How to Avoid Making Mistakes with Personalization

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    How-to-Avoid-Making-Mistakes-with-Personalization

    Omnichannel marketing and customer demands are pushing organizations to be everywhere at once. What transpires, though, if their efforts fail?

    The core of many contemporary customer outreach strategies is personalization. Customers these days are accustomed to — and frequently prefer — when websites, advertisements, and marketing messages are specifically tailored for them thanks to evolving marketing initiatives. According to CMSWire research, personalization is such a potent tool for luring and keeping customers that 20% of businesses regard it as one of their most important digital experience investment priorities.

    The advantages of personalization have been extensively discussed in the past. But what transpires when businesses make a mistake?

    Since many customers are quick to abandon a business or brand if they have too many negative experiences, the stakes really couldn’t be higher. Businesses can take certain steps to ensure that their personalized outreach is successful.

    5 Keys to Winning Customers with Personalization

    Personalization is a combination of art and science. The data is the science, so there are more opportunities than ever to learn as much as you can about current and potential customers. Knowing what information to include in outreach is a skill because it varies greatly from customer to customer.

    The following are the 5 formulas for using personalization to draw in and keep customers:

    Adapt to the new reality: The customers are online, so brand presence is table stakes. Get the basics right. Self-service should make access to basic information simple. Marketing teams can frequently provide answers to customers’ questions before they ask them if they can personalize this information (using proximity data to show the nearest locations, for instance).

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    Recognize how customers differ: Customer preferences on personalization can vary widely based on age/generation, attitudes around privacy or other factors. The more customer-specific data marketing teams have, the better-informed choices they can make regarding how much (or how little) personalization to implement.

    Customize the messaging with data: The more complete the customer view, the more organizations can hone in on what customers are truly seeking through personalization.

    Deliver pertinent experiences: Ads won’t always be well received by all users, and personalization efforts may not always be successful. However, with the right data and information, marketers can offer customers relevant experiences that they will enjoy.

    Improve Personalization by Using More Data

    When discussing how to do personalization correctly and avoid errors, one recurring theme is the requirement for data. Data gaps are frequently to blame for unsuccessful personalization attempts. Companies run the risk of making offers for things their customers don’t own, never will own, or might already own if they don’t have a complete 360-degree view of them.

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    To truly “get them” and understand where customers are in their lives, businesses need the most recent information about each customer. Delivering advertisements for certain life events that are no longer occurring is another failure.

    This lack of understanding is typically caused by a lack of both first- and third-party data. Despite the fact that third-party cookie data will soon be obsolete, organizations still need to include more users in the graph of first and third-party data. A marketing team’s ability to learn as much as possible about their customers ensures that their personalization efforts will always be successful.

    The stakes have never been higher for businesses to get it right when it comes to their customers, especially with personalization receiving so much attention. The businesses and brands that consumers spend their time, money, and attention on should make them feel connected, recognized, and seen. The first step in achieving this is to have excellent data, along with knowledge of the stage of the customer journey and their attitudes toward personalization initiatives. Knowing the customer will help you avoid the dangers of using incorrect personalization messaging.

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