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Transforming Retail Customer Experiences with Innervate

Leveraging Customer Data Platforms and AI for Unparalleled Retail Customer Experience

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Retail (and how to succeed in it) is rapidly evolving!

Tech-fueled data management and engagement solutions, such as customer data platforms (CDPs) and artificial intelligence (AI), can help retailers deliver exceptional—and even personalized—customer experiences (CX) at scale. 

Today’s retailers face significant challenges with activating customer data and using it effectively. Innervate helps retailers scale efficiently, deliver world-class CX, and promote sustainable innovation over the long term. 

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Harness the Power of a Unified Customer View

CDPs bring together customer data from multiple sources, including point-of-sale systems, e-commerce platforms, mobile apps, customer service interactions, and real-time product feeds, ensuring you always promote the most relevant products—regardless of constantly changing SKUs.

The result is a holistic understanding of customer behavior, preferences, and purchase history.

If you use that understanding well, you can make customer engagement and loyalty skyrocket.

 

Key CDP Benefit: Comprehensive Customer Insights

With the right use of the right CDP, retailers can benefit from:

Enhanced Personalization

Tailored product recommendations—based on real-time inventory updates down to new SKUs and categorized assets—personalized marketing messages, and customized offers can drive higher audience engagement and loyalty.

Consistent customer experiences

A seamless experience across online and in-store channels can help ensure that your customers enjoy high-quality interactions at every touchpoint.

Improved marketing effectiveness

Advanced segmentation and targeted campaigns lead to higher conversion rates and a better return on investment.

Enhance Personalization and Enhanced Customer Experiences at Scale

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Why personalize at scale?

Here’s why: Personalized experiences drive higher customer engagement, satisfaction, and loyalty. In today’s competitive market, this level of specificity can be a key differentiator that sets retailers apart.

CDPs can help you deliver personalized experiences—without overloading your creative teams—by ...

... Giving you a holistic view of the customer: With comprehensive customer data at your fingertips, you’ll be better able to ideate strategic experiences designed to boost engagement and loyalty while also ensuring that the right products are always highlighted (and accompanied by tailored creative assets). 

... Managing unified customer profiles: That holistic data can also help you support consistent, high-quality interactions across all touchpoints for customer satisfaction throughout a seamless omnichannel experience. 

... Predicting customer needs: By using AI to analyze customer data and predict future behaviors, you’ll be able to roll out proactive marketing strategies and even more personalized offers.

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How Innervate Helps You Orchestrate World-Class CX

Using our powerful, lightweight orchestration layer can help retailers better leverage customer data from various sources, enabling personalized marketing at scale and seamless multichannel experiences. Retailers can use these insights to craft targeted offers and enhance customer loyalty.

Orchestration in Action

Let’s say a high-end fashion retailer uses a CDP to unify customer behavioral data from its website, mobile app, and physical stores. By analyzing this data, it identifies that a segment of customers frequently purchases accessories but not apparel. The retailer then tailors marketing campaigns to offer personalized discounts on apparel to these customers via email and app notifications. This strategy increases cross-selling and boosts overall sales.

Optimization Tip

Regularly update and analyze customer segments to identify new patterns and opportunities for personalized marketing, and then use AI to predict which products are likely to be of interest to each segment based on their browsing and purchase history.

Streamline Operations and Drive Data-Driven Insights

Achieving streamlined operations will help you elevate your retail CX and improve your employees’ work experiences. 

The holistic customer data you already have can fuel that—if you use it well. By organizing your data in a CDP and then activating that data properly, you can: 

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Reduce your data silos

Consolidating data into a single platform accessible by all departments enhances operational workflows and supports more accurate customer information. (The less data needs to be transferred or copied to be shared, the better.) 
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Improve communication

With all data centralized, retailers can streamline operations and improve communication across departments.
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Leverage your analytics.

CDPs provide powerful tools for deriving insights from customer data, guiding inventory management, product development, and pricing strategies based on real-time data and AI-driven insights.

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Orchestration in Action

As an example, let’s say a global electronics retailer uses predictive analytics from its CDP to enhance marketing strategies. By analyzing past sales data and current trends, the retailer identifies which products are most popular in specific regions. Marketers can then tailor campaigns to promote these high-demand items, ensuring that the right products are highlighted to the right customers. This targeted approach boosts engagement and helps maintain optimal inventory levels, reducing the chances of overstock or stockouts.

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Integrate predictive analytics to forecast customer preferences and adjust your offerings in real time. By anticipating demand and tailoring experiences based on these insights, you can enhance customer satisfaction and drive engagement.

 

Elevate Retail Marketing with AI-Driven Enhancements

With the very latest cutting-edge tools, attaining your key performance indicators without overloading your team has never been easier.

Here are just a few of the things that are possible:

  • AI algorithms can analyze customer behavior for personalized product recommendations.
  • Advanced segmentation can support the creation of detailed customer segments for ultraprecise targeting.
  • Assisted content creation can help your team roll out personalized content for emails, social media, and product descriptions with generative AI.

Our AI tools also simplify asset management, categorizing product images based on characteristics such as color or model and even using generative AI for tasks such as auto-cropping and enhancing images to optimize them across formats and channels.

And that's just the beginning–we're innovating new ways to leverage AI for high-quality CX every day! Stay tuned for more!

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How Innervate Helps You Orchestrate World-Class CX

With solutions in your tool kit that leverage AI and automation, you can significantly speed up and scale your creative, allowing iteration, experimentation, and tailored creative ideation without overwhelming human talent. You can also position yourself one or more steps ahead of your buyers by providing seemingly magic, nearly prescient suggestions or CX elements to improve their interactions with your brand. 

Orchestration in Action

Let’s say that a home goods retailer uses AI for real-time product recommendations on its e-commerce site. When a customer browses for a sofa, the site also suggests matching cushions, rugs, and other accessories based on previous customer behavior and preferences, enhancing the shopping experience and increasing average order value.

Discover how Otto increased its creative performance by 339 percent and optimized user-based personalization with Innervate—explore the full case study here.

Optimization Tip

Implement AI-driven product recommendation engines on your website to provide personalized shopping experiences. Continuously test and refine recommendation algorithms to ensure they remain effective and relevant​.

Seamlessly Integrate Systems and Ensure

Regulatory Compliance

Weaving our lightweight orchestration layer throughout your existing systems is simple. 

We’ve built our solution to make using it easy—and to keep ongoing compliance as intuitive as possible. Integrating your product feed with our AI-driven tools ensures consistent, up-to-date product information across all systems, reducing the risk of errors and enhancing overall operational efficiency. With Innervate, you’ll benefit from:

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Seamless connectivity:

Picture CDPs integrating with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, CRM tools, and marketing automation platforms to support synchronized data across your organization.
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Consistent data use

With synchronized data usable across your organization, your entire team will be set up for better decision-making and the creation of more strategic CX elements. 
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Data privacy management

CDPs support the management of customer data in compliance with regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act. Using a CDP is a great way to ensure robust data governance and responsible handling of customer information.

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Optimization Tip

Regularly audit your data integration processes to ensure data consistency and accuracy across all systems. Use automated tools to synchronize data and reduce manual errors​. 

Boost Customer Retention and Loyalty with Proactive Engagement

This is what it’s all about: To be successful, your business needs to attract new business and keep your current customers smiling and satisfied. 

World-class CX can do that—and it can go the extra mile to proactively engage your customers and keep your team informed about every client relationship. With real-time product recommendations and AI-enhanced customer insights, you can offer personalized rewards and experiences that resonate with your customers' current needs and preferences.

How would it feel to be able to rely on the following as you grow your business? 

  • Churn prediction: Identifying at-risk customers and implementing retention strategies that deliver optimal messages to retain customers
  • Proactive engagement: Implementing strategies to engage customers before they consider leaving, using data-driven insights to offer personalized rewards and experiences
  • Enhanced loyalty programs: Creating and managing loyalty programs that reflect the unique preferences and behaviors of your customers, driving repeat business and long-term loyalty
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Orchestration in Action

Let’s say a global retailer uses its CDP data to identify customers who haven’t made a purchase in the last six months. The retailer then implements a targeted email campaign offering a personalized discount to these customers, which successfully reengages a significant portion of them.


Find out how Nordstrom increased engagement by 43 percent and achieved seamless campaign execution with Innervate—read the full case study here.

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Use data from your CDP to create tailored retention strategies, such as personalized offers or exclusive access to new products, to keep customers engaged and loyal.