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Ecommerce Website Personalization

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darren Ray
Ecommerce Website Personalization

You set out to look for something on the web to buy. You may log in to your favorite eCommerce site to take a look at what is on offer. As you enter the website it may entice you to log in. Logging in enables the site to entice you with offers and rewards as well as show you products that it thinks you will be more interested in and, of course, ultimately buy.

Welcome to the new world of eCommerce and internet browsing. Almost every site that you visit will collect data to get a step closer to ecommerce site personalization.

  • based on where you came from before you visited the site
  • what you do on the site - which links you click on
  • how long you view each page
  • Do you buy or abandon the cart
  • Do you come back again to look again

The big supermarkets have been doing it as well with loyalty cards. It’s the new world of Big Data.

These behaviors can be used to tailor our experiences while online into a more customized, more personalized experience through ecommerce website personalization using a personalization platform.

A new industry in personalization software

This growth in data collection capability has spawned a new industry. There are now countless businesses out there offering to add this layer of data collection and analytics to businesses looking to sell their wares. This enables them to customize the experience for their customers.

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You should have seen this if you have purchased anything online. Not only will you see what others also purchased when they bought the thing that you are looking at, but you will also be offered to go on to view other things that you personally might like. Take for example a football fan, or soccer depending on where you live. He or she may look to buy their favorite team’s shirt. The eCommerce software is not going to show other team’s shirts (even though it falls into the same category within the site. However, they may offer a deal for the shorts and socks, in a whole kit bundle deal. We all love a fan who watches the match wearing the whole kit.

This sophistication in tailoring the experience is not by chance. It takes a complex set of code that sits in the background analyzing behavior and only using the ones that a proven to work.

Imagine before this intervention was added? A fan from one team went to look at the site and it showed another team’s kit on the page (both team’s shirts are within the same category within the site). The website owner may wonder why the sales are not coming through. Analytics will show that a large percentage of web visitors arrived, scrolled down and then left. The analysis will show the appearance of the rival team’s kit as a visitor scrolled.

This is an extreme example but demonstrates the power of using behavioral analysis to customize your experience with the aim of giving you a better experience. The goal of course is to maximize the sales from you, giving the e-tailer a higher sale per visit.

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