In this presentation, Silverpop highlights several steps marketers should be taking in order to ensure engagement levels and the bottom line continue to rise, including the following:
Connecting revenue to the specific marketing channels and campaigns driving it
Integrating digital marketing and ecommerce systems
Developing campaigns targeted at crucial points in the buyer journey, such as first purchase, repeat customer and win back
Measuring and tracking customer engagement levels in order to target communications and understand resulting impact on engagement
5. Being Effective
We’re expected to have only effective efforts in a very
complex and sophisticated marketing environment.
• Measuring effectiveness is not optional
• Budgets must be justified
• Brands want to feel understood
• Businesses must grow
• Customers demand value, or they leave…
7. Effectively Mapping the Journey
The number of channels continue
to increase, evolve and don’t show
any signs of slowing down.
• Export events as they happen
• Organize relevant relationships
• Augment data when you can
• Centralize data for measurement
• Make time work for you
Source: Forrester Research: The Funnel We Need: Follow Customers as
They Actually Behave: A 4-Stage Cycle Where 'Earned, Owned and
Paid,' and 'Traditional and Digital' Don't Matter
8. Effectively Connecting Experiences
The ways marketers connect these activities and efforts
can help make the big picture much more clear
• Exposing order & inventory visibility
• Aligning LOBs & customer segments
• Creating a common digital footprint
• Connecting call centers & offline data
• Just using simple naming conventions
“Very Important” to
84% of retail
advertisers
Source: eMarketer Research: Retail Systems
Research (RSR), Omni-Channel 2013: The
Long Road to Adoption, June 11, 2013
10. Adding Data
Marketing is most effective when data is at the heart of
the ideation, creation and execution.
• How many times have you asked… what if?
• Analytics create great marketing opportunities
• Tracking the path to purchase will open up new doors
• Your marketing platform makes that data
…now make
it actionable!
11. Biggest Challenges
For Marketers
with Big Data
• Not sharing it
• Not using it
• Can’t connect it
• Can’t use it
• Don’t have enough
Source: David Rogers, Don Sexton:
Marketing ROI in the age of big data (2012)
What’s the Problem?
12. Seeing Beyond Data
What makes data useful in marketing?
• Biggest Known Opportunities
• Relevant Segments
• Identified Instances and Entry Points
• Categorizing Content
• Turn Assumptions into Accuracy
Turn a test into a
winning strategy…
13. Effective Use of Data
Creating a model can do all that and more…
• Measure engagement over time
• Automate lead nurturing
• Scores can help develop segments based on
– Pre-Existing Personas or Demographic Data
– Web, Email & Other Digital Behavior
– Recent & Frequent Activities
14. Scoring Methodology Data collection and web tracking
allows a robust scoring model that
measures engagement and segments.
Web, Mobile &
Owned Sites
Marketing
Database
Emails
Profile, Survey &
CRM Systems
Customer behavior,
data & activity
tracked
Scoring platform provides
tracking and options1
2
Engagements scored
& tabulated3
Shopper
Evangelist
Visitor
Unengaged
15. Scoring for Retailers
Demographic & Profile Data
• Opted In +5 | -50 for Opted Out
• Valued Customer Segments +10
• Priority Zip Codes | Store Proximity +5
• Participated in an Event +25
• In Rewards Program +10
Behavior Scoring
• FirstTime -Visit,Open, Click +5
• Clicks in email more that 2 times last 30 days +10
• Visits Product Pages multiple times in last 10 days +25
• Recently visited promotional page and outlet +20
(Potential for separate motivated customer score)
15
17. Integrating Insights
You may be familiar with lifecycle marketing as well as
the buyer’s journey - how do insights make them better?
• Add to the big milestones
• Create more opportunities
• Develop deeper relationships
• Expect better response
DISCOVERY CONSIDERATION DECISION
Acquisition
Retention
Reengagement
Onboarding Engagement
Upsell
18. AddingValue
Adding Revenue toValued Activities
• When targeting an existing valued segment
• When considering new strategies
• When developing ideas that can be automated
Abandoned Carts
can be recovered -
expect 3-10%
Improve Retention
by warming new
customers
Triggered
Replenishments can
double Open / Click
rates
20. … and there’s always Ad-Hoc
A well balanced communication strategy contains a balance of
the scheduled, triggered and unanticipated…
SCHEDULED
My deals
are here!
AD-HOC
I just got my receipt,
I didn’t know they
also had frames…
TRIGGERED
It has been a while, let me
check that inventory…
• Create expectation by working from a
regular calendar or Marketing Schedule
• Drive relevancy through triggered
communications based on activity
• Delight by customizing and delivering
important messages with ease
After key steps, Ad-hoc is easy
and now more effective!
48. Loyal Customers Biggest Spenders Lapsed Customers
Replenishment
Opportunities
Upsells
Marketing automation scores and segments
49. Last Website Visit: 90 days ago
Last Email Open: 68 days ago
Last Purchase: 98 days ago
LTV: $185
Last Item Purchased: Ink Cartridges
50. Last Website Visit: 90 days ago
Last Email Open: 68 days ago
Last Purchase: 98 days ago
LTV: $185
Last Item Purchased: Ink Cartridges
RFM Segments: Lapsed Customer,
Replenishment
Engagement Level: Dormant
54. A typical purchasing process
Google
Search
Received Email
Retargeting
Looked at
review
Back to
website
Comparison
search
Email with
coupon
Purchase
Back to
website
Visited Website