Stephen Covey, author of the best-selling book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” identified important principles that also apply to websites. In this webinar, website expert Cuneyt Uysal will discuss these principles and examine some of the most effective websites today.
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7 Habits of Effective Sites in Asia Pac
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective
Web Sites
Cuneyt Uysal, Regional Manager Southeast Asia
cuu@sitecore.net
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You will take away
Understanding of the 7 Habits
Clarity about how to
determine where your team Mazda
should focus Manchester City
Learn how to put the habits Blackmores
into practice APEC
Panasonic
Real-world examples of The Knot
companies „living the habits‟ JetStar
on their web sites today
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Introduction to Sitecore
Sitecore in brief
References
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Introduction to the 7 Habits
Steven Covey‟s book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
People” (Simon & Schuster, 1989)
Apply the same rules to your web site
Your web site is a mechanism to build and grow an
online relationship with your audience
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The Value Gap
If you had a resource that could…
Increase customer retention
Increase qualified leads
Create more loyal and repeat customers
Lower customer support costs
Would you make use of it?
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Most Web Sites are Untapped Resources
Many organizations fail to harness the potential of customer
facing sites to:
Improve customer retention/relationships
Test marketing effectiveness
Increase lead generation
Generate customer self service
Due to consumerism elsewhere, customer expectations
continue to rise
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Audience Poll…
What prevents you from doing this today?
We don‟t have budget
We don‟t have the right people in place
Our technology platform has limited capabilities
We don‟t have a good understanding of our customers
We don‟t have the time
We‟re not sure where to focus
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Habit #1 Your Customers Are in Charge
Listen and respond to your customers‟ needs
Learn how to listen
Optimize for what your customer wants to do
Analytics only tell part of the story
Engage focus groups, surveys and your online user community
The customer is always right
Become adaptive - Learn and evolve
CMS to the rescue
Prioritize high value content (that user behavior shows you)
Why it matters
By creating a customer centric website:
More loyal customers (goodwill)
More repeat customers
Lower support costs per customer
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Blackmores – The Customer Intimacy Journey
2005/06 2007/08 2009
MASS TARGETED 1-TO-1
Personalisation / Relevance:
Low High
Audience:
Broad Narrow
Relationship Depth:
Shallow Deep
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Blackmores - Personalisation & Community
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Blackmores Today – A vibrant natural health community
286,000 members The post-event videos were watched a
total of 127,957 times even though only
120,000+ unique visitors/month 32,007 people actually ran the race
4 customer segments
3,000 sign-ups to social media groups
Online communities
from Blackmores Sydney Running
Blogs Festival links
Blackmores TV 36% survey response rate
Facebook 34% greater spend Members vs. Non-
members (Membership attracts
Twitter
advocates)
YouTube
Net Promoter Score of 79 amongst
Personalisation advocates
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Habit #2 Implement Your Site
Goals with Consistency
Not as obvious as you think
Most sites still behave like single dimensional marketing literature
Create targeted (segment based) calls for action
Leverage the advantages of the web, speak to who they are
Guide users where you want them to go
Remember: different types of users will react differently and plan for it
Ask yourself…
What should users achieve on this site?
What different types of goals do they have?
Why it matters
Provide focus and direction into every piece of content and functionality
Higher conversion rates (leads, transactions, self service, etc.)
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Habit #3 Balance User Experiences with
Site Goals
Prioritize Your Customers‟ Experiences
User experience must win out
Create value for your customers
Provide what they need, or what they didn’t even know they needed
Align their needs with your desired outcomes
Make your customers a part of the experience
Why it matters
Increased customer retention
Lower cost of doing business with customers
Word of Mouth (WOM) marketing
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Habit #4 Deliver Value to Your Web Visitors
Provide value
Deliver value back to customers;
Understand what they need and deliver it quickly
Demonstrate utility of the information they provide
Why it matters
Creates stronger collaboration habits with customers
Builds goodwill with customers
Stronger customer relationships for increased customer retention
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Habit #5 Be Honest – What is and is Not
Working
Examine and evaluate what does not work
Find the holes
Identify what customers seek, but can’t find
Elicit feedback and communicate back
Offer expertise
Why it matters
Help your customers learn how to do business with you
Lower customer support costs
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Habit #6 Create Ongoing Dialogue with Your
Customer
Create an ongoing conversation with your customer
Use personalization to have an ongoing dialogue
Episodic marketing can expand customer relationships
Put your customer community to work for you
Bubble up ideas and product feedback from customer community
Build trust and confidence using your community
Why it matters
Creates value for the customer
Greater customer intimacy / Loyalty
Expands the customer relationship
Deeper understanding of customer needs
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Audience Poll…
Which social channels have you integrated with your web
site?
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
YouTube
Unsure
MSN
QQ
Flickr
Other
None
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Habit #7 Sharpening Your Web Site’s Saw
Renewal Techniques that work:
A/B Split testing
Multivariate testing
Marketers love metrics
Use test and control mechanisms to analyze marketing effectiveness
Learn what is working and what is not
Prototype the customer response to new messaging and imagery
Why it matters
Actionable knowledge of what is working on your site
A low-cost channel for measuring marketing effectiveness
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The Seven Habits
Your Customers Are in Charge
Implement Your Site Goals With Consistency
Balance User Experiences With Site Goals
Deliver Value Back to Your Customers
Be Honest – What is and is not working
Create an Ongoing Dialogue with Your Customer
Sharpen Your Website‟s Saw
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Putting the Habits to Work
Demand more from results from your Web site
Extract more value by implementing these seven habits
CMS and Search Technologies can support these goals
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Q&A
Addition information can be found at:
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Follow up questions please contact:
Cuneyt Uysal
cuu@sitecore.net
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