Marketing Cloud Personalization common terms from G to L.
Note This glossary contains many, but not all, common
terms associated with Marketing Cloud Personalization. If you don't see a term defined here,
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- global goal
- identity
- implicit data
- implied data
- impression
- in-branch
- in-store
- influenced reporting
- ingredient
- instance
- interaction
- item
- item block
- JavaScript beacon
- lookback
global goal
The primary actions you want visitors or users to complete on your website, SaaS app, or
mobile app. Examples include:
- completed a purchase
- added to cart
- downloaded or viewed content
- completed a form
identity
The aggregation of all of the known information about a customer or an account. Identity
information is gathered through on-line and off-line implicit and explicit data, and stored within
a Unified Customer Profile in Marketing Cloud Personalization. The same person or account can be
identified in a variety of ways by a variety of different systems. Marketing Cloud Personalization
holds multiple identities in the same profile, matching each against a hierarchy of identities,
then merging these different profiles together using customizable prioritization logic.
implicit data
Information that Marketing Cloud Personalization collects while a visitor moves around a
site. Examples include:
- pages viewed
- time spent on a page
impression
The number of times a campaign was seen. The total can exceed the number of unique
visitors because a visitor can see a campaign more than one time.
in-store
Refers to kiosks, POS systems, clienteling, and mobile apps that help unify an in-store
experience with a digital experience. Marketing Cloud Personalization can pass data (including
messages, offers, and recommendations) to these systems to help personalize a customer's in-store
or in-branch experience. Sometimes referred to as in-branch.
influenced reporting
Available on the Reports Dashboard, which shows the influence of web recommendations and
email campaigns on revenue, orders, visits, AOV, and conversions.
ingredient
A core algorithm that drives a recommendation recipe. Analogous to an engine that
determines which items are returned for the recipe. To return the most effective recommendations
for visitors,
you can use one or multiple ingredients in a recipe.
instance
The Marketing Cloud Personalization server identifier. To find the instance, navigate to
Gears from the main navigation. The beginning of the Gears URL shows the instance. For example, if
the Gears URL is
https://demo.us-1.everage.com/, then the
instance is us-1.interaction
A call to or from the Marketing Cloud Personalization to trigger activity, send data, or
retrieve data. Interactions must be used between the beginning and ending dates of your
subscription.
item
Provides an overview of content views and product purchases for top performing products,
blogs, or articles, as well as product brands, styles, and categories.
item block
An element type used to deploy product or content recommendations to any web page. Rather
than designing your own dynamic content and styling the message yourself, you can insert an Item
Block element to easily add a pre-formatted layout to your message. It’s a container for content -
similar to how a picture frame is a container for a photograph or piece of art.
JavaScript beacon
A code snippet from Marketing Cloud Personalization that you add to a site. The beacon places a
first-party cookie on each visitor’s browser and sends data for that visitor back to Interaction
Studio. The data sent back includes pages visited, links clicked, time on the site, number of
visits, geolocation, referral source, as well as other custom data you want collected.
lookback
The number of days a recipe looks back at a visitor’s history. When deciding how far
you’d like to look back, think about what best supports your product, content catalog, and
business goals. To look at today only, enter a value of 0. Specify up to a maximum number of
n days (the maximum allowed in the Einstein Recipe tool).