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Understanding Personas
Understanding Personas

Persona by Polar Analytics transforms your Shopify data into actionable insights, helping you understand not just what your customers buy but who they are and why they buy.

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Written by David Dokes
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Why Persona?

To grow your eCommerce brand, you need more than just sales numbers—you need to know who your best customers are, how they shop, and what keeps them coming back. Persona does the work for you, using AI-powered segmentation and data enrichment to help you:

  • Identify your most valuable customer segments

  • Understand the "why" behind purchases

  • Create hyper-personalized marketing campaigns

  • Track how customer segments evolve over time

Where is the Data Coming From?

Polar Analytics partners with leading data enrichment and identity resolution providers to deliver comprehensive customer insights:

  • Access to 1,500+ enriched attributes across more than 60 countries

  • Coverage of 95% of U.S. consumers

  • Demographic and lifestyle traits from thousands of data points

  • Integration with your existing Shopify data

This multi-source approach ensures you receive accurate, comprehensive customer profiles that go far beyond basic transaction data.


What Do You Get with Persona?

1. AI-Powered Customer Segmentation

Persona automatically groups your customers into meaningful segments based on shared behaviors and characteristics. These AI-driven insights allow you to:

  • Identify which customer segments drive the most value

  • Understand common traits among your best customers

  • Focus your marketing budget on high CLV personas

  • Make data-driven decisions instead of relying on assumptions

2. Customer Evolution Tracking

Monitor how your customer segments change over time, providing valuable insights into:

  • How customer behavior shifts during product launches

  • The impact of promotions on different segments

  • Revenue contribution by persona

  • Long-term trends in your customer base

3. Product Purchase Journey Analysis

Understand the complete customer buying journey with a detailed analysis of:

  • Drop-off points in the customer lifecycle

  • Average time between purchases

  • Next-purchase predictions by segment

  • Opportunities for cross-selling and upselling

4. Plug Directly into Your Marketing

Activate your customer insights where they matter most:

📩 Klaviyo – Build high-converting email campaigns

📣 Meta & Google Ads – Create hyper-targeted ad audiences

🛍️ Shopify – Optimize product recommendations based on behavior


How to Get Started?

Implementing Persona with your Shopify store is straightforward:

  1. Connect Your Store: Integrate your Shopify store with Polar Analytics

  2. Opt-in for Persona: Data enrichment only occurs with your explicit consent. We respect your data privacy and only partner with our data providers upon your approval.

  3. AI Segmentation: We handle the entire process—from data enrichment pipelines to AI-powered persona creation and clustering. Polar's algorithms identify meaningful customer personas

  4. Activate Insights: Export segments to your marketing platforms or use the built-in dashboards

  5. Track Results: Monitor performance metrics by persona to optimize your strategy

Frequently Asked Questions

Is my data automatically enriched?

No, data enrichment only occurs with your explicit consent. We respect your data privacy and only partner with our data providers upon your approval.

Is there any implementation needed?

None, as long as your store is already connected to Polar Analytics. We handle the entire process, from data enrichment pipelines to AI-powered persona creation and clustering.

Is Persona free?

Persona is available as a paid add-on as we need to cover the costs of our data partnerships. Pricing is based on your number of active customers enriched. Book a demo to receive a custom quote tailored to your business.

Can I use the enriched data for marketing?

Absolutely. We make it easy to activate your enriched data by sending it directly to Klaviyo or creating targeted audiences on ad platforms to power your marketing campaigns.

Is my customer data secure?

Yes, Polar Analytics maintains strict data security protocols and complies with relevant privacy regulations. Our trust center is available here.

How accurate is the enriched data?

Our partnerships with leading data providers ensure high accuracy rates and 1,600+ lifestyle traits enriched with Personas, covering 95% of U.S. consumers.

How often is the data updated?

Persona continuously updates your customer profiles as new purchase data becomes available, ensuring you always have the latest insights.

What does “95% U.S. consumer coverage” mean?

Persona enhances your customer data by matching emails from your Shopify store with a vast third-party database. This allows us to retrieve valuable lifestyle and demographic insights—such as location, interests, and purchasing behaviors. A 95% coverage rate means that our data partners can successfully enrich customer profiles for 95% of U.S. consumers, giving you a more complete picture of your audience.

Does Persona work outside the U.S.?

At this stage, our data brokers have data only on U.S. consumers.

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