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Email, SMS, and CRM Playbook with Brian Best, Senior CRM Lead at Samsung | Ep. 351

Email, SMS, and CRM Playbook with Brian Best, Senior CRM Lead at Samsung | Ep. 351

The Marketing Millennials · Sep 24, 2025

Samsung's CRM lead shares how to scale owned media, unify channels, leverage AI for personalization, and champion Customer Lifetime Value.

Samsung Unifies Email, SMS, and Push to Avoid Repetitive Messaging

Instead of blasting the same message across all channels, the key is to make them work in unison to tell a single, coherent story. This coordinated approach prevents message fatigue and delivers better results by treating each channel as a component of a larger conversation.

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The Marketing Millennials·5 months ago

The Best Agency Partners Act as an Extension of Your Team, Not Just a Vendor

The defining characteristic of a great agency relationship isn't just delivering work, but true integration. They should feel like an extension of the internal team—challenging existing ideas, helping the team grow, and working as a complementary partner rather than a transactional vendor.

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Email, SMS, and CRM Playbook with Brian Best, Senior CRM Lead at Samsung | Ep. 351

The Marketing Millennials·5 months ago

Customer Lifetime Value Should Be the Central Calculus Driving All Creative and Promotional Strategy

CLTV isn't just a metric; it's a strategic map. Understanding purchase frequencies and the entire customer lifecycle should be the foundation for creative choices, promotional timing, and messaging. Many brands neglect this, but it's the key to balancing acquisition with profitable retention.

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Email, SMS, and CRM Playbook with Brian Best, Senior CRM Lead at Samsung | Ep. 351

The Marketing Millennials·5 months ago

Samsung Uses Dynamic Modules to Personalize Emails Without Creating Hundreds of Versions

To achieve personalization efficiently, Samsung creates a few core email templates. They then use third-party tools like Movable Ink to dynamically insert content modules based on individual customer data, such as products owned or purchase propensity. This avoids massive versioning complexity.

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Email, SMS, and CRM Playbook with Brian Best, Senior CRM Lead at Samsung | Ep. 351

The Marketing Millennials·5 months ago

Re-engage Cold Subscribers by Resending Unopened Emails with a New Subject Line

For subscribers who don't open an email, a simple and effective tactic is to resend the exact same content. The only change is tweaking the subject line and pre-header to capture their attention. Since they never saw the original content, it's still new to them and requires minimal effort to redeploy.

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Email, SMS, and CRM Playbook with Brian Best, Senior CRM Lead at Samsung | Ep. 351

The Marketing Millennials·5 months ago

AI's Real CRM Power Lies in Agentic Strategy for Audience Segmentation and Campaign Planning

Beyond just generating creative, the future of AI in CRM is using "agentic AI" to build better strategies. This involves agents that help define audience segments, determine the next best product or action, and accelerate the implementation of complex campaigns, enhancing human strategy rather than replacing it.

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Email, SMS, and CRM Playbook with Brian Best, Senior CRM Lead at Samsung | Ep. 351

The Marketing Millennials·5 months ago