What does Personalisation really mean in the context of Customer Experience? How do you do it effectively? As customer expectations continue to rise. How can you, as a marketer, keep your company relevant by making each customer experience personal? This presentation is from my talk at the Vibe Marketer's Fest in Dubai, 5-6 November, 2019.
Harnessing Data and Analytics to Personalise Customer Experience
1. Harnessing Data and Analytics
to Personalise Customer
Experience
Namrata Balwani
Marketing and Customer Experience Consultant
www.namratabalwani.com
@mysti
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2. How did she find her husband?
1.5 Mn population – 35 potentials based on data
Quantitative Futurist
Professor at NYU Stern
Founder, FutureToday Institute
Author of 4 Books
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3. 72 Attributes desired
TopTier and SecondaryTraits
WithWeighted Scores
Loves to really travel. Not cruise-ship travel.
Mac person preferred over PC person.
Likes jazz. Likes jazz only from the 1920s to the late
1940s.
Scoring System: 1000 pts+ = top choices
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4. Scanned competition
Created 10 different personas of men
New personal profile. Most popular profile.
Collected data – qualitative and quantitative
Found one potential – 1050 points+
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6. Which one area is the single
most exciting opportunity for
your organisation in 2019?
Econsultancy Digital Trends 2019
Respondents 1,421
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7. What are the top three
marketing-related challenges
most likely to keep you awake
at night?
Econsultancy Digital Trends 2019
Marketer Respondents 1,098
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8. How concerned are you about
the following potential
business threats to your
organization’s growth
prospects?
PWC, 22nd Annual CEO Survey
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15. Basic Personalisation Is Not
Good Enough
Help the customer through the buying journey - help find a better deal, same time,
provide info they didn’t have before, make the purchase process easier
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16. Opt-Ins
• Use opt-ins to encourage customers to willingly share information
• Proactively use surveys & other methods
• Collect more information to infer high value moments.
• Provide a better experience that shows the value exchange.
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17. Virtuous Loop
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
• Every Interaction Matters
• People And Product
• Micro-experiences
POSITIVE CX CAN MEAN
● Customers Willing to Pay More
● AwarenessTo Advocacy
● Brand Advocates Spend More
● LeadsTo More Referrals
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18. Single CustomerView
• Unify Customer Data
• Capture interaction across channels and devices
• Seamless engagement
• Challenges
• Legacy systems
• Poor Data Quality
• Organizational Silos
• Data “Readers”
• Shifting Customer Preferences
• NewerTechnology
• How to overcome?
• Customer Journey Planning
• Integrate Data
• Customer Identity Matching
• Always-On Journey
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21. Personalisation
INSIGHTS: IDENTIFY
CUSTOMER PERSONAS,
BEHAVIOUR
COMMUNICATION: CREATE
PERSONALIZED ADS/
CONTENT
STORYTELLING: CREATE A
NARRATIVE BASED ON THE
JOURNEY
TARGETING: TARGET THE
RIGHT AUDIENCE AT THE
RIGHT TIME IN THE RIGHT
CONTEXT
MEASUREMENT: MEASURE
THROUGH THE JOURNEY
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22. But I Have No
Data!
It’s Not All Or Nothing
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24. Content
Personalisation
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Organic and Paid - Traffic and Revenue
Organic Sessions SEMSessions Organic Revenue SEMRevenue
Keyword Searches – Internal Data –
Personas – Content Creation –
Relevant Retargeting – Increase in
website traffic – Conversions
Organic traffic gives strong results in
direct bookings, with personalized
content, for this hotel brandPhoto by Simon English, Guilherme Stecanella, bruce mars on Unsplash
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25. • Track keywords and content preferences
• Customised page content
• Track website navigation journeys
• Set-up a lead scoring model
• Used personalized content to drive lead
nurturing – increase in open rates
• Based on content interaction and
engagement, lead scoring model adapts
• Needs Analysis by sales teams – contextual
selling
Orchestrated
Journey
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26. • Understanding the emotional journey - when
you join a gym, you want to get fit. But it
could be that you have a wedding coming up,
or you’ve just had a baby or you have a goal
to hit before your birthday arrives.
• Better intelligence so that we don’t just sell a
gym membership; we talk about the
experience, their emotional needs and ask
ourselves: how do we meet those?
• Linking online to offline (O2O) – Customers,
Trainers, Coaches - their interaction in real
life to online experience
• Higher conversions & reduced churn Orchestrated
Journey
Fitness Brand
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29. ThankYou. Q?
Namrata Balwani
Marketing and Customer Experience Consultant
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@mysti
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Editor's Notes
“Either I have an extremely sophisticated data strategy, with multiple data inputs, complex tech infrastructure, or I should keep doing what I do today”.