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BUILDING A PERSONALIZATION BUSINESS CASE
#B2BSummit
April 29-30, 2015 | AT&T Park, San Francisco, CA
Cori Kaylor Senior Manager, Web Strategy and Online Marketing, Citrix Systems Jessica Collier Web Conversion Strategist, Citrix Systems
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Introductions
Cori Kaylor
Senior Manager, Web Strategy and Online Marketing Jessica Collier
Web Conversion Strategist
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Agenda
Overview
Vision
Challenges
Strategy
Technology Stack
Test plan and results
Next steps and conclusions
Q&A
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About Citrix
Founded 1989
$3.1B+ 2014 revenue
9,000+ employees
330,000+ enterprise customers
10,000+ partners in 100 countries
#1 Desktop & App virtualization
#2 Cloud Networking
#2 Web Collaboration
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Web Experience team
Centralized corporate team of web strategists, designers,
producers and developers
Manage over 30 web properties, including Citrix.com
Deliver web experiences that tell the Citrix story, amplify
awareness of our brand, move visitors through the
customer journey and generate leads and revenue
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“ Personalization is collecting implicit or
explicit user information to create a content
delivery framework that not only manipulates
the information presented to users but how it
is presented.”
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Why B2B is different
Individuals
Emotional purchasing
May be impulse; buy in minutes
Large market
Transactional
Companies/Accounts
Task-oriented purchasing
Planned; buy in months
Smaller, niche market
Strategic
Consumers Businesses
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Benefits of B2B personalization
Increased engagement
Increased conversions
More efficient communication
Enhanced loyalty
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Vision
To personalize and tailor the citrix.com experience
to the individual visitor
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Challenges
?
Resources
How
Cost Tools
ROI • Web site
• Pages
• Banner ads
• Frequency
• Journey
• Self selection
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Start with goals
Increase engagement and
conversions of anonymous
to known visitors
Accelerate buyer’s journey
from awareness to sale
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Strategy
Pilot with existing tools
Leverage new testing practice
Get team excited with
results
If pilot is successful,
develop long term solution
Pilot Test Inspire Invest
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5 steps to a personalization pilot
• Ensured
unique
• Reviewed
data
• Personal data
• Company
• Behavior
• User
preferences
• Social data
• Reviewed
company
initiatives
• Analyzed
traffic
• Ensured that
there is
enough web
traffic
Location Content Traffic Align goals Pick a target
• Create
content for
each
segment
• Determined
prominent
interaction
points for
each
segment
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Our target opportunity
Healthcare, Education and Finance
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Test plan
Run (2) A/B tests (personalized messages vs generic messages)
Industry targeted hero banners on Citrix.com
Industry sessions for Synergy on Downloads page
Measure specific goals
Clicks/engagement on banners
Bounce rate
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Test plan, cont.
Leverage additional analytics tracking
Pages per session
Average session duration
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Hypothesis & success measures
Increase engagement/clicks on banner by 10%
We believe that industry-specific content
personalization on Citrix.com will increase
engagement and decrease overall bounce rate.
Decrease bounce rate by 5%
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Test results
7% decrease in bounce rate
30% increase in engagement
10% increase in pages/session
4% increase in average session duration
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Test results
30%
168%
Increase in clicks
Increase in clicks
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Next steps
Build on our success with the pilot
Continue to leverage promo based personalization
Location based event promotions
Roll out personalized homepage banners
Explore content personalization
Personalizing pdf’s, content blocks, images for vertical markets
Geo targeted content
Integrate Demandbase plug in for Adobe Experience Manager (CMS)
Leverage Demandbase for sales enablement projects
Operationalize the maintenance of personalized experiences