The rise of the experience web: How LUSH Dramatically Increased online sales

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This is a case study about Lush and how they set about to Connect with the Connected Consumer by leveraging open source.

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LUSHHow LUSH Dramatically Increased online sales

the rise of the experience web:

Unified platform to manage content, commerce & community

Multi-lingual and global support

Rich customer experience at all levels of engagement

Powerful content curation and customer service experience

Design not inhibited by technology

choosing the platformWhat LUSH needed

Mobile first not good enough

Responds based on size

Live pattern guide (no wire frames)

Modular content approach

Beautifully Responsive

“Our bottom line isn’t always the driving factor. We want to educate about cosmetics.”

Andy Russell, Creative Director

Unconventional wisdom

Product pages rich descriptions

All ingredients listed with several featured & key ingredients

Related sourcing stories

Storytelling

Content Commerce Community

Never afraid to stand up for beliefs

Provides a platform and voice for campaigns LUSH believe in

Campaigning

Personalised Order history Reviews and comments Order tracking Wish list & inc. public (buy me…)

Customer Experience

Reviews are real and uncensored

Authentic

• Live social feeds # and @ • All shop pages managed by

manager • Shop’s own twitter, facebook &

pinterest

Localized content

Behavioural recommendation

Kitchen brings manufacturing to the heart of the consumer, through the power of digital, with ‘live’ prepared products available to order online.

Cooking up a storm

Live Google hangout / YouTube

Interactive experience during and after

#saturdaykitchen

#lushkitchen

All Kitchen orders get Polaroid of their products being created.

Connecting experience

Customer services can, for whatever reason, give a little extra free.

Random act of Kindness

Lush love

• Lush Brazil - launched Sept 14 • Lush Japan - launched Oct 14 • Lush EU - in progress - a single

platform to replace 26 country website.

Global Roll Out

BEHIND THE SCENEScreating the site

Making the experience seamless

• Image management

• Global CDN optomisation

• Payment management

• Customer & Order management

• Powerful content curation

Content and Commerce Management

DIGITALIZATIONtransforming from the inside

“Our customers expect to engage with us instantly through a myriad of digital and social platforms, and the expectations of the business on us have never been higher.

These new technologies and new channels require us to transform not only what we do, but how we do it”.

Caroline Taylor, CMO, IBM Europe

BARRIERS: SILO’S

The shift you need to be ready forTraditional Information Technology

Siloed teams with different solutions delivering disjointed experiences

Disciplined (slow) processes for building and deploying digital experiences

Proprietary solutions whose technology evolves too slow

On-premise infrastructure with rigid & costly capital expenses

New Business Technology

Integrated teams with a shared solution delivering unified experiences

Agile (fast) process for building and deploying digital experiences

Open Source solutions that evolve at the speed of the web

Cloud-based infrastructure with flexible and lower cost operational expenses

THANK YOU

MYLES DAVIDSONiKOS Digital

myles@i-KOS.com@mylesdavidson@i_KOS