Lecture 8 Flashcards

1
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What is Experience Optimization?

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• Ongoing process of understanding
the customer and providing the best
possible experience across all
touchpoints

• Leveraged to improve CX through
controlled experimentation

• Allows to vet and quantify the
impact of new ideas with real-time
customer data

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Best experience varies depending upon the

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audience, as people have unique interests, needs, and motivations

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Firms should create a data-informed view of their customers (what motivates, delights, and engages them) to

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define tailored, highly relevant, and engaging experiences that are connected across touchpoints

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“Best experience” is

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an aspirational but essential goal to ensure that businesses are continuously updating their understanding of the customers and improving CX

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5
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The understanding of the customer comes

naturally, but slowly. Customer’s preferences are

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learned over repeat visits

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6
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Customers are “anonymous” at the beginning. Optimizers capitalize on

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the opportunity to deliver relevant, targeted experience based on who the customers are and what they do.

This ensures the best possible experience for individual customers, and enables delivery of a targeted and personalized experience at scale.

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7
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EXO

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Experience Optimization

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8
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Why is EXO Important?

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  • Studies have shown that customers are 5X more likely to make a purchase if they’ve had a great customer experience
  • 78% of customers have abandoned a purchase due to bad customer experience
  • 86% of customers will walk away from a company permanently after a bad experience

• A recent Walker study found that by 2020, customer experience, more than price or even product, will stand out as the key brand
differentiator

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9
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EXO Benefits

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Expertise: deep theoretical and practical knowledge of your customers, partners, and prospects

Confidence: ability to make decisions based on real user data, relevant statistics, individual user insight, and behavioral analytics

Speed: capability to quickly implement those decisions based on real-time testing and live results

Ease of use: having the competitive advantage of providing your customers with better experiences utilizing intuitive design and functionality

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10
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EXO Process

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Monitor analytics platforms for alerts into
UX or technical issues, and investigate
trends in user behavior (almost fully
automated)

Leverage session replays and customer feedback to gain a fuller understanding of
the problem. Use indepth quantitative analysis to investigate scale

Identify a straight fix, a hypothesis for a test, or an opportunity for personalization

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11
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EXO Elements

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AB Testing

Multivariate

User Research

Analytics

Personalization

Process can be augmented by synchronously incorporating other
sources of data, and by delivering a wide array of experiences

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12
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EXO Core Capabilities

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Online testing

Behavioral targeting

Recs

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Online testing:

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comparing how variations of customer interactions perform against a control group to determine the best treatment. It provides objective, data-informed guidance to help optimize the digital experience

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Behavioral targeting:

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delivering of personalized experiences to particular customer segments using rules or predictive algorithms based on events, business rules, interactions, etc…

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Recs:

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serving recommended experiences to digital visitors through analytical engines. It can include suggestions for related content based on business rules, machine learning
algorithms, or a combination of both.

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16
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Technology evolution forces businesses to
__ __ how to engage
customers

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constantly re-evaluate

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17
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Devices expansion, customer expectations
evolution and changes in business practices
created a need to

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innovate to capture audience’s attention and engagement.

18
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Regardless of how the customer engages

with a brand, firms must consider

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one cohesive view of customer interactions

19
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Commitment to finding the best experience

for every touchpoint also requires

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persistence in creativity and discovery

20
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EXO Requirements

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Multi-Channel Experience

Chief Customer Officer

Focus on Mobile

Don’t Forget to Analyze

21
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Multi-Channel Experience:

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multi channel brand presence with consistent customer experience

22
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Chief Customer Officer:

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CX relies on many departments, but your brand must have one person who is ultimately responsible for it

23
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Focus on Mobile:

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If your mobile customer experience isn’t excellent, then your CX needs some optimization

24
Q

Don’t Forget to Analyze:

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Big data is nothing without insight. Analyze your metrics to figure out where your CX is solid, and where it can improve

25
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EXO Is Impacting Multiple Industries

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Digital Advertising: Increase ad impressions, time spent on site, and engagement

Ecommerce: Increase RPV, AOV, and display relevant products to different types of visitors

B2B: Higher visitors to leads conversion, better nurture programs performance, and rapidly iterate through product development and enhancements

26
Q

How Amazon’s Brand and Customer

Experience Became Synonymous

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  • Amazon is betting that Alexa and Echo will be the catalysts that drive consumers to interact with and ultimately purchase more with Amazon than ever before
  • The smarter Alexa becomes at knowing your needs, preferences and behaviors, the better she is at delivering a seamless experience
  • The better experience she delivers, the more indispensable she will become to consumers’ lives
27
Q

Vodafone UK

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Developed an interactive representation of its network performance with the objective of reducing related queries into call center and create a communication system. Before implementing, carried out extensive usability
studies to validate graphic design and EX

Results:
• 40% ↑ in visitor traffic
• 25% ↓ in network-related
topics posted on the forum
• 66% ↓ views of network-related
forum topics
• 54% ↓ in escalated queries
requiring a customer call back
• 13% ↑ in network related T-NPS
28
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What is A/B Testing?

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An experiment where 2 variants of a page are randomly shown to users, and statistical analysis is used to determine the better performer for a given KPI

29
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How A/B Testing Works

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  • Identify a page to improve and create a modified version of it(ex: new headline or full redesign)
  • Route 50% of your traffic to the original page (“control”) and 50% to the modified version (“test”)
30
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A/B Testing Process

It can be divided in 5 steps:

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  1. Determine Conversion to Improve
  2. Hypothesize Change
  3. Identify the Variables and Create Variations
  4. Run Experiment
  5. Measure Results
31
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The Importance of A/B Testing

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  • Data-driven companies don’t just passively store and analyze data, they generate actionable insights through experiments
  • Implementing well-executed and consistent A/B testing is fundamental to grow your online business
32
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Companies have moved away from project-based approaches to

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online testing and personalization

33
Q

Centers of excellence have been created to

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synchronize different approaches and optimize CX across the entire life cycle

34
Q

68% of martech users value tools for

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their integration and ability to work together as much as for the specific functionality they deliver

35
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Digital Intelligence Architecture

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  • Merging of testing, behavioral targeting, and recs within advanced enterprise practices and vendor offerings
  • Collects and manages customer interaction data and analyzes it holistically to inform processes and systems that optimize decisions and actions as well as digital customer experiences
36
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Experience Optimization Platforms

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Market Presence

Strategy

Current Offering

37
Q

Market Presence:

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enterprise customers and avg size deal

38
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Strategy:

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strength of vendor’s strategies, including product vision, execution roadmap, performance, support services and ecosystem

39
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Current Offering:

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strength of current offering across testing, targeting, recs and platform experience

40
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Experience Optimization Platforms

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Leaders: Adobe Target

Strong Performers: Optimizely, Evergage