6 months on from the GDPR deadline… have you started to prioritize retention?
For many marketers, 2018 will be remembered as the year of the GDPR.
Despite the long lead up time, plenty of businesses found themselves scrambling to get their house in order ahead of the 25th May deadline.
Consumer inboxes were flooded with re-permission campaigns from brands seeking to retain their marketing lists. And when the dust had settled, many marketers found themselves faced with smaller lists.
But the threat of mass unsubscription didn’t end after 25th May 2018 passed - it just started.
The new rules mean customers now have an ongoing ‘right to erasure’. They can access their details at any time and wave goodbye. And this means you’re going to have to put more effort into customer retention from now on.
In the following blog post, we take a look at the…
62.26% of customers feel happy and excited to respond to a specially tailored message from the retailer
The personalization of emails is not just limited to sending emails to your customers addressing them by their first names - it’s so much more than that.
You can use personal information like their date of birth, full name and past purchases to create personalized customer experiences. This can be incredibly beneficial as personalized emails are known to increase conversions and retention rates.
In fact, 62.27% of customers feel happy and excited to respond to a specially tailored message from the retailer. This shows that you need to send tailored notifications to your customers based on their preferences.
Let’s take a look at some examples and the infographic by Post Funnel. This will give you an idea of how to effectively use personalization in…
Personalizing on a B2B level is more important than ever
Personalization for B2Bs is staggeringly more effective than giving visitors a flat, generic experience. 80% of B2B businesses surveyed said that personalizing their website was more effective when it came to reaching their company’s objectives than unpersonalized content.
But personalization for B2Bs has not been a widely adopted strategy. Businesses say they don’t have the technology, the required data, or even the resources to personalize for their customers on a one-to-one level.
However, just like regular customers, B2B buyers are beginning to expect and even demand relevance at every point in their buying cycle. Mass marketing is no longer applicable. It is no longer the aim to find the message that will resonate with a large number of your customers: you’re looking to find the most important message for each individual buyer.
B2B…
A case study of how a retail brand ran a personalisation program to improve engagement
Jack Wills, a retail fashion store, has used personalisation to boost conversions for new and returning customers.
What results have Jack Wills seen since running their personalisation program?
12% increase in conversion rates
8% increase in Add-to-basket
Reduced basket abandonment
Using Monetate, a personalisation software for consumer-facing brands, not only has Jack Wills increased their conversion rates, they have also reduced their basket abandonment.
Personalisation is key
A number of changes were made to their online store - including 'sticky filter' functionality and personalised rules for displaying products to give customers a better and more engaging user experience.
Through personalisation, new customers to the online store are shown product category pages with 'bestseller' products, whilst returning customers are shown 'new arrivals' on the same pages. This is because extensive…
How Personalization, Segmentation, and Optimization work together to create a seamless customer experience
There are three different levels to delivering personalized customer experiences: optimization, segmentation, and 1-to-1 personalization. Many of the ecommerce marketers we speak to are already using one or two of those approaches but haven’t considering how they relate to one another-so we developed a visual we call the Monetate Personalization Pyramid to help visualize the relationships between these three layers.
In this article, we’ll talk you through the Pyramid from the bottom up. If you want to find out more, sign up for Smart Insights and Monetate's Getting Personalisation Right: 10 Best Practices to Improve Conversion webinar.
Optimization
The base level of the pyramid is optimization. This describes the process of testing different approaches, analyzing the results to identify the top-performing design, and then implementing the winner. You'll know this…
We interviewed Certona's CEO Meyar Sheik about the future of one of marketing hottest trends - personalisation tech.
1. First of all, congratulations on being named top personalisation provider! Can you tell us how Certona uses machine learning and predictive algorithms to predict customer behaviour?
Certona pioneered the use of patented machine learning and predictive algorithms that empower retailers to leverage real-time profiling of individual shoppers across the omnichannel landscape. Certona’s personalisation platform is powered by a sophisticated blend of continuous profiling and real-time targeting that augments behavioural profiles with every interaction. This develops shopper insights that fuel intelligent predictions, letting retailers deliver increasingly individualised experiences as shoppers engage across touchpoints. Within 3-4 clicks on a site, Certona’s personalisation platform ingests real-time shopper data such as location, weather, time of…
Which channels are best for delivering more personalized communications?
Relevance - Relevance - Relevance! should be the mantra of digital marketers since we know that serving more contextual messaging to our prospects and customers will give an improved experience and boost response.
There is certainly no shortage of marketing services to deliver personalization, but it seems from this recent survey from Venturebeat that ability to customise messages to the individual varies a lot by channel.
It's clear that email is 'streets ahead' in its usage for personalisation although, as the report notes this can vary in sophistication from name personalisation to recommendations based on behaviour. It's surprising that web personalisation is relatively rare, although we can expect it's higher in Ecommerce sectors such as financial services, travel and retail.
Venturebeat: Marketing Personalization: Boosting Relevance
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Wearable technology trends and the future of digital selling
Until what seems like very recently, wearable technology has remained on the fringes of consumer consciousness, with most people unsure what to make of it. 'What’s the point in moving the user interface two inches from my pocket to my wrist?' people rightly ask. 'But I’m terrible at multitasking, those glasses will just be another distraction…' Although wearables still have yet to gain widespread popularity, interest is stirring and 2015 may just be the year it turns a corner.
According to a recent report from Juniper Research, wearable advertising spend is estimated to reach just $1.5 million this year, but by 2019 is expected to hit a slightly more impressive $68.7 million. That’s a huge new market, and one that online marketers would do well to embrace.
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Customers have similar traits but are not all alike and should not be spoken to with a single message in the same manner and tone. This was initially looked at in an earlier article ‘Talk to your customers or talk to your customer?’, but once the need to communicate with and not at all your customers is understood, providing different messages/offer/content using surface level details is a tempting approach, for example splitting the message by gender and/or age group.
This approach assumes that the surface level details represent the best groups of customers which will not always be the case. Looking at the sand in the first image at first glance all the grains seems to be identical with some obvious differences becoming apparent when a more detailed…
Creating more relevant personalised communications
Receiving messages from a company you have never spoken to can be annoying and intrusive at best, often referred to as spam. Therefore, gaining permission to speak is a critical element in building a relationship with your customers, but using this right to broadcast the same communication to all customers will eventually turn your message to “noise”. Having a conversation is not a one way speech, but an interactive communication which listens and speaks to, not at the customer.
Within the travel and tourism industry the need to provide the personal touch is a key differentiator of single and smaller hotel chains, with the service and attention to detail making the experience memorable and distinctive. This unique and distinguishing service is often carried across to the digital world, with some very elegant, evocative images and…
