Personalization
Strategy Essentials
Hudson Arnold
Strategy Consultant
An Optimizely Online Workshop
Daniel Quick
Customer Education Manager
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• Overview of Key Concepts
• Core Principles of Personalization
• Discovering your Audience
• Creating Targeted Experiences
• Running Effective Campaigns
• Personalization Tactics
Agenda
What is personalization?
What is personalization?
Sup, bro?
What is personalization?
What a beautiful
day. Good morning!
Sup, bro?
What is personalization?
Click that!
Buy this!
What is personalization?
Delivering a tailored experience
to meaningful audiences
so you can improve metrics
important to your business.
•Overview of Key Concepts
• Core Principles of Personalization
• Discovering your Audience
• Creating Targeted Experiences
• Running Effective Campaigns
• Personalization Tactics
Agenda
Audiences are subsets of visitors that
have something in common with each other.
Audiences are subsets of visitors that
have something in common with each other.
Audiences are subsets of visitors that
have something in common with each other.
Audiences are subsets of visitors that
have something in common with each other.
Audiences are subsets of visitors that
have something in common with each other.
Experiences are the aspects of your
site or app where you’ll deliver
personalized messages.
Banner
Headline
Lightbox
Campaigns are the intersection between your
audiences and your targeted experiences.
Campaigns
x xx
Audiences
x
Experiences
• Overview of Key Concepts
• Core Principles of Personalization
• Discovering your Audience
• Creating Targeted Experiences
• Running Effective Campaigns
• Personalization Tactics
Agenda
Teenage + Girl + Spring =
Apparel Site:
Teenage + Girl + Spring =
Adult + Income + City =
Apparel Site:
Bicycle Site:
Data
• Qualitative Surveys
• Web Analytics
• Purchase Data
• CRM
• Bounce Rates
• Are there drop-offs in your conversion funnel that are
more severe for particular device types?
• Is there an overabundance of negative survey data
from users who are new to your site?
• Is there a cohort of your customers that you’d like to
incentivize more aggressively because they haven’t
purchased in a long time?
Questions you might ask your data:
Visitor Attributes
Behavioral
• Groupings based on similar behavior
• For example: browsing behavior, purchase behavior, abandonment
Visitor Attributes
Behavioral
Contextual
• Groupings based on similar behavior
• For example: browsing behavior, purchase behavior, abandonment
• Groupings based on current state of visitor (but change over time)
• For example: device type, time of day, new vs. repeat visitor
Visitor Attributes
Behavioral
Contextual
Demographic
• Groupings based on similar behavior
• For example: browsing behavior, purchase behavior, abandonment
• Groupings based on current state of visitor (but change over time)
• For example: device type, time of day, new vs. repeat visitor
• Groupings based on stable individual attributes
• For example: age, gender, income
Discover Audiences
• Create User Personas
• Analyze Historical Data
• Reference Technical Attributes
• Overview of Key Concepts
• Core Principles of Personalization
• Discovering your Audience
• Creating Targeted Experiences
• Running Effective Campaigns
• Personalization Tactics
Agenda
Brainstorm Messages
Brainstorm Messages
Go somewhere warm!Go somewhere warm!
Brainstorm Messages
Go somewhere warm!
Where are the places that we an
apply personalization messages?
Consider:
• Headlines
• Images
• Light-boxes
• Recommended Content
• Promotional Banners
• CTAs
Experience Review
x
Messaging Matrix
Prioritize & Test
• Targeted A/B Testing
• Validate your audience
and experience
hypotheses
• Prioritize tests based on
their value and effort ratio
Creating Experiences
• Brainstorm Messages
• Review your Experiences
• Create a Messaging Matrix

• Test and Prioritize
• Overview of Key Concepts
• Core Principles of Personalization
• Discovering your Audience
• Creating Targeted Experiences
• Running Effective Campaigns
• Personalization Tactics
Agenda
Managing Overlap
Men’s
Swimsuits Bags
Managing Overlap
Men’s
Swimsuits Bags
Managing Overlap
Men’s
BagsSwimsuits
Managing Overlap
Men’s
BagsSwimsuits
Measuring Performance: Holdbacks
5% 95%
Measuring Performance: Holdbacks
A B
Measuring Performance: Holdbacks
A B
Measuring Performance: Holdbacks
A B
Measuring Performance: Holdbacks
Running Campaigns
• Manage Overlap
• Measure Performance with
Holdbacks
• Sync A/B Testing and
Personalization

• Overview of Key Concepts
• Core Principles of Personalization
• Discovering your Audience
• Creating Targeted Experiences
• Running Effective Campaigns
• Personalization Tactics
Agenda
Symmetric Messaging
Symmetric Messaging
Symmetric Messaging
Behavioral Re-targeting
Behavioral Re-targeting
• You Recently Viewed
• You Might Also Like
Behavioral Re-targeting
• Use past browsing +

purchase history
• Show promotional banner
Contextual Empathy
• Location
• Show images and text with
emotional resonance
Contextual Empathy
• Device
• Custom CTAs,
messaging, etc.
Contextual Empathy
• New vs. Returning
• Registration Incentive
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Optimizely Workshop: Personalization - Strategy Essentials