An overview designed to help you get started with personalisation and build a successful project. If you'd like to find out how we can help you, contact us at hello@ratiopartners.co.uk
Ratio Partners - Getting Started with Sitecore Personalisation
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Getting started with web personalisation
Presented by: Steve Renshaw : Managing Partner : Ratio Partners
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About Ratio and Sitecore
Ratio Partners
We are Ratio, the customer experience specialists.
With several years of experience working agency, client
and software side, we are passionate about increasing
our clients’ digital maturity by bringing together strategy
and technology to deliver relevant and meaningful user
experiences that relate directly back to your business
metrics, using the Sitecore platform.
Sitecore
Sitecore is the global leading Experience Management
platform, with several thousand customers and
hundreds of delivery partners, as well as featuring as
leaders in Gartner Magic Quadrant and Forrester reports
for web content management and digital experiences
year after year.
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Why is personalisation critical to your business?
By 2017, 50% of product investment
projects will be redirected to customer
experience innovations.
Gartner
By 2020, customer experience will
overtake price and product as the key
brand differentiator.
Walker Info
Loyal customers are 5x as likely
to repurchase, 5x as likely to forgive, 7x as
likely to try a new offering, and 4x as likely
to refer.
Temkin Group
89% of marketing leaders expect to
compete primarily on the basis of customer
experience by 2016, as compared with
36% four years ago.
Gartner
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Let’s not forget the customer
78% of British respondents would be more
likely to buy from retailers if they were served
with targeted, relevant offers
Infosys survey of 5,000 consumers
Delighting customers doesn’t build loyalty;
reducing their effort - the work they must do to
get their problem solved - does
CEB
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Personalisation is central to Customer Experience
“I don’t want a relationship with my
bank; I have a relationship with my wife
and family. I want efficient service from
my bank”
“I hate it when I’ve visited a retail site and I’m
bombarded with adverts from them every time
I check my email for a fortnight afterwards”
Customers want personalisation on their own terms, not yours
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How can we personalise to users?
Device Location
Content
consumption
Goals
Triggered
#Visits Demographic
Purchases Spend Search
And much more….
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Designing a personalisation strategy
A successful personalisation strategy needs to be treated as a project
Preparation Scoping Build & Deploy Measurement &
Optimisation
A solid foundation grounded in data, planning and benchmarking
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Do your prep – ask yourself these questions?
• Do we have analytics set up and do we really understand what it’s telling us?
• Have we defined the business metrics we’re trying to influence?
• Do we know who the right stakeholders are and can they effect change?
• Do we understand our technology landscape?
• Do we know our audience types, their journeys and their touchpoints with us?
• What skills do we have or what resources might we need?
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It started with a KPI…
Strategic
theme
Business
objective
Digital
goal
Digital
goal
Business
objective
Digital
goal
Digital
goal
Business
objective
Digital
goal
Digital
goal
To be the number one retail bank in the UK
Increase ISA opened accounts & value
Decrease manual processing time
Increase ISA lead form conversions
Increase brochures downloaded
Provide more data with leads
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Set your benchmarks
• Increase ISA lead form conversions by
2% in three months
• Increase brochures downloaded by 5%
• Provide more data with leads
(qualitative) – provide high/med/low
value based on behaviour in 6 months
NOT ALL KPIsWILL BE INSTANTLY ACHIEVABLE
• Use Google Analytics or platform/other stats to set current versus target
• There are no hard and fast rule for setting KPIs for personalisation
• Some KPIs may be more qualitative than quantitative but impact higher up the chain
• …so get business metrics wherever possible and always try to relate it back
• Value of opened ISA accounts
directly attributable to digital rose by
£600,000 over three months
• Decrease manual processing time by
160 hours, £2k efficiency saving
• Project cost £20k
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Getting the stakeholder mix right – why and who?
• Personalisation is a new concept
• Politics of ownership, especially on key channels and pages
• Ability to define and measure against key metrics
• Process and cultural change
• Budget, time and resources
• Other project priorities
Stakeholder involvement will float or sink a project – show them value
CMO/Marketing CDO/Digital CIO IT Sales/Commercial CRM Manager
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Defining your audiences, journeys and touchpoints
Our ISA buyer…
• Sees a leaflet in bank
• Initial visit to the website
• Checks other banks’ deals
• Comes back to the website
• Views more “trust” info
• Phones an advisor
• Submits application online
Forrester, 2015