Adapting to ‘the new normal’ using AI-powered personalisation

Reacting and adapting is crucial. The key is to infer behaviour from patterns in the data and make educated guesses through data and machine learning. This will help guide experiments and identify places to start optimising.

AB Tasty has released a new whitepaper offering personalisation principles to help guide brands through this next period of uncertainty. The whitepaper offers actionable insight and advice to improve customer experience optimisation strategies from now until we reach ‘the new normal’. It also explains how machine learning models can help you understand your customers and reach them with personalised experiences.

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Following are the key takeaways from the whitepaper:

1. Providing the personal touch in an impersonal environment

Against a backdrop where consumers are being encouraged to socially distance from others, the need for digital has accelerated. The main premise of personalisation remains the same: consumers find messaging that is truly relevant to them more appealing. While some experiences can apply largely across the board but there are new opportunities for brands to speak in a ‘one to few’ manner to customers taking into account this changing consumer landscape.

2. Modelling a strategy around a ‘WishList’ mentality

With many economies already heading towards a recession, consumers’ sense of their own buying power is set to fare better. According to Global Web Index, only 29% of UK consumers expect Covid-19 to have a dramatic effect on their personal finances. This is compared to 87% who believe the economy will be affected dramatically.

Many consumers are tightening their purse strings for large purchases, notably luxury items and technology goods. However the report suggests that consumers are moving to a ‘wishlist’ mentality. They are making a mental note of purchases browsed online for when the skies begin to clear.

This is an opportunity to use personalisation capabilities to identify consumers interested in specific content on your website. Then a strategy can be modelled to create segments based on those interests. Now is the time to use ai systems to personalise experiences and keep them fresh in consumers’ minds.

3. Taking your customers by the hand

The new consumer behaviours are likely to stick, well beyond the pandemic. Make the most of this now by personalising the experience and segmenting. This can be based on ‘new’ vs ‘returning’ visitors, or on engagement level.

Brands should do everything they can to take new customers ‘by the hand’ and lead them along the buyer journey. Engagement level segmentation should be used to do this quickly and effortlessly.

4. Being mindful of your ads and aligning across channels

Advertising as if nothing were different is deemed not to be appropriate in the current climate yet brands still need to maintain interest in their products. Changing the tone or content of ads is an important step. Crucially this new messaging needs to be aligned and personalised on the landing/product page the digital ad directs to. From a data and privacy perspective, it's vital to offer extra transparency and a strict adherence to regulations and best practice.

5. Experimentation to measure uplift

The most important rule of thumb is to experiment and measure the efficacy of personalisation campaigns. Run an experiment to ensure that your personalisation efforts are creating better customer experiences and the uplift you’re aiming for. It’s essential to vet any new ideas to be sure they are aligned with new customer expectations.

The whitepaper offers more invaluable insights on personalisation principles to help brands get from now to the ‘new normal’. Fill in the form to download the whitepaper to free.