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MiniAudit· 20 minutes

Match the Offer: Segment-to-Strategy Drill

Mailchimp

Objective: Given 8 customer RFM profiles, correctly assign the segment name and the appropriate email strategy for each, avoiding the equal-weighting and over-discounting mistakes the lesson warns against.

You're prepping a segment-strategy brief for Mailchimp's own customer marketing team ahead of next month's send calendar.

Sort 8 supplied RFM profiles into named segments and assign the correct strategy, catching any profile a naive equal-weighting approach would misclassify.

Before you start

What you'll need

Free path (everything below is enough to finish)

Google Sheets
FreeList the 8 profiles and assign segment plus strategy in adjacent columns

A drill this size needs no more than a simple table

Final deliverable

An 8-row table pairing each RFM profile with its segment name and recommended email strategy.

See a reference example
Sample output
Squarespace, segment-strategy drill (excerpt)

Profile     Segment           Strategy
R5-F5-M2    Potential Loyalist  Cross-sell nudge, not a discount, this customer is new and highly engaged
R1-F5-M5    Can't Lose Them     High-touch win-back, high historical value despite recent lapse
R2-F1-M1    About to Sleep      Light reactivation content, not a coupon

Success criteria

You're done when you can:

  • Correctly flags a high-Monetary, low-Recency profile as 'Can't Lose Them' rather than 'Lapsed', avoiding the equal-weighting trap
  • Assigns discount depth based on Monetary score, not blanket offers across all 8 profiles
  • Recommends suppression or a last-chance email only for genuinely low-R, low-F, low-M profiles