Using personas to craft experience: New technology has created a population that is not satisfied unless they can connect, interact, and collaborate. Personas are the starting point in developing a strategy for engaging your audience in ways that lay the foundation to better serve your audience through appropriate channels and messaging, build trust and establish a longer term relationship, focus efforts and expose internal conflicts and more effectively use resources. Panel presentation at APA National Convention, Washington DC 2014 with an overview of the persona development process.
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Psychology of Engagement through Audience Profiling Using Personas
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CREATINGPERSONAS
CRAFTINGEXPERIENCE
Dr. Pamela Rutledge
Dr. Jerri Lynn Hogg
The Psychology of Engagement
Through Audience Profiling
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DEFINE ENGAGEMENT
RATIONALE FOR
PERSONAS
7 STEPS TO PERSONA
DEVELOPEMENT
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2
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8. PSYCHOGRAPHICS
SOCCER MOM
• Suburban homeowner
• College educated with
professional career now devoted
to raising family
• Upper middle class
• Activity-laden lifestyle
• Drives minivan
• Watches Ellen
• Posts regularly on Facebook
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WHATISA
PERSONA?
A model, archetype or a
representation of your customer
– Goals
– Beliefs and values
– Behaviors
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WHYPERSONAS?Exposes assumptions
Forces you to be specific
Creates a clear image
12. Your brain is wired to
read minds
Most people suck at it
GOODNEWS
BADNEWS
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COGNTIVE DISCONNECTS
I’m lazy
I use shortcuts
I assume others are the same
as me
I use what I know best -- me
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THEVALUEOFINVESTING
INPERSONAS
• Focus on real
people to
create
empathy
• Build
consensus
and
commitment
customer
design sales
Personas build
consensus and
commitment
Develop empathy for customers
Customer-centric
relationshipUnderstand business
challenges
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STEPS TO
BUILD & USE A PERSONA
1. What is your goal?
2. Creating a hypothesis: The Ad Hoc persona
3. Where are they?
4. What is important to know about them?
5. Testing the hypothesis
6. Finalizing the persona
7. Creating a persona-based strategy
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Persona’s
name
A
tag
line
for
the
persona
• Who
are
they?
• What
is
their
background?
• What
is
their
context?
• What’s
important
to
them?
• What
are
their
pain
points
and
frustra=ons?
Key
goals
&
needs
• Goals
• Mo=va=ons
• Drivers
• Needs
A picture or
photo of the
persona
“A
quote
the
persona
might
say”
CAPTURETHEIRSTORY
31. If I had asked people what
they wanted, they would have
said faster horses.
FINDINGTHE
RIGHT
QUESTIONS
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AVOIDBULLSHIT*PERSONAS
Look for answers to questions like:
• I am a…
• I want to be a…
• I can do…
• I’m not a…
• I really like to …
• I need to …
*Thank you Bolt | Peters
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EXPAND
THESEARCH
• Look for the
stories
• Define the
terms
What does
a “Better
Life”
mean?
Time
with
family
Financial
security
Travel
the world
More
career
options
Social
life
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1. Start simple
2. Read and rank blog
and micro-blog posts
3. Rank
– Positive
– Neutral
– Negative
4. Use an Excel
template and chart
to start to visualize
what is being said
BE
PRACTICAL
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IDENTITY:
Balancing perceptions of self as good
daughter with good mother and wife
Wants to feel competent and
knowledgeable for parents
Adjusting to changing roles
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HOWDOYOUUSE
PERSONAS?
• Articulate Goals and
Improve Decisions
– Strategy
– Spending
– Metrics
• Results
– Challenge misconceptions
– Stop internal debates
– Focus efforts
– Improve marketing
messages, programs and
distribution
– Better serve your audience
46. PERSONA
PROCESS
1. You are not your customer
2. Ad Hoc personas articulate your
assumptions
3. Social media gives you the ability
to “listen” and test at low cost
4. Focus on psychological
fundamentals
5. Use data to adjust your
assumptions
6. Design for your persona
7. Measure and adapt
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CREATINGPERSONAS|CRAFTINGEXPERIENCE
THANKYOU
Dr. Jerri Lynn Hogg
Dr. Pamela Rutledge