Preferred Channel

It is always important for a marketer to reach out to his customers where he is. Getting the right channel for sending the communication makes a huge difference as customers today have lot of flexibility in terms of channels to engage with the brand.

Preferred channel is a channel where a customer is most active on and is more likely to engage on a specific channel when sent a communication.
A customer might not be aware of a channel he/she is more active on, but as an insight-driven marketer, you should be.

Any communication on relevant channel can trigger a potential customer spend.

CE has a Smart Attribute, 'Preferred Channel' which can be used while creating in Journeys.

In Journeys, you can define a preferred channel under 'Check-if'.

A typical use-case for using preferred channel in journeys is that the marketer now reach it's contacts' preferred channel of interaction.

As shown in following example, if the preferred channel of contacts is email, trigger an email communication, else-if the preferred channel is SMS, trigger an SMS communication and so on.

Criteria for enabling AIML-based Preferred Channel.

• At least two channels should be enabled
• Minimum one campaign (can be any: Broadcast or Journey) run across both channels in the last 6 months.
• Atleast 10000 contacts such that they have received minimum 5 communications on each of any two channels as well as the contacts have responded twice (minimum) any one channel

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Note

To enable Preferred Channel for your account or in case of any queries, please contact [email protected]