Predictable revenue guide to tripling your sales part 2 - marketing + netsAaron Ross
Similar to Paid, earned, shared & owned - getting insight from integrated communications measurement - presentation for Ebiquity at EACD 2014 Brussels (20)
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“73% of CEOs think
marketers lack business
credibility: they can’t
prove they generate
business growth.”
“They keep talking about
brand, brand values,
brand equity … (without)
linking back to results
that really matter:
revenue, sales, EBIT or
even market valuation.”
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“The trouble with marketing
and communications is that it is
a little like the Americans and
the British. They are separated
by a common language.”
Many comms professionals
see the role of the marketer
as nebulous, worrying about
branding, taglines and ‘fluffy
stuff’ while their work is more
hard-hitting, defending
corporate reputations against
a 24/7 barrage of … scrutiny.”
To many marketers, PR
represents a huge cost – often
carved from their budgets –
with a seemingly impossible-to-
calculate return.
Too often marketing sees
comms as a sub-set, who
just sit there and bang out
press releases. Or spin, as
some marketers still insist
on calling it.
Their world is
black and
white. Ours is
a bit grey.
23. Today’s exam questions
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• What gets in the way of all of your different components of
communication working together?
• What strategies have you used to make the different parts
work together?
• If you were starting out today with a blank sheet of paper,
what kind of integrated measurement approach would you
create? Think about structure, planning, metrics, reporting
24. 1. Work together right from
the start. Be partners
2. Agree and align KPIs as
simple & understandable
3. Accept complementary
impacts of different roles
4. Create a common lexicon
and understanding
5. Don’t work in silos and
live close to each other
6. Demonstrate value to the
C-suite (CEO, CFO)
7. Keep comms lines open
b/w corporate & marketing
8. Agree who controls which
parts of social
9. Be prepared to be always
“on”, 24/7
10.Don’t try to control
everything that happens
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Ten ways be terrific
25. “The Brand function at P&G
now encompasses brand
management; communication;
consumer and marketing,
communications; and design.”
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Work together right from the start – don’t bring in the other discipline at the point of launch.
Agree and align KPIs, using simple, understandable, and meaningful performance metrics, such as effective delivery of aligned messages through paid as well as earned and owned media.
Understand, accept and appreciate the different – and complementary – impacts that the different roles have on the business and the business of communication.
Create a common lexicon. Understand, for instance, what each means by media, media auditing, media analysis, channels, and coverage. They are not always the same.
Don’t work in silos and ensure corporate communications and marketing teams are physically co-located, working together on projects in multi-disciplinary teams. Use physical geography to foster collaboration.
Demonstrate the value of your function to the business in a way that has meaning to the C-suite. C-suite endorsement of the integrated approach goes a long way towards making this way of working the new normal.
Ensure lines of communication between corporate communications and marketing are kept open at all times. It may sound basic, but instituting a regular meeting between both groups is a critical starting point.
Agree who controls which parts of social – work out what social can and should do for your organisation, and plan social outreach with precision.
Be prepared to be always “on” – always available for proactive and reactive commentary – particularly because of social. The social revolution has made comms and marketing truly 24/7.
Don’t try to control everything that happens, particularly in social. Be prepared to be the start of a branded communication, but let it take on its own life as your customers and consumers turned an owned media channel into a shared one