Personalized marketing strategies in 2023

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If you're still wondering why your marketing efforts are failing, it could be due to a lack of personalization and a gap between your messaging and your customers' worldview. Customer experience standards are at an all-time high and your marketing efforts will have to push themselves to the limit.

According to Twilio’s 2022 State of Personalization Report , brands’ personalized marketing efforts are actually 20% less effective than they think. Companies will need to meet the halfway mark and accelerate their digital transformation to effectively meet expectations and capture attention.

Your audience can spot some half-baked personalization from a mile away. They expect you to know who they are, what they want, and why they want it. As marketers, that’s our job — and it’s easier said than done!

But it is possible. Here are a couple of ways to improve your personalization strategy and hit the bull's-eye of your target audience...

Personalization does not equal an invasion of privacy
Just because you know your target doesn't mean you're invading their privacy. We know it's unsettling to think of listening phones and robots laughing at our jokes. It doesn't have to come to that.

Personalization doesn’t mean harassing your audience. Personalization means getting to know your audience by their behaviors and therefore their desires. You can track this canada telegram data with retargeting campaigns, email workflows, or by using tools like Hotjar .

Even in HubSpot, there is a website automation tool that uses smart fields to present different variations of your website to people at different stages of their buying journey. Personalizing your marketing will begin when you understand your persona’s behavior.

01. Use market research, not purchased data
Cold calling and purchased lists are a thing of the past. Not to mention illegal, according to the various GDPR regulations. Instead of collecting random, gigantic lists from purchased sources, build your own lists through inbound strategies.

Yes, we know this may take longer, but only in the short term. In the long term, utilizing inbound tactics will provide you with higher quality leads and put them on a fast track through your funnel to become marketing qualified leads.

Tactics like social media (paid and organic), original content that leverages your best keywords, thought leadership from your executive team, and opportunities for your customers to truly engage with your brand will ensure quality over quantity.

02. Omnichannel methods are the key
There is no single magic formula in inbound marketing methodology today. To see results and gain traction, you will need to leverage multiple channels to discover which channels resonate best with your target audience.