From Click Consult's Benchmark Search Conference 2018, Hilton Manchester Deansgate, 5th September. Presented by Ben Irons, Digital Director, notonthehighstreet.com.
2. The Digital Marketing landscape can be complicated. We all
want to be innovative but ultimately need to achieve results
to drive our businesses forward. How do we balance it all and
navigate through the complexity?
3. Big Data
Data Quality
AI
Voice Search
Image Search
CLTV
Targeting
GDPR
Personalisation
Analytics
Creative
Testing
Algorithms
Data Science
Technology
Programatic
Custom Audiences
Product Feeds
Measurement
Attribution
Single Customer View
Customer Experience
UX
Site Speed
Tagging
Tracking
Pixel data
Cookies
4. Are we in danger of over complicating our personal Digital
eco-systems and have we forgotten what our main objectives
were in the first place?
5. Is is wrong or just sensible to pause and take a look at the
landscape and work out the route most suitable for our
business to achieve our objectives?
6. How do we build a framework that will lead us to success?
8. What data is actually of value,
can we access it, and are we
using it in the correct and
appropriate manor to benefit
our customers and our
campaigns
13. Don’t lose sight of the original objectives and get caught up in
the complexity of the Digital marketplace to get the best
campaign results.
14. All good campaign are built on strong foundations and from
implementing and updating the basics. Follow a simple
strategy and breakdown the goals and actions needed to
achieve the goals and the expected outcome.
15. Use the data that appropriate to facilitate achieving and
make sure it can be accessed. Measure accordingly, and
spend time as a group on the initiatives that are going to
make a difference and add value
16. Being ‘customer first’ means listening to what customers are
telling you as well as the data you can gather from their
behaviour
You’ve already heard from some fantastic experts in the of the more technical elements of the our craft and heard some great insights. These are no doubt super valuable
I just wanted to help close out the day with some things to think about and to pose some questions and thought starters to be a little more strategic and think about the bigger picture
Offer some views and opinions on keeping everything in check.
I’ve held roles at Agency, Publisher and Client side – offer a perspective having sat on all three sides of the table
Here to pose some questions and thought starters, and offer some views and opinions.
I’ve held roles at Agency, Publisher and Client side – offer a perspective having sat on all three sides of the table
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This might not be the case with everyone
This might not be the case with everyone
This might not be the case with everyone
Heard from great experts today who can give the right tips, but in simple terms things such as:
PPC Campaign Structures
Bidding
Technical SEO requirements and consistent evolution of best practice
Shopping feed structures and data quality
There is loads of data available, is there too much? Is there so much that we don’t know what to do with it all? Not just referring to GDPR here either.
Hear lots of talk of multiple data points, and I know this is relevant for data scientists to create incredible algorithms.
But I challenge the teams to think about what data is available that we can actually use to make a difference to our campaigns. Where can we get it from and use it in our everyday campaigns to drive better performance. Big data is great, but if I can use small amounts of relevant data to improve our marketing, site experience, or retention of customers then I’d argue this is more valueble
Channel, customer, Channel and customer – these are tricky and can get complex
Attribution and measurement can be complicated, and expensive. Single source of truth? Really difficult as different data sets don’t like to speak to each other
Customer measurement is crucial to ensuring retention and gaining an understanding of how channels deliver customer quality
What is our hypothesis to begin with and are we asking the right questions to deliver this
Sometimes I think we’re all guilty of being busy fools. Not focusing our time on the things that are really going to make a difference.
Not spending enough time:
- Reviewing previous performance and learning from mistakes - are we just head down all the time following a line without knowing where the line is leading?
- Evaluating the right customer targeting – use the data at our disposal and really critique and evaluate where we should, or shouldn’t, be focusing our time.
- Selecting the testing we want to do, properly creating hypothesis and considering if the end results change our view or the decisions we’d be taking as a result?
- Are we spending too much time discussing and talking about trying things? Should we not just go for it and see what the results tell us?
This is crucial and wraps up into the data piece. IF you claim to be customer centric, then treat customers as people not as ‘audiences’
All our Marketing needs to work to deliver emotional connections with customers, drive customer acquisition and purchase intent efficiently and effectively.
We can be efficient in our efforts, creatively as well as by listening and reacting to what customer are telling us ‘verbatum’ but also in their engagement actions and the metrics we can see off the back of this through all channels.
Social creative, tailored content in CRM etc.
Is the word strategy one of the most overused words around? I’m not sure but I hear it a lot and maybe it’s because it applies to many different aspect of what we do, but I feel that simplicity is often the best approach.
Definition: ‘a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim’
Have a clear plan, a ‘strategy’ which clearly incorporates the following aspects:
A clearly defined goal
The actions needed to take to achieve that goal
And the expected outcome
It seems a simple framework, but do we often get lost in the complexity of making it happen. Either with data, tech, channels etc
This might not be the case with everyone
This might not be the case with everyone
This might not be the case with everyone
This might not be the case with everyone
You’ve already heard from some fantastic experts in the of the more technical elements of the our craft and heard some great insights. These are no doubt super valuable
I just wanted to help close out the day with some things to think about and to pose some questions and thought starters to be a little more strategic and think about the bigger picture
Offer some views and opinions on keeping everything in check.
I’ve held roles at Agency, Publisher and Client side – offer a perspective having sat on all three sides of the table