By 2014, over half of all brands will be
personalising their offers to customers on websites, mobile phones and
at points of sale. We bring you an overview of the latest innovative
approaches.
Around 22% of all brands currently offer a
real-time personalised experience to customers who go on to their
websites, and in a year’s time that figure should have tripled to reach
59%. These are among the findings of a
survey
conducted among 600 European marketers by independent marketing
platform provider Neolane. Moreover this expected increase in
personalisation will rely largely on the very latest technology – the
kind of sensors used for Quantified Self and 3D printing initiatives. It
is easy to understand why brands are moving in this direction when we
see that over 64% of the consumers polled for another
report by
Monetate, a cloud-based technology provider for online marketers, said
it is important that firms are equipped to make them offers directly
linked to their wants and needs of the moment, even if that means
tracking their activities and movements.
Transforming smartphones into active sensors
Although email is currently the most mature channel in use for
one-to-one marketing purposes, the Neolane report stresses that mobile
and social are the most promising channels going forward. Texas-based
digital marketing and advertising firm T3 (The Think Tank) recently
launched a new platform for mobile application and website developers,
which it has named
Scout.
Scout can transform a user’s smartphone into a mobile sensor. By
measuring a person’s current location, the direction s/he is moving in,
weather conditions and other factors, this type of app provides context
to the user’s potential needs and so enables brands to customise their
offer, for example suggesting to someone who is in a hot, humid
environment that s/he come and have a cold drink.
3D printing personalising point-of-sale shopping experience
In addition to the digital domain, brands are also trying to bring a
personalised experience to points of sale and here a number of companies
have decided that 3D printing technology might be the way to attract
customers into stores. The Converse brand, for example, offers customers
who go to their flagship stores the opportunity to design their own
sports shoes and take them away with them within the hour. Japanese
company Muji invites consumers into its stores to be scanned and then
prints out tiny replicas of the customers. Monetate’s advice to firms
and brands is that when it comes to personalised marketing they should
not be thinking primarily about a specific channel but first and
foremost about the customers over the long term.
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