This overview of personalisation in ecommerce is an excerpt from Econsultancy's Ecommerce Best Practice Guide.
Ecommerce personalisation means giving customers an individualised online experience based on their demographics, persona, previous purchases, interests, search and buying behaviour.
The idea of personalisation is to provide a richer ecommerce experience by serving the right message on the right channel at the right time.
The notion of personalisation is compelling: each visitor to an ecommerce site is treated like a unique individual with tailored content, products and propositions. Examples of personalisation include:
- Communications based on user behaviour (such as abandoning a basket)
- Landing pages with offers based on personalised information (such as a birthday)
- Personalised on-site notifications and recommendations based on previous behaviour (such as previous purchases)
- Recommendations based on similar user behaviour
- Personalisation based on real-time data (such as location or time)
- Digital advertising with personalised visuals and pricing.
Evidence points to the role of personalisation in boosting sales, conversation rates, repurchase rates, cross-sell and improving customer relationship metrics such as loyalty and retention.
Contents of this briefing:
- Defining personalisation
- The challenges of personalisation
- Thinking through personalisation as a continuum
- Examples of ecommerce personalisation
- Measuring ecommerce personalisation efforts