Cam Davies is Senior Product Marketing Manager at Miovision.
Cam did a entertaining presentation on sizing, growing, and evolving your market with great personal experience at Miovision. The sessions topics ranged from offering responsible solutions, market penetration vs. market share, and product evolution. Along the way there are hilarious references to Huggies Tweet Pee, navel gazing, and a failed Miovision project involving angry men in pickup trucks.
Cam Davies presented this at The Marketing Leap in Kitchener, Ontario.
28. DON’T BE A NAVEL GAZER
EXTERNAL
METRIC
STRATEGIC
THINKING
SHARED
WORLD VIEW
29. TOTAL ADDRESSABLE MARKET (TAM)
THE WHOLE POTENTIAL MARKET
SERVICEABLE AVAILABLE MARKET (SAM)
REACHABLE MARKET
SHARE OF MARKET (SOM)
CURRENT REVENUE
Kurtis counted cars, witnessed the industry
The future? There had to be a better way
Accept traffic?
MODERNIZE INTO 21ST CENTURY
- After WWII, traffic infrastructure
- 80's population diverged
- 2007 cities > rural.
- Cities can't keep up with growth
Why traffic? Physical networks.
Pain felt here with LRT
^ housing + non-residential + post-secondary
Important part of how cities interact + politicians
Last couple decades, huge innovation
Strictly following Moore's law - and still going
Forgot vendors in the traffic industry
modern cities and modern marketers aren't so different
cities trying to connect physical world + responsive + predictive
meanwhile, millions of datapoints from citizens
Overwhelmed, understaffed = lockdown
RESIST - this is where the magic happens
modern marketers have a similar problem
thousands of tools, more in my inbox every day (sorry Uberflip)
challenge is making sense
challenge is finding focus
challenged to do right for your business
for both, data sits in disparate systems
As a marketer, I struggle to wrap my head around the connections
Missing opportunities for better marketing and more deals
For cities, the problem is worse and affects billions
In the United States alone, billions every year
$90B JUST TO MAINTAIN
US GOV long term 6yr transportation bill
Only funds first 3 years
Revenue streams drying up, no politician wants to raise taxes
many decisions are left to GUT FEEL
seasonality +3% increase per year
under and overbuilt infrastructure, signals
new record
3B gallons of fuel, 7B hrs, 42hrs (2x), $160B
What’s worse
Difficult to tell how effect $$ spent
More pouring in every year
As a miovision-er
As a citizen and driver
As a parent of the next generation
what are we leaving for our kids?
what happened to the future?
traffic was supposed to be solved
our houses automatically cleaned
...hasn’t exactly materialized as predicted
past us were ambitous - caught up in expectations
"they're working on it" - definitely not the government
In traffic, IoT is the hot topic that will solve all problems
as citizens of the world, we create responsible solutions
let's have a look
mark andreesson said software is eating the world
I think we're on the doorstep of IoT eating the world
we need to be responsible
Let's get back to traffic
first started at Mio
Mississippi -
load guys into suburban
charge 2.5x labour
it's just how we do it
What about closer to home?
Toronto victim to shady data collectors
Same contract awarded every year
Engineers and planners expect +3% - Low and behold...
John Tory rallies against clickers and clipboards in 2015
huge opportunity for Miovision and other tech solutions
We can’t just go in guns blazing
People and govs passionately resist change
we’ve seen examples of private companies trying to disrupt the government from the outside-in
The set-up for what marketing can do
marketers
we use digital signifiers to attribute value to our work
there's no shortage
they all lead to the same thing
hint: it's not page metrics or email open rates
not funnel metrics only
not pipeline value
tactical & incremental, not transformational
need to look outside of the company
- strategy
- world view
- what's the external metric
market penetration OR market share
not 1% penetration into China
real, measurable, and actionable measures
where you are, what's available, plan to get there – even when you’re inventing something
SAM your slice of TAM - what are you resourced to do?
it's november
coming off of consecutive growth years
sales is killing targets
but, starting to feel a change in the market
two stakeholders + mgmt, mktg, sales teams
shit
Dave Franco here has the answer
Lots of tribal knowledge
lots of opinions
every "fact" could be refuted
needed a common number
Need to develop model of the market
How to make it believable? Top Down + Bottom Up
carve out territories
spend hours 1:1 with sales reps
what changed?
- for the first time, marketing had data
- marketing lead conversations
- marketing could challenge opinion
- together, we could identify knowledge gaps and opportunities
Key piece of data
DIRECTLY INFLUENCED A NEW PRODUCT
INDIRECTLY INFLUENCED AND PUT PRESSURE ON ANOTHER
WE WERE IN A PRESSURE COOKER
Story about information and product evolution
50% yay
50% crap
we want to grow
who really holds the budget
grab more of the value chain
how do you get the most impact?
launched Traffic Data On Demand
we killed the product (kindaf
- unneeded friction
- becoming services company
- detracting from core competency
would rather be coach than air traffic controller
created connective software
Connected, surfaced information,
opportunities for extension to public dashboards,
APIs,
open government,
democratization of data
we started out as vendor in the marketplace
saw opportunity in the network and workflow
Network Orchestrators create network of peers
Bigger than one company - rely on other people's assets, knowledge, relationships
Uber, Air BnB, eBay
Only by working together can we realize the full potential that data can provide to cities
Cities can’t do it alone, and neither can we
Second story about product evolution
Concept is simple, implementation is incredibly hard
pretty cool right
Connect lights to the internet
Use AI to let them speak to each other
Never wait for a red light again
Working prototype in Kingston -20% delay during rush hour
Second deployment site
Wood Buffalo, incredible population growth from Ft. McMurray
Lots of big pick-up trucks spitting exhaust
Completely gridlocked “downtown” twice per day
Hung out with engineer, showed me around city, insanely busy, lunch at BK
Shit
Worked in theory didn’t work in reality
Software would work, just a few bugs
trust on shaky ground
new term for "Production" - No chance to "stage"
Solving a “self actualizing” problem
Incredibly political sale
- great flow, but politician wanted advanced left
Lots of top-of-funnel interest
Things lower in the value chain to solve first
incrementally
Solve urgent and pervasive problems firstincremental improvements
When you’re in, you’re in
sales in every territory
RoW quoted in Star
what was the biggest lesson that we learned
invest invest invest, and trust for a single moment in time that it pays off
customer first
Important lesson:
BIG RISK, BIG REWARD COMPANY. THIS IS ALSO THE APPROACH BY IBM, CISCO, AND THE OTHER HUGE TECHNOLOGY PLAYERS.
marketers, as with cities, need:
information we can't ignore
we need to try, fail, succeed
in the new economy, we need to collaborate