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Kimberly-Clark: Using a conversational research solution to optimize e-commerce conversion & drive 20% sales lift

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About Kimberly-Clark

Kimberly-Clark is the manufacturer of some of the most trusted brands in consumer goods, including Cottonelle, U by Kotex, Huggies and Kleenex. Nearly one-quarter of the world’s population in more than 175 countries use Kimberly-Clark products every day.

Challenge and objectives

Challenge and objectives

The company wanted to answer key questions:

Why weren’t shoppers buying the personal care items (in particular, their feminine hygiene and incontinence products) online at a rate akin to similar product categories?

What were the underlying barriers and emotional drivers preventing shoppers from buying these items online?

What improvements in the user experience can be implemented to improve sales?

For Kimberly-Clark, online sales of their products were not keeping pace with adjacent categories at one of their biggest retailers. It wasn’t the online shopping model — “click-and-collect,” the term for buying online and picking up in-store — was already a $26 billion market and their retail partners were leaders in the category. The real challenge for Reach3 then was to help Kimberly-Clark discover the answer to why.

Notable Wins

Immersive engagement

Connecting with hundreds of highly engaged e-commerce shoppers

Deeper
shopper insights

Re-engaging shoppers via mobile notification and screen-sharing enabled for a deeper understanding of the path to purchase

Actionable
feedback

Kimberly-Clark was able to help its retail partner optimize UX and drive sales for emerging "click and collect" e-commerce services

The solution

mobile-first, conversational approach was deployed to engage with hundreds of shoppers in a three-phased approach. Using the mobile messaging-based research platform from our sister company, Rival Technologies, the first phase of the study was a robust, quantitative exercise that incorporated Drivers and Fully Saturated Reach (FSR) advanced analytical techniques. The goal was to understand the implicit drivers and barriers for in-store-only and click-and-collect shoppers.

The second phase utilized a mobile notification capability to recontact select consumers to deep dive into their personal care online shopping, incorporating immersive diaries and projective techniques. In the third phase, participants were brought into one-on-one, in-depth interviews where screen-sharing technology allowed a deep exploration of the online and mobile app e-commerce shopping experience, including search behavior, UX & UI pain and passion points. Rich video selfies helped to uncover emotional drivers and contextual dynamics behind the e-commerce shopping experience, revealing several specific optimization areas that, if optimized, could increase conversion

Outcomes - The new platform delivered big wins:

Kimberly-Clark - Outcomes
Kimberly-Clark - Outcomes

Outcomes - The new platform delivered big wins:

Kimberly-Clark was able to make UX and design recommendations to their retail partner, which once implemented contributed to a 20% brand and category sales increases.

Accelerated the growth of the online share of grocery sales in the US. “What we thought would take four or five years is happening today,” says the client.

One particular point of pride for Reach3 — aside from the customer results, which are always our “why” — was the fact the project won the 2019 EXPLOR Award at the 2019 Corporate Researchers Conference.

Kellanova identified a winning territory they felt confident about.

With this type of research, it's like you're texting back and forth with a friend. The use of emojis and memes makes everything a lot more conversational and we see that people can let their guard down a little bit more and we get great results.

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