Sometimes it is not easy to find “the one” page for all the acronyms you have to find about Sitecore’s amazing Marketing Automtation Tool. But also a some general marketing buzzwords I want to explain here:
| Term or Acronym | Description |
|---|---|
| Contact | An entity in the Sitecore Experience Database (xDB) that represents a real person who interacts with your organization, for example, by visiting a website or using a mobile app Anyonymous: Technical contact, identified by the cookie, browser clear or new browser: New contact Identified: Logical contact, typically via email or form submit |
| Visitor | A visitor on the website – mostly a contact, multiple visitors could be one contact |
| Experience Profile | Complete view of individual contacts Filterable by Channels, Goals & Outcomes Interesting for identified contacts Cross channel perspective Anonymous contacts usually do not appear Read only |
| Interaction | An interaction with the organization, e.g. visiting the website or opening an email A visitor can have any number of interactions |
| Engagement Value | Integer value per ContactIncreases continuously Measure of the value of a contact |
| Value per Visit | Average increase in value per visit Measures how well the website converts overall Rises and falls continuously |
| Goal | Goals are activities that visitors can perform on your websiteA business goal that a visitor should go through Types: Informational: e.g download of a white paper Transactional: e.g newsletter sign up Processual: Typically a combination Goals can be defined independently of their use Goals have engagement value Goals must have unique names Goals must be deployed |
| Event | Events are smaller steps for tracking visitor activity on a website. Doesn’t necessarily have to have business value |
| Outcome | A business-significant result of one or more interactions between a contact and your organization, for example, a sales lead or product purchase, and that you can use to quantify your contacts based on the financial value they bring to your organization Outcomes are like goals, but have a (theoretical) financial valueOutcomes depend on contact, goals depend on interactionCustom outcomes have to be coded |
| Conversion rate | Conversion rate measures the number of users who converted as a percentage of the total number of users that visited your site. The higher your conversion rate, the more effective your content. In the marketing world, conversions refer to the moment when a user responds to a call to action. |
| Bounce rate | A bounce email is an email message that is returned to the sender because it cannot be delivered. There are two kinds of bounce email: A soft bounce is a temporary failure and there is a chance that the recipient will receive the message eventually. A soft bounce means that the recipient’s mail server recognizes the email address but the message is returned to the sender, for example, if the recipient’s email box is full, the mail server is temporarily unavailable, or the recipient no longer has an email account at that address. A hard bounce is a permanent failure. A hard bounce means that the email message is permanently bounced back to the sender because the address is invalid. |
| Campaign | A campaign is a promotion or advertising initiative designed to encourage people to visit your websiteAn activity to increase engagement Campaigns can be defined independently of their useCampaigns can have a start and end dateCampaigns are described by a name, a group and a channelCampaigns group visits and all associated data – similar to taggingCampaigns must be deployed |
| Profile | A Profile is the criteria you’d like to use to categorize your content A profile is a property of the visitor that allows us to classify content. An example would be the type of product the customer is interested in |
| Profiling | Sitecore profiling is the process of tagging Sitecore content with defined visitor profiles Pages in Sitecore can be marked as interesting for specific groups |
| Profile card | You can use profile cards to identify and segment contacts, and implement personalization rules. A profile card is a card that contains saved profile keys and profile values. They allow you to assign profile |
| Profile key | You assign numerical profile values to your profile keys, then use profile values to track how contacts interact with the website. |
| Pattern card | When a visitor navigates through a website, they accumulate the profile values of all the pages and resources that they request. Sitecore calculates the average score that the visitor has accumulated for each profile and maps the visitor to the pattern card that is the closest match. A visitor can only be mapped to one pattern card per profile at a time. However, as a visitor navigates through your website, the pattern card that they are mapped to can change as they interact with different items and resources. You can use the personalization rules engine to implement rules based on pattern cards, which will display different content based on which pattern card the visitor best matches. |
| Contact list | A standard list where contacts can be added and managed, you can add/remove contacts by MAT, Excel import or manually within the List Manager |
| Segmented List | Its a filtered list based on a standard list, you can utilize segmentation rules for segmentation |
| Global opt-out list | If a recipient clicks the Unsubscribe from all link in an email message or marks the email message as spam, or if a hard bounce is registered for a recipient, the recipient is added to the manager root’s specified global opt-out list and thereby excluded from email messages. Every time an email message is sent, the Email Experience Manager (EXM) checks the specified global opt-out list to make sure that if any of the included recipients appear in that list, they do not receive an email message. |
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