Making Your Business Memorable

1 Making Your Business Memorable Justin McHood Susan Baier

2 What does it mean to be “memorable”?

“BAD” Memorable 3 “Good” Memorable Offers something that meets my needs = Matters Deals with something I ﬁnd interesting Has a personality I want to be around Makes me want to ﬁnd out more

“BAD” Memorable 4 “Good” Memorable Offers something that meets my needs = Matters Deals with something I ﬁnd interesting Has a personality I want to be around Makes me want to ﬁnd out more

5 Relevance When What You Do = What They Want

6 Relevance = Results Offers systems security services for ﬁnancial institutions Two targets - IT managers, CFO/COO’s Each has different interests - “this is my responsibility” vs. “this will hurt the stock price of the company” Tested segmented email vs. general message to both targets 52% 14% 5% 42% 4% 1.25% Email Response Lead-to-Opportunity Open Rate of (Website Registrations) Conversion Follow-Up Emails General Segmented

7 Relevance = Results Candle purchase motivation differs Mood vs. decor vs. gifting Catalog redesigned by segment (scratch & sniff) Response rate doubled

8 Relevance = Results Best Buy spent $50 million in 2005 to remodel 110 stores Speciﬁc customer segments Converted stores saw sales growth double vs. control stores in the ﬁrst 3 months

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10 Determining what’s relevant The intersection of what you do well with what a particular audience is looking for

11 Finding relevance Illustrations by Stanislav Prokopenko

12 Methods Online surveys Market research Customer feedback cards Focus groups Blog comments Social media

13 Now What?

14 Sweet Spot Don’t try to be all things to all What audiences You Do You are better at Well What some things than They others Really Want Some audiences are better for you than others

15 Relevant Strategy All good marketing plans begin with a strategy based on audience relevance... then focus BY AUDIENCE on: Messaging Targeting Media types Promotions, products, etc. that will matter to each audience Conversion tracking and metrics

16 Be visible Help the right people ﬁnd you In real life (Events) Online (SEO)

17 Who Is Online 12 Billion US searches per month 53% increase from 2007 70% of Americans use the Internet 49% use search engines daily Demographics: $50,000+ household

18 How SEO Works Search engines have a mission to bring the most relevant results to you Google has moved toward “personalized search” 90% of web users click on the ﬁrst results page

19 How SEO Works Paid 14% 86% chose Google organic listings vs. paid search Organic 86%

20 If you’re not in the top 3 results, you’re not being seen Fig 1. Google SEPR Click and Attention distribution ‘heat-map”

21 Email Name Personalize with speciﬁc Dear Customer, relevant information (case studies, testimonials We have lots of great relevant to recipient’s stuff for everyone! industry or concern) Link to speciﬁc content Visit our site: on your site, not just your www.greatco.com home page

22 Personality Show some - for you, for your brand

23 Personal relevance Community Networking Social Media Blog

24 Brand Personality Toys and apparel for geeks Entertaining product descriptions Social media “Today in Geek History: Buzz Aldrin is born and Rainn Wilson re-enters Earth’s atmosphere in a bioengineered human baby suit.”

25 Questions? @susanbaier @jmchood

Making Your Business Memorable

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