Personalization Strategy Essentials
Hudson ArnoldStrategy Consultant
An Optimizely Online Workshop
Daniel QuickCustomer Education Manager
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• Overview of Key Concepts • Core Principles of Personalization
• Discovering your Audience • Creating Targeted Experiences • Running Effective Campaigns
• Personalization Tactics
Agenda
What is personalization?
Delivering a tailored experience to meaningful audiences
so you can improve metrics important to your business.
•Overview of Key Concepts • Core Principles of Personalization
• Discovering your Audience • Creating Targeted Experiences • Running Effective Campaigns
• Personalization Tactics
Agenda
Experiences are the aspects of your site or app where you’ll deliver
personalized messages.
Banner
Headline
Lightbox
Campaigns are the intersection between your audiences and your targeted experiences.
Campaigns
x xx
Audiences
x
Experiences
• Overview of Key Concepts • Core Principles of Personalization
• Discovering your Audience • Creating Targeted Experiences • Running Effective Campaigns
• Personalization Tactics
Agenda
• Are there drop-offs in your conversion funnel that are more severe for particular device types?
• Is there an overabundance of negative survey data from users who are new to your site?
• Is there a cohort of your customers that you’d like to incentivize more aggressively because they haven’t purchased in a long time?
Questions you might ask your data:
Visitor Attributes
Behavioral• Groupings based on similar behavior • For example: browsing behavior, purchase behavior, abandonment
Visitor Attributes
Behavioral
Contextual
• Groupings based on similar behavior • For example: browsing behavior, purchase behavior, abandonment
• Groupings based on current state of visitor (but change over time) • For example: device type, time of day, new vs. repeat visitor
Visitor Attributes
Behavioral
Contextual
Demographic
• Groupings based on similar behavior • For example: browsing behavior, purchase behavior, abandonment
• Groupings based on current state of visitor (but change over time) • For example: device type, time of day, new vs. repeat visitor
• Groupings based on stable individual attributes • For example: age, gender, income
Discover Audiences
• Create User Personas
• Analyze Historical Data
• Reference Technical Attributes
• Overview of Key Concepts • Core Principles of Personalization
• Discovering your Audience • Creating Targeted Experiences • Running Effective Campaigns
• Personalization Tactics
Agenda
Where are the places that we an apply personalization messages?
Consider: • Headlines • Images • Light-boxes • Recommended Content • Promotional Banners • CTAs
Experience Review
x
Prioritize & Test
• Targeted A/B Testing • Validate your audience
and experience hypotheses
• Prioritize tests based on their value and effort ratio
Creating Experiences• Brainstorm Messages
• Review your Experiences
• Create a Messaging Matrix
• Test and Prioritize
• Overview of Key Concepts • Core Principles of Personalization
• Discovering your Audience • Creating Targeted Experiences • Running Effective Campaigns
• Personalization Tactics
Agenda
Running Campaigns
• Manage Overlap
• Measure Performance with Holdbacks
• Sync A/B Testing and Personalization
• Overview of Key Concepts • Core Principles of Personalization
• Discovering your Audience • Creating Targeted Experiences • Running Effective Campaigns
• Personalization Tactics
Agenda
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-Taking Action with Statistics, Sep. 23
Closing