TAKING YOUR
MULTI-SITE
MANAGEMENT AT SCALE
TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Today’s Speakers
Kara Hall
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Acquia
Mandee Englert
Solutions Consultant, FFW
Jill Moraca
Sr. Director Web Development Services,
Princeton University
01. Establishing the Right Partnerships
02. Key Factors in a Successful Multi-Site
03. Optimizing Your Multi-Site Platform
04. Getting Buy-in and Scaling
Agenda
SPEED
Efficient content
workflows and editing
experiences to get
content up quickly while
staying on brand
Create efficiencies
through continuous
refinements to
technology and
infrastructure
Launch websites
faster with reusable
components and
templates at a lower
cost
OPTIMIZATION FLEXIBILITY
Creating Consistency
Establishing The Right
Partnerships
MULTIPLE
ROLES
“I need a
new
website.” ON
BRAND
CONNECT
WITH
SOCIAL
SPEED TO
LIVE
CONTENT
MOBILE
APPS
ASAP
01. Unified, consistent message and brand identity
across multiple channels/sites
02. Quick & flexible editorial workflows for
distributing messages & providing access
03. Multiple doors for users to interact with the
brand and reach the same goals
04. Personalized approach to content for many
audiences with different goals
05. Stability of a platform that they can trust to be
flexible to changing user needs
Marketer/Content Owner Needs
Key Factors For A
Successful Multi-Site
One codebase with “untouchable” branding elements
— Logos, fonts, colors, date formats
Consistent data integrations
— Course data comes from the authoritative source
Consistent content sharing
— Reduce duplicative entry of news and events
Aim for a “sweet spot” of enough layout and theme
flexibility paired with the rigidness of consistency.
Princeton Branding + Multi Site
— One code base, reused by nearly 1,000 websites.
— Allows for a lean development team to support many websites
— Manageable deployments
— Can consolidate multiple Drupal 7 codebases into one Drupal
9 codebase
— Develop new features and roll them out to all websites
— Content editors / marketers have the same editing experience
Princeton + Site Factory
Optimize Your
Multi-Site Platform
Platform Roadmap
Approach your multi-site
platform as an evolving
product with its own
platform strategy and
feature roadmap.
OWN OPERATE OPTIMIZE
AT SCALE
Project Spotlight
Personalized experiences for those who
need it most during natural disasters.
— Started with a pilot
— 38% of visitors engaged with
personalized content
— Those visitors had 20% lower bounce
rate
— 2X goal completion – reaching out to
Disaster Help Center
— Find segments that are worth your time
and effort
— Offer users relevant information that
improves their journey
— Always A/B test with an end-goal in mind
Connect data from multiple sources to understand the
full journey of any user segment driving repeat
engagement and loyalty for the brand.
Personalizing Audience
Experiences
Scaling Your Platform
Scaling with Acquia Marketing Cloud
Create Genuine Experiences
PERSONALIZATION
Digital Asset Management
ACQUIA DAM
COST SAVINGS
Single point of upgrade
and development,
allowing for rapid
upgrades and improve
code accessibility &
quality.
A shared ecosystem
allows for a quick
process for rolling out
new sites, and provides
an ability to reuse
content between sites.
Marketers learn how to
use one platform.
Centralizing the brand
and infrastructure to
manage the process
of creating &
maintaining assets
saves budget.
EFFICIENCY CONSOLIDATING
SUPPORT
Getting Buy-in
Q&A
EXCLUSIVE OFFER
Free expert consultation
We understand every organization’s digital landscape is unique.
Translating key insights from webinars can be daunting.
This is why FFW is offering a complimentary 1-hour
consultation with our digital scale experts to get you started.
Scan the code on the right, or visit:
bit.ly/FFW-Scale-Consult-Offer
Scan to claim your
free consultation

Taking Your Multi-Site Management at Scale to the Next Level

  • 1.
    TAKING YOUR MULTI-SITE MANAGEMENT ATSCALE TO THE NEXT LEVEL
  • 2.
    Today’s Speakers Kara Hall Sr.Product Marketing Manager, Acquia Mandee Englert Solutions Consultant, FFW Jill Moraca Sr. Director Web Development Services, Princeton University
  • 3.
    01. Establishing theRight Partnerships 02. Key Factors in a Successful Multi-Site 03. Optimizing Your Multi-Site Platform 04. Getting Buy-in and Scaling Agenda
  • 5.
    SPEED Efficient content workflows andediting experiences to get content up quickly while staying on brand Create efficiencies through continuous refinements to technology and infrastructure Launch websites faster with reusable components and templates at a lower cost OPTIMIZATION FLEXIBILITY Creating Consistency
  • 6.
  • 7.
    MULTIPLE ROLES “I need a new website.”ON BRAND CONNECT WITH SOCIAL SPEED TO LIVE CONTENT MOBILE APPS ASAP
  • 8.
    01. Unified, consistentmessage and brand identity across multiple channels/sites 02. Quick & flexible editorial workflows for distributing messages & providing access 03. Multiple doors for users to interact with the brand and reach the same goals 04. Personalized approach to content for many audiences with different goals 05. Stability of a platform that they can trust to be flexible to changing user needs Marketer/Content Owner Needs
  • 9.
    Key Factors ForA Successful Multi-Site
  • 10.
    One codebase with“untouchable” branding elements — Logos, fonts, colors, date formats Consistent data integrations — Course data comes from the authoritative source Consistent content sharing — Reduce duplicative entry of news and events Aim for a “sweet spot” of enough layout and theme flexibility paired with the rigidness of consistency. Princeton Branding + Multi Site
  • 11.
    — One codebase, reused by nearly 1,000 websites. — Allows for a lean development team to support many websites — Manageable deployments — Can consolidate multiple Drupal 7 codebases into one Drupal 9 codebase — Develop new features and roll them out to all websites — Content editors / marketers have the same editing experience Princeton + Site Factory
  • 12.
  • 13.
    Platform Roadmap Approach yourmulti-site platform as an evolving product with its own platform strategy and feature roadmap. OWN OPERATE OPTIMIZE AT SCALE
  • 14.
    Project Spotlight Personalized experiencesfor those who need it most during natural disasters. — Started with a pilot — 38% of visitors engaged with personalized content — Those visitors had 20% lower bounce rate — 2X goal completion – reaching out to Disaster Help Center — Find segments that are worth your time and effort — Offer users relevant information that improves their journey — Always A/B test with an end-goal in mind Connect data from multiple sources to understand the full journey of any user segment driving repeat engagement and loyalty for the brand. Personalizing Audience Experiences
  • 15.
  • 16.
    Scaling with AcquiaMarketing Cloud Create Genuine Experiences PERSONALIZATION Digital Asset Management ACQUIA DAM
  • 17.
    COST SAVINGS Single pointof upgrade and development, allowing for rapid upgrades and improve code accessibility & quality. A shared ecosystem allows for a quick process for rolling out new sites, and provides an ability to reuse content between sites. Marketers learn how to use one platform. Centralizing the brand and infrastructure to manage the process of creating & maintaining assets saves budget. EFFICIENCY CONSOLIDATING SUPPORT Getting Buy-in
  • 18.
  • 19.
    EXCLUSIVE OFFER Free expertconsultation We understand every organization’s digital landscape is unique. Translating key insights from webinars can be daunting. This is why FFW is offering a complimentary 1-hour consultation with our digital scale experts to get you started. Scan the code on the right, or visit: bit.ly/FFW-Scale-Consult-Offer Scan to claim your free consultation