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Delivering 1:1 Personalization with a Best of Breed SaaS

Geschrieben von Jack Bolton | 29 Juli, 2024

Loyalty Platform

As I sit at my desk in London, I'm excited to dive into the topic of why personalization matters and why I believe, if you haven’t already, it’s time to get started on your journey to 1:1 marketing. And wouldn't you know it, I’ve just had an incredible personalized experience myself. Before I started writing, I hit play on my 'Discover Weekly' playlist on Spotify, a 90-minute mixtape crafted just for me, the perfect soundtrack to accompany my writing.

We’ve all come to expect this kind of personalized touch in our lives. Whether it's through our phones or other devices, we’re immersed in a world tailored specifically for us. This extends to how we expect businesses, both online and offline, to service us. The demand for personalization is only going to grow. If your organization is ready to embrace this shift, Eagle Eye AIR can help accelerate your journey toward better personalization.

Why Personalized Customer Experiences Are Crucial

Delivering personalized experiences is crucial for building lasting relationships with your customer base. Customers today expect brands to understand their needs and preferences, and they reward those that do with increased loyalty and higher spending. Personalized experiences can lead to:

  1. Improved Customer Satisfaction: Tailoring interactions to individual preferences shows customers that you value them, leading to greater satisfaction and repeat business. McKinsey referenced that 71% of consumers expect companies to deliver personalized interactions, and 76% feel frustrated when this does not happen.
  2. Higher Conversion Rates: Personalized content and offers are significantly more likely to resonate with customers, increasing the likelihood of conversions.
  3. Enhanced Customer Loyalty: As you try to make customers’ lives easier by understanding them and tailoring your service to them, they typically respond by opening their wallets wider. Statistics show that personalized marketing can significantly boost sales and customer loyalty. For instance, according to a report by Accenture, 91% of consumers are more likely to shop with brands that recognize, remember, and provide relevant offers and recommendations.

However, achieving these benefits requires the right technology. If your current tech stack is limiting your ability to deliver personalized experiences, it’s time to consider a solution that can get you up and running quickly.

Common Constraints Limiting Personalization

While the benefits of personalization are clear, many organizations face significant hurdles when trying to implement effective strategies. Here are some common constraints:

  • Point of Sale (POS) Systems: Outdated or inflexible POS systems can hinder the ability to gather and utilize real-time customer data, limiting personalization efforts at the point of sale. A common theme we see is that these systems often hold a limited number of offers; however, by abstracting to a cloud-based architecture, businesses can overcome this limitation and gain unlimited capacity for personalization.
  • Data Science Limitations: Many organizations struggle with data science capabilities, particularly when segmentation strategies fall short of achieving true 1:1 personalization. This can lead to generic marketing efforts that fail to resonate with individual customers.
  • Batch Processing: Reliance on batch processing can result in delayed or outdated personalization, missing the mark in delivering timely and relevant experiences.
  • Siloed Data: When customer data is spread across multiple, unconnected systems, it becomes challenging to create a unified view of the customer, impeding personalization efforts.
  • Resource Constraints: Limited resources, whether in terms of budget, technology, or personnel, can restrict the ability to implement and maintain robust personalization strategies.

Recognizing and addressing these constraints is essential for any organization aiming to enhance their personalization capabilities. Investing in the right technology and infrastructure can make a significant difference in overcoming these challenges and delivering the personalized experiences that customers expect.

Eagle Eye AIR: Your Ready-to-Deploy Solution

At Eagle Eye, we understand the urgency of the situation. That's why we've developed the Eagle Eye AIR platform, a comprehensive solution designed to meet your personalization needs right out of the box. Whether you’re planning to enhance your omnichannel marketing campaigns, improve customer engagement, or boost sales and unlock revenue through deploying supplier-funded offers at scale, Eagle Eye AIR has you covered.

Key Features of Eagle Eye AIR

  1. Seamless Integration: Our platform is designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing systems (e.g. POS, eCommerce platforms, apps, CDP, marketing automation etc.), reducing the time and effort required to get started. Have a look here to see all our existing integrations.
  2. Scalability: Eagle Eye AIR can scale with your business, ensuring that as your needs grow, the platform grows with you. We currently process between 5-10k API transactions per second, adjudicating 50 item baskets containing 10 personalized promotions in under 250 ms millions of times a day. This is real-time at scale.
  3. Real-Time Data Processing: As a real-time platform, we enable businesses to leverage real-time data to deliver personalized experiences instantly, ensuring your customers receive the most relevant content and offers at the exact moment it matters. Whatever your personalization goals may be, Eagle Eye AIR is ready to deploy off the shelf, minimizing the time to first personalization and maximizing your return on investment.
  4. Integrated to EagleAI, personalization science built for retail: If you’re struggling to get to true 1:1 targeting, we have the AI to enable you to generate, and then execute, personalized customer experiences at scale. EagleAI represents the next generation of data science for retail marketing, one that is focused on meeting each customers’ wants and needs individually, optimizing promotional spending, and increasing ROI.

The Urgency of Now: Why You Can’t Afford to Wait

If you’re still delivering segmented marketing and haven't got a clear line of sight through to achieving true personalization, we believe you need to move fast. This means you don’t have time to build a solution from scratch. The digital landscape is evolving rapidly, and customer expectations are continually rising. Delaying your personalization efforts will result in missed opportunities, lost revenue, and a weakened competitive position.

Not only is personalization what your customers expect from you, it is proving itself to be the way to drive profitability at a time when retailers are under more pressure than ever. According to McKinsey, personalization “can reduce customer acquisition costs by as much as 50 percent, lift revenues by 5 to 15 percent, and increase marketing ROI by 10 to 30 percent.” And this is exactly what we're seeing with leading retailers globally such as Loblaw, Woolworths and Asda, all of whom have grown profitability in the last 12 months whilst continuing to scale their personalization efforts.

With Eagle Eye AIR, you don’t need to start from square one. Our platform is designed to get you up and running quickly, allowing you to start delivering personalized experiences in no time. By collaborating with a diverse array of partners across the marketing ecosystem, we can achieve real-time personalization at unprecedented speed. One standout example of delivering personalization at scale involved our collaboration with Southeastern Grocers and our partner Dunnhumby. This partnership allowed us to leverage Dunnhumby's advanced data analytics and customer insights to create highly personalized marketing campaigns, executed across all channels via the AIR platform, significantly enhancing customer engagement and satisfaction. You can explore more details here.

By choosing Eagle Eye AIR, you’re not just investing in a technology solution; you’re investing in the future of your customer relationships and profitable business growth. At Eagle Eye, we understand the crucial role this plays for our customers, which is why we take immense pride in our long-term partnerships and our commitment to excellence. See our customer promise here.

Conclusion

In a world where personalized customer experiences are more important than ever, you can't afford to wait. Eagle Eye AIR offers a ready-to-deploy solution that integrates seamlessly with your existing systems, scales with your business, and leverages real-time data to deliver personalized experiences in real-time, at scale.. If you're ready to accelerate your time to first personalization and stay ahead of the competition, the time to act is now. Get in touch!