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Content Personalization Strategy

Much of the content you find when you open your web browser, Facebook, or other sites is personalized to you. This is done based on your internet behavior, web searches or things that you have clicked on that interest you. There are many personalization tools used to make this happen.

What is Content Personalization Strategy

Content personalization is a strategy for the individualization of content based on a person’s needs and interests. Online retailers use content personalization strategies to increase sales. Online retailers will use personalization tools to personalize content and recommend products to customers based on their needs, wants and interests.

Content Personalization Strategies

There are several strategies used for content personalization. Online retailers will use Segmentation, Persona Based Personalization, Customer journey based personalization, Individual specific personalization. These are all great strategies, and they are only a few of the many that are used. Let’s look at these a little closer.

Segmentation

Segmentation is one of the most popular strategies used by marketers. More than 80% of marketers today use this strategy. Using segmentation audiences are targeted by main factors such as industry, job title, gender, age-range and much more. Segmentation will increase the overall relevancy and improve engagement; it delivers a limited level of personalization. Segmentation is a popular and widely used personalization solution but there are others that will personalize things a little more, let’s look at them.

Persona Based Personalization

This is a more data-driven strategy of personalization. This is where purchase history, web activity, demographics and more are used to personalize experiences. Over time as data is collected the personalization becomes more with defining each persona. This strategy is more helpful in engaging specific accounts.

Customer Journey Based Personalization

This method requires a journey map. The map is used to answer important questions, so you can align content to each stage of the customer’s journey. This is a detailed strategy that allows the delivery of personalized content related to the customer’s journey. This strategy also allows you to guide the customer through their journey.

Individual Specific Personalization

The other three methods above are used for delivering information to broad audiences. Individual Specific Personalization delivers content on a more individual basis. Analyzing customer data helps deliver a personalized experience. The retailer will collect data through purchase and browsing history to streamline recommendations or products and services that meet your interests. It’s a slimline solution to increase sales and traffic to their websites.

Increasing sales and website traffic is the ultimate goal of content personalization. So whether you use one strategy or many strategies combined sales will be increased. A retailer will need to collect data and do research to make sure that the strategy they choose will be beneficial to their needs. Are they targeting a broad audience or a more specific group of people? How driven to increase sales are they? All questions must be answered before deciding on a strategy or group of strategies. Content personalization is a must in this day and age.

 

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