Hello and a pleasure to be here this afternoon and thank you Adobe,
I am the Chief Digital Officer at redtag.ca and over see our retail sites which include Redtag / iTravel / SearsTravel and others
I Started with SEO, PPC and was able to get amazing results in very little time, Organic is still today a main driver of traffic from the foundation we set in 2004
I have met and worked some of the brightest minds in tech and digital, attending these conferences is always a great way to network.
Member of the Bot defense council in SFO
Never stop learning
Started on 2004 in a 10 x 10 room 1 developer and 1 designer, great success story
Driven to succeed and to be different than the other OTA’s we were early adopters to digital which helped shape redtag to where we are today.
We recognized early that digital was measurable and a smarter way to drive traffic to our site. No print
Our team is very lean with myself and Leo that over see's search and analytics and along with the great support from our partners like the Adobe’s we are able get great results
We are extremely proud of is our Golf tournament that we have raised over 500k Hospital for Sick Kids in 3 years.
Every customer deserves a memorable experience not white noise
Once we manage to capture the consumers attention the next step is equally important. We simply have to get the fundamental's right with more.
Today connected customers get smarter every day.
They know the price for any item and the experience of other customers – whether a television or a car or travel – before ever stepping foot into a store or showroom or buy online .
Customer are doing more and more research before and after they buy , story about customer and data that we have seen
Use my content to sell to me. Use my data to inform me – email marketing
Customers have a better shopping experience online than offline.
Not last click attribution
Be where your customers are
Create consistency
A lot of us struggle to Be Right at the Right Time.
This is a typical report we look at to see how campaigns perform across devices and channels
Tagging and tracking URL’s
Fail fast and move on
More searches happen on mobile than on desktop for 15 of 24 hours on a typical workday.
Bounce rate is still high on mobile 40%
Get the basics right on mobile. Speed
People Interact more wit your brand on digital than any store
People interact avg 13x an hour with their phones
Mobile is the bridge between online and offline
This is a Great time to be in technology
Use data to amplify your audience
Special offer to repeat customer,
Our customer today is dramatically different than she was a decade ago, Fitbit trackers, iPhones, connected thermostats, tablets and streaming media have all emerged since then, dramatically altering what she now expects from every interaction with every brand
Forester Research calls it the Age of The Customer
At every step Transactions to relationships
Work with the partners that are right for you not always the biggest
Here is some pf our partners we work with on the digital side