Demo site intro
- Site being used for demo is built on our freely available reference architecture called "Foundation", built to show an overview of the capabilities of the platform including built-in enterprise search and some of the available optimizations, and increased engagement via content personalization
Customer Journeys
Technology / Cyber-Risk Interest
Story goals: simple personalization, AI-based personalization, forms
- Start at homepage as new visitor / prospective member [clear cookies before starting]
- Explain homepage: default hero, content recs showing default content
- In "Latest Insights" section, click "The corporate director's guide to managed cybersecurity services" article: /en/insights/resource-centers/cyber-risk/the-corporate-directors-guide-to-managed-cybersecurity-services/ --
- Shows visitor interest in cyber-risk / technology content
- Page shows flexible layout (side-by-side content at bottom of page)
- Complete form to sign up for Cyber-Risk mailing list
- [update to your email, for copy/paste during demo]: daniel.isaacs@optimizely.com
- Forms -- just like other content, manageable by authors/marketers without IT support
- Return to home (click the site logo) -> note Personalized content:
- Hero updated to Cyber-Risk content
- "Upcoming Courses and Events" now shows "Cyber Risk Oversight Certificate" course product page
- "Latest Insights" updated to focus on Cyber/Tech topics
- "Resource Centers" now shows link to "Cyber-Risk" resource center
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Search + Gated Content + Commerce
[Note: separate CMS + Commerce tracks below, depending on the products being demo'd]
- Search for "networking"
- Faceting/Filtering
- Products, Pages and Assets (PDF) all indexed, all in the same search results
- Best Bets: custom styles
- Click into article "Creating and Using Your Network" -- /en/insights/resource-centers/general/creating-and-using-your-network/
- Example of gated content: can see content teaser, but must log in to view entire article.
- Click "Login" -- automated login for demo site, logging in as a member who is a director and has already done some training courses through the association
- Now logged in, can now see full content
- Example of images inline in text -- WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE)
- Prices for online courses are automatically discounted 20% (and price for book is unaffected by discount)
If Commerce:
- Click "Networking 101" product
- Talk about product page
- Add to Cart
- If not still logged in: log in, talk about discounted price for members for online courses
- Click cart -> go to Checkout
- Customer addresses
- Shipping methods [for shipping materials for the course]
- Payment methods
- Tax calculations and connectors
Continue Journey
- Return to homepage
- Reminder: logged in as member who is a director and has already done some training courses through the association
- Personalizations:
- Hero updated
- "Accelerate" program no longer displayed because member already did that training -- now emphasizes customized in-person training
- "Upcoming Courses + Events" focused on Director training items
- "Resource Centers" shows "Board Lens" instead of Cyber-Risk
CMS / Back-End
- CMS intro + overview:
- Left side: IA (Information Architecture)
- Page Tree -- access rights; different icon to quickly see status of content (ex: draft only / not published / not visible)
- Multi-Site -- just create new homepage + configure site via admin screen
- Multi-Language -- Optimizely began as Swedish company...
- Center: content-editing canvas
- Right: toolbox -- blocks, media, forms
- Creating + Editing a page:
- Create new -> show templates
- Start from a partially built page: Mosey Associations > Insights > Resource Centers > General > Take a Walk
- Make sure you have a Project selected before editing, so the page gets added to the Project
- Already has image inline in WYSIWYG editor
- Add block: __Demo > "Author-Jens_Jenerson"
- Add form: "Membership: Request More Info" -- set to 1/2 width
- Note about how easy it is to build forms -- just like any other content
- Preview as other devices
- Publishing:
- Immediately
- Scheduled
- Mark as ready
- Content Approval Workflow
- Pick a folder: add step -- "Legal Review" -- add role + user
- Projects
- Group a set of content to be published together -- campaign, content refresh, etc
General Tips/High-level walkthrough
- Put the focus on your content
- How we understand your content -- automatically
- Understanding your content insights
- Relating content to visitor interests -- automatically
- Understanding engagement
- Informed content planning
- Customer Journey -- Prospective Member
- Inbound traffic personalization
- Intelligent search
- Integrated lead capture via Marketing Automation Connector (Salesforce / Marketo / Eloqua / etc)
- Member experiences
- Fresh Director
- Targeted content
- Younger photos
- Purposeful event recommendations
- Renewal Cycle
- Targeted content
- Reminders of value
- Prompts to renew
- Experienced Director
- Targeted content
- Networking events promotions
- Petition to contribute knowledge @ Summit Event
- Author experiences
- Building a Resource Page
- Adding content
- Applying taxonomy
- Content reuse
- Uploading and managing assets
- Mixing embedded content
- Configuring metadata
- Scheduling content
- Peeking at versions
- Publishing
- Adding to navigation
- Protecting Content (Members-Only content)
- Article content
- Looking at SEO/ADA (SiteImprove)
- Observing URL construction + vanity URLs
- Applying approval workflows
- Supporting Summit Event (multisite / microsite)
- Projects -- as content campaign orchestration tool
- "More with less" -- template re-use
- Applying personalization
- Viewing and configuring audience segments
- Previewing changes
- A/B testing for certainty
- Administration
- Search & Navigation -- optimization + boosting