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Stick Pack Email Segmentation Strategy

Overview

When a contact list lacks historical segmentation data, manually tagging contacts by product interest or business type is unreliable. A practical alternative is self-segmentation: sending emails that let contacts reveal their own interests through their behavior (clicks, quiz responses, or content downloads). This approach was developed for [1] to support their stick pack campaign launch, where the existing Pipedrive contact list had no consistent tagging from prior sales activity.

The Problem

American Extractions' contact list was built by a sales team that wasn't tracking product interest, business type, or lead stage. Back-tagging contacts manually is time-consuming and largely guesswork. Third-party enrichment services (e.g., Clearbit, ZoomInfo) can fill some gaps — particularly company size, industry, and number of employees — but cannot reliably identify product interest (e.g., stick packs vs. gummies vs. clear mix).

Key segmentation dimensions the client wants to capture:
- Product interest (stick packs, gummies, clear mix, cannabinoid products)
- Business type / industry (manufacturer, retailer, beverage brand, etc.)
- Lead stage (prospect, active customer, past customer, and what they've purchased)

Self-Segmentation Approach

Rather than trying to infer interest from external data, send an email that lets contacts self-identify by clicking on content relevant to them. Whatever they click on becomes their attributed interest in Pipedrive.

Three Tactical Options

1. One-Question Poll

A single in-email question with clickable answer buttons.

"Quick vote — what are you developing next?"
- Hydration stick packs
- Gummies
- CBD / Delta 9
- Ready-to-mix beverage base

Each button links to a small thank-you page. The click is captured and written back to a Pipedrive field as the contact's product interest. Hidden fields on the thank-you page can also capture role and timeline if desired.

Pros: Extremely low friction, high completion rate, works inline in email.

2. 60-Second Quiz (5 clicks, no typing)

A short external quiz (5 questions, all click-to-answer) that segments on multiple dimensions at once. At the end, the contact receives something of value (a resource, a recommendation, or entry into a gift card drawing).

Incentive options that have worked:
- Starbucks gift card for completing the quiz
- Entry into a drawing for 2–3 × $50 Amazon gift cards, winner announced in 3 days

Pros: Richer data, can capture multiple segmentation fields in one pass.
Cons: More friction than a poll; incentive may be needed to drive completion.

3. Self-Download / Content Selection

An email presenting 2–3 content pieces (articles, guides, or one-pagers), each targeting a different audience segment. The contact clicks to download whichever is most relevant to them.

Example content buckets for American Extractions:
- "The shift to powdered beverages: increasing margin with stick packs" → tags: stick pack interest
- "How to enhance your products with cannabinoids" → tags: cannabinoid interest
- "Private label gummy manufacturing: what to know" → tags: gummy interest

Because the contact is already in the system, no gate (form fill) is required — just click and receive. The click itself is the data point.

Pros: Delivers immediate value, feels less like a survey, aligns with content marketing goals.
Cons: Requires content assets to exist or be created.

For the American Extractions stick pack launch, the agreed approach was:

  1. Week 1: Send the first stick pack campaign email (already drafted and approved via Pipedrive).
  2. 3–4 days later: Send the self-segmentation email (one of the three formats above).
  3. Ongoing: Use progressive profiling — ask one new question per email touchpoint over time to gradually build out contact profiles.
  4. Parallel track: Run data enrichment (Clearbit or ZoomInfo) against business email addresses to fill in company-level fields (industry, size, employee count) that self-segmentation won't capture.

Data Enrichment as a Complement

Third-party enrichment works best on business email addresses. For contacts using Gmail or Yahoo, enrichment yields little useful B2B data. For business domains, services like Clearbit can return:

This is most useful for the business type segmentation dimension. It does not replace self-segmentation for product interest or lead stage.

Action item: Research cost of enrichment services (Clearbit, ZoomInfo) for the American Extractions list size. ZoomInfo subscription (already held by Asymmetric) may be usable to enrich the list in the near term.

Data Hygiene Prerequisite

Before sending any campaign, perform a data hygiene check on the full Pipedrive contact list:
- Remove invalid or bounced addresses
- Flag duplicates
- Identify contacts with no email address on record

The list can be exported directly from Pipedrive for this purpose.

Pipedrive Implementation Notes

Sources

  1. Index|American Extractions
  2. Index|American Extractions Client Overview
  3. Pipedrive Email Setup|Pipedrive Email Marketing Setup
  4. Data Hygiene|Email List Data Hygiene
  5. Content Strategy|Content Strategy For Seo