<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Retentionist</title><description>Turning one-time buyers into regulars: email and SMS flows, loyalty, win-back campaigns and retention benchmarks for ecommerce.</description><link>https://theretentionist.com/</link><item><title>Win-back Campaigns: The Mechanics</title><link>https://theretentionist.com/winback/win-back-campaign-mechanics/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theretentionist.com/winback/win-back-campaign-mechanics/</guid><description>Segment definition, trigger timing, sequence design, suppression, and measurement. The unglamorous machinery that decides whether reactivation makes money, laid out step by step.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Win-back Email Examples That Do Not Beg</title><link>https://theretentionist.com/winback/win-back-email-examples/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theretentionist.com/winback/win-back-email-examples/</guid><description>The &apos;we miss you&apos; template survives because it is easy, not because it works well. Four win-back archetypes that respect the reader, mapped to how long the customer has been gone.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Abandoned Cart Email Best Practices, Ranked by What the Data Supports</title><link>https://theretentionist.com/email-sms/abandoned-cart-email-best-practices/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theretentionist.com/email-sms/abandoned-cart-email-best-practices/</guid><description>Most best-practice lists are folklore. These are the practices the published benchmark datasets actually back, ordered by how much they move recovery.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Abandoned Cart Email Flow: Timing and Sequence</title><link>https://theretentionist.com/email-sms/abandoned-cart-email-flow-timing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theretentionist.com/email-sms/abandoned-cart-email-flow-timing/</guid><description>How many emails, how far apart, and what each one is allowed to say. The published data from Klaviyo and Omnisend agrees on the shape more than most marketers expect.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Abandoned Cart Email Examples: What the Good Ones Share</title><link>https://theretentionist.com/email-sms/abandoned-cart-email-examples/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://theretentionist.com/email-sms/abandoned-cart-email-examples/</guid><description>Strip the branding away from any strong cart recovery email and you find the same five blocks in the same order. Here is the anatomy, and the archetypes worth copying.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>