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About Calendars.com
Perhaps better than ever, a calendar can tell more about its owner than
any other item he or she possesses. From a favorite hobby or sports
team, to a pet breed or frequent vacation spot, a printed calendar not
only shows important dates or helps someone remember an upcoming
event, but it can start conversations and bring together people with
similar interests.
Calendar Holdings LLC is a true omnichannel retailer, establishing its
Calendar Club in 1993 and then quickly becoming the world’s largest
retailer of calendars; it sells millions of calendars each year, primarily in
shopping malls. Launched in 1999, Calendars.com brings together the
world’s largest calendar inventory with the latest technology to create
a successful ecommerce business.
www.Calendars.com
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When you combine the ease of use with
the help and support we get from Monetate,
we really are able to create personalized
website experiences for our customers.
- Robert Gilbreath, Director of eCommerce Marketing and Analytics
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4. geotargeting enhances customer engagement
The Monetate Success Team sat down with Robert Gilbreath of Calendars.com
to talk about how the specialty retailer uses the Monetate Agility Suite.
How does Calendars.com use Monetate? What’s your favorite Monetate feature?
Monetate gives Calendars.com a way to offer our customers a more The user interface is easy to use and navigate. In fact, we had a
personalized website experience. Specifically, Monetate Touchpoints situation one year over Black Friday weekend where I was able to
allows us to keep our promotions in front of visitors whether they’re jump into the system after having only used it a few times. Not only
coming from email, search, or our affiliate program. But the true was I able to tweak an active campaign, but I was able to create and
marketing power is in the whole Agility Suite, which lets us test actual launch a new one. It’s that kind of simplicity that is really impressive.
website design elements without having to rely on IT resources, allowing When you combine the ease of use with the help and support we get
them to work on other areas of the business that need them the most. from our Monetate Client Success Team, we really are able to create
personalized website experiences for our customers, who often have
very specific product interests.
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Do you have any favorite campaigns?
All of them! But if I had to pick one, I would say that the state-specific
ones we ran this holiday season with Monetate LiveTarget are near
the top. We used a lightbox on landing pages to get visitors to find a
physical location in a shopping mall when they were outside the in-time
shipping window for Christmas. The message was reinforced during
the rest of their visit with a banner in the right margin. Depending on
the state customers were in, they saw targeted state messaging and
were taken to a state-specific store locator page.
Monetate allows us to quickly add campaigns like this one, so it’s easy
to launch several possible favorites really quickly.
State-Specific
Store Locator
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How would you summarize your experience so far with Monetate?
Installation and integration was smooth and easy. The relationship We’re now using results from working with Monetate to make
has been one that I would say is mutually beneficial, as we continue to permanent changes to our website. Some of these changes might have
meet regularly with our Client Success Team and share ideas. happened without Monetate, but now we have statistical proof that
they are changes that will help our business grow.
Two years before we started working with Monetate, we underwent a
successful replatforming initiative. In hindsight, if we had been working
with Monetate before the replatforming, any planned changes
that were part of that project could have been pre-tested prior to
implementation on the new website and then testing on the new site
could have been started almost immediately.
With the help and support we get from
our Monetate Client Success Team, we
really are able to create personalized
website experiences for our customers.
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