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David Sigerson of Sitecore’s Business Optimisation Services team demonstrates their new optimisation platform’s personalisation capabilities and explores how charities can use the service to optimise ROI.
9. Feedback from SitecoreCharity Roundtable 2014
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Get into my circle of trust
I need information
Tell me a story
Give me something back
Don’t saturate me with suffering
Make me feel at home
19. Average conversion lift by using personalization
Source: The Realities of Online Personalization, eConsultancy April 2013
20. Insights – Perception of Personalization
When consumers were asked to select which marketing
channels were the most valuable for making purchasing
decisions, they indicate personalization provides value.
“Although virtually all companies surveyed
consider website personalization (a new
option for this year’s survey) to be valuable,
only a fifth currently use it to improve
conversion rates.”
EconsultancyConversion Rate Optimization
Report 2013
“74 percent get frustrated with websites
when content, offers, ads, promotions, etc.
appear that have nothing to do with their
interests.”
Harris Interactive, 2013US consumers
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21. Mary Berry recipe for
Personalisation
Step 1
Don’t mess up the first
interaction
Step 2
Make the next interaction
better by leveraging what you
know
Step 3
Repeat step 2
22. Two types of personalisation
Promotional
(convert)
Operational
(improve UX)
24. What does “We need more relevant content” actually
mean?
25. “In reality, though, most of
the time we don’t choose
the best option—we
choose the first
reasonable option, a
strategy known as
satisficing.”
Steve Krug, Don’t make meThink
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26. 26
Is there clear purpose to your
online experience?
Do you puke options at the visitor?
Does your homepage/landing
page make it look like you don’t
know what the visitor needs?
27. “It doesn’t matter how
many times I have to click,
as long as each click is a
mindless, unambiguous
choice.”
Steve Krug, Don’t make meThink
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29. “It appears to be a feature
of System 1 [fast,
autonomous thinking] that
cognitive ease is
associated with good
feelings.”
Daniel Kahneman,Thinking Fast and Slow
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If you want to learn more about improving
donator experience via better
personalisation…
Email me: dvs@Sitecore.net
www.Sitecore.net
www.connecttheexperience.com
Editor's Notes
Many organisations have multiple product teams (or silos) along with multiple communication channels
They’re all competing for the same portfolio of time and money
If you have several product teams all trying to marketing to the same donor, it’s going to quickly get overwhelming
Almost 60% of existing donors said they were being bombarded with further appeals
The user is going to start ignoring you
You need to capture as much of their portfolio of time and money as possible
Olive Cooke, 92, was bombarded with 260 letters a month asking for donations
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3107000/Olive-s-Law-force-charities-stop-hounding-pensioners-donations-suicide-Britain-s-oldest-popper-seller.html#ixzz3d7lH8ZDc
A single view of a donor is imperative
information not only from the different teams, but also from the donors themselves
Without this you can’t hope to be able to ingest their views and preferences or communicate back out to them effectively
You should be about to guess at a user’s value (pot) and known interests before marketing to them
Log category, value, activities, et
Ask them how they want you to talk to them
Then you can start to be intelligent about communication from other teams: don’t hit them immediately with another appeal, or if you have to then at least acknowledge the fact they recently spent with you.
Anticipating and asking
Optimising for each channel – what message and format
You could argue there is a further channel here – Justgiving
Finally, what about THE PEOPLE YOU’RE HELPING
Leadership
Politics
Who owns the communications?
Time and skills
60-85% of people donate to a charity because a family member or friend does
Social media 30% of inspirations 60% don’t trust it 5% of donations from it 16-24 year olds are turning away from FB & Twitter 1/3 of people ignore charity advertising But they’re twice as likely to follow you socially
About 2/3 of users expect content to be positive, “fun” & engaging 65% of visitors to your website are information seekers You need to communicate your mission visually and simply (and on the homepage)
People love reading about people A well written story is worth more than slick marketing spiel
GIVE ME SOMETHING BACK Not just now but forever I need emotional satisfaction I also want to look good
It’s about me, not you Up to 60% of donors feel bombarded I want you to anticipate my needs
Make me feel at home And I’ll do your marketing for you
[ CLICK TO SEE THE DIFFERENT USER JOURNEYS]
The challenge is that we cant control all touchpoints, all the time.
We cannot control the path the customer takes
The focus must be to make sure that the touchpoints we can control is synchronized and that no matter where the customer enters the journey there is consistency and relevance all the way through.
TALK ABOUT VALUE HERE
Do you have one homepage for everyone?
Do you have thousands of landing pages?
How do you make things more personal?
Who do you target and why?
[ CLICK TO SEE THE DIFFERENT USER JOURNEYS]
The challenge is that we cant control all touchpoints, all the time.
We cannot control the path the customer takes
The focus must be to make sure that the touchpoints we can control is synchronized and that no matter where the customer enters the journey there is consistency and relevance all the way through.
TALK ABOUT VALUE HERE
Do you have one homepage for everyone?
Do you have thousands of landing pages?
How do you make things more personal?
Who do you target and why?
[ CLICK TO SEE THE DIFFERENT USER JOURNEYS]
The challenge is that we cant control all touchpoints, all the time.
We cannot control the path the customer takes
The focus must be to make sure that the touchpoints we can control is synchronized and that no matter where the customer enters the journey there is consistency and relevance all the way through.
TALK ABOUT VALUE HERE
Do you have one homepage for everyone?
Do you have thousands of landing pages?
How do you make things more personal?
Who do you target and why?
personalization is a big opportunity. Marketers want to use it but most are not.
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Consumers indicate personalization provides value. But they also clearly can be turned off by personalization when it is not used in a sensible way. Marketers say personalization is critical to success.
Chart to left: research conducted by data optimization vendor xplusone.com.
http://www.marketingcharts.com/wp/online/marketers-value-personalization-of-the-web-experience-what-about-consumers-37772/
http://janrain.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/online-consumers-fed-up-with-irrelevant-content-on-favorite-websites-according-to-janrain-study/
http://www.marketingcharts.com/wp/interactive/consumers-say-they-want-more-relevant-website-experiences-35416/
Simple 3 step recipe for customer loyalty
We don’t pick the best options, we pick what looks relevant. Both psychology and linguistics have evidence to suggest we take the easy/effort less option.
Because different people want different things, this means dynamically changing the experience for more relevant conversations.
“the hearer/reader/audience will search for meaning in any given communication situation and having found meaning that fits their expectation of relevance, will stop processing”
Wikipedia, Relevance Theory (Sperber & Wilson)
Simple options are best. It doesn’t matter if its 5 clicks deep, as long as the journey was effortless
Make people feel good by making things easy and you get loyalty.
SA: When we think about a platform, and why Sitecore is building a platform, we need to go back to the beginning...
Sitecore’s vision is to empower organizations to build the effective - meaningful relations - that win customers for life.
That is what drives us, what forms what we need to do and how we need to evolve our products to be able to help our customers grow and build those relationships with their customers, that becomes a lifelong relationship.