Case study · beauty e-commerce

Personalization that hits the moment of decision in beauty e-commerce

For a leading beauty brand operating in e-commerce, Persooa ran a diagnosis on live data in Synerise and deployed a complete recovery and personalization program - from abandoned-cart recovery, through a second-purchase program, to email personalization and Google audiences. All on the existing platform, without replacing any tools.

The client's name is confidential - we present the case in anonymized form.

91%of customers view 10+ pages before buying
5,5%on-site recommendation CTR (cross-sell)
4growth levers on the existing stack
5„lifestyle” personas from the product feed

Client

A leading beauty brand (e-commerce)

Area

Personalization & Retention

Segments

B2C and B2B · acquisition and retention

Technology

Synerise + Persooa

Starting point

A healthy store with a silent revenue leak

Sales were strong and the basket was growing - but order volume was declining year over year, communication went out en masse, and a large share of existing traffic never converted into sales.

Mass email to the entire base - the same message for everyone

No automatic abandoned-cart recovery

No path for repeat purchases after the first order

Product recommendations absent from email communication

Hundreds of thousands of anonymous visitors with no activation

Order volume declining year over year despite a growing basket

Persooa's solution

A growth engine powered by data and AI

We turned existing traffic into more orders - through a diagnosis on live data, personas built from the feed, and four levers deployed on the existing platform.

01 · Diagnose

Diagnosis on live data

Sales, traffic, email campaigns, the recommendation engine and the product feed - read from real events, not assumptions.

02 · Personas

Personas from the product feed

Five „lifestyle” personas built from feed attributes (category, color, brand), layered onto traffic segments.

03 · Activate

Personalization & automation

Email recommendations, cart recovery, the second-purchase program and Google audiences - deployed on the existing platform.

04 · Measure

Measurement with a control group

Every lever with a holdout - we report incremental revenue, not declarations.

Phased rollout

From quick wins to scaling - revenue from month one

1

Quick wins

Phase I

  • Abandoned-cart recovery
  • „1 purchase” segment → 2nd-purchase program
  • Recommendations in the newsletter
  • First impact dashboards
2

Personalization & Google

Phase II

  • Full second-purchase flow + codes
  • Category mapping → 5 personas
  • Google audiences (remarketing + Customer Match)
  • Content personalization per persona
3

Scaling

Phase III

  • Persona recommendations in email and on-site
  • Lookalike / PMax per persona
  • A/B testing of tactics and offers
  • Optimization on the control group
Levers deployed

Four mechanics that close the funnel

From recovering lost demand, through personalizing communication, to activating traffic on Google - each measured separately with a control group.

Conversion · cart

Abandoned-cart recovery

Automatic 1h / 24h / 48h path with a recommendation of the abandoned products - separately for recognized users and anonymous visitors.

1-48h sequence

Retention · lifecycle

Second-purchase program

Sequence after the 1st purchase: onboarding → cross-sell → reorder → win-back, exiting on the 2nd order.

4 path steps

Personalization · email

Per-persona recommendations in email

Dynamic recommendations and content matched to five „lifestyle” personas from the product feed - instead of one mass send.

5 lifestyle personas

Recommendations · on-site

„Similary” cross-sell

Recommendations after adding to cart and on the product page - the client's most effective on-site mechanism.

5,5% CTR

Acquisition · Google

Google audiences

Anonymous remarketing (dynamic remarketing from the feed) + Customer Match for recognized users and customers; lookalike / PMax seed.

351 tys. recipients /mo

Scale · content

Dynamic on-site content

Bars, pop-ups and landing pages swapped from the product feed and profile - with no operational changes on the client's side.

0 IT changes
Insight

In beauty, a purchase is a considered decision

91%

of customers view 10+ pages before buying. That's why personalization has to hit exactly the moment of decision - and on-site recommendations convert many times better than mass email.

Four levers, one funnel

Email personalization (per persona)Retention
Cart recoveryDemand recovery
Google audiencesAcquisition
Second-purchase programLifecycle

Cart recovery

Automatic rebuilding of the abandoned cart with a product recommendation.

Second purchase

A recurring path for repeat purchases after the first order.

Personas from the feed

Five lifestyle personas from product feed attributes (category, color, brand).

Google audiences

Remarketing of anonymous visitors and Customer Match for recognized users and customers.

Incremental measurement

Every effect confirmed with a control group (holdout).

No platform change

Full use of the existing Synerise - zero migration.

We activate AI in e-commerce and turn data into loyalty, higher CLV and measurable revenue growth - from strategy, through implementation, to results, in a Human + AI model.

- Persooa · Revenue Growth Agent

Frequently asked questions

FAQ - personalization and retention in e-commerce

How do you measure the effect?

We launch every lever with a control group (holdout), so we can report incremental revenue rather than declarations. The starting point is a real insight: in beauty, a purchase is a considered decision (91% of customers view 10+ pages before buying), so personalization has to hit exactly the moment of choice.

Did it require changing the platform?

No. We launched all the levers on the existing Synerise - without migration, making full use of data the client was already collecting: traffic, carts, the product feed, consents and purchase history.

What did the personalization involve?

From the product feed (category, color, brand) we built five „lifestyle” personas and layered them onto traffic segments - anonymous visitors, recognized users and customers. Communication and recommendations are matched to the persona instead of a single mass send.

What worked fastest?

Abandoned-cart recovery - the fastest return, because it recovers demand that already exists and doesn't depend on a sending calendar. That's why we launched it first.

What does Persooa do?

Persooa deploys and activates AI in e-commerce - mainly on the Synerise platform - with a focus on a fast start and the first measurable results within 90 days. We combine strategy, data and execution in a Human + AI model: personalization, marketing automation, loyalty and AI agents that translate into revenue growth.

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