What was once simply referred to as native first party data capture has since been split into two streams - Zero Party Data (meaning direct customer data entry) and First Party Data (meaning customer preference, behavioural and activity tracking) within the core platform.
Historically a lot of that was done by 3rd Party Cookie enabled Apps - typically Google Analytics. However with the rise of consumer privacy concerns, and increasing browser privacy protection protocols - less and less users can be / are being tracked by 3rd party applications. Up to 80% fewer across many brands we have analysed.
Website owners are having to deploy native, integral data capture solutions to get the full picture of what’s happening on their sites.
For the purposes of this article we will cover those two elements in sequence - starting with the many ways that Affino captures personal Zero Party Customer Data :
All of those elements capture direct customer details which are all made fully available to site owners via the Audience CRM, and users / customers via their My Account, My Profile and My Interests screens. This provides fully comprehensive 2-way data relationship and fully transparent data policy.
As all functions are served up natively by the Affino Unified Business Platform - all user touches, interactions and transactions are constantly and automatically tracked and recorded to the Affino Audience CRM.
So every click and interaction is recorded and tabulated for immediate and deep analytics. All the key areas mentioned in Zero Party Data are further monitored for updates and follow-on interactions - where only something like Affino can build up the complete and comprehensive user profile - based on every contact they have had with you.
Affino follows users throughout the site infrastructure and architecture - and literally every touch point is directly wired for tracking and analysis. Using Affino's Customer Ladder / Conversion Event functionality you can set up further tracking points, funnels and workflows. Meaning very elaborate chained activity sequences that are prompted and reacted to and followed up. Every action can trigger further resultants and dependents and despatch further notification and prompts.
Affino's CRM API also supports inbound data and activity flows where required from bespoke apps and customisations.
There really is nothing else out there which can give you quite the same level of instant automated and customisable tracking and response.
All of this is comprehensively tied to GDPR and Permissioning - where those elements are seamlessly ingrained within every pertinent feature and function.
With Affino you get the total User Profile - everything in one place - fully accessible at all times via the Audience CRM.
Further utilities and analytics - like the Converting Articles Report give unprecedented intelligence insights into patterns of user consumption, i.e. what content is converting users to subscribers and ticket purchasers. And we're constantly introducing new analytics tools and dashboards to get more out the incredible data set at your constant disposal. The user / customer has access to all their essential data too via My Account, My Page, My Interest and My Library screens.
Everything working together seamlessly, integrally and automatically of course gives you the best potential for data capture and analysis. No other system is quite as fully-featured in the same was as the Affino Unified Business Platform - which is specifically engineered for gearing up your business.
Good Business is all about Business Intelligence - which requires the most comprehensive and accurate data set to get optimal results. This just happens to be one of Affino's core competencies as everything in the platform automatically works together - from a single sign-on point - across multiple demographics, micro-sites and segmentation.
It no longer works to add plug-ins or bolt-ons for any of those key tasks if they rely on 3rd party cookies - which is why it's all fully baked into Affino from the start. The alternatives to 3rd party cookies are all far more expensive to implement and maintain. The most basic of which is to run the 3rd party integration on a sub domain, involving DNS setup and still easily blocked, through to behind the scenes server level integration which requires far higher levels of management and cost than traditional 3rd party plugins.
The other key benefits of looking to move beyond 3rd party plugins, besides the major data volume and quality improvements are security and reliability. Trying to make twenty / thirty different systems and plugins work together is always fraught on the security side and terribly inefficient (which can mean slow) on the delivery.
Full Service Fidelity means complete native and real time serving and tracking across all activities on your site. If you're serious about doing business online then you need a solution like Affino that covers off all those operational essentials.
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