Preamble
N’ayant accès qu’aux données publiquement disponibles, cette analyse aborde uniquement le point de vue utilisateur d’une newsletter. Les performances réelles du programme email marketing en question, la gestion des données, le routage, le processus créatif, les triggers, la gestion des opts, le cross-channel, l’AB Testing, … ne sont donc pas visés.Registration
The different sources of registration
At first glance on the site, there's no directly visible subscription form for the La Redoute newsletter. You have to go and see everything at the bottom of the home page to find the first source of registration.


Registration forms
Ergonomics
Newsletter subscription ("light" form)
As you can see in the screenshot above, this form is a very simple to use. Only the email address is required and the confirmation is done in a window pop-up. Ce mode de confirmation n’est sans doute pas une bonne idée vu que dans une grande majorité de cas, la fenêtre sera bloquée par le navigateur. Il aurait sans doute été préférable d’aboutir sur une page de confirmation dédiée sur le site. Au niveau du formulaire lui même, excepté qu’il se trouve tout en bas de la page et qu’il n’est pas mis en avant, le design is quite consistent with the rest of the site.
Create an account
As you can see in the screenshot below, the first step of this form is a very great simplicity.

The data
If we take the light" formthe only information requested is the email address ... and that's it! L'confirmation screen could have contained a other form to get to know the consumer better, but this is not the case. However, on a site like La Redoute, knowing at least the sex of the consumer would have been very relevant information.

Welcome program and double opt-in
Pour commencer, les emails de confirmations arrivent évidemment instantanément après l’inscription ce qui est toujours appréciable. Ensuite, no double optin, l’inscription est directe sans vérification de l’adresse email. C’est mauvais pour la qualité de la base de donnée et donc pour la délivrabilité. Le taux de réaction sur les campagnes sera lui aussi influencé négativement par ce choix. Petite remarque, il y a un consistency problem with the sending email address. In the confirmation page of the "light" form, it is recommended to add the email address "laredoute@fr.redoute.com" while the confirmation email of the newsletter registration is sent via the email address "info@laredoute.com" and it recommends to add the address "service_client@web.redoute.fr" to the address book... not very logical. The account creation confirmation email is more coherent as it uses and recommends "service_client@web.redoute.fr". The newsletters on the other hand use the email address "laredoute@fr.redoute.com". This would mean that there is a difference between marketing-oriented emails and those used for operational. Ce n’est pas forcément une stratégie cohérente au niveau délivrabilité. Pour le reste (et nous ne parlerons pas de l’email de confirmation de création de compte, mais uniquement de confirmation à la newsletter), l’welcome email is very classic. A nice message from the "Customer Relationship Manager" and some useful information. Nothing very originalThe site doesn't even bother to push its current promotion in the email. A point to improve. Also note, the email sent via the "light" form is slightly different from the one sent via the account creation ... for no apparent reason. Certainly this difference between marketing and operational. This is even noticeable on a purely technical level, but we'll come back to that in the "Sending technique and deliverability" section.
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