This document discusses five key elements of data-driven campaigning with Adobe Campaign: 1) Personalization - tailoring messages for individual customers, 2) Real-time marketing - sending timely messages to customers, 3) Cross-channel integration - coordinating messaging across channels, 4) Automation - using automation to free up time and improve customer experiences, and 5) Integrated technology - having a single view of the customer across systems. It provides examples of how companies can implement these elements using Adobe Campaign to improve marketing efforts.

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Why Adobe Campaign?
Five Key Elements to Data-Driven Campaigning
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2. Introduction
We all know the buzzwords: ‘omni-channel’, ‘real-
time’, ‘hyper-personalisation’. They remind us of
our 16-year-old self in secondary school: all talking
about it, believing that everyone else is doing it, but
in reality, very few really are.
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Campaign and CRM teams have long been
expected to create a marketing ecosystem that
can target, communicate, convert and retain
customers in a timely, personalised and cross-
channel fashion. But it sometimes feels harder
than ever to achieve.
Sure, we know the customer experience needs
to be easier and more effortless than ever, but in
our efforts to achieve this our backend internal
complexities are growing - with technology,
data, content, creative and compliance all taking
priority. Add to this, a world where marketers are
busier and more accountable than ever, and it
can seem impossible to keep up.
We’ve written this whitepaper to let you in on
a secret. Everyone is not doing it. That’s not
to say it’s impossible, but it certainly isn’t easy.
There are challenges around people and process
of course, but we’re also often hindered by
technology.
We’re partnered with Adobe Campaign - a
platform which technically, is more than
capable of supporting ambitions of world-class
customer experience.
However, there are many steps to take to
get there, and many aspects to consider.
The following pages explore some of the
key elements of achieving truly data-driven
marketing with Adobe Campaign, with some
example use cases from our clients.
Five Key Elements of Data-Driven
Campaigning with Adobe
Data-driven campaigning is the new talk
of the town and is the key to getting those
measurements back to your superiors.
Conveniently for us, there are five main areas
that Adobe Campaign excels in and helps
you with:
Personalisation
Real-time,
targeted relevancy
Cross-channel
Design and visualise
journeys across
online and offline
channels
Scale &
Compliance
Strive for growth
without scale or data
compliance becoming
a barrier
Integrated
Technology
Single customer view
with fast insight to action
throughout the
customer journey
Automation
Provide the next
best experience in
real-time agnostic
of channel
CAMPAIGN ANALYSIS & REPORTING
DATA MANAGEMENT

3. When cross-channel marketing is done correctly,
the message is consistent and yet tailored for all
customers across all platforms. It’s efficient too
and saves time by avoiding duplicating content
per channel, per supplier, and reduces cost
per sale.
When companies start using Adobe Campaign,
they often start with the main channel which is
email. But it can do so much more. Once you’re
more familiar with the technology, you can add
additional channels into your campaign at the click
of a button, and view a singular campaign, rather
than channel vs channel. However, each channel is
slightly different and will need a unique approach/
strategy. For example, email is considered quite an
open channel - it doesn’t matter if the recipient is
registered with yahoo or Gmail. By contrast with
SMS, you need to pay for each text and you need
a provider to handle it, so it’s more limited. With
Adobe Campaign, you can send both Android and
Apple push notifications and you can even set up
processes for direct mail that seamlessly links with
your printing house of choice.
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1. Cross-channel
Brands often don’t have all their channels switched
on, and sometimes they have all channels live
but not integrated, or if they are integrated they
are not customer-centric. This can create
duplication, confusion and not least inefficiencies
across marketing.
Promotional event
(ex seasonal sale)
Communication
construction
Campaign managed
audience
AEM managed creative (optional)
& campaign managed data
Send 1 version B
direct mail
Send 2 version N+
Dynamic content versioning
+ support for all channels
Send 1 version C
push notification
Delivery
approvals
handled in-app
Send 1 version A
Email
Send 2 version A Actionable
analytics

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The first and most important aspect of cross
channel-marketing is making sure everything is
connected and cohesive. Once you have decided
on your channels, your target audience and you
have you GDPR consent, you can decide
according to data which message is best to send,
on which channel, at which time. Your message is
going to vary according to channel, for example
email gives you the option to go long-form,
whereas a text needs to be to the point and act
more as a reminder. In the UK, text notifications
typically serve as good reminders for up and
coming bookings, however in India and East Asia,
there is little access to laptops or internet, but wide
access to text. Taking these cultural and economic
considerations into account is crucial to choosing
your channels in each region, and Adobe
Campaign can support whatever choice is
most suitable.
Interaction is a specific product within Adobe
Campaign that helps with cross-channel offer
management. It has a personalisation module that
combines rules and content to help you decided
what content is suitable for which target audience.
These rules are based on profile data, including
age, gender and salary. It associates the weight of
relevance a piece of content has for each person
(similar to lead scoring) and will attribute a
relevancy score for that content between 1-5. For
example, a particular newsletter may be weighted
as scoring ‘5’ – you can then match this content to
individuals whose weighting is between 1-5.
Interaction also allows you to track content. If you
send an email which includes multiple links to
articles, Interaction can track who and where
people specifically click in the email. Interaction
also lets you test rules you ‘think’ work. Based on
the aforementioned tracking data, it can intuitively
test if theories are in fact correct, and more so
incorrect. So, you can try things out without the
risk of it failing to a large portion of your database.
15 years ago the average consumer typically used two touch-points
when buying an item and only 7% regularly used more than four.
Today consumers use an average of almost six touch-points with
nearly 50% regularly using more than four.
Marketing Week
Omnichannel shoppers have a 30% higher lifetime value than those
who shop using only one channel.
Google

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Real-time marketing, is an extended benefit of
automation, allowing you to market to customers
with the ‘right message, at the right time, on the
right channel. With AC you can easily execute
real-time communication with your target
audience when they need it through the
Message Centre Module.
One example of this is triggering password
reminders and another simple but effective
example of how retailers can proactively use
automation to their benefit is abandon basket
campaigns. When customers don’t follow through
with transactions, they receive an email reminding
them of their items still in their basket, which,
in more cases than not helps drive purchase
behaviour. This is a great example of operational
efficiency, which has internal benefits for the
marketing team as they can focus on tracking,
reporting and optimising the consumer experience.
In order to automate, your data set needs to be
really good. This means keeping it fresh, rather
than leaving it running without checking. Ideally,
data should be refreshed every day from your
CRM system or marketing database. Automation
is particularly good at supporting companies on
trigger campaigns (e.g. birthdays, anniversaries, or
customer lapses) and personalisation. But again,
this relies on having good data.
Similar to interaction, you can run tests on the
automated services. For example, you can find out
which subject lines work, and use the same tests
to know what subject lines will work in the future.
You can also add other rules, a popular one being
sent time optimisation, as time of day has a huge
effect on how many of your emails will be opened
and read.
2. Automation
Automation normally comes under two categories:
basic reactive automation, which is normally
based around traditional welcome and lapsing
journeys or seasonal campaigns and proactive
automation, which is automated by multiple data
sets and individualised per customer. Both types of
automation share the same benefit – they free up
time and capacity to focus on more strategic or
urgent needs.
Result
External signal Searching for events Continuous delivery Refresh events
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The main benefits of contextual marketing are threefold - increased
relevance, increased brand loyalty and increased sales.
These could be simple messages or special
offers on one or several products or a service
depending on that contact’s historical data.
Personalisation has come a long way – we’re
now at the stages where basic personalisation of
customer name or gender is the norm, through to
advanced contextual and relevant personalisation;
driven by customer behaviour or even propensity
to behave. There is even artificially intelligent
software in this field that goes one step further.
Adobe has its own product, Sensei, which fulfils
various AI activities across the Adobe Experience
Cloud, with more to come.
Other products are developing in the market too.
Products we think are doing some cool things
include Phrasee, which uses artificial intelligence
to write better email marketing language than
humans; and LiveIntent, an email ad monetisation
platform that uses a tag persistently embedded
into a newsletter sent by a publisher to call
the LIVEINTENT server and serve an ad at the time
the email is initially opened. Wowser, indeed!
The main benefits of contextual marketing are
threefold - increased relevance, increased brand
loyalty and increased sales. Some common
examples include opticians sending a text reminding
you to purchase a new set of contacts, or a hotel
sending you a text with your booking details the
day before you check in. These personalised
messages are not just adverts, they are useful,
convenient and totally personal to the customer.
3. Personalisation
Adobe Campaign helps marketers personalise their
communications in real time with ease. Firstly, it
synthesises available customer data and, through
the Interaction module, you have the ability to
manage complex offers through cross-channel
management.
Smart personalisation engines used to recognise customer intent will
enable digital businesses to increase their profits by up to 15%.
Gartner

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That doesn’t mean you want to increase your costs
by buying more products: we don’t finally pay off a
car, just to go purchase another PPC contract.
Instead, you need software foundations that
are flexible and can execute on the tasks you
need for years to come, it’s simple economies
of scale. Scale is essential for growth, there are
new markets, new products and new competitive
brands popping up every day and it’s essential that
your plans are built to handle change, whilst robust
enough to power your sustainable growth.
Adobe Campaign lets you ramp up campaigns
and respond to the market easily and quickly. Of
course, you still need to govern and standardise
your data, but Adobe Campaign can respond to
changes and adapt to your needs with ease.
One example of this in action comes from a large,
global car manufacturer we work with. It decided
to move to a global marketing technology stack
favouring Adobe Campaign to support its digital
goals. The main objectives were to standardise,
optimise and control all marketing technology at a
global and regional level. To increase efficiency of
each implementation and reduce time to market,
we created a unified data model across all markets,
standardised inputs and outputs and provided a
template that can be repurposed time and time
again. Equipping global and regional leads with the
right tools and technology to help them develop
a more personalised conversation with their
customers and increase ROI - without the ball and
chain of needing more time and people.
Enabling customers to become data controllers
and manage opt-in and opt-out preferences has
always been a fundamental part of Adobe Campaign.
Adobe Campaign comes standard with tools to
help data controllers manage all aspects of opt-
out management within the service — from opt-out
flags in the standard data model, to a prebuilt
unsubscribe page hosted by Adobe Campaign to
allow your consumers to opt out, if desired.
Adobe Campaign supports detailed user setup,
specifying not only what data a user or groups
of users can access, but also specifying what
capabilities are granted to those users or groups to
help ensure they are allowed only to perform their
required business functions. For example, Adobe
Campaign allows you to configure which users
can send out a delivery or export data. Managing
permissions appropriately will go a long way
toward reducing risk.
4. Scale and Compliance
As your company grows, it’s important that your
resources can accommodate and grow with you.
To increase efficiency of each implementation and reduce time
to market, we created a unified data model across all markets,
standardised inputs and outputs and provided a template that can
be repurposed time and time again.

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The vendor can get to know your specific
requirements, and; you don’t have to communicate
the same messages more than once.
Additionally, working with one vendor almost
always means that there is a better synergy
between the combination of tools that you’re
using, and all of your support needs can be
provided by the one vendor. This, in turn, tends to
mean a more seamless implementation process.
There is also an added element of compliance, the
more systems you have in your stack, the more
individual products touch your data. You can still
have a multi-vendor setup with a strong and robust
data strategy, but if there are data silos or even
departmental silos across different technologies
these can cause risk of noncompliance.
However, unless you work in a large enterprise
with a big marketing budget, the single vendor
solution might not be an option. The biggest
drawback of a single vendor solution is easily the
cost, especially when it comes to licensing and
costs of implementation. On a more operational
level, if you’re already using a diverse set of solutions,
switching to a single vendor will require quite a lot of
time and manpower in the transition process.
Both approaches have their benefits and
drawbacks. Ultimately, the requirements of your
organisation will determine which approach will
work best for you, but – if you’re a CTO or CMO
– it is also important to consider it a personal
choice too, as both approaches require different
management style and implementation processes.
Adobe Campaign does integrate seamlessly within
a multi-vendor stack too and compliments a lot of
other products.
5. Single Integrated Platform
Only having one vendor relationship to maintain
makes it easier for everyone involved.
Some of the products we’ve integrated with Adobe
Campaign outside of the Adobe Experience Cloud
include:
Ecommerce – Hybris, Demandware
Personalisation –Monetate, Optimizeley
Content Management / DAM – Sitecore
Web Analytics – Google Analytics, Tealium
Service Desk – Service Cloud, ZenDesk
CRM – Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics
Customer Analytics – SAS, Apteco FastStats
Reporting & Visualisation – Clickview, Tableau

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Summary
Delivering a world-class customer experience at a
regional and global level becomes easy with the
right technology behind you.
Adobe Campaign helps optimise your cross-
channel marketing efforts, personalise customer
communication at an individual level and frees
up your time through automation allowing you
to focus on the important things.
Through data-driven marketing we deliver
additional value to customers; they get relevant
information at the right time and, are more
likely to champion your brand. What more can
you want?
Brands we’ve helped to optimise Adobe Campaign:

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More information
If you are looking to get the most from your data and bring your customers to life,
please get in touch:
Georgina Groombridge, Head of Marketing
Email: enquiries@celerity-is.com
About Celerity
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marketing technology agency. Founded in
2002, the company has grown into a multi-
award winning business with offices in the UK,
Spain and North America. They specialise in
the implementation, optimisation and support
of digital marketing, customer analytics and
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clients across a range of sectors and industries,
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hospitality, automotive and gambling. It supports
brands to combine data and technology to
deliver valuable efficiencies, more effective
marketing communications and outstanding
customer experiences.
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