The Travel Web Retargeting Service Responsys' Most Powerful Offering for Travel Marketers Ted Wham VP, Vertical Industry Solutions Responsys July 18, 2014 Safe Harbor Statement The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 2 Program Agenda 1 What is the Travel Web Retargeting Service? 2 How is the T-WRS implemented? 3 What performance can be expected? 4 Example implementations and additional capabilities Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 3 What is the Travel Web Retargeting Service? The Travel Web Retargeting Service • A solution for Responsys’ eCommerce travel clients • Tracks people and their search, select, itinerary/ product detail view, and purchase events as they traverse your website purchase path • Enables short-latency abandonment remarketing – and more Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 5 Primary objective: Minimize the elapsed time between search abandonment and when the marketer can retarget the event via email Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 6 Time is money... 100 Index of Purchase Propensity 90 Typical Overnight Batch System 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Hours Since Browse Abandonment Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Time is money... 100 Index of Purchase Propensity 90 Typical Overnight Batch System 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Hours Since Browse Abandonment Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Time is money... 100 Index of Purchase Propensity 90 80 Responsys Travel Web Retargeting Service Typical Overnight Batch System 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Hours Since Browse Abandonment Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Example purchase path: Singapore Airlines Home • Website page where the customer enters travel criterion • May include “Product home pages” for travel companies that sell multiple travel products (for example an OTA) What can the marketer learn at page render: Customer identity (for cookied customers) Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 10 Example purchase path: Singapore Airlines Search Results • Listing of all saleable travel itineraries that meet the identified criterion What can the marketer learn at page render: The trip criterion passed from the search form Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 11 Example purchase path: Singapore Airlines Itinerary Select • Page shown after the customer has selected the itinerary that best meets their needs • Property detail pages, particularly for hoteliers and OTAs, can also serve a similar function What can the marketer learn at page render: The itinerary that meets the customer’s needs Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 12 Example purchase path: Singapore Airlines Information Collection • One or more pages used to collect additional information needed to complete the booking such as: • Seat selection • Traveler information • Payment details What can the marketer learn at page render: Not a lot of incremental actionable information Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 13 Example purchase path: Singapore Airlines Purchase Details • Final restatement of the selected itinerary with full pricing, traveler, and payment details • The last website page displayed prior to purchase What can the marketer learn at page render: Clearer intent for the preferred itinerary Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 14 Example purchase path: Singapore Airlines Purchase Confirmation • The page shown once the booking is complete • Success! What can the marketer learn at page render: The itinerary the customer has purchased Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 15 Purchase path as a schematic Home Page Home Page Search Results Search Results Itinerary Select Itinerary Select Itinerary Select Itinerary Select Information Collection Information Collection Information Collection Purchase Details Purchase Details Purchase Details Purchase Confirmation Purchase Confirmation Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 16 Purchase path as a schematic Home Page Search Results Itinerary Select Information Collection Purchase Details Purchase Confirmation Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 17 Purchase path as a schematic Home Page Search Results Searchers who Abandon Itinerary Select Selecters who Abandon Information Collection Purchase Details Purchase Confirmation Purchasers Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 18 How is the T-WRS implemented? The two sides of the T-WRS The Listener The Processor • The T-WRS Listener is JavaScript code supplied by Responsys to your web development team • Custom processes that create meaning from the events and then uploads them into Responsys Interact as quickly as possible • This code is integrated into your purchase path to capture purchase intent events and transmit them back to Responsys as they occur • End-to-end cycle time between the last website page view and data availability in RI is about 90 minutes Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 20 The Listener • Standard JavaScript gobbledygook • To a marketer it may look like hieroglyphics • But to a website engineer it shouldn’t be mysterious at all: it looks like what they deal with every day <script type="text/javascript"> var var var var _riTrack; _custIDCookieName = "riTrack_CustomerID"; _riAccountCode = '12345678'; _src = ''; function _riInit() { _riTrack = riTrack.init(_riAccountCode,_src); _riTrack.setCustIDCookieName(_custIDCookieName); }; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//wrs.adrsp.net/tstwrs/js/twrs.min.js"> </script> Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 21 The Listener • As an example here is the JavaScript snippet we use to capture a flight search request • You can actually read the primary itinerary criterion in the snippet: Origin Destination Dep Date Ret Date SJC PHL 02/03/2014 02/07/2014 var flightVrchEvt = _riTrack.Flight.createSearchEvent(searchId, custId, itinType); srchEvt.addSlice( { "orig_airport": "SJC", "dest_airport": "PHL", "dep_date": "02/03/2014", "ret_date“: "02/07/2014", "adults": 3, "kids": 2, "total_travelers": 5, "fare_type": "points", "seniors": 0, "infants": 0, "cabin_class": "BUSINESS", "flex_no_days": 3, "non_stop_preference": "true", "refundable_fares": "false" }); Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 22 The Listener • An example of a hotel select event, • This select is for the “San Francisco Marriott Marquis” with a base room rate of “189/night”, denominated in “GBP” var hotelSelectEvent = _riTrack.Hotel.createSelectEvent( { "customer_id" : “7846790", "search_id" : “330968054", "currency" : "GBP", "hotel_id" : 18749, "hotel_name" : "San Francisco Marriott Marquis", "customer_rating" : “4.0", "star_rating" : 4, "number_cust_reviews" : 21, "guests" : 1, "adults" : 1, "children" : 0, "seniors" : 0, "infants" : 0, "airport_code" : "SFO", "check_in_date" : "02/01/2014", "check_out_date" : "02/04/2014", "location_id" : “airport_SFO", "location_keyword" : "SFO", "number_of_rooms" : 1, "hotel_class" : "SUITE", "accomodation_type" : "SUITE", "room_type" : "SUITE ROOM", "lowest_avg_room_price_night" : 189, }); Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 23 The Processor • Matches searches to purchases • Matches all events to people • Applies a heuristic, based on similar travel dates and/or locations, to identify unique “journeys” expressed in multiple searches • Maintains marketability “state” • Brews coffee for Responsys Engineers! (OK, that one’s on the enhancement list...) Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 24 Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 25 Example implementation and performance expectations Using the data • An abandonment message would definitely be in order • Again, enabling short-latency email abandonment marketing is the primary reason we built the T-WRS Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 27 Using the data • An abandonment message would definitely be in order • Again, enabling short-latency email abandonment marketing is the primary reason we built the T-WRS • And don’t forget to include the all-important responsive version for your mobile users! Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 28 So how does it perform? Events and People • For every 1,000 searches on a travel website the T-WRS is able to match from 150 to as many as 450 of those events back to a known customer that is already in the Responsys Interact Contacts List • Because customers often run more than one search per session, these searches are coming from 80-110 unique customers • And of those customers a surprising 80%+ are opt-in and deliverable • The result? From every 1,000 searches on the website: – Emailable audience – Remarketable events Worst Case 60 people 120 searches Best Case 85 people 360 searches Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | So how does it perform? Transactions • Transactions are, of course, the most important metric • Normalizing conversion rates across multiple clients has been challenging Show me the money! • We roughly estimate transaction rate per unique email clicker at 5-8% • Consider these rates directional only • We can state that T-WRS enabled abandonment messages are the highest RPE messages our clients send Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 30 What else can the T-WRS do? Greatly enhance your mass newsletters Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 32 Hyper-personalizing mass communications • All of us send a base newsletter that goes to a large audience on a regular cadence • Let’s use Emerald Airlines as our example • It has nice eye-candy, but low relevance • You know – like most mass newsletters! Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 33 Hyper-personalizing mass communications • To show what you can do with abandonment data I need to create some open space on this example • First let’s move the hotel offer at the bottom of the newsletter even lower (in fact, below the screen edge...) Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 34 Hyper-personalizing mass communications • ...now let’s shift some things around: • The eye-candy is pretty but it isn’t specific to the recipient • Low-relevancy content should generally be deprioritized in any campaign • So let’s move it lower in the design Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 35 Hyper-personalizing mass communications • ...whoops, gotta add one more general offer (the loyalty team is on my case!) Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 36 Hyper-personalizing mass communications • OK, now we’ve got it: the same newsletter as before, just rearranged • So how can we use T-WRS data to make it better? Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 37 Hyper-personalizing mass communications • Abandonment data makes great newsletter content • The T-WRS automatically provides all searches where: • The customer searched but didn’t purchase... • ...either in the same search session or any future website search session • As long as the dates of travel are still in the future Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 38 Hyper-personalizing mass communications • You can also optionally include “Itinerary Unsubscribe”, a very user-friendly type of opt-down Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 39 Itinerary Unsubscribe is not natively built into the T-WRS. However it is not hard to add. Self-service clients can build Itinerary Unsubscribe themselves (we’ll show you how). Or we can build it for you for as a professional services project. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 40 Hyper-personalizing mass communications • As an aside, obtaining current dated prices for itineraries searched in the past may be challenging • If you can’t get price data you can always have a “Check prices” call-to-action • Or you can leverage our “API Engine” travel service and we’ll get prices for you Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 41 Making a Check Prices claim adds no cost If you want Responsys to get prices for you, the API Engine is offered as an additional service, not included in the T-WRS Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 42 How else can you use the data? Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 43 The T-WRS sees all searches and purchases... Example data sorted by customer and date of search... CustID Event Type EventDate TripType DepIATA ArrIATA DepDate RetDate Price 123 Search 8/14/13 10:14 RT SEA SJD 08/22/13 08/25/13 284 123 Select 8/14/13 10:17 RT SEA SJD 08/22/13 08/25/13 310 123 Purch 8/14/13 10:22 RT SEA SJD 08/22/13 08/25/13 310 123 Search 01/06/14 22:16 RT SEA SGU 06/22/14 06/30/14 298 123 Search 03/07/14 12:54 OW SEA JAC 03/14/14 123 Select 05/18/14 16:39 RT SEA TUS 05/22/14 05/23/14 478 123 Purch 05/18/14 16:56 RT SEA TUS 05/22/14 05/23/14 478 123 Search 07/09/14 08:30 OW SEA LAS 09/16/14 411 209 Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 44 Best offers for a specific individual • You need to make travel offers you don’t know Specific Future Travel Interest (SFTI) • Leverage historical behavior to choose and prioritize these offers • The optional Responsys “Dateless Offer Generator” sorts to best offer by: CustID OrigIATA DestIATA 123 SEA TUS 123 SEA SJD 123 SEA LAS 123 SEA JAC 123 SEA SGU – Event Type: Purchases, then Selects, then Searches – Recency – Frequency – Price (optional) – Margin (optional) Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 45 Hyper-personalizing mass communications • The solution made available by Responsys to identify customer-specific itineraries is called the “Dateless Offer Generator” CustID OrigIATA DestIATA 123 SEA TUS 123 SEA SJD 123 SEA LAS 123 SEA JAC 123 SEA SGU • With this service, or using data you supply, you can personalize your dateless offers at the individual recipient level Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 46 If you can supply customer-specific offers you can include them in your messaging for no additional cost If you want Responsys to determine these offers, the Dateless Offer Generator is offered as an additional service, not included in the T-WRS Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 47 How else can you use the data? Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 48 The T-WRS sees all searches and purchases... Example data sorted by origin and destination... CustID Event Type EventDate TripType DepIATA ArrIATA DepDate RetDate Price 123 Search 07/18/2014 RT SFO SEA 08/22/14 08/25/14 284 124 Search 07/18/2014 RT SFO SEA 08/22/14 08/25/14 310 125 Search 07/18/2014 RT SFO SEA 08/22/14 08/25/14 310 126 Search 07/18/2014 RT SFO SEA 07/22/14 07/30/14 298 127 Search 07/18/2014 RT SFO SEA 11/14/14 11/19/14 411 128 Search 07/18/2014 RT SFO SEA 05/22/15 05/23/15 478 129 Search 07/18/2014 RT SFO SEA 09/21/14 09/22/14 478 130 Search 07/18/2014 RT SFO SEA 09/16/14 09/19/14 209 Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 49 Best legally compliant price by route • We have yet another integration called the “Dateless Price Cache” • This system creates a constantly updated list of D.O.T.-compliant dateless (or “lead”) prices for every route on your website OrigIATA DestIATA Price SEA JAC 825 SEA LAS 386 SEA SGU 329 SEA SJD 772 SEA TUS 354 • Includes ability to narrow to “representative” fares and maintain necessary audit trail. • Prices updated hourly Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 50 Hyper-personalizing mass communications • With the Dateless Price Cache, or from data you supply yourself, we can now add prices to the dateless offers in the mailing OrigIATA DestIATA Price SEA JAC 825 SEA LAS 386 SEA SGU 329 SEA SJD 772 SEA TUS 354 Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 51 If you can supply dateless prices you can include them in your messaging at no additional cost If you want Responsys to determine these prices, the Dateless Price Cache is offered as an additional service, not included in the T-WRS Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 52 Is hyper-personalization worth it? • Leveraging actual customer behavior... • ...for travel both in the past and in the future... • Can enable the creation of hyper-personalized communications Responsys clients who use hyper-personalization have seen transactional lift of over 60% In their mass newsletters Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 53 Summary Summary • The Travel Web Retargeting Service provides you detailed, customerspecific travel intent data • And it does it quickly • This information can dramatically alter what is possible in your email marketing communications • And result in substantial increases in profitability • Talk to me or your Responsys Customer Service Manager if you need more information on the T-WRS, Itinerary Unsubscribe, API Engine, or Dateless Price Cache Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 55 Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 56
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