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Personalization in Sitecore XP
Sitecore personalisation
2
Personalisation?
3
Conversion in reverse order
4
> To convert (commit) someone's attention to tangible business
result, marketer has to gain his trust
> To build trust, marketer have to prove he understands the
customer's needs and has relevant solution addressing them
> Taking confidently about your solution in context of customer's
needs is achieved by delivering highly personal (personalised!) and
contextual information
Awareness
Research
Decide
Purchase
Attract
Communicate
Trust
Commit
Attract Communicate
Trust
Commit
Attract
Communicate
CommitTrust
What’s the personalisation?
5
>Personalisation enables brand to present the most relavant
information to its audience
>Context is necessary to deliver proper messaging.There are various
types of contexts:
> Customer segmentation
> Customer behaviour
> Environment and timing
Key ingredients of personalisation strategy
6
Data
Segment Profile
Action/Content
The data
7
>Data - how do we gather relevant information
> Explicit - experience profile information
> Implicit - via user behaviour and expressed intents on our website
Building segment profile
8
> Identification – initial hypothesis or research on segment profiles
> What characterises them?
> What are their traits?
> What are their intents/needs?
> How do they access the website?
> How we can influence them?
Persona – special definition of user segment
9
> Persona - the concept of fictionary
marketing target profile, developed by
Angus Jenkinson/Alan Cooper between
1983-1993
> It gives segement name and personality,
which makes it easier to maintain and
comprehend for marketers in
development of their marketing
strategies
> Personas can encapsulate multiple
different angles at once of marketing
perspective: sales lifecycle, demoraphy,
social environment
Personalisation in Sitecore
10
> Profiles – categories used to define criteria to track user behavior
> Profile keys – attribute related to specific profile
> Profile cards – preset collection of profile keys used to tag the content
> Pattern card - used to match visitor profile to one of the patterns, then
further to display relevant content
> Visitor profile – real-time behavior profile calculated for a visitor
Implicit persona – explained in a simpler way
11
> Profiles – different marketing angles to analyse i.e. Persona, Sales
Lifecycle, Demographics etc.
> Profile keys – personal, character, behavioral traits of a person which you
can try to measure i.e. “Loving Cars”, “Family person”, “Money conscious”
> Profile cards – Content Tags to be used by visitors i.e. “Content for leisure
enthusiast”, ”Content for businessmen”, “Content for journalists”
> Pattern card – Actual Persona, named by name and major theme i.e.
”Melanie the entrepreneur”, “Adam the working dad”, “Sandra a toursit”
Implicit personalisation
12
>Digital Relvancy Maps helps
to identify requirements for
content supporting your
personal
>One of the key activities of
personalisation is mapping of
the content to support your
Personas
>In building actionable implicit
personalisation strategy
(contextual) content is a key!
Action/Content
13
>Persuasive messaging
> Understanding customer in context gives marketer a powerful tool
helping in delivering the most relevant and persuasive messaging
> Sitecore doesn't replace marketers and digital agencies works, it
delivers framework helping them to concentrate on type of messaging
they would like to deliver
Recap
14
>Personalisation helps build trust among customers and convince
them to take action
>Key ingridience of proper personalisation strategy are Data +
Segment Defintion + Action/Content
>There are two types of personalisation: explicit and implicit
>Implicit personalisation is always based on properly crafted
information architecture, based on Digital Relevancy Mapping
>Sitecore enables marketers to concentrate on their messaging
to various segements of visitors
USA HQ
Toll Free: 866-687-3588
Tel: +1-512-516-8880
Ukraine HQ
Tel: +380-32-240-9090
Bulgaria
Tel: +359-2-902-3760
Germany
Tel: +49-69-2602-5857
Netherlands
Tel: +31-20-262-33-23
Poland
Tel: +48-71-382-2800
UK
Tel: +44-207-544-8414
EMAIL
info@softserveinc.com
WEBSITE:
www.softserveinc.com
Thank you!
Jakub Koba, Head of DMP CoE@Softserve
jkoba@softserveinc.com

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Sitecore personalisation demystified – key components of good personalisation strategy on Sitecore XP

  • 4. Conversion in reverse order 4 > To convert (commit) someone's attention to tangible business result, marketer has to gain his trust > To build trust, marketer have to prove he understands the customer's needs and has relevant solution addressing them > Taking confidently about your solution in context of customer's needs is achieved by delivering highly personal (personalised!) and contextual information Awareness Research Decide Purchase Attract Communicate Trust Commit Attract Communicate Trust Commit Attract Communicate CommitTrust
  • 5. What’s the personalisation? 5 >Personalisation enables brand to present the most relavant information to its audience >Context is necessary to deliver proper messaging.There are various types of contexts: > Customer segmentation > Customer behaviour > Environment and timing
  • 6. Key ingredients of personalisation strategy 6 Data Segment Profile Action/Content
  • 7. The data 7 >Data - how do we gather relevant information > Explicit - experience profile information > Implicit - via user behaviour and expressed intents on our website
  • 8. Building segment profile 8 > Identification – initial hypothesis or research on segment profiles > What characterises them? > What are their traits? > What are their intents/needs? > How do they access the website? > How we can influence them?
  • 9. Persona – special definition of user segment 9 > Persona - the concept of fictionary marketing target profile, developed by Angus Jenkinson/Alan Cooper between 1983-1993 > It gives segement name and personality, which makes it easier to maintain and comprehend for marketers in development of their marketing strategies > Personas can encapsulate multiple different angles at once of marketing perspective: sales lifecycle, demoraphy, social environment
  • 10. Personalisation in Sitecore 10 > Profiles – categories used to define criteria to track user behavior > Profile keys – attribute related to specific profile > Profile cards – preset collection of profile keys used to tag the content > Pattern card - used to match visitor profile to one of the patterns, then further to display relevant content > Visitor profile – real-time behavior profile calculated for a visitor
  • 11. Implicit persona – explained in a simpler way 11 > Profiles – different marketing angles to analyse i.e. Persona, Sales Lifecycle, Demographics etc. > Profile keys – personal, character, behavioral traits of a person which you can try to measure i.e. “Loving Cars”, “Family person”, “Money conscious” > Profile cards – Content Tags to be used by visitors i.e. “Content for leisure enthusiast”, ”Content for businessmen”, “Content for journalists” > Pattern card – Actual Persona, named by name and major theme i.e. ”Melanie the entrepreneur”, “Adam the working dad”, “Sandra a toursit”
  • 12. Implicit personalisation 12 >Digital Relvancy Maps helps to identify requirements for content supporting your personal >One of the key activities of personalisation is mapping of the content to support your Personas >In building actionable implicit personalisation strategy (contextual) content is a key!
  • 13. Action/Content 13 >Persuasive messaging > Understanding customer in context gives marketer a powerful tool helping in delivering the most relevant and persuasive messaging > Sitecore doesn't replace marketers and digital agencies works, it delivers framework helping them to concentrate on type of messaging they would like to deliver
  • 14. Recap 14 >Personalisation helps build trust among customers and convince them to take action >Key ingridience of proper personalisation strategy are Data + Segment Defintion + Action/Content >There are two types of personalisation: explicit and implicit >Implicit personalisation is always based on properly crafted information architecture, based on Digital Relevancy Mapping >Sitecore enables marketers to concentrate on their messaging to various segements of visitors
  • 15. USA HQ Toll Free: 866-687-3588 Tel: +1-512-516-8880 Ukraine HQ Tel: +380-32-240-9090 Bulgaria Tel: +359-2-902-3760 Germany Tel: +49-69-2602-5857 Netherlands Tel: +31-20-262-33-23 Poland Tel: +48-71-382-2800 UK Tel: +44-207-544-8414 EMAIL info@softserveinc.com WEBSITE: www.softserveinc.com Thank you! Jakub Koba, Head of DMP CoE@Softserve jkoba@softserveinc.com