Creating an e-Marketing Spot

Create an e-Marketing Spot to reserve an area on a store web page to display marketing information to customers. You can then create web activities to specify what to display in the e-Marketing Spot.

Before you begin

Before you can add an e-Marketing Spot, you must complete the prerequisites depending on the type of store that you are using.

About this task

This task creates the e-Marketing Spot in the Management Center database so that you can work with it in Management Center.

Procedure

  1. Open the Marketing tool.
  2. HCL Commerce Version 9.1.16.0 or later Open Management Center tools and from the left navigation menu go to Business tools > Marketing > E-Marketing Spots.
  3. From the toolbar, click the arrow on the right side of Create New Create New; then select E-Marketing Spot.
    The New e-Marketing Spot page displays.
  4. Enter the following e-Marketing Spot properties:
    PropertyDescription
    Name Enter the name of the e-Marketing spot.

    This name must exactly match (including case) the value of the emsName parameter for the JSP store or eSpotName for the React store e-Marketing spot.

    This name is displayed in the Management Center and when you are viewing the name of e-Marketing Spots in a store preview.
    Note:

    When saving a new espot takes a long time, see whether there are many other espots already in the folder where the new espot is now being produced. The procedure can take longer to complete because the framework examines and validates any e-spot that is already present in an existing folder.

    The suggestion would be to create or alter e-spot time in order to increase performance:

    • Delete or clean up any unnecessary espots. Allocate a time slot and a task for the cleaning.
    • Try to group several epots into one folder.
    • Create a new folder first, then create a new espot in the new folder if the existing folder already has a large number of espots.
    Description Enter a meaningful description. This description displays in the e-Marketing Spots - List page, and it should explain the location and purpose of the e-Marketing Spot.
    Displays content

    Displays categories

    Displays catalog entries

    		 Select the check box that describes the type of marketing information that this e-Marketing Spot displays. These check boxes are for informational purposes.

    If this e-Marketing Spot displays merchandising associations, then the corresponding check box is Displays catalog entries.

    Check with a store developer to determine which check boxes to select, according to how the e-Marketing Spot is coded.
    Has a widget Select this check box if this e-Marketing Spot has a remote widget. That is, a portable version of the e-Marketing Spot that can be embedded on remote sites.
    Default title content

    Specify marketing content that is to display to customers as a title for this e-Marketing Spot. You can specify any marketing content as title content. This title can be used to identify the advertising or promotion in an e-Marketing Spot to customers.

    This default title is displayed only when the e-Marketing Spot displays data, either from a web activity or from e-Marketing Spot default content.

    Tip: For any web activity, you can override the default title by using the E-Marketing Spot Title action in the web activity.

    HCL Commerce EnterpriseIf you are working in an extended site store, you can override the default title content that is inherited from your asset store. Two default title grids display; one for your asset store and one for your extended site store. If you have access to only your extended site store, you can add content to the default title grid for only your store. If you have access to your asset store, you can add content to both the asset store and your extended site store. Only inherited asset store content can be added as default title content for your asset store. If you specify content at the extended site store level, all asset store default title content is overridden.
    Default content Specify what to display in this e-Marketing Spot:
    • When there are no web activities currently running in this e-Marketing Spot.
    • When the customer is viewing the page is not targeted by the web activities that are currently running in this e-Marketing Spot.
    • When , does not return any recommendations to the e-Marketing Spot for the customer is viewing the page. This applies only to e-Marketing Spot that run web activities that use the Display HCL Product Recommendations action.

    You can specify one or more catalog entries, categories, and content as the default content to display. Ensure that the coding for the e-Marketing Spot supports the data type and quantity.
  5. Click Save Save and then click Close.

What to do next

You can now create web activities to display marketing information in this e-Marketing Spot.