psychology of engagement through audience profiling using personas
DESCRIPTION
Using personas to craft experience: New technology has created a population that is not satisfied unless they can connect, interact, and collaborate. Personas are the starting point in developing a strategy for engaging your audience in ways that lay the foundation to better serve your audience through appropriate channels and messaging, build trust and establish a longer term relationship, focus efforts and expose internal conflicts and more effectively use resources. Panel presentation at APA National Convention, Washington DC 2014 with an overview of the persona development process.TRANSCRIPT
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AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CONVENTION ★ WASHINGTON DC ★ AUGUST 7-10-2014!
CREATING PERSONAS CRAFTING EXPERIENCE
Dr. Pamela Rutledge Dr. Jerri Lynn Hogg
The Psychology of Engagement Through Audience Profiling
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DEFINE ENGAGEMENT RATIONALE FOR PERSONAS 7 STEPS TO PERSONA DEVELOPEMENT
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WHAT IS ENGAGEMENT?
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Engagement = (Your audience +
your goal)
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WHO IS YOUR AUDIENCE?
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DEMOGRAPHICS
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PSYCHOGRAPHICS
SOCCER MOM • Suburban homeowner • College educated with
professional career now devoted to raising family
• Upper middle class • Activity-laden lifestyle • Drives minivan • Watches Ellen • Posts regularly on Facebook
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GOING DEEPER
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WHAT IS A PERSONA?
A model, archetype or a representation of your customer
– Goals – Beliefs and values – Behaviors
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WHY PERSONAS? Exposes assumptions Forces you to be specific Creates a clear image
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Your brain is wired to read minds Most people suck at it
GOOD NEWS
BAD NEWS
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COGNTIVE DISCONNECTS I’m lazy
I use shortcuts
I assume others are the same as me
I use what I know best -- me
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THE VALUE OF INVESTING
IN PERSONAS • Focus on real
people to create empathy
• Build consensus and commitment
customer
design sales
Personas build consensus and
commitment
Develop empathy for customers
Customer-centric relationship Understand business
challenges
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STEPS TO BUILD & USE A PERSONA 1. What is your goal? 2. Creating a hypothesis: The Ad Hoc persona 3. Where are they? 4. What is important to know about them? 5. Testing the hypothesis 6. Finalizing the persona 7. Creating a persona-based strategy
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1 DEFINE YOUR GOAL
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2AD HOC PERSONA
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Persona’s name A tag line for the persona
• Who are they? • What is their background? • What is their context? • What’s important to
them? • What are their pain points
and frustra=ons?
Key goals & needs • Goals • Mo=va=ons • Drivers • Needs
A picture or photo of the
persona
“A quote the persona might say”
CAPTURE THEIR STORY
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3WHERE ARE THEY? WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?
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LISTEN ON
SOCIAL NETWORKS
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FACEBOOK SEARCH
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4WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?
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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
FINDING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
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AVOID BULLSHIT* PERSONAS Look for answers to questions like: • I am a… • I want to be a… • I can do… • I’m not a… • I really like to … • I need to …
*Thank you Bolt | Peters
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EXPAND
THE SEARCH
• Look for the stories
• Define the terms
What does a “Better
Life” mean?
Time with
family
Financial security
Travel the world
More career options
Social life
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FOCUSING SEARCH TERMS
Aging parents, cognitive
impairment, retirement
Technology, sandwich generation
Boundaries, Fatigue, stress,
cognitive testing, home care
Problems at home
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5 ANALYZING YOUR DATA
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1. Start simple 2. Read and rank blog
and micro-blog posts 3. Rank
– Positive – Neutral – Negative
4. Use an Excel template and chart to start to visualize what is being said
BE PRACTICAL
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leximancer
DEDOOSE
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Dude, do you think Mary would really say that?
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6FINALIZING YOUR PERSONA
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IDENTITY: Balancing perceptions of self as good daughter with good mother and wife Wants to feel competent and knowledgeable for parents Adjusting to changing roles
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7 PERSONA-BASED STRATEGY
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HOW DO YOU USE
PERSONAS? • Articulate Goals and
Improve Decisions – Strategy – Spending – Metrics
• Results – Challenge misconceptions – Stop internal debates – Focus efforts – Improve marketing
messages, programs and distribution
– Better serve your audience
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Ad Hoc Persona
Research & Adjust Persona
Share Persona & Integrate feedback
Persona-Based
Strategy
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PERSONA PROCESS
1. You are not your customer 2. Ad Hoc personas articulate your
assumptions 3. Social media gives you the ability
to “listen” and test at low cost 4. Focus on psychological
fundamentals 5. Use data to adjust your
assumptions 6. Design for your persona 7. Measure and adapt
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CREATING PERSONAS | CRAFTING EXPERIENCE
THANK YOU Dr. Jerri Lynn Hogg Dr. Pamela Rutledge