Social Media-zing Lancome’s “Your Guide to a Fabulous Kiss” Email Campaign
It’s a rainy day in Georgia and just as I was wishing for something to distract me from gray skies into my email in box popped this message: Your Guide to a Fabulous Kiss from Lancome. Well Girlfriend, who could resist a click to open that one? Of course I knew it would be a promotion but I was anticipating fun and flirty. A prelude to Valentine’s Day perhaps. The copy drew me in. Yes! Red stilettos, cocktail dress and a hot midnight affair would be lovely diversions as I sipped coffee and procrastinated which project to tackle next. I was ready to take a break. I was ready to play with the brand. Click. I engaged. I was taken to a product page. Where was my Guide to a Fabulous Kiss?? So I click on another link and another and another. Guess I made Lancone’s stats soar (smile). I saw lipsticks in lovely shades but where was there the Guide to a Fabulous Kiss? Needless to say, I was disappointed and became less enchanted with the promotion because it didn’t deliver what I anticipated. Sidebar: Note the subtle language change above. I went from “my Guide to a Fabulous Kiss” to “the Guide to a Fabulous Kiss.” Well, diva dahlings, I still was not ready to go back to work. I began to imagine how Lancome could have taken what started as a promising email campaign and turned it into a fun, flirty consumer generated content strategy. Let’s play… Continue to read more…
