Allison McGuire of Paper Mart: Leveraging Personalization to Best Serve Your Customers

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Allison McGuire is the Vice President of Marketing at Paper Mart. Allison leads the Marketing and Ecommerce strategies for the company that has entered their 100th year of business. Allison and her team collaborates and executes Affiliate Marketing, Social Media, Community Outreach, Branding, Public Relations, and others.
Prior to Paper Mart, Allison has held recent director positions at companies such as Oversee.net, Harbor Freight Tools, and Overnight Prints. In addition to her current role at Paper Mart, Allison has joined the advisory board at Cordial Inc.
Allison received a BA from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

We implemented different types of reactivation campaigns based on their life cycle with us and where they were in the buying cycle
Allison introduced their affiliate program and expanded to all social media platforms
Allison has also launched their SMS program that has seen immediate success

They began to collect data points through email to understand the consumers before they visit the website
Future emails contain customized content such as sales or blogs based on previous experiences
Implementing machine learning within the site to allow for effective recommendations of products and offers

They have used a catalogue mentality and transferred it to the online space
Allison’s interest in targeted emails with consistent messaging throughout
They are currently building their loyalty program to continue to engage the consumer with the brand and offering

Using auto-complete in the search on the website to ensure it’s based on how others have searched and where they’ve landed.
They are working to have the website continue to learn and adapt to trends while sorting products on the index page based on engagement
Allison and her team are working towards having AI understand if the customer is a B2B or B2C customer while showing them imagery that matches who they are

-Allison McGuire, Vice President of Marketing at Paper Mart