HOW BEACONS SUPPORT
OMNICHANNEL.
PRESENT & FUTURE.
Customer journey in past
Simple purchase process:
Simple decision path
Only one purchase channel available:
single channel, no device
Customer journey today
Older, easier path gets more & more
complicated…
Our brain during shopping:
Dreaming -> exploring -> locating
IKEA
NIKE
LEGO
Todays’ journey looks more like a labirynth.
Not many have found their way as of now.
Evolution:
Customers tend to drift towards channels with better
shopping experience.
We value:
• fast way of retreiving data
• easy product comparison
• convenient search features
Mobile technologies have permanently changed our habits
How mobile are poles?
Polish preferred shopping devices
Men vs. Women - influence of sex on what we look for
From impulse to informed decisions - the way we change
with time
Anonymous quote:
The outcome: unified formula for arranging processes
and channels
Omnichannel explained
Omnichannel is not rocket science
Omnichannel from customers’ point of view.
Channels.
Please offer us a unified brand
presence in each of these channels:
• WWW
• Mobile Web
• Mobile App
• Direct points of sale
• Contact Center?
Basic processes:
• Product purchase
• Convenient pickup / Click&Collect
• Claims/Return/Product exchange -
from online to offline
• Same prices
• Same promotions
• Same functionality for logged users
Omnichannel from customers’ point of view.
Proces.
Big unification of each of the activities:
• Processes
• Communication
• Planning
• Pricing Strategies
• Data gathering and creating unified customer profiles
Omnichannel requires new kind of organizations and new ways of thinking.
Challenge no. 1:
Different channels need to stop competing - AND START TO COOPERATE!
Omnichannel from organizations’ point of view.
Dla organizacji, omnichannel to czas na „porządki po zimie”
Wielka unifikacja dla wszystkich kanałów:
• Procesów
• Komunikacj
• Planowania
Omnichannel lets us evaluate perfomance channel by
channel:
Beacons i Omnichannel - support areas
Beacons are „glue” that joins offline and
online
Dla organizacji, omnichannel to czas na „porządki po zimie”
Wielka unifikacja dla wszystkich kanałów:
• Procesów
• Komunikacji
• Planowania
ONLINE OFFLINE
E-commerce store Mobile app Store
URL Product shelves
„cookies” beacons
browser smartphone/tablet
Cursor Us :)
Beacons can glue together online with offline
Why beacons are cool?
• Support by handset and mobile OS manufacturers (Google, Apple,
Microsoft)
• Unique way of integrating BLE signals with mobile operating systems -
background communication
• Unified standard and protocol
• Low energy usage (1/10 of „classic” bluetooth)
• Easy installation
• Gets cheap quick lowering the entry barriers and accelerating adoption
of technology
What the market thinks about beacons?
Czemu beacony są fajne?
• Wsparcie po stronie producentów mobilnych urządzeń i ich systemów operacyjnych (Google, Apple, Microsoft)
• Unikalny sposób integracji sygnałów BLE z systemem operacyjnym - wykrywanie w tle
Czemu beacony są fajne?
• Wsparcie po stronie producentów mobilnych urządzeń i ich systemów operacyjnych (Google, Apple, Microsoft)
• Unikalny sposób integracji sygnałów BLE z systemem operacyjnym - wykrywanie w tle
Czemu beacony są fajne?
• Wsparcie po stronie producentów mobilnych urządzeń i ich systemów operacyjnych (Google, Apple, Microsoft)
• Unikalny sposób integracji sygnałów BLE z systemem operacyjnym - wykrywanie w tle
Beacons and retail
Beacons in retail
• Analytics
• Personalization
• Communication
• Navigation
• Integration of offline and online data -> cohesive and
complete customer profile
Finally we can transfer all of the e-commerce
experience to offline retail
• A/B tests,
• integration with loyalty platforms,
• marketing automatowy,
• remarketing,
• gamification,
• customer segmentation….
CX - Customer Experience
First and foremost - ability to provide new, better
shopping experience
Examples
Navigation in large stores
Toys’R’Us
Toys’R’Us
Walgreens
Walgreens
Engagement, defending against „showrooming”
Lord&Taylor
Loyalty, Customer Experience, foot traffic
Macy’s
There’s more! We have yet to discover all the
potential use-cases!
Beacons and wearables
Physical retargeting
YT link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_gbXbWySt8
Knorr Foodtruck Swedish tabloid mobile app
Ordering and Payments
Copa Blue, Palo Alto
Future
Where are we now?
Where are we now?
We are at a stage of developing „foundation” software for omnichannel
Early on in the process of developing necessary tools
Linteri - Google Analytics for the real world
Communication
Navigation
Analytics
Managing proximity infrastructure
Open API
Open architecture allows integration with
3rd-party systems:
• checkout,
• loyalty,
• CRM platforms
• or data warehouses.
API is read/write
Problems and challenges facing omnichannel
Problems and challenges
Biggest challenges:
• lack of people who understand omnichannel, and are able
to create and execute cohesive communications strategy
across channels with customers
• organizations willing to coordinate efforts of different
departments towards this goal
Channel coordination problems
Attribution problems
Willingness vs decisions.
Retailers and their interest with in-store analytics
Willingness vs decisions.
Retailers and their actual use of in-store analytics.
Uncertainty regarding the future of technology
Beacons and IoT - there’s dissapointment before enlightment
Challenges ahead of beacons
1. Current way BLE is implemented:
• Still need „classic” bluetooth to be turned on
• Sometimes also need localication services
2. Fragmentation: apps are required to cooperate with beacons
3. Overzealous marketers - abuse of push notifications
4. Concerns regarding privacy of data collected
5. Price. $100 -> $10 -> … ?
Łukasz Felsztukier,
Founder&CEO
lukasz@linteri.com
Tel. +48 664 952 859
Linteri Sp. z o.o.
ul. Nowogrodzka 42/9
00-695 Warszawa
Thank You.

How beacons support omnichannel. Present and Future.