BOLSTERING HYPER-PERSONALIZATION
“Make it all about me” is what we expect as consumers. No wonder then that personalization was voted marketing word of the year in 2019. It’s gratifying to note that personalization leaders are driving tangible revenue growth and more efficient marketing spend. However, only 15 percent of CMOs believe that their company is on the right track with personalization.
BOLSTERING HYPER-PERSONALIZATION
“Make it all about me” is what we expect as consumers. No wonder then that personalization was voted marketing word of the year in 2019. It’s gratifying to note that personalization leaders are driving tangible revenue growth and more efficient marketing spend. However, only 15 percent of CMOs believe that their company is on the right track with personalization.
A quick story.
About two decades ago, a relatively small ecommerce company focused on selling books introduced a new feature that allowed customers to see what others had liked and purchased, called collaborative filtering, for product recommendations. This feature became popular with the business guys as the “wisdom of crowds” and very soon, every retailer on the planet was scrambling to implement it.
Personalization traditionally works best when you have tons of behavioral data for each product. But how do you personalize for new products or ones that are considered “long-tail”? How do you ensure that this inventory is immediately visible and recommended to your customers? Well, you couldn’t until recently .. not without NLP.
Personalization, at its core, is the idea that as a consumer, you are served exactly what you want, when you want it. AI is being deployed by retailers and brands who understand that this is a “big data” problem and when product catalogs become larger, machines start to perform as good as, if not better than, human merchandisers.
But does this quest for delivering “exactly” hurt consumer choice?
Listen to Soon Yu, the keynote speaker at the Richrelevance Personalization Summit, speak about how creation of iconic brands is the only way to compete and win in today’s retail market.
A McKinsey survey of senior marketing leaders found that only 15 percent of CMOs believe their company is on the right track with personalization. In this recent article, they summarize 3 trends in the future of personalization:
- Digitization of Physical Spaces
- Scaled Empathy
- Usage of Ecosystems by Brands
Digital market leaders from the largest B2B and B2C brands convened at PUBLIC Hotel in New York City last week for the 2019 RichRelevance Personalization Summit: Rethink Personalization. Attendees shared, learned and inspired each other on how to define and deliver signature moments that stand out and make brands memorable.