The Problem
I want to run a country-wide sale with individual experiences that target site visitors from each of the 50 states. As part of the experience, I want to display a location specific banner and message in a modal when a visitor first arrives on site. The problem, however, is that it would take my small design team almost a month to produce all of the creatives that I need. It's important that this experience goes out at the end of the week in order to stay on track with our marketing plan.
Relevance
As a marketer, you understand that speed and agility matter. You don't have the luxury of waiting around to implement your ideas. If you can't execute on a plan quickly, you probably can't execute it at all. On top of the need to quickly react and make changes, you also understand that design resources are often stretched too thin to capitalize on all of your great ideas.
Solution
Content Builder allows you to build layered reusable content that you can use in Monetate experiences across any channel. With this in mind, building 50 different creatives for your cross-country experience is a job that takes hours instead of weeks.
Have your designer create a single creative, but leave the text out for now. Once you have the asset you can upload it to Content Manager. Now you have a creative ready to be customized.
Next, you want to ensure that you stay in line with your brand, which means uploading the specific font used on your website. You can do that through Content Manager too. See Upload Fonts for the steps.
Open the creative in Content Builder. You can edit the file in a variety of ways, which are explained in the Content Builder documentation. However, the main focus now is to add text that changes depending on what state your customer is in when they see the creative. You can do this using dynamic text. Instead of your designer creating 50 different creatives or even replicating the same creative 50 times with text differences for each state, you can create one single creative that updates the text based on location.
Once you finish crafting the location-based creative in Content Builder, you can configure an experience using it.
Next Steps
If you like the way the state-based creative worked, you can use the same technique with a custom location list that you upload, such as retail locations or distribution warehouses.