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Personalize, personalise, smersonalize! Customers often ask what they should personalize on - I've just had an email with this very question. I reply that it depends on your objectives and launch into a bedazzling diatribe that intends to simplify but usually confounds. One personalization criterion that is usually overlooked is an obvious one - the field values on a web form. ...

Salesforce has several ways to store files including features and tabs like attachments, files, content, chatter, documents, and knowledge. Salesforce allocates around 10GB of file storage per org plus an allocation of 2GB per user license. This means a company with 200 licenses gets about 410GB of file storage (or 410,000 x 1MB files). That's a lot of reading but, for many rea ...

Web analytics is the tracking data collected when a visitor navigates a website. The analytics includes information like the visitor's location, how they found the site, which pages are popular, session duration, pages per session, bounce rate, device type, and so on. This blog looks at three types of analytics and how they differ. Traffic Analytics A common reason to collect w ...

Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) vendors are learning that their platforms cannot be all things to all people. The days of monolithic super-systems appear to be ending as vendors struggle to rapidly integrate a flood of new innovations with the quality that customers demand. Many of these mega-suites are inundated with technical debt that challenges both vendors and customers ...

Categorizing like-minded people into groups then delivering targeted content to each group is called personalization. The first task is to create collections of like-minded individuals and this is the focus of this blog!  Acquiring Data Before we can categorize an individual, we need to know more about them but how do we collect this data? Consider trying to identify if a websi ...

Marketing to a segment size of one is called individualization i.e. real one-to-one personalization. In practical terms, it can show unique content to every website visitor, and a different message in every email sent in a campaign. Individualization is more effective than personalization because it is powered by more data (and that data is more up-to-date). So who are these in ...

The benefits of personalization have been proven over many years but what does personalization really mean? Most people think of it as being the first name in an email salutation, or a product recommendation on a website but this is only one type of personalization called individualization. Personalization can be less granular and separately target groups of like-minded prospec ...

To personalize messaging, you first need to know about the person. But what is a person? Are they a line item on a purchased list, an anonymous website visitor, a contact in your CRM, a prospect who just walked in the door, or somebody else? Your knowledge of each of these types of people is very different.  Data used for Personalization  Let's consider the common marketing sce ...

You may think this is an unusual mix of technologies but we're encountering more and more organizations who use Sitecore, Salesforce, and Micro Focus Content Manager and need them to communicate with each other. Each technology has attributes that ensure it will be popular for many years to come. Sitecore leads the relentless drive for web content personalization and is support ...

When you integrate the best CRM with the best CMS many powerful sales and marketing opportunities arise! The biggest gains are in controlling personalization where each website visitor is delivered exclusive content to improve engagement, build loyalty, and increase sales. It's important to pitch targeted marketing messages to prospects as they move through the sales funnel. Th ...