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What is a Customer Love email?

A customer love email is an email organizations send their customers to express appreciation and gratitude. The main theme of the email should be focused on building and nurturing the relationship rather than promoting products or services.


Customer love emails are great opportunities to send personalized messages, gifts or special offers, or simply express gratitude for being a valued customer. Customer love emails strengthen the relationship between your brand and customers.

Who uses Customer Love emails?

Any organization can use customer love emails to foster customer loyalty and retention. A few use cases for customer love emails include:

  • E-commerce brands giving a gift to encourage future repeat purchases
  • SaaS marketers celebrating the anniversary of a client’s sign-up date
  • Holiday messages to express gratitude and well wishes

What to include in a Customer Love email?

There are a lot of factors to consider when building a customer love email. Here are some of the email elements to consider.

Email Design Element

Best Practices

Send Time

Test your send and consider when the best time to reach your audience.


Sender

Use a familiar, personal email address If possible, use an employee with a personal relationship with the recipient.


Subject Line

Be short, to the point, and on brand.


Preview Text

Use as a continuation of the subject line to encourage the recipient to open the email.


Body Content

A brief message that highlights the customer's importance to the company and any recent milestones they may have achieved (such as a recent purchase or referral).


Call-to-action (CTA)

Encourage the recipient to engage with the company, such as by leaving a review or referring a friend.


Personalization

Use the recipient's name. Use dynamic content to display personalized information based on the recipient's behaviour or preferences.


Branding

Use the brand logo in recommended resolution; use brand fonts and colour scheme.


Footer

Standard branded footer with email, telephone, and full organization address. Provide clear contact information in case user needs assistance with their interaction.

Anatomy of a Customer Love email

Let’s look at an example from Grammarly.

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Customer Love Email Examples

Real-world examples from some of the world’s top brands. Each example has been built in Knak, which means you can use it to get inspired for your emails.

Nespresso - Customer loyalty gift

Nespresso provides customers with a free surprise gift on the customer’s next order.

What works well:

Example-Nespresso

Animoto

Animoto demonstrates how simple design can make a big impact in this customer love email. The brand makes a big presence in both colour palette and the tone of voice. And the $100 incentive doesn’t hurt, either.

What works well:

Example-Animoto

Shortcut Software

Shortcut gives us a masterclass on how to build emails for Dark Mode. They also use compelling stats to draw you into the content and remind customers why they’re using the product.

What works well:

Example-Shortcut Software

Salesforce - Gratitude and holiday gift

Salesforce’s holiday email expresses gratitude and allows users to choose a gift.

What works well:

Example-Salesforce
Knak Example-Knak

Knak - Customers can choose a gift or charity donation

Knak’s holiday message highlights customers by providing an option to choose a gift or make a donation.

What works well:

Creating emails - like this one - takes less than 22 minutes*

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*on average for Enterprise customers

Customer Love email FAQ

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