Shift and disruption are driving the digital industry. Technology advances continue to be a moving target. Learn how digital marketing continues to evolve, and get tips for refining your digital marketing strategy in 2016.
2. Introductions
Jon Barlow
SVP, Group Digital Director
jbarlow@capstrat.com
LinkedIn: jbarlow
Shane Johnston
EVP, Client Development
sjohnston@capstrat.com
LinkedIn: shanetjohnston
3. Technology shift and disruption
• Drives significant change in digital
communications
• Affects your audience and how they
consume your message
• Threatens your effectiveness as a marketer
• Results need to be measurable and
objective
9. 72% of all internet users
are active on social media.
Source: Pew Research and KPCB
10. But social media extends traditional media
But, social media extends traditional media
HP research found that 72% of sources retweeted
most were from traditional media
Top 9 Retweeted Users
11. 80% of all Internet traffic in
2019 will be video.
Source: Cisco 2015
12. It would take an individual over 5 million
years to watch that amount of video.
13. 62% of Millennials feel that online content
drives brand loyalty.
Source: NewsCred
14. 73% of people surveyed wouldn’t care
if the brands they used disappeared
from their lives.
Source: Co.Exist
19. Customer experience and journey
1. The consumer considers an
initial set of brands, based on
brand perceptions and exposure
to recent touch point.
2. Consumers add or subtract
brands as they evaluate what they
want.
3. Ultimately, the consumer
selects a brand at the moment
of purchase.
4. After purchasing a product or
service, the consumer builds
expectations based on experience
to inform the next decision journey.
30. What does a digital strategy
contain?
• Audience insights and data analysis
• Strategy framework
• Digital scope of effort
• Implementation and measurement
• Governance
31. Audience insights
and data analysis
• What is the “state of the state”?
• Consumer insights
• Data-driven persona development
• Customer journey mapping
• Competitive audit and analysis
• Review of all digital channels and tactics
• Review of past business/brand
performance
• Marketing technology audit and analysis
32. Digital strategy framework
• What are we trying to accomplish?
• What’s the big idea?
• How do we align the idea with corporate objectives?
• What can we improve from past efforts?
• What are the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that
will denote success?
• How will we get there?
• What’s the optimal ratio between generating demand
(Communications) and personalized customer
experience (Destinations) that will achieve our
objectives?
• How will we measure and optimize our conversion
funnel and the content that flows through it?
33. Digital scope of effort
• The blueprint has been drawn, so now how do we
build the house?
• Most common digital tactics and channels
• Website/Mobile application
• Digital advertising and SEM
• SEO
• Email/CRM
• Social
• At this point, you should also be focusing
on filling the funnel with content
• Who, what, how and when
34. Implementation
and measurement
• Did we make an impact?
• Measurement framework
• Visualize your conversion funnel and look
for leaks
• Test and optimize
35. The total measurement framework
Measurement frameworks help visualize strategic initiatives for every
marketing objective and how each will be measured to prove success.
36. Visualize and optimize your conversion funnel
Suspects
* Based on B2B industry
averages/benchmark developed by
NetProspex
Prospects
Marketing Qualified
Lead
Sales Accepted Lead
Sales Qualified Lead
Closed Deals
Avg. Size of Sale
2016 Marketing-
Generated Revenue Goal
$$$$$$
x $$$$
2%
4%
67%
47%
31%
Closed Deals
Suspects
Prospects
Marketing Qualified Lead
Sales Accepted Lead
Sales Qualified Lead
38. Governance
• Oversight and management are keys
to long-term sustainability and success
of the strategy
• Key aspects of a digital marketing
governance plan include:
• Team structure and individual member
roles
• Established policies and SOPs
• Policies and SOPs are about managing
risk and budget
• Set standards and guidelines (i.e., design,
development, content, technology)
Measurement framework
Insist on cascading objectives, strategies & and tactics
Let’s focus on your audience.
What is competing with your message from a customer perspective?
A person living in a city 30 years ago saw up to 2,000 messages a day.
Today, over 8,000. today.
Yankelovich Study
Go where your audience is. is: destination, device. …Provide And provide something of value.
Email? As much as many hate it …
It is still one of the most effective personalized channels.
Sharing on social media has significant growth in the recent past. Doubled between 2011 and 2013. from 2011 to 2013.
In August 2015, more than over 1 billion people used Facebook in a single day.
The role of “traditional” media sources
The HP team collected data from Twitter’s own search API.
72% were Twitter streams run by mainstream media outfits such as CNN, the The New York Times, El Pais and the BBC.
We are seeing a massive growth in video and photo data, where and every minute up to 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube alone.
According to the study, it would take an individual over 5 million years to watch the amount of video that will cross global IP networks each month in 2019.
This percentage does not include video exchanged through peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing.
Strong content
Larger scale, People’s people’s relationships with institutions – mediated by brands – remains broken. How can your brand be different?
One way is to work on your customer service and retention.
Traditional concepts of advertising, focusing campaigns on the First and Second Moments of Truth…
Procter and & Gamble’s "Moments of Truth" concept, developed in 2005 to define the moments when a potential customer reaches the purchase point through brand interaction.
A stimulus (advertising advert or marketing message) is generated, which manifests itself as brand recognition and instills the idea of purchase with the potential customer when they are in a position to buy. This is the First Moment Of Truth.
The Second Moment Of Truth occurs when they experience the customer experiences the product after purchase and then use uses that knowledge to inform their buying behaviour next time around.
This linear way of thinking was obviously disrupted by the advent of online marketing.
McKinsey & Company first articulated the concept of the customer journey as we think of it today in a 2009 article titled, "The Consumer Decision Journey.”
Bruce Temkin and other Forrester Research analysts past and present should get credit here, too, as Forrester was talking about customer journeys around the same time and has probably published the most research on the topic since.
To grossly oversimplify, the idea is that buying a product or service is a process and not a singular event. That process neither begins nor ends with the actual purchase. Instead, multiple engagements often occur between buyer and brand before and after the cash register rings.
Every digital trailblazer needs a reliable map
The digital landscape covers a wide, complex territory. To plan and manage technology effectively, digital marketers need to understand the inherent relationships between diverse operational areas, applications, technologies and vendors.
The Gartner Digital Marketing Transit MapShows the relationships among business functions, application services and solution providers. Use it to create a digital marketing solutions strategy, improve operations and plan initiatives.
Every digital trailblazer needs a reliable map
The digital landscape covers a wide, complex territory. To plan and manage technology effectively, digital marketers need to understand the inherent relationships between diverse operational areas, applications, technologies and vendors.
The Gartner Digital Marketing Transit MapShows the relationships among business functions, application services and solution providers. Use it to create a digital marketing solutions strategy, improve operations and plan initiatives.
But it can amplify a remarkable one.
1. Insights and Analysis: understanding the needs and priorities of the people who are at the core of your digital revolution, including your customers, stakeholders, employees and executives. Analyze internal performance and sales data to understand where the biggest value is.
External Digital Analysis
Customer Experience Mapping
Digital Value Chain Analysis
2. Digital Framework: creating a framework that allows the company to addresses address digital goals and objectives.
The Iteration Model
Big Idea / Mission / Vision
Digital Objectives
UVP
3. The Digital Scope: addressing the company’s approach to key areas of Digital and outlining the purpose, objectives and key initiatives and challenges of each channel.
Website(s)
Online Content
Digital Advertising / SEM / SEO
CRM
Social
Mobile
ERP
4. Execution & Governance: Prioritizing the plan, taking into account which needs are the most urgent and important as well as current resources, timelines and budgets.
Project priorities
Project team(s)
Accountability and Progress Reporting / KPIs KPI’s
If you think of your initial strategy as a skeleton, developing your tactics is where you start adding flesh on to those bones. Your strategy tells you generally how you’re going to achieve your objectives, your tactics tells objectives, and your tactics tell you exactly how.
The blueprint has been drawn, now drawn. Now, how do we build the house?
Most common digital tactics and channels
Website(s)
Digital Advertising and SEM
SEO
Email/CRM
Social
Mobile
At this point, you should also be focusing on filling the funnel with content content:
What content you will produce and when: plan and schedule
When you will publish content: time of day, weekends etc.
Distribution of Where you will distribute content: social and mobile platforms
How you will tailor content to suit different audiences
Measurement framework
Insist on cascading objectives, strategies & and tactics
In an effort to visualize and organize all campaign goals and objectives in one snapshot, and to visually track whether or not we’re meeting the predetermined goals, we’ve developed measurement frameworks
The key question that these frameworks help us answer is: Has has the campaign succeeded or failed?
The frameworks are effective and efficient scorecards that allow the campaign analysts and client team to keep a pulse on the campaign
The goals and objectives are determined during a grind session with the key client stakeholders, the account team and the analyst.
Once we know what the over-arching overarching goals are for the campaign, we determine what the key metrics will be that will best prove if the campaign is successful – and then we use historical data to determine baseline benchmarks that we will measure against each month
The AICPA was the first client to utilize thes analytics framework. The analytics team has been reporting on this framework now for almost three years, and it the framework has evolved to what you see now based on the changes and shifts that have occurred as the website has grown over time.
Offers offers the AICPA a high-level monthly snapshot that is easy to consume and digest, and our client can share this one slide with upper management, instead of the of needing the entire 30-slide presentation.
• So where does CRM fit this approach? Customer Relationship Management is really about Relationship Cultivation and Management.
• So CRM happens throughout the entire process. From process – from customer segmentation – to optimization.
• And if implemented correctly It correctly, it combines sales and marketing team efforts in a singular strategy to find, cultivate and develop leads.
• It enables you to calculate conversion numbers for each stage of your entire funnel. This is an Industry Benchmark for Lead Conversions B2B.
• Silverpop has a revenue calculator similar to this that you can customize. Small plug: SilverPop is a Capstrat partner and a fantastic marketing automation platform. Check it out.