Elevate Your Brand: How Thoughtful Unboxing Experiences Drive Customer Loyalty with Tyler Delarm

Summary

Guest

Hey Superfans, Freddy D here! In this episode of the Business Superfan Podcast, I had an awesome chat with Tyler DeLarm from On Digital. We dove into how businesses can boost customer engagement and loyalty through personalized unboxing experiences. Tyler shared the backstory of On Digital, which started with handwritten notes and evolved into a tech platform that automates personalized messages in packaging. We discussed the importance of tracking customer behavior, creating special campaigns for first-time buyers, and using data to optimize marketing strategies. Tyler also highlighted how thoughtful unboxing can turn customers into superfans, driving repeat purchases and organic promotion.

Guest Contact

Tyler DeLarm is a seasoned business leader and marketing consultant with a reputation for guiding successful teams with optimistic kindness. He has spent much of his career designing customer and employee engagement strategies around the notion that “companies chase revenue” and “ brands build relationships.” His unique combination of expertise in brand positioning, organizational behavior, and demand generation has been instrumental in adding millions of dollars in annual revenue to multiple companies.

Tyler holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Cumbria, he maintains a Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt certification and is perhaps most well known for his work developing the Unboxing Marketing strategies used by major DTC brands to personalize their unboxing experiences.

Outside of the office, Tyler is a deeply involved parent, an enthusiastic pet owner, a creative musician, a prolific writer, a passionate traveler, and a dedicated student of life.

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Bullet Points

  • Enhancing customer engagement and loyalty through personalized messaging in packaging.
  • The origin and mission of On Digital in creating memorable unboxing experiences.
  • The significance of the unboxing experience as a critical touchpoint in the customer journey.
  • The role of personalization in marketing and its impact on customer relationships.
  • Strategies for creating “superfans” through tailored messaging and thoughtful engagement.
  • The importance of tracking customer behavior and marketing outcomes to optimize strategies.
  • Real-world success stories demonstrating the measurable impact of personalized marketing.
  • Ideal customer profiles for businesses that can benefit from personalized unboxing experiences.
  • Implementation strategies for small businesses starting with personalized messaging.
  • The transformative power of gratitude and relationship building in fostering customer loyalty.

Best Quotes

Elevate Your Brand: How Thoughtful Unboxing Experiences Drive Customer Loyalty with Tyler Delarm

‘Tyler Dillon’, ’00:01:00′, ‘Our founder, Ryan Millman, was out in the warehouse and thought, “How do we use this to put a smile on a customer’s face?”‘

‘Tyler Dillon’, ’00:05:28′, ‘If you learn to communicate with your customers and figure out what their problems are, what their needs are, and how to say, “Hey, we hear you, we see you, we’re solving this,” you’re recognizing that relationship, which is a huge step forward.’

‘Tyler DeLarm’, ’00:17:11′, ‘Everybody should be doing something really special for their first-time customers because that person is just buying into the relationship for the first time.

Episode Transcript

Freddy D 00:00:00 Welcome Tyler Dillon to the Business Superfan Podcast. How are you this afternoon, Frederic?

Tyler DeLarm 00:00:06 It’s a marvelous day. Any day I’m breathing a great day.

Freddy D 00:00:10 I agree, any day it is topside is good.

Tyler DeLarm 00:00:16 Fair enough. Yeah.

Freddy D 00:00:17 Tell me, Tyler, how did you get to where you are with on digital? All right, so.

Tyler DeLarm 00:00:22 When I started here a couple of years ago, the company had already. It already existed for a while. But basically, the origin of the company is that our founder, Ryan Millman, he has several different DTC brands, and they ship out quite a few packages. And one day he’s out in the warehouse and just seeing all these packages. How do we use this to put a smile on a customer’s face, that they’re really big on customer relationships and building out these superfans that will go on to increase their revenue and drive loyalty. He’s trying to figure out how to get the packages to put a smile on the customer’s face. And yeah, at first they started sampling with maybe we put a handwritten note in there.

Tyler DeLarm 00:01:00 They put a note in and then it got to be like, all right, this is a lot. We love the result. But how do we expand that. And then they started building technology that became a platform. And later that was just rolled out to all the other customers. And at some point they’re like, this has generated so many super fans for us that we just need to go ahead and figure out a way to bring this to other people. This could be its own product.

Freddy D 00:01:21 What is the product that you have nowadays?

Tyler DeLarm 00:01:24 Sure. We have what you call an unboxing experience platform and it works a lot like an email platform. We help customers to have a strategy around what goes in the box, what message goes in the box on the fulfillment side, right? Like when they go to ship and order, a personalized print comes out and goes into the order and that personalized print can say, hey Frederick, thanks for ordering this. Here’s some other things that you might like. It can say pretty much anything that they want.

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