Who the Heck is Kolya from Burger King?
Do you know Kolya from Burger King? Maybe you are one of 7 million people who do know him
Kolya appeared in June of 2018. By that time, Burger King and EmailSoldiers had already started developing email marketing as we saw potential in this channel.
In January 2018 Burger King had an email list of 4 million contacts. The users left their emails while signing up in a mobile app, but the email list wasn’t monetized at all. Right then, Burger King updated their app, so we decided to use the first email to attract the subscribers to download it.
The campaign had good rates
We got excited and started sending more campaign
We wanted to raise the rates, and for this we had to distinguish ourselves among other emails in the readers’ inboxes. We didn’t want to merge with the information noise and decided to take a road less travelled by.
We’ve sent about a billion emails. In them we decided to start sort of a chat with the user, in which the sender becomes a friend or just an acquaintance above all, and only after this he is a character connected with Burger King. He will be sharing his stories and thoughts adding information about profitable promos and discounts.
Kolya from Burger King became this character.
Kolya tells something personal
Kolya uses emojis
Kolya combines the sender’s name and the email theme into a united sentence
And then the readers got involved
When Kolya fell in love ❤️…
… the readers have supported him
When Kolya promised to wrap up, …
… ladies swooned for him
When Kolya promised to hit some …
… Burger King gained commercial deliveries
In any case, Kolya gets deliveries
But Kolya always keeps the business targets in his mind. He brings people to the app because the app users bring revenue by 18% more
The bigger the lead base, the more there are the app users and the bigger the profit. Within half a year, the email addresses database has grown by 75%
No other email character in Russia is mentioned as often as Kolya from burger King. Some are amazed by him, some hate him, but no one leaves him without any attention at all.
