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Next best offer

Recommend your best offering for each target to maximize conversion — using MySQL

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How Faraday's next best offer solution can boost your business

In today’s competitive market, delivering personalized experiences to customers is more important than ever. Faraday’s “next best offer” solution provides businesses with a powerful recommendation system to ensure that prospects, leads, and customers are always presented with the most relevant product or service. Whether you’re running an e-commerce platform or managing customer relations, our advanced AI-driven tool helps you maximize revenue, improve customer engagement, and build lasting relationships.

The importance of personalized recommendations

Personalized recommendation systems are nothing new—Amazon popularized them back in the late 1990s with their "People Who Bought This Item, Also Bought" feature. By leveraging browsing and purchase behavior, Amazon was able to suggest relevant products to customers, boosting both customer satisfaction and revenue. Today, product recommendation systems have grown more sophisticated, harnessing vast amounts of data and machine learning techniques to offer even more accurate suggestions.

The numbers speak for themselves:

  • A 2023 Barilliance study found that personalized recommendations account for an average of 31% of e-commerce revenues.
  • McKinsey reports that 35% of what consumers buy on Amazon comes from its recommendation engine.
  • According to Moengage, 49% of consumers have purchased items they didn’t intend to buy thanks to personalized recommendations.
  • A separate McKinsey study found that personalization can drive a 10% to 15% increase in sales-conversion rates.

These stats underscore the power of personalization in shaping consumer behavior and driving business results.

How recommendation systems work

There are several common types of recommendation systems, each with its own approach:

  • User-based collaborative filtering: This method compares users’ past behaviors (such as purchases or ratings) with similar users to suggest new products. For instance, if two users have a shared interest in a particular set of items, the system will recommend products that one user likes to the other.
  • Content-based filtering: This approach relies on product descriptions and user profiles. It recommends items based on the attributes a user has liked in the past. If a user enjoys superhero movies like Iron Man, the system might recommend other superhero-themed content.
  • Hybrid recommendation systems: Combining collaborative and content-based filtering, hybrid systems deliver more comprehensive recommendations. For example, Netflix uses a hybrid approach by analyzing both users’ viewing habits and the content they rate highly to provide tailored recommendations.

Faraday’s hybrid+ recommendation system

Faraday’s “next best offer” solution takes hybrid recommendation systems a step further. Our system not only combines collaborative and content-based filtering but also integrates FIG data (Faraday’s proprietary data enrichment) to provide even more precise and personalized suggestions. Our model continuously updates offer recommendations for each individual in your pipeline, ensuring your recommendations are always fresh and relevant.

One key differentiator is that Faraday can provide personalized recommendations in real time, as soon as a consumer identifies themselves—whether through login, purchase, or any other action.

How to activate Faraday’s next best offer

Faraday’s next best offer system is highly versatile and can be integrated across various marketing and customer engagement channels, including:

  • Email newsletters: Deliver highly relevant product or service recommendations in your welcome series or promotional campaigns.
  • E-commerce checkout flows: Suggest the right products to add to a customer's cart based on their browsing or purchase history.
  • Website: Use personalized recommendations to guide visitors to the best product options on your website.
  • Customer service portals: Empower customer service representatives with the right offer to present based on a customer’s history.
  • Advertising: Direct targeted offers to consumers in direct mail or digital ad campaigns.

The value of using next best offer

By activating Faraday’s next best offer solution, businesses can unlock significant value:

  • Higher revenue and sales: Presenting customers with the most relevant offers increases their likelihood of making a purchase.
  • Reduced customer acquisition costs: Personalized offers keep customers engaged, lowering the need for costly acquisition efforts.
  • Improved click-through and conversion rates: Personalized suggestions drive more engagement and lead to more successful conversions.
  • Increased customer lifetime value: Happy, loyal customers tend to spend more over time.
  • Higher average order value: Relevant recommendations often result in customers adding more items to their carts.
  • Enhanced customer sentiment: Providing a personalized experience makes customers feel understood, improving their overall perception of your brand.

Ready to make the next best offer?

If you're looking to elevate your customer engagement strategy and boost revenue, Faraday’s next best offer solution is the answer. Our AI-powered recommendation system ensures that you’re always putting the most relevant products or services in front of the right people—driving growth and satisfaction.

Let’s talk about how Faraday can help you get started.

MySQL logoIf you're a MySQL user and you're wondering how to make the most out of your customer data, Next Best Offer predictions from Faraday might just be the right tool for you. By integrating these predictions into your MySQL database, you can efficiently recommend the best product or service to each individual customer, enhancing your chances of making a sale. It’s a straightforward way to leverage AI without needing to overhaul your current setup. This means you get valuable insights directly within your MySQL environment, helping you understand what each lead or customer is likely to purchase next, which can be a game-changer for your sales and marketing strategies. It’s about providing that little bit of extra intelligence to make your customer interactions more meaningful and effective.
  1. Step 1

    Connect your data sources

    Use the link below to connect MySQL to Faraday. You can also skip this step and use CSV files to get started instead.
  2. Step 2

    Ingest your data into event streams

    This allows Faraday to understand what your data means. This link will guide you through ingesting the data necessary to power this template.
  3. Step 3

    Organize your customer data

    You'll create groups, called cohorts, that are the essential building blocks of Faraday and allow you to easily predict any customer behavior.
  4. Step 4

    Declare your prediction objectives

    With your cohorts defined, it's easy to instruct Faraday to predict the necessary behaviors. Follow the docs with the link below.
  5. Step 5

    Define your next best offer pipeline and deploy to MySQL

    Finally, deploy your prediction with the link below.
  6. Step 6

    Deploy to MySQL

    Create a deployment target using the MySQL connection you created above. Or, get started by simply deploying to CSV.