Chris Cocca discusses the website optimization approach at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, along with tools being used and some of the challenges that come along the way.
15. What’s Next?
• Borrow from software development.
• Review and rank all the ideas with your buds
using your criteria.
• At each meeting, discuss the new ones and
fight about priorities.
22. Things to know
• Sharing the goal of optimization frees you to
focus on users and opportunities, not channels.
• Use a variety tools to help you build better use
cases and scenarios across all touchpoints.
• Measure the each tactic the right way.
23. More things to know
• There are many tools to get things done, but…
– It takes time.
– Methodology matters.
– Some things are hard to measure. Do them anyways.
• A good optimization program in place lays the
foundation for personalization.
With our insights we build user scenarios – a particular type of user, trying to do a particular type of thing, and all the touch points in between. The intersection of a type of user, a goal and a touchpoint are the places we can impact with new ideas.
Two sides to this – 1) criteria for ranking ideas and 2) measurement of any tacticThings to consider about criteria… Some key things we consider when we think about which thing to do next:Measureable – there’s a way to quantify the idea had an impact. Not all ideas can be measured the same way. Content can’t be measured in the same way as a new design of the checkout page, for example.Attribution Models Establishing the Incremental impact– have to show it wouldn’t have happened anyways. How hard and expensive is it to do? 1) stress test your KPIs for every tactic you’re thinking about – based on when/where/decision point, metrics are going to change in order to be accurate and relevant