INTERNET MARKETING
Hello! My name is Bart.
This is my daughter Merel.
I’m passionate about coffee.
I live and work about coffee.
I’m passionate in Ghent.
I work at digital agency Netlash-bSeen.
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INTERNET MARKETING
KMO Excellence, 7/02/2012
Swift and many changes.
The online customer cycle
‣   The cycle, and how to use it
‣   Generate traffic
‣   Convert visitors to buyers
‣   Optimize
‣   Word of Mouth
1. The Online Customer Cycle
traffic
                           visitor




word of                              returning
mouth                                 visitor


                   buyer
traffic
                           visitor




word of                              returning
mouth                                 visitor


                   buyer
traffic
                           visitor




word of                              returning
mouth                                 visitor


                   buyer
The online customer cycle
‣   Multiple entry points
‣   Multiple exit points
‣   Multi-channel
‣   Measure & attribute
‣   Integrated approach
Not a funnel!
Different smaller funnels, with micro-conversions.




Not a funnel!
2. Generate traffic
Generate traffic
‣   Traditional marketing (offline)   ‣   P2P marketing
‣   Search                           ‣   Content marketing
‣   Paid search & social             ‣   Affiliates & API’s
‣   Social                           ‣   Mobile
Offline marketing
‣   Get your URL’s right!
‣   Attribution
‣   Flip from offline to online
‣   QR codes?
Search
‣   Organic search
‣   Still biggest traffic driver
‣   Attention! Pygmalion effect!
‣   Dynamic rankings
‣   Black-hat vs. white-hat
Organic search
‣   On page optimization
‣   Link building
‣   Social
Organic search
‣   On page optimization
      - text, text, text!
      - information architecture: URL, breadcrumbs, inner
      linking, pagerank sculpting...
      - code
      - attention for meta tags
Organic search
‣   Link building
      - value of PageRank?
      - domain authority
      - link baiting
      - RSS
Organic search
‣   Social
      - importance of social signals for search
      - personalized results
      - networks?
Keyword Research
‣   Long tail
‣   spelling, dialect etc.
‣   aim high in the customer journey
‣   pains & solutions
Paid search
‣   Google: search network vs. display network
‣   Long tail
‣   Specific vs. broad keywords: buying stage
‣   Retargeting/remarketing
Paid search
‣   Social networks = Facebook
‣   Targeting
‣   Facebook-in or Facebook-out?
‣   Traffic vs. engagement
Social
‣   Let others generate traffic
‣   ‘be interesting’
‣   Built-in social
‣   Cfr. customer cycle
Social
‣   P2P marketing...
Content marketing
‣   Content circles
‣   ‘curation sweet spot’
‣   Editorial agenda
‣   Form vs. target audience
Let others generate traffic
‣   affiliates
‣   arbitrage
‣   API’s
Mobile
‣   it’s not a device
‣   “on the go”
‣   responsive!
3. Conversion
Conversion
‣   Get people from A to B
‣   Remove friction
‣   Add velocity
Double instrument
Remove friction
‣   every doubt
‣   every uncertainty
‣   every hesitation
... makes people leave.
Remove friction
‣   navigation
‣   logo, subnavigation, search, language...
‣   text: SEO vs. conversion
Navigation
‣   user centered
‣   faceted navigation & filters
‣   action based navigation vs. target
4 kinds of surfers
4 kinds of surfers
‣   hierarchical
‣   search
‣   chaos
‣   social
Add velocity
Velocity
‣   trust
‣   psychology
‣   ‘goesting’
... gets people moving.
Velocity
‣   logos
‣   link to privacy
‣   telephone number, real-world contact
‣   testimonials
‣   neuromarketing
Logos
‣   sector & quality organisations
‣   fake?
‣   adds trust!
Privacy
‣   next to info-request
‣   adds trust
‣   (never gets clicked...)
Telephone number
‣   next to info-request
‣   adds trust
‣   “If it all goes wrong, someone will help me.”
‣   Cfr. customer cycle!
Real-world contact
‣   security
‣   adds trust
‣   “It’s not 2 youth delinquents in a garage.”
‣   Pictures of owner, building etc.
Testimonials
‣   don’t fake it!
‣   pictures: make them ugly...
‣   social reviews?
Neuromarketing
The power of the brain
‣   collecting, reciprocity, social validation, commitment,
    discovery, concession, scarcity, fear of loss, the
    endowment effect, choice, Hawthorne effect, clustering
    illusion, availability cascade, authority bias, competition,
    zero-risk bias...
4. Optimize
Web Analytics                   User Experience


behavioral                            attitudinal


quantitative                          qualitative


high fidelity                            artificial


high volume                         high quality


This data is about WHAT   This data is about WHY
Web Analytics                   User Experience


behavioral                            attitudinal


quantitative                          qualitative


high fidelity                            artificial


high volume                         high quality


This data is about WHAT   This data is about WHY
Web Analytics                   User Experience


behavioral                            attitudinal


quantitative                          qualitative


high fidelity                            artificial


high volume                         high quality


This data is about WHAT   This data is about WHY
Web Analytics                   User Experience


behavioral                            attitudinal


quantitative                          qualitative


high fidelity                            artificial


high volume                         high quality


This data is about WHAT   This data is about WHY
Web Analytics                   User Experience


behavioral                            attitudinal


quantitative                          qualitative


high fidelity                            artificial


high volume                         high quality


This data is about WHAT   This data is about WHY
Web Analytics                   User Experience


behavioral                            attitudinal


quantitative                          qualitative


high fidelity                            artificial


high volume                         high quality


This data is about WHAT   This data is about WHY
Google Analytics?
‣   vs. other packages
‣   free vs. paid
‣   GA Premium (ownership, privacy, real-time)
Sources
‣   tag everything!
‣   channels
‣   offline & online!
‣   (offline: url-shorteners)
medium?

source?

link?

message?

format?

colour?



A/B test!
Measuring the conversion funnel
‣   combine visit behaviour and e-shop data
‣   optimize campaigns & actions based on €€€
‣   drive your website content to the best sellers
‣   get info on where to invest for traffic
Goals & funnels
‣   make the interaction measurable
‣   goals = quality
‣   investigate the drop-outs
‣   look for site entries with the highest conversion%
entering the   leaving the
funnel         funnel




               defined Goal
The way of the web
‣   cfr. Google
‣   launch fast, fail fast
‣   incremental
Social media monitoring
‣   buying intentions
‣   trends
‣   couponing & actions
‣   customer service
A/B & multivariate
‣   not just for optimizing
‣   automate!
‣   buying cycle vs. content
‣   triggers vs. content
Lost buyers
‣   e-mail automation
‣   remarketing & retargeting in SEA
5. Word of Mouth
traffic
                           visitor




word of                              returning
mouth                                 visitor


                   buyer
Word of mouth
‣   advertising = not just awareness
‣   leverage your fans/customers/visitors
Word of mouth
‣   build social into your website
‣   micro-conversions: maybe a non-sale is better than
    a sale?
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Different properties
‣   funnel -> parallel
‣   one-way -> multi-directional
‣   control -> bottom-up
Move from tactics to strategy.
Start with strategy.
Think integrated.
Remember 1 thing.
It’s not a tsunami.
Surf’s up!
Conversation
Questions?
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