This document summarizes a digital finance forum that discussed various topics around digital strategies for financial services. It covered mobile environments and considerations for mobile-first approaches. It also discussed website engagement and how to connect with users on an emotional level through storytelling, gamification and personalization. The forum emphasized understanding customer motivation and context to improve engagement and conversions through digital experiences.
3. What is your mobile environment?
Various platforms, from traditional web browsers solutions, to the many mobile platforms.
Apple iPhone Apple iPad Android Blackberry Windows
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4. Statistics...... not the important factor
It is a simple decision:
• The trend cannot be questioned
• You need to have a solution for mobile today
• Aim to provide an optimal experience
Your question is what and how (not if)
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5. • 31 Companies
App
• Only 5 mobile
sites:
• 1 Responsive
• 4 “M” sites
Ipad ready
Mobile specific Website
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
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6. Aspire to an integrated and considered approach
Kindle
iPad view
Desktop view
Smartphone view
Whisper sync
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7. Your considerations should be:
• What - Corporate view : tactical campaign: quick wins
• Who (Approach) - your reach : audience : strategy
• How (Delivery) - screen : speed : context : content
• When (Future) – today’s expectation : innovations
We will look at each of these .....
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8. (1) Approach: Your 0ptions
Responsive vs m. and Native app vs Framework app
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12. (3) Delivery – screen: speed: context: content
Considering context is topical and essential:
• Forrester definition:
“The sum total of what your customer has told you and is experiencing at the moment of
engagement.”
• Consider your customers
– situation
– preference
– attitudes
• Will give better customer experience
• Performance is key:
– “A 1-second delay in page load time equals 11% fewer page views, a 16% decrease in customer
satisfaction, and 7% loss in conversions. (In dollar terms, this means that if your site typically
earns £10,000 a day, this year you could lose £250K in sales).” *Source: Aberdeen Group+
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24. Example: Responsive Design Challenge
Challenges - Considerations
• Forced order and best practice
• Screen size – optimised image
• Video playback
• Table based data
• Image/content load times
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25. (4) Future – expectation: innovation
• Mobile is the fastest moving technology area
• Framework apps gaining momentum
• Trends to keep in eye on:
• Mobile Payments
• Near field opportunities
• Location based promotions
• QR & AR innovations
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27. Discussion points
• Native iPhone and Android Apps are not the way forward.
• If you were to start a new website you’d consider the design
for mobile as your top priority.
• Mobile spend should match or exceed your desktop spend in
your digital budget.
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35. We must understand our users, and their motivation
We must balance our outcomes with our users’
motivation
We must respond to the context
We must engage our audiences
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36. What is engagement?
…the process of forming an attachment (emotional
and rational) between a person and a brand.
engagement measures the extent to which a
consumer has a meaningful brand experience when
exposed to a particular experience.
turning on a prospect to a brand idea enhanced by the
surrounding context
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37. What is engagement?
…the process of forming an attachment (emotional
and rational) between a person and a brand.
engagement measures the extent to which a
consumer has a meaningful brand experience when
exposed to a particular experience.
turning on a prospect to a brand idea enhanced by the
surrounding context
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38. It is impossible to engage
someone if you don’t know
what’s motivating them.
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39. Grab their attention
Help them comprehend the proposition you are making
Give them what they need to make a decision
Enable them to recall you and your offer
Give them satisfaction
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41. Experience = Rational + Emotional
Rational thought Emotional
Logical processing Intuitive thought
Analytical thought Creative thought
Sequential All at once
Cause and effect Holistic thought
Pragmatic Impetuous
Objective Subjective
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42. Making an emotional connection
Framing
Feedback loops
Goal setting / Achievements
Story
Familiarity Bias
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43. “Less than a cup of
coffee a day”
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55. “Storytelling is the best way to emotionally
connect to people. We all have stories in
common so instead of listing facts and
figures on your website, tell the story
behind them.”
Robert Mills
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60. We prefer things that
are familiar to us.
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61. “Showing personality in your app, website, or brand
can be a very powerful way for your audience to
identify and empathize with you. People want to
connect with real people and too often we forget that
businesses are just collections of people. So why not
let that shine through?”
Aarron Walter
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75. Discussion Points
Successful websites are about more than utility, facts and
figures. We need to make our sites personal, relevant and
engaging.
Compliance prevents us from meaningfully engaging with our
website visitors.
Driving users to our website should be the ultimate goal of the
majority of our online activity.
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76.
77. Today
• Presentations 8.20 – 9.15
Introduction, Rich media, Blogging and Social Networks
Coffee
• Presentations 9.30 - 10.00
Mobile, Website innovation
• Breakout discussions 10.00 - 11.30
4 x ‘15 minutes’ (musical chairs)
• Effective digital strategy 11.30 - 12.00
• Wrap up 12.00
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Notas do Editor
Mobile specific Website5Ipad ready27App8Responsive1M sites4
Quick summary of the approach to the majority of websites out there. Yes there’s also our facebook apps, Visuals: Show examples of each?
Quick summary of the approach to the majority of websites out there. Yes there’s also our facebook apps, Visuals: Show examples of each?
Quick summary of the approach to the majority of websites out there. Yes there’s also our facebook apps, Visuals: Show examples of each?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGaVFRzTTP4
I’m going to assume that most, if not all of you today are involved in your company’s digital strategy. More of an educated guess…The first thing we should think about when we create a website strategy is the desired outcomes
You could be selling an idea, an experience or a product
Here’s a typical banker. He needs more cash to bolster his balance sheet.His outcome is a very simple one…
A visitor to our banker’s website might be thinking this…It’s a completely rational requirement – perhaps she’s already done the research she needs, and she now wants to get it sorted out.If this is your user’s need, fantastic. You’ve got yourself a sale.
But the reality is often more emotional…Our user isn’t thinking specifically of a savings account – he’s thinking about what he’s saving for, and why.His motivation is more emotional than rational (at this stage)
So what must you do to achieve your outcome from these emotional humans?…You must engage your audience. It’s that simple?
But what does engagement actually mean?Most definitions involve brand engagement, which works well in this context.1. Brand engagement can be defined as…2. Wikipedia definition3. Advertising Research Foundation defined engagement as…
Let’s have a look at the key words here – attachment / emotional / rational / meaningful / context
What are the most important things we need to do in order to engage?
We need to look to psychology for the answers. This is nothing new. Marketers have been fiddling with our minds for decades, but we’ve been slow to bring this online – especially in the finance arena.We can do this without upsetting our colleagues in compliance…And it’s a perfectly moral pursuit
We’re all familiar with the left brain / right brain idea, but let’s have a quick look at how the cerebral hemispheres differ.
There are hundreds of different psychological techniques, but we’re going to take a look at just a few.Framing is the context within which you make a statement, and how this can affect the way it’s processed.Feedback loops are simply responding to the way humans like cause and effectWe all like being rewarded, however insignificant the reward may beStory is the most powerful way to grab someone’s attention, help them to comprehend, and allow them to recall.Familiarity bias is simply that we like things we’re familiar with – people and faces topping the list of these.
The way in which things are stated can alter our judgment and affect our decisionsYou’ll all be familiar with charities that frame a monthly donation as less than the price of a cup of coffee per dayFraming is about using context to make something easier to process and comprehend
Here’s how HSBS are framing their consumer products – not by their features, but by framing it around the user’s possible motivation
Here’s how HSBS are framing their consumer products – not by their features, but by framing it around the user’s possible motivation
Wonga makes it incredibly easy to see the repayment amount by providing sliders for loan amount and repayment time.
For something a bit more complicated, like Mortgages, Northern Rock give instant results based on criteria without leaving the page.
We all like to be rewarded for something.Added to this is our desire to not only collect things, but complete sets of thingsGamification is being talked about as one of the next big things online
Gamification – make the experience fun for the user and appeal to their sense of play, competitiveness and achievement
Mint turns saving into a game – measure your financial fitness by completing achieve-mints every month
Similar example from barclays – improve your spending habits by setting yourself goals
...and adjusting your behaviour to afford the little extras
Human beings have been telling each other stories for as long as there has been language.There is no more compelling way of capturing and holding attention, and enabling comprehension and recall.
Capture and hold attention / Aid comprehension / Imply causation / Stories are more easily rememberedBut stories don’t have to involve the written word. Here are some examples of visual storytelling…
Charting – data visualisation is all the rage at the moment – by putting data into a visual story, it’s easier to understand
Another example of infographics telling a story – this shows how the sale of enagement rings increased after Prince William and Kate Middleton got engaged.
Here’s a very simple story told in a cartoon format – this is framing the benefits of a piece of software
Video is perhaps the most compelling and engaging way of telling a story online.This excerpt explains the complex issue of leverage.It’s very efficient – it could have taken two or three times longer to read a textbook description of leverage.This way is engaging, enjoyable, easier to understand and will stick in your memory more.
This is about as primitive as it gets – we prefer things that are familiar – probably because it makes us comfortable.There is nothing we’re more familiar with than people, especially people’s faces.
This is a great point from the writer of Designing for Emotion.Our research pointed out that your customers want to deal with people – they want to see the whites of your eyes
This eye tracking chart shows how people fixate on the face…
And interestingly, how we fixate on what the eyes are looking at.
But not always – we have detuned our brains from generic stock photography, so use sparingly.
Virgin money are taking a different approach to their website by showing a number of things we’re familiar with.A range of agesCountry and city
Using a non-threatening picture of the CEO as she explains the benefits of something importantThe text is more believable, and we’re more likely to feel trust
Research conducted in 2007 showed that a testimonial for a travel destination can increase conversion by 10%…
Add a photograph of the person leaving the testimonial, and you can make that a 20% conversion.