How focusing more on its audience helped a software company design a personalized digital experience that generated leads from the get-go.
How focusing more on its audience helped a software company design a personalized digital experience that generated leads from the get-go.
According to Zendesk, 71% of consumers expect a personalized experience. And 76% are frustrated when they don’t get one. After years of content updates, Igloo Software’s digital experience was casting too wide a net. And with 85% of Igloo's pipeline coming from inbound leads across a variety of channels, converting leads couldn’t have been more important. So we needed to speak to the company's ideal customer. Which raises the question: Who was it?
We created a user persona to help inform every design decision we had to make. By understanding our ideal customer’s goals, motivations and pain points, we were able to analyze the existing content and arrange it in a way that would be inviting, not intimidating. Just like Igloo’s software. Everything from the site’s navigation to the imagery and the tone of the content was shaped by this data-driven persona.
After just 6 months, we quickly saw obvious benefits to our audience-focused approach. Our online sessions increased by 33%, averaging 56 seconds per session. Our bounce rate decreased by 2.5%. And, most importantly, we saw product demo requests increase by an incredible 23%. That means we saw a 23% increase in warm leads.