Repeat customers, not one-and-done sales
The customer at your register right now is the cheapest marketing you'll ever do — if you can reach her again. AutoCampaign.ai grows a VIP list with a keyword at checkout, turns slow Tuesdays around with a targeted promotion, and texts "it's back" to exactly the people who asked.
AutoCampaignProduct preview: Cedar Lane Boutique’s VIP early-access campaign beside a shopper conversation where an AI Employee has drafted a hold offer, waiting for approval.
— Sound familiar? —
Slow Tuesdays don't fix themselves
The weekend carries the week while Tuesday's staff outnumber the customers. A midweek offer only works if it reaches people who actually come in — and social posts reach whoever the algorithm feels like showing them to.
"Text me when it's back" lives on a sticky note
Customers ask to be told when the size, the color, or the seasonal favorite returns. The stock comes back; the sticky note doesn't. Every unsent "it's back" text is a sale handed to whoever ranks first on Google that day.
Your followers aren't your list
You've spent years building an audience on platforms you don't control, where reach is rented and shrinking. The customers who'd come in this week can't hear from you unless you own a way to reach them.
Every one of these is a conversation your system should have caught ↓
The four journeys, localized
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Capture — grow the VIP list at the register
A keyword on the counter card — "Text VIP to join" — and a QR code on the bag turn checkout into list growth, with consent recorded automatically on every join. Every subscriber lands in one audience you own, tagged by store or interest, imported history included.
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Engage — promotions with the cost on the label
Send the Tuesday offer to the whole list or just the segment it fits, schedule it for the right morning, and see the estimated cost before you press send — the same discipline you'd apply to any other spend. Smart Links track who tapped through to the offer, so a campaign is a result, not a guess.
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Convert — "it's back" goes to the people who asked
Keep a segment for every waitlisted item — built from keyword joins or replies — and when stock lands, text exactly those customers first. When someone replies with "do you have it in a medium?", an AI Employee drafts the answer from your business information; nothing sends until you approve it, and you can take any conversation over.
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Retain — win back the customer who drifted
A Smart Segment keeps a live list of lapsed customers — joined long ago, quiet lately — and a recurring win-back campaign invites them in on a schedule you set once. Campaign stats show which offers actually pull people back, so each send makes the next one smarter.
Grow the VIP list with text to join keywords and QR codes at checkout.
Send the Tuesday offer with a mass texting service that shows cost before you send.
Target lapsed shoppers and waitlists with SMS audience segmentation.
See which offers pull with SMS marketing analytics.
Also see every industry we serve and public pricing.
KPIs to watch
List growth at the register. Joins per keyword and per store, week over week — the compounding asset behind every future campaign. Tracked in Text-to-Join and audience reporting.
Campaign click-through. Smart Link taps per promotion show which offers move people and which get ignored — before you repeat either.
Lapsed-segment size. The count of customers going quiet. A shrinking lapsed segment means win-backs are working; a growing one is your earliest churn warning.
Frequently asked questions
Won't texting annoy my customers?
Only the customers who asked get texts: they join themselves at the register or online, consent is recorded at that moment, and STOP is honored automatically on every message. A short list of people who chose to hear from you beats a big list of people who didn't.
What does a campaign actually cost me?
You see the estimated cost of every campaign before you send it, credits are prepaid, and spend caps keep a busy season from becoming a surprise invoice. Pricing is public, and the plan grid is short enough to read between customers.
Turn this Tuesday around with one text to your VIP list
Public pricing. No contracts. Cancel anytime.