Good newsletter and email marketing campaigns bridge consumers to the latest trends in food, fashion, technology and design.

Great newsletter and email marketing campaigns are published on the cusp of culture. They respond swiftly to and take advantage of trending behaviors by incorporating them into their newsletter and email marketing content and promotional materials.

So what cultural trend(s) were newsletter and email marketing campaigns responding to in 2011?

Recommerce

In 2011, one of the big trends in American shopping behavior has been identified as “recommerce”. Recommerce is a trend fueled largely out of consumer need to stretch each dollar spent and by the subsequent recognition [by consumers] of the value that currently owned items have. In 2011, consumers sought to leverage that value, either by trading in for newer models or upgrades or reusing those items in creative ways to stretch their lifespan.

I imagine that it is also propelled by our desire to keep up with the seemingly constant technological advancements (and feature enhancements) of products and services and the perhaps all-too-frequent next-generation releases of mobile phones and other gadgets.

According to trendwatching.com, the recommerce trend is driven primarily by three factors; Nextism: the concept that consumers will continually desire the next best thing; Statusphere: the importance that consumers place on being perceived as being environmentally responsible, financially prudent and savvy conscious; and Excusumption: the actual need to stretch each dollar spent and the value for each dollar.

For more wonderful examples of newsletter and email marketing campaigns taking advantage of the trend of recommerce, visit trendwatching.com

Have you been incorporating this trend in your promotions? Are you offering your customers trade in and upgrade opportunities?

If not, why not?

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