BuyWholeFoodsOnline.co.uk
Buy Whole Foods Online clocked a 3 digit revenue through just one push notification. Here’s how.
No. of Subscribers
1150
Average Click Rate
10.12%
Average Click Rate
15.2%
Buy Whole Foods Online clocked a 3 digit revenue through just one push notification. Here’s how.
1150
10.12%
15.2%
" Using PushCrew, we fulfil our users’ personal preferences better by guiding them to relevant pages on the website."
Buy Whole Foods Online is a family run business and brainchild of cousins, Arthur Martin and Joe Cooper. In 2007, they launched their business out of a rented garden shed which they remodelled into a mini warehouse.
From these humble origins, the company has grown incredibly quickly, year on year, to become the leading seller of whole foods, health foods, and superfoods in the UK and Europe. Arthur, an industry veteran with over two decades of experience in whole foods, still oversees the supply and selection of all the fresh and organic produce they offer.
In 2015, Becky, the Marketing Director at the company, was exploring new channels of communication to bring customers back to their website. Impressed with the instant and simple nature of push notifications, she decided to give PushCrew a try. Comparing push notifications to their email marketing practice, she mentions, “It is more immediate in nature. The fact that we don’t need to provide as much content as emails makes it simpler and quicker. It’s a totally different medium and it appeals to our customers who tend to buy spontaneously.”
BuyWholeFoodsOnline.com is one of PushCrew’s earliest adopters and possibly one of the early adopters of the technology of push notifications for websites. They tested out different time durations, messages, and offers to trigger the opt-in prompt. Here’s how it appears on BuyWholeFoodsOnline.com’s mobile website:
Their first notification offered a 17% discount on one of their best selling products- Ecover Non Bio Washing Powder. The notification was delivered to 736 subscribers. 49 of them clicked through and reached the product page with an overwhelming majority of them completing the purchase. “Using push notifications we can guide them better to a specific page on our website which they may not otherwise find. We can fulfil their personal preferences better,” observed Becky.
So far, their most popular notification that sent subscribers into frenzy has been this tempting offer on Coconut Water.
The notification received a click rate of 15.2%. Out of the 97 people that reached the product page after clicking on the notification, 71 actually made a purchase. Not just that, this one notification helped them clock a 3-digit revenue. Once people were on the website, apart from the coconut water which was on offer, they also browsed through other products – adding them to their cart, to qualify for free shipping.
For this notification, we encouraged them to add the word ‘CLICK’ explicitly as it imparted a clear call to action to the notification. The notification didn’t just mention what was on offer but also instructed how subscribers can get the offer.
With the help of PushCrew, BuyWholeFoodsOnline.com was able to re-engage their users. Whenever a product was on discount or offer, simply pushing a notification about it, brought them back. Becky now aims to test and come up with the best time for sending and optimising the copy of notifications to get the best click rate possible. “We have made a reasonable profit by using push notifications but we are also still in the process of exploring what works best at what time. There is certainly a lot of potential there.”