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Cross-Channel Personalization

Personalize customer experiences with AI and real-time data to optimize conversions and deepen customer relationships.

Personalize moments across every customer touchpoint

Create personalized experiences with machine learning and AI. Customize everything, from webpages to in-app experiences, product recommendations, content, and more. Tailor each customer experience for driving a specific KPI, from acquisition to customer retention, using a mixture of real-time user behavior and historical customer data. Improve page personalization with machine learning, informing CTAs like banners or pop-ups. You can even target and test at the speed your customers are browsing, with personalization decisions happening in milliseconds.

Trigger relevant, real-time experiences that move customers along their buying journey. Use AI-driven decisions to determine the most relevant next engagement for your customers with recommendations based on real-time customer behavior, historical customer data, and business specific data sets, such as pricing and inventory. Deliver predefined experiences to your customers, such as browsing or cart abandon journeys — all while using real-time customer interactions to determine the right content, channel or offer for them.

Feed real-time engagement data directly into your sales and service consoles to improve customer and prospect interactions. Empower service teams to preempt queries and provide more effective case resolutions, with faster access to a customer’s recent interactions across different business touchpoints. Enable your sales teams with more insight into an account or prospect’s purchase journey — fueling more relevant conversations and offers, using real-time knowledge of content consumed, products viewed, or time spent on your site.

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A personalized service request email laid over an interface showing real-time customer activity.

Engage with real-time recommendations.

Use AI to synthesize in-the-moment intent data as well as data about the entire history of your relationship with you customers to identify affinities, interests, and preferences. Develop nuanced perspectives on your customers based on individual preferences and use these insights to deliver custom messaging and offers — bringing you higher conversion rates across your website, app, and other channels.

A customer profile showing affinities for features, brand, category, style.

Use real-time personalization to engage your customers with relevant email campaigns. Send timely, custom messages with Open-Time Email Personalization that can optimize an email at the time of open with dynamic, changeable sections. Any aspect of the email can be personalized — including offers, product selection, and general content — all based entirely on the real-time understanding of the customer’s journey.

Improve the relevance of every customer engagement across your website and app with Einstein Decisions. Einstein Decisions are powered by a contextual bandit algorithm that uses real-time and historical profile data, alongside your predetermined business logic, to identify relevant, dynamic offers throughout the customer journey. As you deliver content and offers to your customers, new data will continually feed into Einstein — allowing the algorithm to improve its ability to deliver more optimal future decisions across a range of dynamic scenarios.

Einstein presenting a next best action offer.
A customer profile showing affinities for features, brand, category, style.
Einstein presenting a next best action offer.

Maximize return on marketing campaigns.

See real-time analytics across a range of key performance indicators — including transactions, responses, conversions, and revenue. Dig into your data at the individual, segment, and campaign level. Monitor dashboards with deep analytics on customer trends across channels and touchpoints, and improve your website and app experiences.

Optimize your web and app experience with A/B and multivariate testing. Leverage real-time, behavioral, contextual, and historical data to target tests, based on either segment membership or rule-based test triggers. Act on results with confidence, using randomized tests that employ Bayesian modeling to assess confidence levels for both out-of-the-box and custom KPIs. Integrate data to optimize personalization across channels — including your website, mobile app, email or service, and sales interactions.

A/B testing interface for campaign targeting.

Ensure the personalized experiences you are driving lead to business outcomes like revenue growth and deeper customer engagement.

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A/B testing interface for campaign targeting.
Survey designer interface.

Find the right Personalization solution for your business needs.

Marketing Cloud Personalization

Personalize engagement across channels

$ 108,000
Org / Year
USD (billed annually)
  • Web, Email and App Personalization
  • Segmentation, Rule Based Decisioning, A/B/N Testing and Reporting
  • Product and Content Recommendations and AI-Driven Next-Best Actions and Offers

Einstein Personalization

Personalize every web interaction

$ 96,000
Org / Year
USD (billed annually)
  • Web Personalization
  • AI-driven & Rule-based Decisioning
  • Product and Content Recommendations

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Marketing Cloud Personalization FAQ

A personalization engine is a kind of technology solution that ingests customer engagement and profile data, then — using machine learning and AI — determines relevant messages, segmentation, and content for each customer, based on their preferences and affinities. These insights can then be ingested into various marketing touchpoints to power the customer experience.

Increase the ROI of every site visit with 1-to-1 personalization.

Einstein Personalization is Salesforce's new personalization solution that seamlessly integrates into Data Cloud. It utilizes Salesforce Data Cloud customer profiles to deliver real-time, one-to-one experiences across all customer touchpoints, driving tangible business outcomes.

Many Marketing Cloud products offer the ability to personalize customer engagements, however, “Personalization” in Marketing Cloud refers specifically to the product that allows you to unify customer engagements across your website, app, email and other touchpoints, to generate preferences and affinities that power real-time one-to-one offers, messages, and experiences.

- Improved CSAT and customer experience
- Increased conversions on your website and across your email marketing
- Improved website and app experience, including increased time spent on-site and reduced bounce rate
- Reduced overall acquisition costs
- Improved marketing performance from smarter marketing segmentation
- Real-time triggers and intent driving engagements

Yes, Marketing Cloud Personalization and Salesforce Interaction Studio are one and the same. Interaction Studio was rebranded as Marketing Cloud Personalization in 2022.

Yes, Marketing Cloud Personalization and Evergage are one and the same. From increased innovations, feature improvements, and the evolution of the product, the name evolved twice from Evergage, to Interaction Studio, and then from Interaction Studio to Marketing Cloud Personalization.