3. Personalisation
A means of enhancing the visitor experience to a
website by elevating certain functionalities
4. Personalisation: It’s Important
52% of digital
marketers agree
that the “ability to
41% are
committed to
personalise
providing a
content is
personalised web
fundamental to
experience
their online
strategy”
7. Personalisation: What sets a
personalised site apart?
STANDARD SITE: PERSONALISED SITE:
PRESENTS THE SAME THE USER EXPERIENCE IS
CONTENT TO ALL USERS CHANGED TO BE
– REGARDLESS OF DIFFERENT TO EACH
PROFILE, PREFERENCES USER BASED ON PRE-
AND BEHAVIOUR DEFINED FACTORS
9. Personalisation: General
characteristics
• Rule-based & triggered by interactions with a
user
• Insight into a user can come from various
factors
• A business logic is integrated into a website
and, when triggered by a user’s activity, it
changes the static display of content to match
the visitor
10. Personalisation: EXPLICIT
PASSIVE SEGMENTED
User able to customise/tailor or otherwise set
up features User given a profile which determines what
content will be shown
“Passive” in the sense that they may or may
not choose to set up accordingly
Often used by marketers to create specific
E.g. Early Yahoo! groups
A good way of creating an extranet environment
+ Easy to set up + Great for sites with a lot of content
- Too many log-ins - More onerous from an admin perspective
11. Personalisation: IMPLICIT
“BEHAVIOURAL TRACKING”
The clicking activity of a website visitor is tracked and monitored
Every incremental click is then used to determine the content
received by the visitor
e.g. Amazon
+ No log-in or other details necessary
- In maintenance terms, this is the most labour-intensive to
maintain & th most involved
12. Personalisation: HYBRID
“THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS”
Where a visitor on a passive or segmented site could have
implicit tracking applied at a particular stage of their journey
Alternatively, an implicitly tracked user could be asked to
register for an “explicit experience”
e.g. ebay
Pros and cons: A combination of explicit and implicit
13. Personalisation: ADAPTIVE
“THE SYSTEM CREATES THE PROCESS”
Where the system itself creates the logic that determines what content to display
Incremental behaviour of website users is analysed to model a 'user' or 'user type' and
the system uses this knowledge gained to personalise content displayed automatically
Predicts the content that a visitor is looking for based on incremental behaviour
e.g. Baynote, Google, Amazon
+ Does not require setting up, and a great choice for organisations who could benefit
from personalisation but lack the in-house resources to effect it
- Complex tech underpins its operation; still in its infancy
15. Personalisation: Overview
• Here to stay
• Those already using it
will improve their
systems
• The rise in
personalisation part of
a broader paradigm
shift in tech landscape
16. Measurement
QUANTITATIVE:
THE “WHAT”
YOU
NEED
BOTH
QUALITATIVE:
THE “WHY”
17. Measurement: Analytics
...is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting
of internet data for purposes of understanding and
optimizing web usage.
-Official DAA definition
19. Measurement: What You Need To
Remember
THERE ARE NO
ANYTHING CAN
INDEPENDENTLY THE TRUTH LIES
BE A SOURCE OF
MEANINGFUL IN THE CONTEXT
DATA
METRICS
20. Measurement: The Need For
Context
Metrics are only meaningful when
interconnected...
22. Measurement: What We Can
Expect
• Universal analytics
• Attribution Modelling Tool
• Cost Data Import
• Customer Lifetime Value
• Recency, Frequency and Monetary Value
• Custom Dimensions/Metrics
• Mobile
23. Measurement: The qualitative tools
The most important data point: how
customers/visitors interact with your web
presence
An ongoing process...
28. Conclusion
#3
This complexity has an upside, as it will allow us
to derive greater value and understanding,
increasing ROI whilst delivering a far better user
proposition
The web allows us to access/generates dataThis data IF USED CORRECTLY can provide insightsThese insights can help us to improve efficiency, process and deliver a better ROI
Mid-1990’s: ATG/Broadvision early productsA means of enhancing the visitor experience to a website by elevating certain functionalitiesAmazon, eBay: early pioneers
52% of digital marketers agree that “the ability to personalise content is fundamental to their online strategy”41% committed to providing personalised web experience
What is the impact of personalisation on ROI & how is it measured?50% use “time spent on site” to measure increased engagementONLY 32% say their CMS enables personalisation YET 37% are targeting personalised content in real time33% say they use data effectively to maximise conversions27% test to see how different personalisation performsAND...6% use social graph data to personalise content42% say they can personalise using anonymous data
Fall in the cost of deploymentMany mid-tier CMS solutions incorporated this functionality as a USP to set themselves apartMORE CONTENT, so companies need to work harder to point users to the RIGHT content
A standard site presents the same content to all users, regardless of profile, preferences and behaviour.A personalised site is one where the experience is changed to be different to each user based on a number of pre-defined factorsPersonalised sites are PUSH- oriented, non-personalised sites are PULL- oriented
(1) EXPLICIT: based on the user’s PROFILE, and can be PASSIVE (allowing users to make choices as to what they'd like to see) or SEGMENTED (allocating content choices based on a logic layer applied to that profile)Examples: Pros & cons
(2) IMPLICIT/”BEHAVIOURAL TRACKING”: based upon a user’s clicking activity, the site dynamically offers content based upon that activityExamples: AmazonPros & cons
(3) HYBRID: a solution that is designed to offer the best of both worldsExamples: eBayPros & cons
(4) ADAPTIVE: where incremental website user behaviour monitored and personalisation takes place automatically Watch this space – tech developingAmazon? Google?
The rise of mobileGrowth of behavioural targeting“Big Data”: larger data sets to improve personalisation, esp., in recommendations/promotionsBroader shift to cloud/SaaS tech: user behaviour even more critical to the underlying tech intelligence of these systems
Here to stay and it will only increase in use and adoptionThose already using it will improve their systems, as evidenced by the increase in ROI that results from enhanced personalisation techniquesThe rise in personalisation part of a broader paradigm shift in tech landscape involving mobile-first, responsive & adaptive design, and cloud computing
QUANTITATIVE measurement: tells you WHAT is happeningQUALITATIVE measurement: tells you WHY it is happeningBOTH are important
Log files Taggingmore advanced analytics, ubiquity of Google Analytics bespoke CMS systems
Who is using my site?Where are they coming from?What content are they consuming?How are they engaging with that content?What can we do to make their experience better?
There are no independently meaningful metricsAnything can be a source of dataThe truth lies in the context...
Traditionally, the top 4 metrics worth looking at are likely to be:Traffic sourcesTop contentBounce rateGoals/conversionsOnly meaningful when they are interconnected:In this example, always evaluate (i) traffic sources and (ii) top content in light of (iii) bounce rate and (iv) conversions
Big Data to harness business intelligenceMore data sourcesMore platforms (particularly mobile: tablet, smartphone)Social media – also a source of contentionGoogle Analytics & “Universal” analytics
Universal analytics: users can tailor it to their needs, integrate their own datasets and get a better view of the entire marketing funnelAttribution Modelling Tool: build models that give credit to all their digital channels, provide insight into the impact of various marketing programsCost Data Import: import users’ cost data from any digital sourceCustomer Lifetime ValueRecency, Frequency and Monetary ValueCustom Dimensions/Metrics: widen dimensions for bespoke measurementMobile
The most important data point: how customers/visitors interact with your web presence:Usability testing“Follow Me Homes”A/B TestingSurveyingAn ongoing process...
As personalisation becomes more ubiquitous and sophisticated, so there is an increasing need for a real-time, instantaneous customer analytics capabilityAs with the broader analytics scene, where personalisation is present it is vital to understand the data generated by analytics tools. Good analysis of data is imperative.
Web measurement tools need to be understood contextually to derive the most benefitThese tools are increasing in sophistication to match both technological advances and also heightened business expectationsThe landscape for measurement is increasingly fragmented and diverseAll of these factors highlight a need for more integration, as increasingly disparate data sources & graphs, coupled with a fragmentation of platforms/devices used results in deeper challenges for measurementAs ever, the availability of more advanced analytics correlates with a need to have a more advanced & nuanced understanding of the analytics tools at our disposalPersonalisation amplifies all of the above factors, and creates a virtuous loop