Cs forum2012 makinge_bayhelphelpfulagain_luciehyde
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The document describes a case study of redesigning eBay's global help content. It outlines the content lifecycle and analyses phases, including conducting a content audit across countries/languages to assess topics, page ranks, and identify cleanup needs. User research was also performed. The goals were to break down help content in a more targeted way, focusing on benefits and resolutions, and make the repository more fit for managing the full content lifecycle. Metrics would help measure the redesign's success.
![Overarching recommendations for content (1) [sic]
• Liaise with the respective product/business teams to identify key task flows to
determine how content can be effectively designed and surfaced at the
appropriate times.
Proactively inform users of the processes and guide them as necessary through
these processes.
Consider using different formats (video, text, images, etc.) to effectively
communicate and guide the users, especially beginners
Consider designing wizards to guide new users through key processes
Registration, Listing, etc.
Be aware of key initiatives roadmap of different teams and proactively communicate
proposed changes through the website
• Dedicate a portion of the page consistently to surface context-sensitive
guidance and support information
Also design a ‘content hub’ to allow for searching persistent information
• Use the website to mirror and complement any relevant offsite communication.
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![Overarching recommendations for content (2) [sic]
• Design content to cater to different media/devices
Almost all sellers commented on using tablets and smartphones for monitoring and
communications related purposes.
• Consider using external channels such as ‘YouTube’, ‘Facebook’, etc. to
increase visibility
• Also consider partnering with external elements such as ‘Google, ‘about.com’,
‘ask.com’, ‘eHow’, etc. to become part of the conversation regarding
information available outside eBay.
Most sellers said that while they do not look into specific web sources, ‘Google’ is
their starting point in research and depending on the context of need, they go
wherever it takes them (blogs, forums, online communities, etc.)
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Cs forum2012 makinge_bayhelphelpfulagain_luciehyde
- 1. Making eBay Help helpful again A Case Study Lucie Hyde CS Forum – October 2012
- 2. Contents • The Content LifeCycle • Project Context • Analyse Phase – Deep Dive: Content Audit – Deep Dive: User Research • Collect Phase • Manage Phase • Publish Phase – Deep Dive: Measuring Success and a metrics framework • The Content Strategy Paradox: It’s not just about the content – Personas - IA – Design - Systems 2 eBay Inc. confidential
- 3. Content lifecycle • Requirement analysis • Acquire • User research • Author/Edit • Governance planning • Version/Localize • Budget • Metadata Analyze Collect • Aggregate/Transform Publish Manage • Publish/Syndicate • Evaluate • Modeling/typing • Iterate or sunset • Configure/components • Structure /standards • Repository eBay Inc. confidential Credit: Rahel Bailie
- 4. Typical Content lifecycle at eBay • Requirement analysis • Acquire • User research • Author/Edit • Governance planning • Version/Localize • Budget • Metadata Analyze Collect • Aggregate/Transform Publish Manage • Publish/Syndicate • Evaluate • Modeling/typing • Iterate or sunset • Configure/components • Structure /standards • Repository eBay Inc. confidential Credit: Rahel Bailie
- 5. Project context • Assumed end-end responsibility for Global Help • Help content repository not fit for purpose • Increased focus on delivering content that supports business results • Increased focus on managing full content lifecycle • Design and content that were seven years old • Org change that made collaboration with a content-receptive marketing and comms team much easier Decision: Pilot a redesign that broke down global help, in a more targeted way, focusing on benefits (why?) as well as instructions (how?) and left resolution to customer support 5 eBay Inc. confidential
- 6. Analyse • Requirement analysis Activities • User research Global: • Governance planning - Content Audit • Budget - Requirements analysis - Governance Planning - Scoping and budgeting Analyse Local: - User research 6 eBay Inc. confidential
- 7. Deep Dive: Content Audit Credit: http://johnmccrory.com/ 7 eBay Inc. confidential
- 8. Global Help Content Audit GLOBAL HELP 'MASTER' URLs TOPIC (UK) US CA CAFR UK DE FR IT ES BEFR BENL NL PL AU SG HK IN CLEANUP/MAPPING asset URL help/account/answer-center.html Buying Seller journey TnS Other Communit y 906 Rank Rank Rank Rank http://pages.ebay.co.uk/ #N/A #N/A http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou 875 nt/answer-center.html LTS status LTS Rank Rank Rank Rank Rank Rank Rank Rank Rank Rank Rank Rank #N/A 1114 104 #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A 340 #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A NOTES IA CATEGORY/IES Typical Content Audit help/account/change-account.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou Account 88 53 92 68 nt/change-account.html LTS 82 91 89 50 90 92 39 255 54 69 84 72 help/account/change-password.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou doesn't exist for most nt/change-password.html EU sites - functionality Account 136 533 #N/A #N/A 404 #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A 363 may be different (email conf used for PW change). UK page mentions changing #N/A #N/A password very briefly URLs on help/account/forgot- password.html Brief description help/account/change-userid.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou help/account/closing-account.html Account Registrati on 246 30 290 22 304 10 171 nt/change-userid.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou 20 nt/closing-account.html LTS LTS 265 40 241 9 158 23 317 32 554 44 333 21 303 17 178 30 96 22 65 16 254 14 257 16 Unique identifier help/account/contact-customer- support.html help/account/cookies.html CS Trust & 45 91 123 http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou 26 nt/contact-customer-support.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou LTS 21 62 59 75 69 87 74 406 157 364 255 232 Content types 341 162 254 381 nt/cookies.html LTS 100 225 266 439 151 267 234 99 222 #N/A 112 503 Content Relationships Safety help/account/cookies-web- http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou beacons.html Trust & 221 168 #N/A 262 nt/cookies-web-beacons.html LTS 249 1115 214 699 555 334 291 100 226 #N/A #N/A 504 Safety help/account/correct-invalid- http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou US redirects to IA identifier email.html nt/correct-invalid-email.html help/account/change- Account 1171 501 #N/A 1014 LTS 778 866 1142 658 556 #N/A 384 131 1128 #N/A #N/A 646 account.html help/account/errors.html Tech http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou 85 73 93 84 nt/errors.html LTS 114 101 119 127 117 181 199 108 118 131 228 156 Basic metrics: traffic/ visitors issues help/account/forgot-password.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou Account 78 45 85 92 nt/forgot-password.html LTS 173 285 118 108 229 107 100 257 69 185 49 101 help/account/forgot-userid.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou Account 98 75 69 133 nt/forgot-userid.html LTS 157 104 78 111 143 143 147 196 76 81 108 112 help/account/gettingstarted.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou eBay info 46 70 39 143 nt/gettingstarted.html LTS 113 128 76 59 103 83 124 45 151 57 13 92 help/account/getting-started.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou eBay info 150 206 113 439 nt/getting-started.html LTS 327 403 232 280 426 269 380 139 604 113 65 258 help/account/glossary.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou eBay info 74 48 89 72 nt/glossary.html LTS 650 #N/A 56 82 #N/A 88 40 59 67 82 63 81 help/account/how-to-register.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou Registrati 122 136 79 212 nt/how-to-register.html LTS 153 129 112 199 160 182 232 164 131 114 121 149 on help/account/how-to-register- http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou business.html Registrati 214 437 #N/A 181 nt/how-to-register-business.html LTS 363 393 516 479 427 233 229 109 377 272 #N/A 505 on help/account/link-paypal.html Account/registrati http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou 14 on PayPal 101 60 103 28 nt/link-paypal.html LTS 64 66 80 93 75 51 77 37 216 115 316 652 help/account/manage-paypal.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou PayPal 121 186 136 108 nt/manage-paypal.html LTS 78 124 108 129 94 131 197 179 59 #N/A 382 #N/A help/account/managing.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou Account 33 26 18 37 nt/managing.html LTS 27 24 55 45 25 38 27 27 37 22 12 34 help/account/my-ebay.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou My eBay 67 170 108 113 nt/my-ebay.html LTS 154 201 106 5 192 14 78 92 192 186 144 282 help/account/my-messages.html Improve service http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou standards Messages 47 38 44 52 nt/my-messages.html LTS 55 45 40 53 63 84 51 65 36 26 51 47 help/account/paypal-cc.html http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/accou doesn't exist for UK, 276 191 66 #N/A nt/paypal-cc.html 404 #N/A 287 701 517 243 342 203 222 #N/A #N/A 229 #N/A but probably should - content is applicable 8 eBay Inc. confidential
- 9. Comparative Content Audit: necessary to compare same content across languages and markets GLOBAL HELP 'MASTER' URLs TOPIC (UK) Seller US CA CAF R Ran Ran Ran Ran UK DE FR IT ES BEF BEN R L NL PL AU SG HK IN LTS Ran Ran Ran Ran Ran Ran Ran Ran Ran Ran Ran Ran CLEANUP/MAPPING NOTES IA Comparative Content Audit asset URL Buying TnS Other http://pages.ebay.co.uk/ CATEGOR journey k k k k status k k k k k k k k k k k k Y/IES help/account/answer- http://pages.ebay.co.uk/h Comm #N/ #N/ #N/ 111 #N/ #N/ #N/ #N/ #N/ #N/ #N/ #N/ 1. 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A “multi-dimensional” audit – 3-D not - content is applicable 9 eBay Inc. confidential 2-D, globally
- 10. UK Content Audit: Approach • Identify/ catalogue all current content in the following (internally defined) areas: - Seller-facing Help content (224 URLs) - Other seller-facing onsite content (55 URLs) - Seller-facing CS content (emails, chat, KB, etc – 500+ pieces of content) • Audit each piece of content, using internal quality measurements, testing for: - Linguistic accuracy (Grammar, spelling etc) - Usability - Brand and tone compliance • Assign average score (4+ = pass; fail in linguistic accuracy = autofail) - Indicative “health” score • Metrics analysis - Traffic and ranking eBay Inc. confidential 10
- 11. UK Content Audit Results: Current seller-facing Help content QUALITY SCORE 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 eBay Inc. confidential 11
- 12. Content Audit Results: Current on-site content (non- Help) Key Findings • 83.63% of the documents qualified for automatic failure, when audited against our internal quality checklist. • Only nine documents passed every audit section without automatically failing (16.36%) • Two documents failed across the board (refs: 5 Solutions Directory and 35 FAQs) eBay Inc. confidential 12
- 13. The good news: Most of our content maps against seller journeys, as defined by sellers Improving service standards Communicates with buyers via email Sends own branded emails Offers a returns policy Actively resolves buyer issues and cases Actively monitors Detailed Seller Ratings and reacts eB Achieves eBay ay Top Rated Seller In Status c co nfi de Becomes a nti Powerseller al eBay Inc. confidential 13
- 14. Summary of Content Audit findings • We’ve lost the authority over our own • It is, however, covering the right content parts of the seller journeys • Our content is often “invisible”: hidden, out of context and not surfaced and point of need. • Only the latest content is on-brand, on- tone and in line with current design guidelines • Our content can’t easily be exported to or shared between several channels • It is often wrong • It is often out of date • It certainly isn’t sexy or personalised (at least not consistently) eBay Inc. confidential 14
- 15. Deep Dive: Desk Research – Learning Preferences 15 eBay Inc. confidential
- 16. Executive Summary Desk Research • Learning is a very high goal, and the focus needs to be learning to sell successfully, especially online. • Motivation to progress and the ability to progress is different for different sellers, so content should be tailored and targeted to account for effective triggers appropriately. • Support is looked at a holistic entity and should be Contextual Top Timely Insights Easily discoverable Accessible • To facilitate better learning, content should be Consistent Hierarchical Easy to scan Adaptable to multiple formats Available via different channels 16 eBay Inc. confidential
- 17. Deep Dive: User Research Interviews 17 eBay Inc. confidential
- 18. Executive Summary Seller Interviews Learning is contextual and sellers look at eBay as a selling platform and not an educational one • Preference is to learn by actually ‘doing’. • None of them had looked at ‘Help’ to figure out how to get started, preferred learning by actually doing. • Common practice seemed to be learning by ‘trial and error’. • Most sellers said they looked at other sellers’ listings for inspiration and guidance and to identify keywords Top • Apart from online research, friends and families cited as primary sources for information. Insights • No specific or concrete learning sources when it comes to understanding eBay processes. • Few of them cited ‘forums and communities’ to be a good source of information while looking to find answers for specific issues. • Few used social media such as Facebook and Twitter as a supplementary tool advertise their eBay products. • b2c sellers that had some retail background had no active expectations from eBay (in terms of content) to help them progress. eBay Inc. confidential
- 19. Sellers didn’t articulate any learning needs • No active training needs* None of the sellers seemed to have any expectations w.r.t learning Most of the sellers felt the onus was really on them to succeed and did not have any active expectations from eBay regarding training. However, a couple of sellers said expanding meant adding to their workforce. And they felt the training cost (time and effort) associated with hiring new members is a deterrent. At least they felt they did not have the time on their to train some one new, especially when they were trying hard to establish a successful business. • In these instances they felt some help from eBay or otherwise in hiring people that had the working knowledge of eBay, or in help training them would be very welcome. * Again needs to be kept in mind that we spoke mostly to non-novice, b2c sellers. Could be different for novice sellers and for c2c 19 eBay Inc. confidential
- 20. Yet we identified many latent needs • Market themselves better • Manage buyer expectations Importance of good listing Importance of clear and honest communication with buyers • Looking at other seller listings • Accurate description and item conditions • Keywords • Good photographs • Shipping time • Increase efficiency Proactive communication of delays or Increasing awareness of tools problems with shipment • Listing tools • Timely response to queries • Fee calculator • Pulse Monitor and manage inventory • Benefits Why sign up as a business seller? Automatic relisting Why become a ‘Power seller’ or ‘eTRS’? • Timely response to queries Why PayPal? 20 eBay Inc. confidential
- 21. Overarching recommendations for content (1) [sic] • Liaise with the respective product/business teams to identify key task flows to determine how content can be effectively designed and surfaced at the appropriate times. Proactively inform users of the processes and guide them as necessary through these processes. Consider using different formats (video, text, images, etc.) to effectively communicate and guide the users, especially beginners Consider designing wizards to guide new users through key processes Registration, Listing, etc. Be aware of key initiatives roadmap of different teams and proactively communicate proposed changes through the website • Dedicate a portion of the page consistently to surface context-sensitive guidance and support information Also design a ‘content hub’ to allow for searching persistent information • Use the website to mirror and complement any relevant offsite communication. 21 eBay Inc. confidential
- 22. Overarching recommendations for content (2) [sic] • Design content to cater to different media/devices Almost all sellers commented on using tablets and smartphones for monitoring and communications related purposes. • Consider using external channels such as ‘YouTube’, ‘Facebook’, etc. to increase visibility • Also consider partnering with external elements such as ‘Google, ‘about.com’, ‘ask.com’, ‘eHow’, etc. to become part of the conversation regarding information available outside eBay. Most sellers said that while they do not look into specific web sources, ‘Google’ is their starting point in research and depending on the context of need, they go wherever it takes them (blogs, forums, online communities, etc.) 22 eBay Inc. confidential
- 23. User Research revealed changed behaviours when it comes to consuming information Last research (Dec 2008) New research (Jan 2012) • Users were happy with a “one- • Users no longer wanted to look for stop” problem-solving hub information on “how to eBay” – learning is now much more • Once they “knew their way immediate; learning is doing around” they were happy to look for an answer and then return to • They wanted any helpful content their task surfacing in context • Though they could get “distracted” • “Help” now seen only as a way to by “interesting content” on the way contact customer support if they weren’t that experienced • Users have several other sources to consult for information on eBay • They want information in several formats for all platforms/ devices 23 eBay Inc. confidential
- 24. Collect Activities Global: • Acquire - Re-write content in UK pilot • Author/Edit (on global source model), to • Version/Localise new Tone of Voice • Metadata - Curate information from other eBay/non-eBay sources - Create with localisation in mind - Metadata Collect Local: - Produce/curate ~20% to local requirements 24 eBay Inc. confidential
- 25. Manage Activities Global: - Pitching for a global, Manage integrated content architecture - To include CMS, content component • Modeling/typing repository, taxonomy • Configure/ and translation components management tools • Structure /standards Local: • Repository - Drupal “Sticking Plaster” 25 eBay Inc. confidential
- 26. Publish Activities Global: Publish - Success definition and measurement - Iteration (driven by global product changes) - Share learnings • Aggregate/Transform • Publish/Syndicate • Evaluate Local: • Iterate or sunset - Evaluation - Iteration (driven by local business reqs.) 26 eBay Inc. confidential - Staged publication
- 27. Deep Dive: Measurement Framework 27 eBay Inc. confidential
- 28. Overview of Global Help KPIs C2C selling/% Content Centre of GMV Selection Reduce BBE buyers who sell Increase CBT Excellence Produce online resources to help customer sell, which are accessible, relevant, useful, accurate and complete. Implement so that Content Centre of Excellence established with stakeholders. Relevance / Scalability / Brand / Tone Findability * Segmentation: reports Helpfulness Maintainability /Style should allow us to view visits, sessions, time on page by: • Business vs. Private sellers SEO / search Feedback Each item Survey/ • By main Categories/Vertical rankings box (“Y/N” & checked per Brand (the barriers to scaling sales comments) half tracker? in CSA are different to H&G or Tech…)* • Domestic vs. International Volume of Survey Processes (site of registration, would visits exist for new Internal give us an idea of the content types audit interest in this content to Type of visitor CBT sellers from outside (customer seg) UK) Benchmarking Time on page • Applications used (SYI, 3rd level of effort party tools, …)* per item * Category and AppId is only Type of visitor available on a listing basis (customer seg) eBay Inc. confidential
- 29. “Quantified” (Measure) Draft Data Collection Plan – Global Help Pilot UK What Current Target Who How When SEO analysis n/a 1st-2nd place per Michael / tbd Google / Monthly target query Adwords Analytics Visits, Available Tbd Michael / tbd Data Monthly segmentation, Warehouse feedback box data Feedback Available n/a Ben, Helen, Pip Data Each page’s comments analysis Warehouse comments reviewed once per quarter Survey / Brand (Need to review Tbd Tbd Tbd Monthly? tracker whether OCS surveys can help here) Internal audit 42% of All pages meet Ben, Helen, Pip Expert review Each page, reviewed pages Brand, Tone & (+ RLYL?) once per quarter met standards Style guidelines eBay Inc. confidential
- 30. Content Scorecards: Visualising success for the Exec team Findability: Voice of the 2.1 overall average Search Performance Position of Seller 3.25 average page Customer On page feedback Hub pages in natural rating (out of 5) Average rating of search rankings. 1.0 1.4- 6.1 Seller Hub pages Tested manually 4.1 4.3- 1.8 target range (1 star = very poor / against key terms, target range 5 stars = excellent). monthly. Progress Plans Progress Plans - Updated - Paid search - Updated - Paid search metadata on CBT terms launched metadata on CBT terms launched pages for CBT pages pages for CBT pages - Identified 4 new - Identified 4 new key terms to key terms to track track 30 eBay Inc. confidential
- 31. Content Scorecards: Visualising success for the Exec team Engagement Engagement 2.1 Time on mins Page 3.2k Volume of visits average time total visits (Sept) on page Average length of Total visits for Seller stay on page. Centre per month 4.1 0.3- 5.8 4.1k 2.3k target range target (Aug) Progress Plans Progress Plans - Launch of new - Delete page XYZ - Inserted in flow - Add page w/ CBT video (high bounce links to CBT video tutorial on rate) pages from SYI topic XYZ - Launched new RTM banner on Home Page 31 eBay Inc. confidential
- 32. Measuring success over time • Impact • Health Post-launch focus Ongoing Time-bound Can incorporate “Impact” metrics once time constraint is Should reflect specific strategic over business priorities Should reflect broader strategic Could support other initiatives priorities Typically take form of specific Generally independent of KPIs initiatives and projects Aim: to measure the success of Typically used as trend data the particular project or initiative and whether the changes Aim: to measure the ongoing produced ROI/ cost reduction effectiveness of content as part 32 eBay Inc. confidential of the user experience
- 33. Content strategy: It’s not just about the content Business require- Process Personas, ments models scenarios summary Gap User Wire- analysis research frames Govern- Content Flow ance matrix diagrams model Message Content Writing architec- model Templates ture Content Editorial Content inventory calendar migration Custom, Content Delivery personal plan design views Localiz- Content Standards ation audit guidelines strategy Metadata Link Training strategy strategy aids Sunset/ Versioning iterate eBay Inc. confidential Credit: The Content Strategy Paradox, Rahel Bailie
- 34. Personas New Seller Private Seller Top-Rated Business Seller Seller 34 eBay Inc. confidential
- 35. Validating the IA using Treejack 35 eBay Inc. confidential
- 36. Design 36 eBay Inc. confidential
- 37. Proposed initiative: redesign of content architecture Key principles of COPE: Key benefits of COPE: • Build content management • Ability to manage full content systems (CMS), not web lifecycle, not just launch, publishing tools (WPT) without developer intervention • Separate content from display • Ability to update content and presentation independently of • Ensure content modularity each other • Ensure content portability • Ability to re-use and re-imagine content x-channel and x- platform • Ability to port and export content independent of design and code 37 eBay Inc. confidential