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How to Maximize Your Data Onboarding Investment for Personalization
November 1, 2018 | LiveRamp
We hear it all the time in advertising, some form of “right person, right place, right message.†The ubiquity of this phrase shouldn’t discount its validity—to really speak to your customers and show them something they want elevates the customer experience and drives long term ROI.
This is personalization. While its implementation can seem daunting, it can be helpful to think of the job in increments. Some of the tools you’re already using today can be used to up-level your personalization strategies, and then you’ll be on your way to more sophisticated use cases.
Start with Data Onboarding
Data onboarding, the process of bringing siloed data together through identity resolution, isoften associated with targeting, but it can vastly improve personalization strategies. It’s also a great place to start.
In the online world, you can deliver personalized ads based on short-lived cookie behavior (like when people come to your website and look at a product). But with onboarding, you can personalize digital ads based on de-identified offline behavior or attributes, like past purchases or interest data. This can be executed by using a data onboarding partner to deliver offline data to thedemand-side platform (DSP)of your choice.
If you’re personalizing content based on a more complete view of the customer, that content is going to be more relevant and more likely to drive an action. A home improvement retailer can onboard transaction data from customers who recently purchased a lawn mower in store and target those users with other gardening tools online.
Personalization is often used on web and mobile, but as technology advances, we’re starting to see more sophisticated levels of personalization for platforms that were once not addressable.
Personalization on Addressable TV
Addressable TVmight be new to you, but that newness shouldn’t scare you away. Implementing a more personalized approach to TV can be relatively easy. Digital marketers will need to familiarize themselves with what may seem like a dated, unaddressable channel, but this mental barrier is easy to overcome as onboarding to addressable TV is easy to start.
You can onboard, and model for scale if necessary, the desired audience to a leading multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD) to deliver data at the household level. This will allow you to drive more relevantTV advertisingfor clients and get better efficiency for an expensive TV ad spend that actually works.
For example, an auto dealership can onboard customers who bought a car six months ago and target them with a commercial highlighting the dealership’s experienced staff and extended open hours for various auto services.
Now that your customers have seen your ad through an addressable TV campaign, they may want to go to your website to check out the goods or services. While a user can click on a digital ad and be directed to the related content, this doesn’t account for customers who visit your site on their own. You can easily recognize these customers if they log in, otherwise it’ll take some work.
Website Personalization for Anonymous Users
Your website should welcome your users and make them feel at home, so you need to cater to them by serving personalized content in a privacy-conscious manner. But if you can’t recognize who your customers are, you won’t be able to treat them like valued guests.
If you work with anidentity resolutionprovider, you can put a pixel on your site that will recognize the otherwise unrecognizable cookie that represents the customer who visits your site and map the cookie to a consistent, anonymous person-based ID. The person-based ID can be matched to the segment data in your CRM and you can then personalize their website experience based on de-identified attributes to this non-logged in user.
Now, you can ethically supercharge the customer experience on your site and elevate ROI opportunity by displaying products that the customer would more likely purchase. Using an identity resolution provider’s pixel, a beauty retailer can recognize an unknown user as someone who has a long history of buying skin care products. Then, the retailer can personalize content and display products such as face masks on the front page, and not makeup like eyeshadows and lipsticks.
This use case is technically sophisticated and it’s one step closer to theomnichannel, single-view of the customer that vastly improves customer experience and drives long term ROI.
Learn Plus Size Knickers how to get the most out of your data onboarding investment by downloading Forrester’s report,Making the Most of Customer Data Onboarding.
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