In this presentation, Sitecore MVP Amanda Shiga provides an overview of five key steps to take to succeed with Sitecore data enrichment and personalization:
Getting started: The importance of xDB data enrichment
Building your strategy: Types of personalization in Sitecore and how/when to apply them
Keeping personalization manageable for marketing ops and website performance
Measuring success: How to determine if personalization is making a difference
Useful extensions: Some helpful approaches to extend Sitecore's personalization capabilities
The document outlines Rebeca Miranda's portfolio and services which include research, information architecture and identification, user interface design, and testing and delivery. Under research, it lists activities like web analytics, competitor analysis, testing, and persona design. For information architecture and identification, it lists site maps, navigation flows, wireframes, and storyboards. It also outlines user interface design services including mock-ups and final templates. The final section on "The Magic" includes re-testing and delivery.
ifPeople Online Marketing: How to Write and Distribute Messaging that SellsifPeople
This workshop, designed and delivered by ifPeople for a sustainable enterprise incubator program, covers how to understand your audience and create messaging for them and then get it to them. Anyone starting or growing a green business can benefit from better online marketing!
Get Your Head in the Clouds: Improving Green Marketing and SalesifPeople
This document discusses how companies can optimize their sales and marketing through technology. It begins by outlining the current sales environment, noting that customers are more informed and seek relationships. It then discusses the challenges of limited resources and siloed data. The document proposes using tools like a collaborative workspace and cloud-based CRM to improve processes like lead management and sales. It also recommends measuring results, targeted communications, focusing on valuable leads, and automating processes to better engage prospects up a "ladder of engagement." The goal is to generate more sales-ready leads at lower cost through effective use of available technologies.
This document provides an introduction to digital marketing. It discusses how the modern marketplace has changed such that customers now research online before buying. It emphasizes that a website's primary jobs are to connect with customers, convince them of a product's value, and convert visitors into leads. It outlines strategies for search engine optimization, social media marketing, on-page keyword placement, and using calls to action and offers to nurture leads over time through content and automation. Measurement of website traffic and performance is also highlighted as important for optimizing the digital marketing process.
The document provides a checklist for auditing a website and digital strategy. It covers key topics such as infrastructure management, creative and user experience, promotion, analytics, and strategy. For each topic, it lists important questions to consider to evaluate things like site performance, design, user experience, analytics use, competitive landscape, and strategic alignment. The overall goal is to assess how well the website and digital efforts are supporting business objectives.
AMP — Accelerated Mobile Pages — is no longer an up-and-coming experimental project. It’s now integrated into Google’s regular results and its use has expanded far beyond publishers; it is now being deployed by retailers and others.
Whether you’re just getting started with AMP or are looking to get more from your existing AMP efforts, this session explores the latest developments and what you should do to take advantage of them.
Plone's add on products are the easiest and fastest way to extend core Plone functionality for your site. Plone has over 1,100 add on products to choose from covering a vast variety and introducing a lot of flexibility. We'll start by giving you a tour of the add on products and how they are organized. With such a huge list to choose from, which ones are the must-haves for your sites? This session will dive into some of the most common and widely used products for Plone.
SEO (search engine optimization) is the practice of increasing traffic to websites through organic search results. It involves optimizing aspects like keywords, metadata, links, and content to improve rankings. White hat SEO follows search engine guidelines through techniques like quality content, proper metadata usage, easy navigation and quality links. Black hat SEO uses unethical techniques like keyword stuffing, cloaking, hidden text and duplicate content to manipulate rankings.
This document provides information on SEO (search engine optimization), both white hat and black hat techniques. It discusses what SEO is, its goals, and gives examples of black hat techniques to avoid like cloaking, meta tag stuffing, keyword stuffing, and gateway pages. White hat techniques are also covered, including using keywords, backlinking, link building, and quality content. Important Google algorithm updates are listed such as Panda, Penguin, Hummingbird, and the mobile-friendly update. The on-page and off-page optimization processes are summarized, covering elements like titles, URLs, images, and internal/external linking.
This document provides information on SEO (search engine optimization), including the basics of SEO, goals of SEO, white hat and black hat SEO techniques, and important Google algorithm updates. It defines SEO as improving traffic from search engines via search results. The goals of SEO are listed as acquiring top search positions, boosting sales and ROI. Black hat techniques like cloaking, meta tag stuffing, and keyword stuffing are discouraged. White hat SEO focuses on users through quality content and keywords. Google algorithm updates like Panda, Penguin, and Hummingbird aim to filter low-quality content and spam from search results.
Learn how to effectively utilize all of Sitecore CMS features and build a fully integrated Sitecore platform. As a certified Sitecore partner, Ameex offers end-to-end Sitecore development solutions and services and help you achieve bottom-line results. Contact our Sitecore experts for a free consultation
Ektron London Conference: Cross Channel Personalisation and Behavioural Marke...Ektron
The document discusses how behavioral marketing solutions from Silverpop can be integrated with digital properties from Ektron and mobile apps to personalize experiences based on captured behaviors and context. It provides examples of how Silverpop tracks behaviors across channels and integrates this data with CRM and other systems to power automated personalized campaigns and content. Specific integration approaches are outlined for Ektron websites and mobile apps to leverage Silverpop's behavioral database.
Personalization is the ability to respond to a specific user’s online actions and behaviors in a customized way to meet his or her specific needs. Providing a personalized e-commerce experience increases customer satisfaction, which, in turn maximizes online profits. Success in driving online sales depends highly on presenting the right information and right offers at the right time, and at the right place. Real-Time Personalization in Sitecore digital marketing profile offers a unique and distinct user experience for customers across multi-channel touchpoints.
Learn more at: http://suyati.com/service/sitecore/
Reach us at: achoudhury@suyati.com
What is SEO? The mystery ends here! We cover the basics of search engine optimization, including what it is & how important it is to your digital strategy.
Presentation that covers the state of the project, what it does, who uses it and where it's going. Talk from the Plone Conference 2009 in Budapest, Hungary.
search engine optimization is the process of improving the quality and volume of web traffic to a website by employing a series of proven SEO techniques that help a website achieve a higher ranking with the major search engines when certain keywords and phrases are put in the search field. Galagali Multimedia office search engine optimization services which help to improve your website page rank in Google. We provide social bookmarking service, Article submission service, Press release submission service, Directory submission service, EDU backlinks, GOV backlinks, DMOZ listing, Content writing service, Backlinks Building this all services help to increase visitors as well as inquiry for your website.
This document discusses strategies for website development, search engine optimization (SEO), and social media marketing. It covers building a website using content management systems like WordPress, optimizing the site for SEO through on-page elements and links, and using social media tools to generate awareness. The document provides recommendations for site sections, navigation, content, templates, and gives an overview of the development and launch process.
Launching a Personalization Pilot with Acquia Lift: From Concept to Customers...Acquia
The growing trend within the digital experience market is the demand for more personalized experiences by its users. To address this need, many organizations establish a data-driven personalization initiative on their digital marketing roadmap, but end up facing challenges getting their personalization project off the ground.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to plan a successful personalization initiative in your organization
- The six most common challenges with personalization strategy
- Three example use cases that you can use in your own proof-of-concept
- How to launch a personalization pilot on your website in just 10 days
Google Analytics: Overview & Key Metrics for Retirement CommunitiesOur Kids Media
A step-by-step tour through Google Analytics, simplifying some of its complexity, and offering tips to make sure you are optimizing the numbers that matter to you.
SaaS Marketing - Blogging, Social and SearchAgile SEO
-- How do SaaS providers use blogging, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, SEO, PPC, and PR?
-- How can SaaS providers generate buzz and viral content?
-- Which online channels have the highest ROI?
-- How should SaaS providers integrate social media into their marketing process?
Gilad David Maayan, a SaaS marketing and social media expert, reviews how today's online marketing channels work together to generate high impact for growing SaaS providers.
The document outlines strategies and best practices for optimizing a business's online presence and web marketing efforts. It discusses topics like search engine optimization, social media marketing, pay-per-click advertising, mobile optimization, and measuring results. The overall message is that small businesses can compete effectively online by targeting specific niches, measuring efforts, and continuously testing and improving strategies.
1. The document outlines an agenda for a conference on search engine optimization techniques, including discussions on defining goals and resources, evaluating websites, and measuring performance.
2. It introduces the company eTeamsys and their focus on SEO using the ART methodology to evaluate accessibility, relevance, and trust.
3. Emerging trends in search like universal search, geographic targeting, and personalized search are changing the SEO landscape, requiring strategies beyond just keyword optimization.
Google Analytics: Overview & Key Metrics for Schools and CampsOur Kids Media
A step-by-step tour through Google Analytics, simplifying some of its complexity, and offering tips to make sure you are optimizing the numbers that matter to you.
The document discusses various aspects of online marketing including search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, social media marketing, analytics, and lead generation. It provides tips on building an optimized website, search engine rankings, keyword research, integrating marketing efforts with CRM systems, and measuring performance.
What can online business learn from the neighborhood store? The value of personalization, where individual visitors are treated as individuals, with targeted content and offers that appeal to their implicit or explicit needs.
Interact16 Crystal Olig: Web Architecture to Fuel Customized, Human ExperiencesLessing-Flynn
Crafting a site that delivers real-time, customized messages
based on an individual’s unique needs requires more than a
great site map. In this session, you’ll learn how to get started
creating taxonomies, patterns and information architecture
that works. We’ll also talk about what tools are out there
to help you, how to avoid the creepiness factor with real
human language, and what’s hot and new for websites that
drive meaningful business results.
Website Development and Marketing Proposal PowerPoint Presentation Slides SlideTeam
Explaining the website design process can be difficult, select our Website Development And Marketing Proposal PowerPoint Presentation Slides to make it simpler. Using web design proposal PPT template you can easily introduce your company to prospecting customers. This website design PPT includes set of slides such as on proposal outline, target audience demographic archetypes, project objectives, design process, marketing approach, mobile apps, social media approach, search marketing, project phases, and timeline, about us, our team, clientele, a record of success, case study and company logo, etc. Web design and development proposal PowerPoint complete deck may be used to showcase your business expertise and methods you use while designing a website. In this website design proposal presentation template complete structure is laid out you can easily illustrate step by step of the web design process. Download the web development proposal presentation design to grab a lucrative deal for your business. Our Website Development And Marketing Proposal PowerPoint Presentation Slides are full of go. Everyone around gets extremely energetic.
Why Marketing is Broken, and how Time to Value fixes it!edynamic
This document discusses how edynamic helps companies realize return on investment from their digital marketing investments using the Sitecore Experience Platform. It outlines edynamic's Time to Value methodology, a structured workshop and delivery offering designed to quickly harness Sitecore's capabilities. The methodology involves 4 steps - Engagement Analytics, Rules Based Personalization, Profiling & Predictive Personalization, and A/B Testing. It is intended to rapidly enable marketing optimization and deliver quick wins within 30 days to see maximum benefit and ROI from a Sitecore investment. The outcomes include a scope for marketing success, digital goals, personalization opportunities, profile definitions, and suggestions for A/B tests.
• Getting started with Google Analytics
• Principles of website conversion tracking and understanding what’s driving results
• Getting to grips with the interface
• Conversion and Goal tracking. Get useful data on the things that matter the most to your business
• Acquisition – what drives traffic
• Behaviour – what visitors do on your site
In an entity-first world, user experience (UX), SEO, and content each have a key role to play. But it's in unifying these three connected elements that the best results can be achieved. In this presentation we are sharing why and how UI/UX and SEO works together.
We are discussing five critical ingredients needed to develop a robust UX/SEO/Content scorecard. You'll also see a real-life example of the measurable impact this approach had on a Fortune 500 brand, and walk away with an easy-to-use digital scorecard you can leverage back at the office. You can also see several strategies which will help you in solving complex problems such as measuring ROI to alignment.
Improve conversions in your ongoing digital initiatives
Future-proof digital assets for discovery and optimal user experience
Implement the illustrated step-by-step process of prioritization, alignment, and deployment
Convince top executives why it's essential to work cross-functionally by defining and delivering on success KPIs
How to improve your performance online - survey results Microsoft Dynamics Pa...Patrick Dalle
From a field research on the websites of 80 Microsoft Dynamics Partners in Belgium & the Netherlands, Lemarco discovered the real key drivers behind online performance
Google Analytics : Overview & CustomizationOur Kids Media
A step-by-step tour through Google Analytics, simplifying some of its complexity, and offering tips to make sure you are optimizing the numbers that matter to you. We will cover some basic customization including using segments and creating custom dashboards.
The document provides an agenda for a web analytics training day. The objectives are to understand web analytics and how to use analytics tools to understand website visitors and enhance online performance. The agenda includes explaining what web analytics are, why they are useful, demonstrating site-focused and market-focused analytics tools like Google Analytics, browser plugins and SEO analytics software, and how to use analytics packages. Practical exercises are also included to allow participants to apply the concepts.
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This document discusses session state and its importance in Sitecore xDB. It defines session state as how web applications track user progress across pages when HTTP is stateless. In Sitecore xDB, there are private and shared session state types. Private stores interaction data while shared stores contact data shared across devices. Using in-process session state across content delivery servers can cause issues, so out-of-process is recommended. The document provides configuration guidelines and best practices for session state in Sitecore deployments.
The document provides an overview of Sitecore on Azure, including:
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Your website's design is a crucial element to presenting a unified brand identity. We've got some tips on how best to approach improving website credibility through design:
This document summarizes a presentation about using Sitecore's Online Marketing Suite (OMS) to engage customers and members. It discusses how the OMS can track individual and group behavior on a site, test content based on personas, and transform visitors into profiled visitors with session data. The presentation provides lessons learned from implementing personas and multivariate testing on the National Wildlife Federation's website, including challenges integrating analytics data and preparing the infrastructure. It emphasizes starting simply, moving from profiles to personalization and testing, and preparing for future capabilities in OMS like DMS 2.0.
Sitecore is making a move: the shift from Sitecore's web forms to Sitecore MVC has been a gradual one, but it's ramping up quickly. Stay in the know with this primer on what it is and why it's important
Knowledge management combines elements of information management, library sciences, document management and business administration to create a discipline that looks to define and transform the way organizations create and disseminate knowledge. Senior consultant Amanda Holtstrom explains Knowledge Management and how it can help businesses to better understand their own knowledge.
This document discusses how a content management system (CMS) replacement project can be like an iceberg, with much more work below the surface than is initially visible. It notes that icebergs have most of their mass underwater, attract sea creatures, are difficult to track as they move, and typically last 3-6 years before melting. Similarly, CMS replacement projects involve significant uncovered scope, attract many stakeholders, have requirements that are constantly discovered and debated, and generally require replacement every 3-6 years. The document provides advice on gathering a complete content inventory, examining database schemas, and consulting stakeholders to understand all requirements, noting that replacement projects typically involve more content, data sources, and functionality than initially expected. It warns of pressures to
Change management can be one of the most challenging parts of implementing a new system. Employees are resistant to adopt, but getting them on board is crucial. We give you 8 tips that will help to make the transition a little easier.
Almost half of content management system deployments end in failure. This inevitably raises the question - is the failure the result of the CMS product or the implementation approach taken by the service provider you've retained?
This short slideshare gives you the questions you need to answer to find out. Because until you identify the source of the problem, you can't begin finding a solution.
Is your organization thinking about "going to the cloud?" Make sure that you have all facts. We provide you with a good overview of the differences between IaaS, PaaS and SaaS and what considerations you need to make the decision.
ALM 101: An introduction to application lifecycle managementnonlinear creations
This document provides an introduction to continuous ALM improvement. It defines ALM as application lifecycle management, which includes the processes for bringing software from idea to reality, as well as the tools that support these processes. It discusses achieving continuous improvement by identifying small changes that can be made iteratively to processes and tools. This includes improving existing tools, introducing new tools, removing unnecessary "taxes" on teams, and ensuring tools meet reporting needs. The goal is to efficiently deliver software while introducing minimum impact on the development team.
The document discusses 10 ways to drive adoption of social intranets. The most important factor in realizing value from enterprise software is effective user adoption, which accounts for 70% of success. The top three ways to drive adoption are to focus on user needs when picking tools, allow inane but useful discussions, and build workflows that support key user behaviors and business outcomes. Motivating users with gamification, using peer pressure to promote certain activities, and showcasing top users are also recommended tactics. Constant measurement and refinement of the social tools is important to increase adoption over time.
The document describes the 4 stages of developer denial that the author experienced when implementing unit testing for a Sitecore project: 1) Egotism, where the developer believes unit testing is not needed. 2) Confusion, where the developer does not understand how to implement unit testing. 3) Frustration, where initial attempts at unit testing fail. 4) Success, where the developer overcomes challenges and gets the unit tests to pass by implementing fake indexes and contexts to isolate the code under test from Sitecore dependencies.
The document provides examples of implementing fake indexes and contexts using libraries like FakeItEasy and NSubstitute to enable unit testing of code that queries the Sitecore index without depending on the real index.
Quantum Communications Q&A with Gemini LLM. These are based on Shannon's Noisy channel Theorem and offers how the classical theory applies to the quantum world.
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The presentation showcases the diverse real-world applications of Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) across multiple industries:
1. **Manufacturing**: FDM is utilized in manufacturing for rapid prototyping, creating custom tools and fixtures, and producing functional end-use parts. Companies leverage its cost-effectiveness and flexibility to streamline production processes.
2. **Medical**: In the medical field, FDM is used to create patient-specific anatomical models, surgical guides, and prosthetics. Its ability to produce precise and biocompatible parts supports advancements in personalized healthcare solutions.
3. **Education**: FDM plays a crucial role in education by enabling students to learn about design and engineering through hands-on 3D printing projects. It promotes innovation and practical skill development in STEM disciplines.
4. **Science**: Researchers use FDM to prototype equipment for scientific experiments, build custom laboratory tools, and create models for visualization and testing purposes. It facilitates rapid iteration and customization in scientific endeavors.
5. **Automotive**: Automotive manufacturers employ FDM for prototyping vehicle components, tooling for assembly lines, and customized parts. It speeds up the design validation process and enhances efficiency in automotive engineering.
6. **Consumer Electronics**: FDM is utilized in consumer electronics for designing and prototyping product enclosures, casings, and internal components. It enables rapid iteration and customization to meet evolving consumer demands.
7. **Robotics**: Robotics engineers leverage FDM to prototype robot parts, create lightweight and durable components, and customize robot designs for specific applications. It supports innovation and optimization in robotic systems.
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Fluttercon 2024: Showing that you care about security - OpenSSF Scorecards fo...Chris Swan
Have you noticed the OpenSSF Scorecard badges on the official Dart and Flutter repos? It's Google's way of showing that they care about security. Practices such as pinning dependencies, branch protection, required reviews, continuous integration tests etc. are measured to provide a score and accompanying badge.
You can do the same for your projects, and this presentation will show you how, with an emphasis on the unique challenges that come up when working with Dart and Flutter.
The session will provide a walkthrough of the steps involved in securing a first repository, and then what it takes to repeat that process across an organization with multiple repos. It will also look at the ongoing maintenance involved once scorecards have been implemented, and how aspects of that maintenance can be better automated to minimize toil.
Are you interested in dipping your toes in the cloud native observability waters, but as an engineer you are not sure where to get started with tracing problems through your microservices and application landscapes on Kubernetes? Then this is the session for you, where we take you on your first steps in an active open-source project that offers a buffet of languages, challenges, and opportunities for getting started with telemetry data.
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Attendees will leave with an understanding of key observability concepts, become grounded in distributed tracing terminology, be aware of the components of openTelemetry, and know how to take their first steps to an open-source contribution!
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Video traffic on the Internet is constantly growing; networked multimedia applications consume a predominant share of the available Internet bandwidth. A major technical breakthrough and enabler in multimedia systems research and of industrial networked multimedia services certainly was the HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) technique. This resulted in the standardization of MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (MPEG-DASH) which, together with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), is widely used for multimedia delivery in today’s networks. Existing challenges in multimedia systems research deal with the trade-off between (i) the ever-increasing content complexity, (ii) various requirements with respect to time (most importantly, latency), and (iii) quality of experience (QoE). Optimizing towards one aspect usually negatively impacts at least one of the other two aspects if not both. This situation sets the stage for our research work in the ATHENA Christian Doppler (CD) Laboratory (Adaptive Streaming over HTTP and Emerging Networked Multimedia Services; https://athena.itec.aau.at/), jointly funded by public sources and industry. In this talk, we will present selected novel approaches and research results of the first year of the ATHENA CD Lab’s operation. We will highlight HAS-related research on (i) multimedia content provisioning (machine learning for video encoding); (ii) multimedia content delivery (support of edge processing and virtualized network functions for video networking); (iii) multimedia content consumption and end-to-end aspects (player-triggered segment retransmissions to improve video playout quality); and (iv) novel QoE investigations (adaptive point cloud streaming). We will also put the work into the context of international multimedia systems research.
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If you’ve ever had to analyze a map or GPS data, chances are you’ve encountered and even worked with coordinate systems. As historical data continually updates through GPS, understanding coordinate systems is increasingly crucial. However, not everyone knows why they exist or how to effectively use them for data-driven insights.
During this webinar, you’ll learn exactly what coordinate systems are and how you can use FME to maintain and transform your data’s coordinate systems in an easy-to-digest way, accurately representing the geographical space that it exists within. During this webinar, you will have the chance to:
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- Learn Practical Applications: Why we need datams and projections, plus units between coordinate systems
- Maximize with FME: Understand how FME handles coordinate systems, including a brief summary of the 3 main reprojectors
- Custom Coordinate Systems: Learn how to work with FME and coordinate systems beyond what is natively supported
- Look Ahead: Gain insights into where FME is headed with coordinate systems in the future
Don’t miss the opportunity to improve the value you receive from your coordinate system data, ultimately allowing you to streamline your data analysis and maximize your time. See you there!
6. Purpose of this Training series
After years of working with Sitecore partners and their developers both onshore &
offshore, we realized that the reason for poor project choices are based on lack
of knowledge.
Sitecore training and certification is great but -- without going too much into
details -- it difficult for even a seasoned .NET developer to bridge the gap.
Our hope is to help newcomers to the Sitecore XP gain a better understanding
and hopefully clear any doubts about working with Sitecore. Even though we
cannot cover everything, we will try to cover all the parts we feel are important.
***Not intended for seasoned Sitecore developers
9. Overview
Data enrichment and personalization
Getting started: the importance of xDB data enrichment
Building your strategy: types of personalization in Sitecore
and how/when to apply them
Keeping personalization manageable for marketing ops
and website performance
Measuring success: how to determine if personalization is
making a difference
Useful extensions: some helpful approaches to extend
Sitecore’s personalization capabilities
11. Great news!
You have a wonderful platform that facilitates all sorts
of personalization
You can be a Personalization Hero, impressing your
clients, stakeholders and colleagues and actually
influencing the customer journey
It’s easy to start!
12. Known and contextual facts about an
anonymous visitor, such as location,
campaign, referer
CATEGORIES
PERSONALIZATION
CONTEXTUAL
Implicit, behavior-based assumptions
about an anonymous visitor, such as
interest in a product area
BEHAVIOURAL
Known facts about a known visitor how
has willingly self-identified, such as
transactional history, demographics
EXPLICIT
Quickest wins
Mitigates
“creepy”
Opportunity
13. When is personalization most effective ?
When one site serves multiple business processes, particularly if the
audience for one of these services is low volume by high value
“Big fish” donors on a non-profit site
Alumni on a higher-ed site
When audiences differ significantly in their motivations for visiting and
information needs
Prospective vs. returning customers
When audiences differ in their emotional response to offers
Baby products vs. sports products
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14. Sitecore’s personalization paradigm
Platforms “do” personalization differently
What’s a segment?
A group of users defined by a set of characteristics and behaviours
Some platforms define segments separately from content and location
In Sitecore, segments are defined via Rules Engine clauses, in the location
where content will be targeted to them
Pick your spot to personalize (more on that later)
Define targeting behaviour specific to that component
16. Meat and potatoes 1: Platform stuff
Make sure your Sitecore version, license and architecture supports
personalization
XP-friendly page architecture – component-based and datasource-driven**
Sitecore 6.5+ and 7 support personalization
Sitecore XP introduces personalization reporting (woohoo!!)
Check your Sitecore license – do you have CMS-only?
Check your Sitecore instance and ensure xDB is enabled
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17. Meat and potatoes 2: Measurement
How do we know if personalization is
making any difference?
Method #1: The “before and after”
with engagement proxies in any
analytics platform
Make sure you ISOLATE!
BEFORE AFTER
18. Isolate impact and make
measurement easier
Run your experiments sequentially so you can isolate impact, at least to start
If you have a hard outcome, measure changes in conversion rate for visitor segment
before and after.
Change in revenue per visitor from Boston visitors
Increased conversion rate from “Kevin” persona visitors
If not, measure against bounce rate reduction, time on site, number of pages visited
21. Meat and potatoes 2: Measurement
How do we know if personalization is
making any difference?
Method #2: Sitecore 8 Personalization
Report
22. Engagement value!!
This metric drives a significant amount of “stuff” in
Sitecore (analytics, test success, path analyzer, etc)
The Basic Premise:
Not all visitors are created equal
Some suggest they are more valuable through the actions
they take on your site
Actions that indicate trust or commitment may suggest
a visitor is valuable
23. Tagging EV – a 30-minute exercise
We tag micro- and macro-conversions on the website
with EV in a relative scale, depending on the value of
the action
We usually use a scale of 5-100
Build your micro-interactions such that informative
behaviours can be easily distinguished and tracked
Item views and “onclick” are easiest
Form submission – important!
Filtering a list; viewing the “full article”
26. Get to know “trailing value/visit” metric
Your new BFF!
It will tell you if the visitor’s engagement
increased after they viewed the targeted
content
This is a concrete way to demonstrate that
personalization made a difference
28. Building your strategy
First and foremost, examine your business objectives
What segment of visitors should be “nudged”?
What campaigns are you running?
Understand the types of personalization in Sitecore, when to apply them
Look at your current analytics to help find those golden opportunities
29. Types of Sitecore Personalization
Anonymous
Rules-based personalization
Personalization rules based no easily
observable values:
Geography
Number of visits to site
Organization
Profile-based personalization
Based on visitor profile
May simulate visitor personas
Driven by content visitor views
Known
Explicit personalization
Draws on information about the visitor
usually stored in a CRM system
Can be very powerful if rules are
crafted carefully
Only applicable for portion of visitors
who log-in (or had logged in on a
recent visit)
30. Rules-based: where we love to start
You can create rules based on any of the following (or combinations of the following):
Area code
City
Country
Latitude and Longitude
Metrocode
Postal Code
Region
Anonymous vs. logged in
IP Address
ISP name
Business name
Source of visit
Visit number
Page visited
Specific goal achieved
Campaign has been triggered
Device
31. Finding opportunities: Behaviour
varies by visit (google analytics)
10.11%
8.65%
6.94%
4.03%
New Visitors
Second time visitors
Third time visitors
Fourth+ visit
Home page visitors going to
fees and expenses - MBA - by
visit number
4.42%
5.47%
5.67%
6.54%
New Visitors
Second time visitors
Third time visitors
Fourth+ visit
Application deadlines from MBA
Fulltime page
13.49%
11.09%
10.53%
7.16%
New Visitors
Second time visitors
Third time visitors
Fourth+ visit
Admissions criteria from MBA
Fulltime page
33. Success: big lifts from small tweaks
Skiweekends.com Tourism New Brunswick Monarch Airlines EasyJet
- Personalized promotions
- Pre-populates coach pick-
up points and airport search
fields
- Uses persona profiling so
content, holiday packages,
promos and incentives are
tailored to the visitor's most
applicable persona profile
- Uses engagement value as
a threshold to encourage
deeper engagement such as
sharing to social media
- Use of homepage badges
to segment visitors
- Personalizing landing
pages for originating from
location-based ad
campaigns
for example, visitors from
Quebec were typically more
interested in beach
vacations than those from
Ontario, who prefer Bay of
Fundy.
- Homepage, flights page
and offers are personalized
for visitors based on flight
searches, booking activity,
location and search referrer.
- Sitecore-driven content is
injected into third-party
booking engine (Navitaire)
on the flights confirmation
page to encourage upselling
- Discovered that 40% of
customers coming to the site
knew they wanted to travel,
but were unsure where to
- "Inspire me" feature
matches travelers with their
perfect trip
- Travelers care more about
their holiday experience
than they do about how
they get there
- Sales up 16%
- 55% increase in conversion
of site visits to online booking
pages
- Bounce rate reduced by
22%
- 38% increase in unique
visitors
- 24% increase in product
page reviews
- 5% sales conversions
increase
- average passenger spend
increased by 1.64 pounds
- higher quality of traffic to
booking funnel
- Campaign doubled
customer engagement with
the email
- Quadrupled conversion
- Including the price
increased conversion by 42%
Location- and campaign-based rules
Injection into third-party booking engine
Segmentation campaigns (badges, “inspire
me”)
34. Success: recently at Nonlinear…
An engineering firm wanted to target a premier group of clients by IP address. We
designed a campaign to auto-segment these visitors upon arrival to the website, and
push forward relevant projects and contacts.
Type: We created a special IP membership rule
For a non-profit, we identified an opportunity to improve AdWords campaign
performance. We’re implementing personalization on the landing page to reduce
bounce rate, by tying content more closely to the AdWords copy.
Type: Campaign trigger
For a university, we saw high volumes of traffic from a visitor segment, but low
engagement. Aha – a missed opportunity! The personalization campaign will look to drive
much more value from that segment by promoting personalized events and thought
leadership.
Type: Visitor profile
36. Keeping it manageable
For website performance
Sitecore “crash” threshold for concurrent experiments?
Recommend a fail-fast sequential approach
Beware of CDNs – personalized content needs a server
request. A few hacks for this depending on context.
For your marketers and content authors
Personalization makes your UX a living, breathing thing;
harder to keep full view of UX permutations
Keep track of experiment sequence, lifetime and result
Build a staggered roadmap
38. Keeping it manageable
Strike a balance between personalized content
and avoiding SEO penalization
Make sure the “default” page crawled by
Googlebot is sufficiently representative of the
page’s offering with no personalization applied
The “searcher intent” of an organic visit must still
match the “universal content” on the page –
don’t overshadow with too much personalization
39. Overcoming obstacles - FAQs
Where can I find step by step instructions on the mechanics of configuring
personalization in Sitecore?
Sitecore documentation
Walkthrough: Personalizating components
40. FAQs
My xDB is disabled or I have CMS-only mode
You can still do some in-session personalization
https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/81/setting_up__maintai
ning/experience_management/configuring/the_experience_management_pe
rsonalization_rules
41. FAQs
My solution is not XP-friendly
Refactor one high-value page to support Experience Editor and
personalization. Demonstrate a lift, and make the case for a broader
refactoring or rebuild
Introduce XP-readiness into your QA process
Testing scenarios for Sitecore XP readiness
42. FAQs
We didn’t have time to tag any engagement value or content profiling
Focus on the data you do have available (rules-based) and use engagement
proxies external to Sitecore.
Remember: isolate your experiments.
43. FAQs
I can’t get approval or funding to “do personalization”.
Start with the smallest, simplest experiment you can tie to a business objective
somebody cares about. (Try to avoid needing code changes to do so)
Demonstrate a lift and go from there.
44. Upping your personalization game
Focus on building a broader set of data you can personalize on – what
else can we access that lets us target a group of visitors?
Dip a toe into content profiling and personalizing to personas
Install SBOS XCCELERATORS from the Marketplace to give you more options for
Actions and Conditions in the rules engine
Build custom rules (it’s easy!). We built a rule in an SSO context to personalize on
membership expiry
There’s a whole world of personalization beyond the anonymous visitor
Keep an eye towards xConnect
46. Thanks! And remember, keep it simple!
Keep good SEO rankings
Keep platform performance high (do not ask to
calculate a high number of permutations)
Keep your web team’s life manageable
Keep your tracking and measuring feasible
Be a personalization hero and actually go to
production with personalization!