Using Exceptional Digital Personas to Drive Revenue

BUS-G02 Using Exceptional Digital

Personas to drive Revenue

Mark Polly, Director

Perficient

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Agenda

• What are Personas?

• Persona Development

• Digital Experience and Personas

• Marketing and Personas

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What are Personas?

• A persona represents a cluster of users who exhibit similar behavioral patterns in their purchasing decisions, use of technology or products, customer service preferences, lifestyle choices, and the like.

• Behaviors, attitudes, and motivations are common to a "type" regardless of age, gender, education, and other typical demographics. In fact, personas vastly span demographics.

• Kevin O’Connor UX Magazine


What are Personas?


Marketing

• Demographics

• Values

• Goals

UI Design

• Behaviors

• Motivation

• Attitudes

Example Persona


Kevan Lee, Buffer Blog

http://blog.bufferapp.com/marketing-personas-beginners-guide

Example Persona


• I’m a micro business

owner

• 31 Years Young

• Single (and Looking)

• Lives in San Francisco

• Business owner of 5

years, worked day job 5

years prior to raise the

money for rent space for

my business

• I drive a Toyota Prius

The “I Do It All” Entrepreneur

Interior Designer

Sarah Jackson“It’s my business

and I get to call

all the shots.”

Five years ago Sarah decided that enough was

enough; her 9-5 job simply wasn’t satisfying her

creativity. So I quit and started my own Interior

Design firm. Initially it was a tough ride, but it got

better and today I rent a quaint space in a San

Francisco warehouse. I love being my own boss

and thrives on making all the decisions.

Now that I have a stable roster of clients and a

couple of new eager assistants, I have decided to

try and expand my business. However; I am

blatantly aware that if I am to be a success, I need

to tighten my fabulous Gucci belt and improve in

three area’s.

• Be better organized

• Consistently manage her budget

• Bill client’s on time.

And since I rely heavily on multiple credit cards for

my day-to-day business. (Including the interior

designers favorite, a Home Depot credit card)

I desperately want some sort of tool to help me

manage all my accounts in one place. I’ve heard

good things about Mint so I have made a mental

not to check it out soon.

Taking control of my business is within my grasp

so the future is pastel indeed!


Interior Designer

Sarah Jackson

Attributes

Online security concerns

Budget focus

Control over finances

Technical optimism

Detail sensitivity

Key Goals

• Grow Business

• Maintain cash flow

• Keep clients happy

• Become more

organized

• Be more efficient

Behaviors

Credit card use

AO use

Mix personal and business

Records retention

Life Goals

• Buy a home

• Reach financial

comfort

Key Tasks

• Juggle cash flow, bill paying and available credit

• Monitor multiple card balances and credit

limits

• Transfer balance to other cards

• Apply for credit increase

• Trace how she arrived a particular balance on her

card

• Calculate estimates for clients

• Periodically check purchasing trends

• Provide reports for accountant quarterly

Key Content

• Quick access to current balances and credit limits

• Summary of multiple cards in one place

• One password and login for all cards

• Transactions, payments and balance transfers

updated in real time

• Alters for payment due and close to credit limit

• A visual indicator of current credit increase

eligibility

• Automatic downloading into QuickBooks

• Access to old statements for historical reference

• Business-relevant rewards

Consideration

s• She’s interested in offers that will save her time

and energy

• She’s scared of losing financial control

• She wants to feel like a valued customer

• She’s likely to phone if she can’t find it quickly

online

Key Content• Quick access to current balances and credit limits• Summary of multiple cards in one place• One password and login for all cards• Transactions, payments and balance transfers updated in real time• Alters for payment due and close to credit limit• A visual indicator of current credit increaseeligibility• Automatic downloading into QuickBooks• Access to old statements for historical reference• Business-relevant rewards


Interior Designer

Sarah Jackson

Pays Bills

Makes Purchases Plans

Manages

Transfer

Why Personas?


Why Personas?

• Provide the foundation for content development and marketing efforts

• Sets the tone and style for content

• Targets the topics you should be writing about

• Informs you about preferred channels

• Compatible with marketing customer segments

Why Personas?

• Understand user behaviors in order to make more effective design and business decisions.

• Consumer needs and desires can be more accurately identified through personas than through just demographic data


Personas


Marketing

• Demographics

• Values

• Goals

UI Design

• Behaviors

• Motivation

• Attitudes

Agenda

• Why and What are Personas?





Persona Development

• Analyze your site metrics– Who are your users? Where did they come from?, what

keywords did they use? At what are they looking?

• Analyze your customer database– What patterns emerge? What demographics do you

collect?

• Analyze Social Media– Use Social Media listening to see who is asking questions,

complaining, praising, etc.

• Survey and interview audiences

• Talk to sales reps, customer service too


Analyze Site Metrics


Analyze Customer Database


http://www.julienrio.com/marketing/english/practical-uses-crm

Analyze Social Media


Persona Development

• Identify wide demographic of target audience(s)

• Conduct one-on-one interviews in context using ethnographic research techniques

• Analyze research data to look for patterns, identify extremes

• Follow up research with smaller subset of candidates to validate and fill in gaps


Persona Development

• Must go beyond the demographic data.

• Understand why customers behave and whatthey expect

• Knowledge about the why makes it possible to create innovative solutions, products, ad campaigns, and digital experiences (the what) that cater to customers on a personal level.


Experience Maps


Journey Maps


Agenda






Digital Experience Components

• Channels

• Content

• User Interface / Interaction


Channels

• Personas can help tell us target the right channels

• How many do we have to support?

• Does the audience prefer:

– Web

– Mobile

– Social


Personas Inform Content Development

• What content do I need to write?

• What style of writing do I use?

• What imagery should I include?

• Should my content be selling or consultative?


UI Design

• Calls to Action

• Landing Pages

• Thank You Pages

• Page Layout

• Personalized Pages and / or Content


Personas and Personalization

• You want to display different pages to each Persona

• Director page contains content about budgeting and leadership

• Nursing page contains clinical information and practice training

• Personalization visibility rules can be applied to pages or portlets


Use Personalization with Personas


Visibility Rule to Show Content


English Site


Spanish Site


Agenda






Marketing and Personas

• Segmentation

• Lead Nurturing and Campaigns

• Analytics


Segments ≠ Persona

• Personas are intended to help you understandthe person visiting your site

– They are a composite of people that do not exist

• Segments are groupings based on a set of rules using known attributes


IBM Digital Experience Profiler


IBM Digital Experience Action


Content selectedShould be tailored to the persona

Digital Experience Binding


Alternate Profilers or Segments

• Create segments in IBM Marketing Center or IBM Interact

• Use CRM or Customer Database analysis to define segments

• Use a custom field in LDAP to store segment id

• Use a custom personalization object to fill in segment after log-in

• Use recommendation engine to determine segment based on behavior on the site


Lead Nurturing and Campaigns


Campaigns


Lead Nurturing, Campaigns and Personas

• Personas inform about the content of the email, promos, etc.

• Personas inform the actions


Sarah Jackson

Analytics

• Completes the marketing cycle

• Digital Experience Active Site Analytics


IBM Digital Experience and Campaign Analytics


IBM Digital Experience and Analytics


Why Personas and Digital Experience?


• User Experience Design and Development

• Personalization

• Content Design and Development

• Content Content

• Recommendations

• Analytics

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For Additional Information

IBM Digital Experience Solutionshttp://www-01.ibm.com/software/collaboration/digitalexperience

WebSphere Portal and IBM Web Content Manager Information Center Wiki

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/

IBM Digital Experience Demonstrations: http://www.youtube.com/user/IBMXWebX

IBM Collaboration Services Business Solutions Cataloghttps://greenhouse.lotus.com/catalog/

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Using Exceptional Digital Personas to Drive Revenue