Personalize B2B SaaS Campaigns in Iterable Using Warehouse-Computed Account Insights
In a B2B SaaS, real-time behavioral events are critical, but deeper personalization often requires sophisticated analytics derived from your CRM, offline interactions, and advanced lead-scoring models often stored in the data warehouse. This recipe shows how to leverage Twilio Segment’s rETL capabilities to enrich Iterable, enhancing your existing Iterable campaigns with highly personalized, warehouse-driven attributes.
What do you need?
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Twilio Segment (Connections, rETL, and Audiences)
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Iterable (campaign activation & dynamic personalization)
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Data Warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift)
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Step 1: Integrate Twilio Segment with Your Data Sources
To build personalized experiences that truly resonate with your customers, it all starts with a strong data foundation. That means capturing the right data, from the right sources, in a consistent and structured way. Here's how to begin:
- Data Collection: Ensure that Twilio Segment is integrated with all the customer touchpoints (e.g., website, mobile apps, customer support software).
- Identify Key Events and Traits: Focus on customer events (e.g., page views, sign-ups, purchases) and traits (e.g., email, name, preferences, and lifecycle stage) that are relevant for personalization.
Step 2: Compute Account Attributes in Your Data Warehouse
Use your data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift) to compute advanced attributes such as:
- Predictive Lead Scores (account-level engagement)
- CRM Enrichment (Salesforce deal stage, pipeline status, deal size)
- Offline Event Engagement
(recent sales meetings, webinars attended)
Example Warehouse Attributes:
- predicted_purchase_likelihood
- deal_size
- current_deal_stage
- recent_sales_meeting_attended
Step 3: Sync Warehouse Attributes to Iterable via Twilio Segment’s rETL
Set up an rETL source in Twilio Segment that queries and regularly updates these enriched traits directly into Iterable.
Example rETL Query:
- SELECT
- account_id,
- predicted_purchase_likelihood,
- deal_size,
- current_deal_stage,
- recent_sales_meeting_attended
- FROM analytics.b2b_account_insights
Step 4: Build Precise Audiences in Twilio Segment
Use Twilio Segment’s native Audience feature to create actionable audiences, based on enriched warehouse data combined with real-time behavioral data:
Example Audiences:
Top Priority Accounts
predicted_purchase_likelihood ≥ 85 AND recent_sales_meeting_attended = true
High-Value Pipeline Opportunities
deal_size ≥ 50000 AND current_deal_stage IN ('Proposal', 'Negotiation')
Dormant High-Potential Accounts
predicted_purchase_likelihood ≥ 75 AND days_since(last_web_activity) > 30
Step 5: Activate Twilio Segment Audiences into Iterable
Directly sync Twilio Segment Audiences into Iterable, automatically tagging or updating user profiles.
- In Twilio Segment, activate the Audience and send it directly to Iterable as tags or user profile fields:
- e.g., Twilio Segment Audience = Top Priority Account → Iterable Profile Tag = priority_account
Step 6: Personalize Iterable Campaigns Using Warehouse Traits
Leverage these enriched warehouse-driven user attributes for dynamic content and hyper-personalized email/SMS campaigns:
Example Iterable Personalization:
Dynamically reference account traits within Iterable email templates:
{% if user.predicted_purchase_likelihood >= 85 %}
<p>We'd like to offer a tailored demo to explore advanced capabilities suited specifically to your business needs.</p>
{% endif %}
Include personalized deal context in email campaigns:
{% if user.current_deal_stage == 'Discovery' %}
<p>Learn how companies like yours are improving [relevant outcome]. We've prepared a quick guide to help you get started.</p>
{% elif user.current_deal_stage == 'Evaluation' %}
<p>Discover how [Product Name] compares to alternatives in addressing your key business needs. We've prepared detailed resources to simplify your evaluation.</p>
{% else %}
<p>Discover insights to maximize the value your team can achieve using our platform.</p>
{% endif %}
Highlight relevant content based on offline engagement:
{% if user.recent_sales_meeting_attended %}
<p>Thanks for meeting with us recently! Here are next steps tailored specifically to your needs.</p>
{% endif %}
Step 7: Measure and Optimize Campaign Effectiveness
Monitor campaign performance within Iterable, reviewing personalized campaigns’ engagement rates, conversion improvements, and ROI against warehouse-driven attributes.
Iteratively refine audience definitions in Twilio Segment, as well as personalization strategies in Iterable.
Result
Your B2B SaaS campaigns become significantly more personalized and context-aware, combining real-time behavioral data with powerful warehouse-computed account-level insights, directly improving conversions and engagement.
Easily personalize customer experiences with first-party data
With a huge integration catalog and plenty of no-code features, Twilio Segment provides easy-to-maintain capability to your teams with minimal engineering effort. Great data doesn't have to be hard work!