Content is king nowadays but once you have a working strategy how easy is it to scale?
Nick Spyer from Social.com joined a host of speakers at TechConnect London 2014 and provided attendees with a unique insight into how to drive their content marketing strategy while maintaining a focused eagle eye approach.
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10. Do you know who your
customers are?
Where are they
in their journey?
Are you engaging and
moving them along
the journey?
Are you measuring
the impact on your
business goals?
Four Questions
11. Customers Now Expect Relevant 1:1 Experiences
Connected
Customers
Product Mobile Social Web Email Store Community
Connected
Brands
Connected
Experiences Stadium
12. Customers Are on a Journey with your Brands
Click
Facebook Ad
Newsletter Sign-up
Personalized
Content Email
Download App Mobile Opt-in
Contact Customer
Support
Evangelize on
Facebook
Support Issue
Resolved
First Purchase
13. Journeys are strongly
correlated with business outcomes.
*Transforming Customer Experience: From Moments to Journeys, 2013
+36%
Customer
satisfaction
+19%
Likely to
stay/renew
+28%
Willingness to
recommend
+33%
Less likely to
cancel/churn
16. Direct Sponsored Updates
Reach your target audience directly without publishing to all of your followers.
Multi-variant test the right message to the right people, in the feed.
17. LinkedIn Advertising at Salesforce
Lead Form Conv. Rate
15%
18x
Better CTR with
Sponsored Updates
Identify highly
targeted
audiences to
drive leads and
revenue.
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So the future of marketing is the 1:1 customer journey (talking points below are optional)
Customer journeys are customer centric … they are anchored in the way a customer thinks about their experience with an organization, not the other way around.
Customer journeys capture each moment that matters, each event, each defining experience for a customer across for entire customer lifecycle.
And customer journeys define how an organization communicates with their customers at each of these moments that matter across all touch points and all marketing channels.
Where you connect discrete interactions, from any channel, on the customer’s terms…
… Where you combine customer data with customer behaviors, in real-time, to create more intelligent communications and interactions that respond to and anticipate customer needs, and which are designed to move a customer along her unique journey.
However today, there is a gap. Most organizations are not delivering data driven interactions and experiences to their customers. Instead, these organizations communicate and interact with their customers through a series of disconnected, independent campaigns and messages – often across many organizational functions– that are not coordinated, data driven, or entirely purposeful. They are not delivering true 1:1 customer journeys. They are not embracing the future of marketing. This needs to change.
Which begs the question, how do you create and deliver 1:1 customer journeys at scale?
In order to do it, you need to be able to answer 4 key questions. You need to know who your customers are, where they are in their journey, how to engage them in any channel, and how to measure the results.
Not just because of the number and types of interactions that are now possible, many of which are completely outside of our control, but also because customer expectations have fundamentally changed. Now that everything is connected, we live in a real time, on demand society where customers have become more demanding. The balance of power has shifted to the customer. They expect you to know who they are, to know their history, to recognize them in any channel, to make things easy for them. They expect relevance.
And because of the internet of things, because of the availability of data, and new technology tools at our disposal, we as marketers can deliver on that. We can offer personalized 1:1 experiences in EVERY channel, on the customer’s terms, and we can manage and optimize every individual customer’s unique journey with our brand across the entire customer lifecycle.
An opportunity to influence the customer journey through the entire customer lifecycle, which has become infinitely more complex and difficult to manage.
In fact, companies that actively manage customer journeys are seeing strong and tangible business results, with more satisfied customers who are more likely to stay/renew, more willing to recommend, and less likely to cancel/churn.
That’s exactly what the Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud is built to do as THE Platform for 1:1 customer journeys with technology that enables you to build a single view of your customers leveraging data from any source, plan an optimize unique customer journeys based on your business objectives, deliver personalized content across every channel and device at precisely the right time, and measure the impact of every interaction on your business, so you can optimize your approach in real time and drive better results.
33% of Unilever’s 2013 social ad spend (outside of Americas) ran through Social.com.