Antony Lea, Group CRM Director at Treatwell
The Building Blocks to creating world class CRM
10 simple steps to building CRM capability within your company. From mean, lean startups to multi-national behemoths Antony covered 10 simple steps to go from nothing to world class CRM. This include data, creatives, people, process, technology and overall strategy!
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Strategy
Group Head of
CRM
Group CRM
Director
DACH
CRM Manager
BENELUX
CRM Manager
FRITES
CRM Manager
UK & IRELAND
CRM Manager
UK & IRELAND
CRM Executive
My boss will kill me
But I just want to say this is taken as standard in CRM
If you ever see this in another CRM presentation then walk out
Peter Drucker
Austrian born Management consultant, educator and author
The man who invented management
So if these 3 areas are where a business can spend it’s time
Usually they are heavily focused on execution - particularly in CRM
Whereas, for me, the first step is review what you currently do
Don’t come in suggesting 28 segments, 56 creatives, 168 dynamic content blocks
See how current efforts are affecting the company targets
Establish KPI’s
Lot’s of business’s main KPI is ORDERS
Which focuses you solely at the bottom of the funnel
However, in CRM terms this means you are wringing every last drop out of your customers
or at least the ones most likely to purchase
CRM has to focus further up the funnel as well, to increase the size of the pot
So we made email clicks one of the KPI’s - to ensure we were affecting considerations
and then worked to the top of the funnel to add in email opens
Get more customers to open
Get more to click
You WILL get more orders - from wider group of custpomers
Then we added a couple more
Ensure these reflect your company targets & strategy
Agree these with your key stakeholders
Communicate them around your business
Stuart Broughton
English philosopher
My first boss in my first job out of university
Now you have agreed KPI’s
Measure them
However you can
Use Excel
Integrate them into Looker
Utilise the power of Google Analytics
Write them in a pad if you have too
Just make sure you know your current benchmarks
In interviews I am always asked - can you move the needle
It depends where the needle is - and lot’s of companies don't even know this
AND
Which needles are being moved - which aren’t?
Theodore Levitt
American Economist
Professor at Harvard Business School
Segmentation can be simple
Segmentation can be more complex
There is no end to segmentation (or to the amount of images i can find for segmentation)
My advice - Start simple
For example
Active - Dormant
Send them the same campaign
Compare results across agreed KPI’s
Decide if you need more/different campaigns, CTA’s messages?
Compare results across agreed KPI’s
Introduce other simple segmentations
The more segments you create the more complex it gets
RFM is the most used - but can create 27 segments
Report on (as many of) these segments (as practical)
...even if you only send them all the same content
THIS WILL HELP INFORM YOUR STRATEGY
Dr Seuss
This is when you have to use all your knowledge and experience and aim to be the most intelligent person on the planet
This is when you create your strategy
You have to be a mix of all these highly intelligent people
How effective is CRM currently?
Which customer segments can you affect?
What is the potential ROI?
What investment does that justify?
Define your strategy - people and technology
Agree the budget
Seneca The Younger
Roman Philosopher
Born 4BC
Died 65AD
From your strategy you can determine
People - what skills, experience, r&r’s
Dependent upon so many factors
Betfair has a team of 20 in data engineering and 25 in creative
Coral was a start-up from scratch - so we outsourced
NOTHS had issues getting hold of customer data - so data literacy was the key
What did you decide during your evaluation?
Technology
There’s a lot of choice
Industry benchmarks and guidance is provided by independent companies such as Forrester
Managed Service
OR
Software as service
What’s internal? What do you outsource?
Be clear in determining your 12 - 24 and 36 month plan
Like a game of chess - plan 5 or 6 moves ahead
Bill Gates
Co founder of Microsoft
The Richest person in the world
What data do you have available? What is easy to add?
It’s about building a complete view of the customer
Transactional data
What data do you have available? What is easy to add?
Transactional data
Email behaviour
Site behaviour
Mobile/Desktop/App
Single customer view?
What data do you have available? What is easy to add?
Transactional data
Email behaviour
Site behaviour
Mobile/Desktop/App
Single customer view?
What data do you have available? What is easy to add?
Transactional data
Email behaviour
Site behaviour
Mobile/Desktop/App
Single customer view?
What data do you have available? What is easy to add?
Transactional data
Email behaviour
Site behaviour
Mobile/Desktop/App
Single customer view?
What data do you have available? What is easy to add?
Transactional data
Email behaviour
Site behaviour
Mobile/Desktop/App
Single customer view?
Single customer view?
HAS to be the aim - but are as rare as Unicorns
I’ve never seen either
Then you can truly begin personalising rather than segmenting
Andrew Davis
Marketing Speaker & Best Selling Author of Brandscaping
2016 Highest rated ‘key-note speaker’
Content marketing is definitely a new buzz word that you’ll hear
But the idea itself isn’t new
Content is essentially everything that is available in your company to tell your customers about?
Campaigns, editorial, promos, product releases, etc?
Determine and agree who is responsible for generating content?
How does this process work?
Evergreen vs perishable
Evergreen is the gift that keeps on giving
Use whatever picture you have of the customer from their data
Match that to the content you have available
Target the right content to the right segment of customers?
Feed their behaviour back into your data
Then you can properly affect the content you generate
Ivan Cherevko
CEO Mr Chatbot
Automation doesn’t have to end up like the plot of The Terminator - where machines take over
If you have sorted out your content
AND
Understand/map-out your customer life-cycle?
Where can you surface evergreen content?
Which touch points can you affect?
What are the biggest/quickest wins?
Where can you surface evergreen content?
Which touch points can you affect?
What are the biggest/quickest wins?
How can you augment the data you have?
How can you use past behaviour to predict future behaviour?
Retention models
Churn models
Cross-sell models
Up-sell models
How can you use past behaviour to predict future behaviour?
At Betfair we were transaction rich…
Retention models
Churn models
Cross-sell models
Up-sell models
Needs a good SCV and a good data scientist
Next best action
Next best treatment
Only then can you comfortably make recommendations
The recommendations have to be right!
You lose a customers trust VERY quickly if you make 1 or 2 badly informed recommendations
Antony Lea
25 years in CRM
Started out as a Postman - the first CRM role
What channels are available?
How can you easily unlock other channels?
What channels are available?
How can you easily unlock other channels?
How do you centralise decisions and execution?
Amplification of messages is the key
So you can reach 100% of your customers?
With consistency