day by streamlining the integration and allowing us to bypass what would have been months of planning and development work implementing an ecommerce tracking plan from scratch." Learn more about connecting Shopify and Segment Check out our latest white paper on first-party data Learn more about Littledata Plus Looking for more detailed interview about how to use Shopify and Segment to accelerate growth? Check out our interview with Rothy's about data-driven growth.

Creating a truly special customer experience—in today’s market—comes down to knowing your customers well. You can collect data to learn about your buyers in a number of ways. But without the tools to analyze these insights and act upon them, you won’t get much farther than where you started. A customer data platform (CDP) like Segment is a good place to start, but without using an ecommerce data platform on top of your CDP, you will inevitably hit a wall. Ideally, the pieces in your stack will each serve a clear purpose and play nicely together as well. This is where many stores -- maybe even your own -- run into unexpected limitations. You could have your ecommerce platform, email/SMS tools, analytics tracking, and A/B testing platforms all up and running. Getting them all integrated and talking to each other, though, is another beast entirely. Popular apparel brand johnnie-O found themselves in this exact spot. As our agency partner Velir explained in their case study on the brand, using Littledata's Shopify source for Segment, they aligned their tools and leveraged their improved stack to develop a truly special experience for their customers. Leveraging Littledata’s Shopify source for Segment Velir explains in the case study that johnnie-O knew they needed to address their customer data challenges, but weren’t sure how. After uncovering all of johnnie-O’s relevant data sources, data destinations, and use cases, Velir put together a custom data stack for the brand using complementary tools. The lineup of tools included Klaviyo and Fivetran, among others. But a key piece was Segment, which allowed real-time website interaction data to appear in Snowflake, their data warehouse. To get that tracking up and running, Velir turned to Littledata’s Shopify to Segment connection. “Segment's native connector to Snowflake meant that real-time website interactions could appear in the data warehouse within seconds.This real-time integration leveraged Littledata's Shopify-Segment connector which saved johnnie-O the effort of coding the Shopify event tracking."- Velir on Littledata’s Shopify to Segment connection In addition to powering their interaction data reporting, Velir says “Segment’s catalog of over 300 out-of-box connectors was useful in integrating tools like Google Ads and Klaviyo.” How the Shopify to Segment connector can fit in your tech stack As Velir shows in their setup for johnnie-O, adding Segment gives your store a powerful tool to capture accurate data at every touch point while connecting other key integrations of your tech stack. But that's not where the benefits of Segment end. Create Facebook lookalike audiences of your top-spending customers The world of ad tracking may be rapidly changing. But even in the new first-party data world, social ads are a major promotional tool for successful businesses. In one of Segment's most popular recipes, they detail how you can find more customers just like your highest lifetime value buyers, then retarget them through social ads. Using rules-based audiences, you can increase revenue by pinpointing new customers who profile just like your best existing ones. Read the full recipe to learn how to: Create an audience in Segment Personas of your highest spending customersAutomatically sync that audience with Facebook AdsCreate a lookalike audience in Facebook Ads to find more high-value customers Want a hand in trying the Shopify to Segment connector for your store? Have an analytics expert walk you through how to set it up and the benefits you’ll see as soon as it’s live on your store. Try Littledata free for 30 days, including our Shopify-Segment connector and see the benefits it can bring to your store.

Shopify to Segment is one of our most popular connections, so we're always making improvements that give users the capabilities they need to optimize revenue. This update adds key tracking tools that give stores greater insight into customer checkout behavior, Facebook marketing attribution, recurring billing, and more. Supporting subscriptions in the checkout Littledata’s Shopify source is now fully compatible with most common subscription billing apps using Shopify’s checkout. Our app captures all recurring orders — linking them back to the user who first purchased if possible — and tags the events to differentiate between one-time purchases, first-time subscription orders and recurring orders. You can now use Littledata to send event data from subscription apps in the Shopify checkout, including: ReChargeBoldOrdergrooveSmartrr If you are using ReCharge you can take advantage of the subscription lifecycle event tracking as well. Learn more about the subscription lifecycle events we push to Segment for churn analysis, including Subscription Created, Subscription Updated, Subscription Cancelled and Payment Method Updated. Facebook Conversions API destination Segment’s cloud-mode Facebook destination is now out of beta, and becoming increasingly popular with marketers looking to more accurately target their Facebook Ads in the face of increasing browser limitations. Next month Littledata will be adding all the extra event parameters needed for Facebook CAPI, so please contact us if you’d like to join the private beta. Opting out of client-side events We understand some of our customers want to instrument their own event tracking (maybe using Littledata’s Google Tag Manager data layer), but retain the server-side events from Shopify. In this case, Littledata’s tracking script is still needed on the Shopify storefront to initialise Segment AnalyticsJS library and capture the anonymous ID for server-side events. But, you can add disableClientSideEvents: true or disablePageviews: true in a manual settings update. GDPR cookie compliance If your store is using a Shopify-compatible cookie banner (or using a consent management platform like OneTrust or TrustArc), the Littledata’s tracker can respect your users’ choices by switching just one setting. For OneTrust we also push the user consent choices as a user trait, so you can control which personas are shared with other platforms. Simpler accepts_marketing flag User traits for all events where the user is known now contain a simple true/false accepts_marketing field — useful in CRM destinations for email marketing. This is in addition to the marketing_opt_in_level field, which can give more detail on whether this was a single or double opt-in for marketing. How to get Littledata's Shopify source for Segment If you aren't yet a Littledata user, you can start a free trial directly from the Shopify app store. If you already have a Littledata account, you can activate the Shopify-to-Segment connection directly in the Littledata app. On Shopify Plus? Learn more about Littledata Plus.

Is Segment a good customer data platform (CDP) for ecommerce? We hear that question a lot at Littledata, and are always happy to chat about the modern data stack. But the reality is that you should be asking more detailed questions: will your CDP be able to handle both anonymous browsers ("visitors") and customers ("users")?  Will it enable both analysis and marketing automation? Will you need an entirely different stack to support your data warehouse? Our DTC ecommerce customers have found Segment to be a powerful solution because it offers a unified approach to customer data. As long as it's set up correctly, that is. Four options for user identity There are many different approaches to user identity, but the most important thing is to be consistent. Make sure the identifier you choose works with your current data destinations and those you know you plan to implement in the future. In Segment, every identify call must have a User ID or an Anonymous ID. Littledata's Shopify source for Segment is an easy way to ensure accurate ecommerce data, rather than building and maintaining the schema yourself to match Segment's detailed ecommerce spec. Our scope includes sales, marketing, and customer data, captured from a combination of client-side and server-side tracking. We agree with Segment's best practices in identifying users, including the use of static IDs whenever possible. To support a broader range of use cases, our app lets you choose which of the following fields you want to send as the userId for known customers: Shopify customer ID (default) – Recommended if you have a simple Shopify setup with minimal integrations.Hashed email – The MD5 email hash is useful if you have other marketing platforms sending traffic where you know the email of the visitor (e.g. email marketing like Bronto or Marketo), but not their Shopify customer ID.Email – Recommended when other platforms use the email and can’t hash it, and you are comfortable with the privacy implications.None (no identifier) – Recommended only if user identity is already handled by your Segment implementation and you only need the extra events powered by Littledata’s Shopify source. Learn more about what you can track with our Segment connection. Since we started offering identifier options beyond Shopify customer ID earlier this quarter, it's been interesting to see the uptake. Perhaps most surprising is that it's not just larger stores on Littledata Plus who are using alternative unique IDs. There are already merchants on our Standard and Pro plans using the option as well. Note: For merchants using Segment Personas, Littledata also sends shopify_customer_id as an External ID for advanced matching What is your approach to user identity? Are you planning for the future? Let us know in the comments or on Twitter.

Cloud data warehouses offer a way for ecommerce companies to scale as the size of their data increases, promoting unlimited storage space, cost optimization and analytics horsepower. But where do you start? Are there no-code solutions that are also best-in-class? Segment is an increasingly popular way to connect website data to a data warehouse such as AWS Redshift. In this guide we'll take a close look at exactly how this works, and the pros and cons for your longterm company data needs. Using Segment to connect Shopify to AWS Redshift What is Segment? Segment is a powerful Customer Data Platform (CDP) solution, but it's also much more than that. Segment provides businesses the ability to organize customer activity events from various platforms to a broad range of destinations, One of those destinations can be a data warehouse - an ecosystem that serves as the centralized source of data collection. This includes the big three: BigQuery, Redshift, and Snowflake. The technology focuses on the tasks of collection, storage, and management of business data - with the purpose of turning operational data into meaningful information. For any company looking to harness the value of the activities gathered inside their CDP, it’s a no-brainer that bringing a data warehouse into the mix is the next best step. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its data warehouse offering, Redshift, remains the market leader in this space because of its compatibility with data integration pipelines and analytics tools. One of your Segment destinations can be a data warehouse such as AWS Redshift For ecommerce sites this can be difficult to implement manually (not to mention maintenance time, costs and complexity!), but Littledata's Shopify source for Segment does this automatically. With Littledata’s capabilities, you have the ability to direct, track, and identify custom events across all critical customer activities, including across your Shopify website, whether that's a simple Shopify instance, a headless Shopify setup or multiple country stores doing international sales. Coupling that with Segment’s unified CDP takes powerful data to activation, and the ability to direct platform data to marketing channels for increased engagement, conversion and retention. Whether you want to use a data warehouse for deep analysis, audience building or real-time recommendations, Littledata + Segment + Redshift is a proven solution for Shopify stores. Setting up your Redshift data warehouse Segment's documentation portal gives a step-by-step breakdown of provisioning a Redshift cluster, configuring a database user, securing data ingestion, and providing a path to data collection into your Redshift instance. Breaking the process down in digestible chunks, here are the necessary steps to go from data to data warehouse: Choose the best instance for your needs: Dense vs. Compute StorageProvision a new Redshift Cluster: 5 simple steps from start to finishCreate a database user: Creating a user to manage your instanceConnect Redshift to Segment: Select sources, credentials, and go Redshift allows users to start small and scale up on-demand as needs grow Collecting events in Segment Event tracking is a critical part of the data collection process. Creating a plan tracking plan associated with measurable business outcomes, such as acquiring new customers, increasing retention and activating new leads, and mapping those outcomes to business goals, is an important step in the data journey. Understanding this relationship will provide guidance to the relevant events or actions that must be configured to successfully track. With Littledata's automated solution, you can avoid the blocking-and-tackling of configuring the best-in-class event strategies surrounding (client side) device-mode and (server side) cloud-mode events:  Device-Mode events include Cart Viewed, Page Viewed, Product Clicked, Product Image Clicked, Product List Viewed, Product Shared, Product Viewed, Products Searched, Registration Viewed, Thank you Page Viewed Cloud-Mode events include Checkout Started, Checkout Step Completed, Coupon Applied, Customer Created, Customer Enabled, Fulfillment Created, Fulfillment Updated, Ordered Cancelled, Order Completed, Order Refunded, POS Order Placed, Payment Failure, Payment Info Entered, Product Added, Product Removed To streamline the process for ecommerce sites, Littledata's tracking script automatically sends events to Segment through its analytics.js library, making it easy to collect all the critical event activities associated with a customer’s store journey - from browsing behavior through the checkout funnel and repeat purchases (including recurring billing for stores selling by subscription). Additionally, from every event where this is an identifiable customer (from both device-mode and cloud-mode), Littledata will send an Identify call - the identification of a customer when the customer logs into your storefront, a last step of the checkout process, with the order, and also after a purchase with a customer update. With Littledata’s streamlined modeling, data can be accurately represented and pushed to downstream destinations, such as marketing activation channels and data warehouses.  [subscribe heading="Littledata connects Shopify to Segment and your data warehouse" button_text="Book a demo" button_link="https://www.littledata.io/app/enterprise"] Connecting Segment data to your data warehouse Now that your Redshift instance is up and running, the next step is to connect to Segment and start collecting data into your data warehouse. There are two ways to complete this step - one, through Segment’s native migration, and the other, utilizing no-code data pipeline tools (recommended). Whichever process you choose, you will have the opportunity to push data out of Segment into your data warehouse environment and start utilizing it across your business. Option 1: Segment’s native migration  As mentioned, Redshift data warehouse is one of the many destinations that Segment can send data to. You can directly connect to Redshift from within Segment to stream event data.  Segment’s catalog provides direct integration to best-in-class data warehouses Essentially, it’s as simple as: Login to your Segment App and proceed to the Catalog sectionIn the top menu, choose DestinationsSelect Redshift in the Storage Destinations list After configuring your user permissions and selecting the data sources you would like to sync, you’ll enter in your credentials and connect to your data warehouse. Voila! Data will now be continuously replicated into your Redshift instance based on your plan: Free: Data refreshed (synced) 1x per dayTeam: Data refreshed (synced) 2x per dayBusiness: Data refreshed (synced) as fast as hourly As for historical data, all plans will allow loading up to 2 months of your historical data, with the Business plan allowing for full historical backfills. Since Segment provides an environment to support many, it requires a premium plan to collect complete history and sync data real-time. Segment’s infrastructure is suitable for instantaneous data collection to downstream points Option 2: Leverage data pipeline services The second way to get data out of Segment into your data warehouse is through data pipeline platforms. Data pipeline or ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) platforms, provide prebuilt integrations to over 100+ enterprise software sources, and focus on a maintenance-free structure where replica data is automatically transformed, standardized, and normalized on collection. The automated adjustment to schema and API changes, allows business users to streamline developer tasks in a no-coding required environment. Companies like Stitchdata ("Stitch") and Fivetran, leaders in the space, provide frictionless, subscription-based memberships that allow integrating data to data warehouse destinations convenient for any business size. ETL platforms streamline data from end-to-end and require limited technical lift To set up, simply sign into your console, click on the Segment icon in the available integrations, and enable. You will automatically be pushed into the Segment tool to confirm authorization and (another voila!) data will begin replicating.  Stitchdata’s user-friendly interface for connecting platforms to destinations The benefits of cloud-ETL platforms, not only include their out-of-box integrations, but the list of features included to help visualize, maintain, and support ongoing data integration tasks: Over 100+ database and SaaS platform integrationsIn-app support including email alert monitoring and support SLAs14-day free trial to kick-off and vet the platform prior to fully onboardingSOC2 security compliant, encrypted communication and an AWS cloud backed environment Ecommerce data With the appropriate event tracking configured at data collection by Littledata, your data can be properly analyzed for ecommerce store performance. The downstream output can be properly displayed by: Customer behavior before, during and after purchaseOrder performance relative to average order value, add-to-carts, average order size, and cart abandonmentShopper engagement including product views and purchasesCoupon and discounting activitiesCustomer checkout funnel and stage of drop-offConversion rate and lifetime value With the emphasis on accuracy completed at the inception data collection stage, the ability to produce the above areas of performance becomes that much more straightforward. This means spending more time analyzing and visualizing data, then transforming and modeling data for analytical use.  Empowering your data Once your data is available in your data warehouse, replicating frequently, and building history, it’s time to utilize it. That can come in a number of various opportunities, depending on your business needs. Most notably, companies will focus on transforming data into actionable blocks and pushing into business intelligence (BI) tools.  Transformation To properly stitch event data together - say in the case to tie all interactions by a site visitor to achieve multi-channel attribution - companies can leverage existing packages that transform, marry and enrich data points. These packages - or prebuilt libraries - produce powerful results that end up restructuring data from their raw state to analysis-ready. Fishtown Analytics’ product dbt does just that, performing user-stitching, simplifying data structures, and speeding up data modeling to use instantly within reporting, analytics, or machine learning applications.  Leveraging transformation can streamline data modeling and enrich data for analytical-use BI Tools Companies usually begin the conversation here, “I’d like to see a dashboard like X” or “Can we get a report showing Y?”. In fact, what they are looking for is a way to properly view data in digestible, actionable views. BI (Business Intelligence) tools do just that - whether it’s through data visualizations (dashboards), self-service analytics, or prebuilt reporting. Enterprise BI and SaaS tools like Looker and Tableau (like outlined in the table below) create the speedy path to data viewing. They can be simply connected to a data warehouse and publish dynamic views for instant performance tracking. Data can be presented in dashboards across many dynamic charts, tables, and graphs BI Tools Breakdown CategoryVendorsBreakdownMarket LeadersTableau, Looker, PowerBI, Mode, DatabricksEnterprise tier platforms with extended featuresRisersDomo, Klipfolio, Kissmetrics, SigmaSaaS-oriented products with cost on user and dashboard usePrebuiltGlew, Daasity, Dashthis, Rubix3Ecommerce focused with prebuilt visualsOpenDataStudio, MetabaseOpen-source/no-cost platforms So a straightforward reporting and visualization solution with the setup we've described in this article, would be to connect Shopify to Segment, then Segment to Redshift, then Redshift to Tableau. Learn more about how to connect BI tools to your Shopify data in Segment, whether as a Segment destination using alias calls or a dynamic view pulling from data in your warehouse. Another option is connecting reporting tools directly to Google Analytics data in parallel with your Redshift setup (for example, use Tableau on top of GA for marketing analysis and Looker on top of Redshift for deeper analysis and predictive analytics). Building for the future Companies that put an emphasis on building the foundational components of data ingestion, management and analytics early on see many benefits. Primarily, you are able to increase your ability to measure and understand your business properly. Data warehouses provide an opportunity to collect all of your store, site, customer, marketing, other relational data - all in one place. This creates a centralized view of your business and gives an upper hand to companies looking to take a data-driven approach to growth. Cloud tools and no-code options remove the need for technical resources, freeing up dollars that can go elsewhere without sacrificing the ability to use and analyze data. No matter the size of your business, taking data seriously is the first step to empowering your business for the future. Data warehouses are no longer the property of only mega enterprises. Want to build a modern ecommerce data stack but not sure where to start? Get in touch for a free consultation. [subscribe heading="Littledata connects Shopify to Segment and your data warehouse" button_text="Book a demo" button_link="https://www.littledata.io/app/enterprise"]

Rule-based audiences are customer groups or segments derived by customer activities. It sounds simple, but rule-based audiences can be a game changer -- and too many DTC brands miss out on the basics of this powerful type of customer segmentation. In ecommerce, rule-based audiences can be made using transactional activities (checkout date, coupon applied, etc.), marketing actions (email opened, promotion entered, etc.) or even product details (eg. type of product, color or type purchased). Ecommerce companies use the intersection of these events to group customers for the purpose of reporting, remarketing, targeting, and other customer enrichment activities. But one size doesn't fit all. Let's take a look at the top rule-based audiences and how they are used in ecommerce marketing. Benefits of rules based segmentation There are a number of benefits to deploying rules based audience recipes in your business. Whether you are a small-to-medium sized business, fast-growing startup, or have been around the block for some time like Littledata customers Dr Squatch and Rothy's, audience recipes are the building blocks for broader, innovative ways to segment your customers. Rule-based audiences can help you increase customer retention while improving product visibility in the crowded ecommerce marketplace Powerful tools like the Adobe Experience Cloud have highlighted rules-based personalization and audience building as a core part of their feature set. As they put it, "With rules-based personalization, you’re in the optimization driver’s seat." We agree, but with traditional enterprise tools that type of personalization can get really expensive. The good news is that brands using a modern data stack don't necessarily need to shell out for Adobe. Rule-based audiences can now be used by any ecommerce store, no matter how big or small. Here are some of the key benefits: Increase personalization through tailor-made product marketing Improve existing products and/or services Increase upgrades and product upselling Enhance profitability through the targeting of high-value customers Increase retention with automation and buyer stage recognition Further marketing reach of customer types for remarketing, targeting and look-a-like audiences Enhanced visibility and reporting of customer cohorts for tracking new acquisition and customer lifetime value Rule-based segmentation results in a hyper-personalized approach to directly influencing your customers’ experience. The ability to be attentive during each stage of the customer’s lifecycle allows for a better understanding of what drives good and bad experiences.  Recipes for the top 7 rule-based audiences There are tons of different audiences you can build, but 7 always come up for successful DTC brands. In our case, we call them recipes, as they are the right number of ingredients to profile your customer base. X and Y in these examples will depend on your particular business: what you sell, how you sell it, and how often it makes sense for an ideal customer to come back and make a purchase or referral. Audience NameRecipe⭐️ First Time PurchasersCustomers who have made their first purchase in the last [X] number of days⭐️ Repeat PurchasersCustomers who have made at least 2+ purchases in the last [X] number of days⭐️ High SpendersCustomers who have made a purchase with order value greater than [$Y] in the last [X] number of daysAbandoned CheckoutsSite visitors that have added items to their shopping cart, but have not purchased in the last [X] number of daysBargain HuntersSegment of customers that have applied a promotional code on more than 1 purchase in the last [X] number of daysRecent BuyersCustomers who have made a purchase in the last [X] number of days⭐️ Inactive CustomersCustomers who have not made a purchase in the last [X] number of months*Additional segments include Loyal, Cancelled Customers, Location-based, Personalization (age, gender, preferences, income) Three audiences you should build today, with downstream activation examples All of these types of segmentation are potentially useful, even transformational, to your business. So where should you start? Today I will focus on the four most common and effective audience recipes that can generate immediate value to your store’s ability to identify, engage and enrich your customers’ experience. As highlighted above, those are: First-time purchasers Inactive customers High spenders Repeat buyers To make things even clearer, we'll even combine High spenders and Repeat buyers into a high-LTV segment: your best possible customers, big spenders who are also loyal to your brand. 1. First-time purchasers First Time Purchasers are a good starting point for audience segments. The ability to identify these customers early will pay big dividends into maturing their relationship with your brand and products. Also, first-time customers are always the most likely to engage with your content (for example, opening welcome emails or sharing on social media), which ends up increasing the return on your investment and the potential for longer life cycles.  How to Create a Welcome Email Template via Omnisend How to identify? Utilizing Littledata's order event tracking from your Shopify store, you can identify Order Completed in the last [X] number of days with a Customer Created event in the same time frame.  How to activate? A great opportunity is through personalized welcome emails. By connecting to your ESP (eg. Klaviyo, MailChimp, Iterable) and building a customized message to all first time customers can be the first step to long-standing customer relationships.  2. Inactive customers Inactive Customers are a great win-back opportunity to gain customers back that have been inactive (or not purchasing) in a particular period of time. When a customer has been deemed inactive it’s too late to start formulating a strategy on returning them to your active customer pool. Instead building a strategy to identify, entice, and track appropriately is a must in any customer-focused business.  Drive Repeat Purchases To Your Shopify Store With Automated Emails via Privy How to identify? Utilizing Littledata's order event tracking from your Shopify store, you can identify customers who have (at one-point) had an Order Completed event and with no purchase activities in the last [X] number of days. How to activate? Winback or revive email campaigns catered towards time-sensitive discounts, hyper-personalization (reference specific product categories a customer engaged or purchased in the past), summaries of product improvements, and membership benefits are effective strategies. Utilizing your current ESP, SMS, or retargeting platform alongside these customer groups can push once-active customers to return. 3. Repeat buyers & high spenders Repeat Buyers & High Spenders are the backbone of your business. As the tenured marketing freelancer would attest: “It’s easier to keep a happy customer than to find a new one”. Building customer loyalty requires a business to deliver on what is promised and to do so with their highest-value customers in the right channels and messaging.  How to identify? Utilizing Littledata's order event tracking from your Shopify store, you can identify customers that have completed Order Completed events and total purchase count, purchase total, and revenue collected, during a [x] period of time and [x] number of times. Google Analytics users can also export data based on specific custom dimensions for LTV: Littledata – Lifetime Revenue Littledata – Purchase Count Littledata – Shopify Customer ID How to activate? There are several options here, including email and SMS (texting). SMS is a great tool to continuously engage with your customers. Invitations for users to sign-up for a loyalty program to provide exclusive offers or to release product updates can come simply through a users’ most desirable medium - their phone. With SMS boasting a +95% open rate, it's the most effective way to have a two-way connection with your customer and showcase value-added services.  For Littledata's Shopify Plus customers, the most popular platforms for this type of engagement are Yotpo and Loyalty Lion. Technology for activating rules based segmentation Leveraging modern technology furthers the ability to do so repeatedly and with best-in-class platforms. Here are two examples of leaders in that space: Segment (sometimes called Segment.com) and Hightouch. Hightouch Hightouch syncs the data from your data warehouse to the tools your business relies on. It’s called operational analytics and it allows customers to leverage their existing technology (ie. your data warehouse) to pipe customer data to downstream platforms for activation, engagement, and other business activities. Since Littledata's no-code event collection is captured downstream in your Google Analytics platform, customers can leverage that same data when it is stored in their data warehouse. Modeled inside the platform with out-of-box SQL logic, segments can be then pushed automatically (and scheduled) to deliver on the intended goals.  In fact, that's one of Hightouch's taglines: No scripts. No APIs. Just SQL. Segment Segment is a customer data platform (CDP) that integrates cohesively with Littledata's no-code event collection. Segment allows customers to integrate data from a catalog of sources (including the Shopify source, maintained by Littledata) and activate to destinations for customer engagement, activation and reporting. Inside the platform there are features that allow customers to create personas or audience segments, deploy functions, and build out layers of automation to seamlessly leverage their platforms’ source data. [tip]See what's new in Littledata's Shopify source for Segment, including more consistent product properties and enhanced Personas matching [/tip] Littledata Littledata is designed for the modern stack, whether you're using just a couple of tools such as Google Analytics and Data Studio or a whole modern data pipeline (eg. Segment, Fivetran and Redshift). If you're using a Shopify or BigCommerce checkout, you can use Littledata's analytics connectors to capture complete sales and marketing data and send it downstream. It's the easiest way to ingest the data you need to create enriched audience personas, and the only way to get 100% accurate ecommerce data automatically with extensive, ongoing development efforts. Not sure which tools you need? 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Over the last 6 months, we’ve continued to enhance Littledata’s Shopify source for Segment to work with any modern data stack. We have focused on providing a more comprehensive range of events and properties to sync with any destination in Segment, including email marketing tools, data warehouses, and Segment Personas. Our Segment connection uses a combination of client-side (browser) and server-side tracking to ensure 100% of your Shopify store data is sent to Segment. Littledata automatically integrates with Shopify and Shopify Plus sites to enable complete ecommerce analytics, including sales, marketing, customer, and product performance data. Recent updates include better matching with Personas, more consistent product properties, and more. Here are some highlights. Tracking plan for Segment Protocols We've written a full tracking plan and event schema, which is ready to upload into Protocols to prepare for robust data consistency in your data warehouse. Better matching with Segment Personas You can now choose which userId to use for Segment events from a standard list of common identifiers: Shopify customer ID - This is the default for new installs. Recommended if you have a simple Shopify setup with minimal integrations. Hashed email - The MD5 email hash is useful if you have other marketing platforms sending traffic where you know the email of the visitor (e.g. email marketing like Bronto or Marketo), but not their Shopify customer ID. Email - The email identifier is recommended when other platforms use the email and can’t hash it, and you are comfortable with the privacy implications. None (no identifier) - Choose “none” if user identity is already handled by your Segment implementation and you only need the extra events powered by Littledata's Shopify source. All user traits below are now being sent in the context.traits, and are synced with your CRM destinations every time the customer record in Shopify is updated. Trait Description Type createdAt The date customer record was created Date customerLifetimeValue The total spend of customer on the Shopify store Double default_address.street The customer’s default street address String default_address.city The customer’s city address String default_address.postalCode The customer’s ZIP / post code String default_address.state The customer’s state address String default_adress.country The customer’s country String description The customer notes String email The customer’s email address String firstName The customer’s first name String lastName The customer’s last name String marketingOptIn The marketing_opt_in field from Shopify customer String phone The customer’s phone number String purchaseCount The number of orders by this customer Integer state Whether the customer account is enabled (user has opted in) or disabled String tags The custom tags applied to the customer String userId Chosen user identifier, defaulting to Shopify Customer ID Double verified_email Whether the customer has verified their email Boolean Import historic Shopify orders into Segment For Enterprise Plus customers we can now import orders and refunds from before the date Littledata was connected to Segment. This allows you to build a complete customer record in destinations that support historic events, such as a data warehouse. If you are already a Littledata Plus customer, please contact your account manager to discuss setting up an order import. If you haven't yet tried Littledata or are still investigating solutions for you data stack, book a demo today with one of our data experts. [subscribe] Consistent product properties across all events We understand you need a consistent set of product properties with every ecommerce event to make analysis easier. For example, the product image URL is available within a Product Added event to make it easy to set up dynamic product retargeting campaigns. Previously, we only got the following properties from Shopify’s webhooks: shopify_product_idshopify_variant_idname (title)brand (vendor)sku And now we add these extra product properties for all events: variant (variants.title)image_url (from images.[0].src)cart_id (only with Product Added / Product Removed)urlcompare_at_price (variants.compare_at_price) Extra revenue properties We’ve added more reporting flexibility with how we send revenue data to Segment. Specifically, on Order Completed and all Checkout events, you will now see a subtotal = (product revenue including discounts). For the Order Completed event only, your store can opt in to an additional revenue property (product revenue excluding discounts, shipping and tax) via the Littledata application. Revenue is a reserved property in many Segment destinations. Opting in will override the total property sent to Google Analytics. Supporting the Iterable email destination Iterable is a cross-channel marketing platform that powers unified customer experiences and empowers you to create, optimize and measure every interaction across the entire customer journey. With this update, when an Iterable campaign leads to an Order Completed event the event properties will contain campaignId and templateId. To get these extra properties, you will need to edit the LittledataLayer setup to track the iterableEmailCampaignId and iterableTemplateId cookies. In addition we send an email field with all events linked to a user, so Iterable and other email marketing destinations can use the events. Supporting the Google Analytics destination in Cloud Mode In Cloud Mode, Segment will send event data to Segment’s cloud servers, and from there, we will translate and route that data to Google Analytics. This reduces the amount of third-party code on your site and you will be able to replay historical data in Google Analytics. We are happy to announce that you can now switch Google Analytics connection mode to Cloud Mode to relay events to GA from Segment's servers. This will increase page performance and provide greater control of the schema. More Subscription Event Properties On Subscription Created, Subscription Updated and Subscription Cancelled events we have added: statusproduct_id = shopify_product_idname = product_titlepricequantityskushopify_variant_idvariant = variant_titleorder_interval_frequencyorder_interval_unit On the Subscription Cancelled event only we have: cancellation_reasoncancellation_reason_comments And on the Charge Failed event we added:  error_type Change of product ID used in Segment events Previously, we used the product SKU for client-side events to be consistent with the GA destination. From this month, we have changed this to send the Shopify product ID as the product_id field in Segment for all events. Ability to send anonymized IP instead of full IP to Segment Segment’s AnalyticsJS library sends the whole IP address by default in Track and Page events. This is contrary to our GDPR recommendations, and we now set context.ip with the last octet (3 digits) anonymized. This still allows geolocation of the events, but ensures IP addresses are not accidentally captured in end locations.