Reactive campaigns are also possible when you can converse with the customer in the here and now. If a customer leaves a positive review on your website, this could be a trigger for refer a friend campaign. Inversely, if a customer complains, a capture of that event and an inclusion of the person on a suppression file will help to control the emotive fire already burning.

In a world where organisations need to be seen to be reactive, proactive and understand the customer needs, we can no longer rely on data being fed into an organisation on a schedule and messages being communicated thereafter. The need to be informed by customer activity or by external events affecting the customer is paramount to the success of customer engagement.