Building Audiences

Sunbreak Personalization works by creating audiences, and then creating different versions of blocks on a per audience basis. We’ll explain more as we go. WE’ll start by creating a simple audience, then show how to use personalized blocks with the new audience.

You can use demographic, behavioral, or contextual data. As long as it’s available in your existing business platforms or the browser, then it’s accessible in WordPress.

Examples include the following:

• Target by city, state, or country if you cater to national or worldwide customers.

• Zero-in on device type, date, time, or referrer if your site has more visitors during a rush period.

• Go deep into the data with job title, company name, lead source, industry, email address, coupon code, and more, by synchronizing with your sales and marketing software.

Create an Audience

1. Open the audience builder. The icon to open this is shown in both the Personalized block menu and in the top right corner of the WordPress editor.

From the Personalized block:

OR

Top right corner of page / post editor:

1. This presents a new panel, listing the audiences. The first time you use this the list will be empty. To create a new audience, click on “+ Add New Audience”.

1. You will now see the audience editor. It is easy to use.

1. The audience name is free text, you can call it anything you like. It’s sensible to choose a name that matches the audience you are creating. Select the characteristic you want to use. There are many choices, see later for more information on characteristics. A good place to start is choosing country code.

2. The select relationship drop down varies with the type of characteristic. For country code, the default choice is “is”, which is the correct one. The other options are for numeric or text-based characteristics.

3. Finally, select the country code for where you live. This will allow you to test it readily.

4. You should end up with something like this:

5. Note that it is possible to combine characteristics with either AND or OR. An example might be the country codes for both the US or Canada.

Characteristics

Characteristics are used to build audiences, which in turn are used to vary the content of blocks. Note that characteristics don’t always have to be an exact match. For example they could be after a certain date, or include the letters “usa”.

Browser Characteristics

Browser characteristics represent data points regarding the web browser. They can include things about a visitor such as language and which site they came from.

First Party Data Characteristics

Sunbreak integrates with many popular martech tools. This includes Salesforce, Hubspot, MailChimp, ZenDesk and many more.

To integrate with these martech tools, the visitor needs to be identified. There are 2 main ways of doing this.

Capture the visitor’s email from a form. See Personalized Capture Form. SSO via Auth0 - this provides the visitor’s email.

Note that the first party data integrations require administration help from the Sunbreak support team. You will need to provide access details, such as security keys, so that the correct account is connected.

N.B. that these integrations are only available for the Growth and Enterprise plans.

The exact characteristics available vary from tool to tool. Additionally, these tools contain so much data that some configuration is required to select the most appropriate characteristics for each customer.

As an example, here are some of the characteristics available for Salesforce.