Client stories
Specific campaigns, awkward constraints, and the maps that settled the argument.
Spring catalogue nurture — Leeds
Helena’s team sent a four-email spring sequence with fourteen tracked links. The second email’s “size guide” click was still pointing at a winter PDF. The path map made the dead end impossible to ignore; they fixed the URL before the third send and watched replies climb without changing subject lines.
“The first draft of the map looked almost rude — every fork labelled. That bluntness is why finance approved the landing rewrite.” — Helena M., catalogue email lead
Membership renewal series — Bristol
A charity membership desk booked a journey map ahead of renewals. Members who clicked the “update details” link were looping back into the same email’s mirror page. Once the fork was redrawn, the renewal form became the only exit for that click.
Jon T., CRM coordinator — “We had suspected a loop for months. Seeing it drawn finally got IT to change the redirect.”
Weekend flash send — Birmingham retail
Priya needed a landing fork review in six days. Two hero links competed: lookbook versus product grid. Click volume favoured the lookbook, but purchase-assists favoured the grid. The study recommended featuring the grid in the primary button and demoting the lookbook to a text link — a compromise creative disliked at first.
“I still miss the lookbook as the hero. The numbers did not.” — Priya K., retail CRM
Quarterly retainer — Edinburgh outdoor brand
After an initial audit, the brand kept a quarterly refresh through peak hiking season. Summer paths showed evening sends pulling more boot-care clicks; autumn flipped toward jacket stockists. The retainer memo simply followed the season instead of forcing one evergreen hierarchy.
Sam R., email manager — “Useful, though week three of each quarter is noisy while exports settle. Worth planning buffer days.”
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