Adobe and Hyper-Personalization

Adobe and Hyper-Personalization

From increasing profitability to brand allegiance and reputation, customer experience matters, across all industries. In order to keep customers from switching to a competitor, you need to create a satisfying customer experience, while at the same time, upselling and cross-selling new products and services, and turning shoppers into loyal customers. This is why so many brands have turned to experience platforms to help them with hyper-personalization.

What is hyper-personalization? It’s about giving customers what they want when they want it—and sometimes delivering an experience they didn’t even know they wanted yet. With a platform like Adobe Experience Cloud, predicting customer behavior and satisfying their needs in the moment becomes possible.

Here are a few ways to leverage Adobe Experience Cloud to provide a hyper-personalized customer experience and exceed customers’ expectations.

Acquisition and Conversion through Hyper-Personalization

In order to acquire and convert new customers, you need to effectively target them, and Adobe Experience Cloud can do that. Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) allows marketers to personalize customers’ experiences on the website with dynamic content, improving their engagement and nudging them towards conversion. AEM also allows marketers to retarget abandoned carts with personalized notifications and emails in real time and recommend other products based on customers’ browsing histories.

Achieve Customer Retention and Lifetime Value

No matter the industry, brands are now thinking long-term, shifting away from focusing on customer acquisition to churn management. More importantly, they’re implementing loyalty strategies in order to keep customers and strengthen their business.

Increase Customer Lifetime Value

It’s long been a marketing rule of thumb that it’s much more expensive to find a new customer than it is to keep an old one—anywhere from five to 25 times more expensive.

And according to our own research, 2/3 of consumers say they can’t be won back once a brand has lost them. Logically, it’s more effective for brands to keep and maximize existing customers than to attract new ones. Hyper-personalized communications can help fill this gap by providing incentives, discounts, and opportunities to cross-sell and upsell products and services to customers. These retention tactics are particularly valuable because they’re tailored to the individual customer, based on customer history and preferences.

Use Cutting-Edge Analytical Techniques

Digital marketers know that data is important, but many don’t realize just how important it is. For many organizations, personalization is a data challenge that can be solved by a robust analytics implementation, and marketers should ensure good data hygiene in order to target the right person at the right time with the right offer.

Data collection can help marketers obtain a 360-degree view of the customer over the entire decision journey. This data can include product, offer, usage, and rebate history, as well as data from contact centers, web logs, and pricing and promotions. The data also spans events across the customer journey, including acquisition and onboarding. Third-party data, such as media spend and retail footprint, can also be integrated into the data set, allowing for a fuller picture of the customer journey.

Advanced algorithms that can identify previously hidden variables predictive of customer behavior can now be applied to large amounts of data. Companies can then analyze the reasons behind those behaviors to come up with solutions.

Adobe Experience Manager’s data analytics capabilities empowered a major telecom to connect the dots across all channels and provide compelling content on every digital touchpoint. This allowed the company to create rich, personalized customer experiences that drive greater brand engagement, increase sales, and build long-term customer loyalty. In addition, the company was able to remove silos between IT and marketing, freeing both teams to apply their expertise more effectively. This allowed for increased efficiency and reduced overall QA time.

Segment Your Customers

Data analytics is useful only when it gives clearer context about customer behavior to marketers. Marketers can segment their customers into groups that explain customer characteristics, such as transactional behavior, demographics, ethnographics, or customer attitudes. One such group that marketers can create is for customers with the highest likelihood to leave. Analytics breaks down the customer base into a micro-segmentation and then matches the customers with a predetermined list of offers.

Leverage Analytics to Test Next Best Actions

Analytics, of course, can help to predict customer behavior, but actually getting customers to act upon these behaviors is essential to retention. Testing out new offers by customer segment can help reduce churn. This involves setting up a structured testing methodology, testing the offers based on certain criteria (such as messaging and mode of delivery), and continually learning from, and readjusting, methods of targeting.

Generating Outcomes with Adobe Sensei GenAI

Adobe Sensei GenAI, Adobe’s new generative AI solution that’s built into its products, empowers marketers with the scale and agility to design and deliver personalized experiences tailored specifically to their brand. The integration of Sensei GenAI into Experience Cloud workflows—from campaign ideation to analysis—helps to eliminate content supply chain inefficiencies and the typical bottlenecks that slow down cycle times, allowing marketing teams to quickly generate content based on specific customer attributes and fuel true hyper-personalization at scale.

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Sensei GenAI can transform a brand’s customer experience by:

  • Generating content and multimodal assets that align with brand standards
  • Generating optimized audiences, campaigns, and journeys to improve every customer touchpoint
  • Empowering marketers to remain at the helm during the creative process
  • Guiding, supervising, and enriching the generative outputs with human creativity
  • Delivering personalized and performant experiences across channels
  • Educating marketers on what performs best against custom KPIs with AI-powered insights
  • Constantly improving by automatically transferring performance takeaways back to Adobe’s generative AI technologies

Streamline Operations with Personalization

Operating contact centers typically costs an average of $3-7 per call, which can add up quickly. Adopting digital tools, such as chatbots, IVR, and self-service, can save significant operations expenses for companies while improving the customer experience.

Digital tools are also able to improve the average handling time in digital channels. Brands should view digital customer experience as an opportunity to fix a potentially broken relationship with a customer, since customers visiting the support section of a website usually means they’re looking to fix something.

Digital tools with hyper-personalization can guide customers in self-service instead of calling a customer service line, which risks deflection and an unsatisfying experience for the customer. Taking the interaction online can also reduce operating costs for the brand. If the customer does choose to reach out to the contact center, they can be directed to the company’s website when appropriate to cut down on call length, and the brand can even use RPA to speed along the process.

Hyper-personalization through Adobe Experience Cloud allows brands to deliver tailored experiences to customers, nudging them toward the next best step in their buyer’s journey and increasing their loyalty to the company. In turn, these tactics can increase retention, and overall customer lifetime value. The company that stands apart from the crowd through its digital experience can grow a loyal fanbase whose members won’t even think about switching brands.

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Brian Payne

Brian Payne

Managing Director, Strategic Alliances