The Data Driven Business
The Consumer Marketer’s Guide to Data
How to Take Advantage of Big Data
November 2013

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About Us
Chris Treadaway, CEO
• MBA, University of Texas
• Microsoft 2005-2008, last role as Group Product Manager,
Web & Social Media Strategy
• Co-Author of bestseller, Facebook Marketing An Hour a
Day May 2010, 2nd Edition May 2012
• Charter “Facebook Developer Hero” & participant in
Facebook Developer Customer Council

Robert Starek, CTO
• 3-time startup founder, Chief Architect
• 11 patents in big data, data security and management
• Windows Azure Cloud services expert

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Stages of Marketing Competency

Manage by Feel

Analytics

Reliance on experts
Reliance on opinion

Use of “vanity”
marketing &
operational metrics

2

Data Literate

Data Optimized

Collection of data
Data heavily integrated
but data is being
in culture and is used
used primarily for
to help make key
basic community decisions & drive sponsored
management decisions
content campaigns

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Data Strategy & Implementation

Capture

• Audit available information & opportunities, and how data is currently used
• Analyze data sets and reconfigure/clean them for easier analysis
• Establish processes for collecting and storing data properly/accurately

Measure

• Understand the needs of key stakeholders and decision-makers
• Audit current key KPIs being used and operational impacts
• Find opportunities for new, data-driven metrics and propose new solutions

Inform

3

• Create dashboards that integrate opportunities, findings, and new procedures
• Train executives on how data can improve customer experiences & better inform decisions
• Produce custom reports and analyses on demand as business needs require

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Mapping Customers to “The Funnel”
• Each stage of
the funnel is an
opportunity for
Social Media
optimization
Web Site
• Rarely do
organizations
E-Commerce
mine &
understand the
data to better
Loyalty Programs
optimize the
Social media turns
funnel in its
customers into advocates &
entirety
“free” person-to-person
marketing/evangelism

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Understanding Customers
What and how often customers buy
• The products and services each customer is buying and has bought
in the past
• The frequency of purchases of each product
Segmentation & Contribution to Revenue
• Is there a functioning segmentation that is accurate and relevant
to the marketing context?
• Does customer data (internal and third-party) suggest a different
or modified customer segmentation is necessary?
• Is segmentation used in a way to help maximize revenue & profit?

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Understanding Purchase Decisions

How they decide between competitors
• What are the key decision-making criteria (e.g. price, convenience,
quality, brand association, etc.)?
• What interactions are needed to make a purchase decision?
How customers buy
• What channels do they use to buy products?
• What other related activities or interests might impact buying
decision/process or product use?

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Understanding Marketing Touch
What pre & post-sale interactions do customers require
• How do our various marketing channels perform?
• How does e-mail, social media, and mobile marketing translate to
revenue?
• What information does the customer require after a visit?
• Can marketing channels impact other KPIs?
• How has couponing & event marketing impacted my business?
• Does the data suggest greater or lesser investment in certain parts
of the marketing mix?

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Understanding Customer Evangelism
How do you turn customers into evangelists for your product/service?
• Who are your repeat customers?
• Are they influencers in the social media channel?
• Are you calculating the number of influencers that you have, how
often they are communicating, how positive they are, and how
they impact other KPIs for your business?
• Are they transmitting positive messages about your product(s),
your employees, your brand?
• Are specific experiences highly correlated to creating new
evangelists?
• Are your influencers communicating more/less frequently?
• What makes your influencers communicate with their
friends/followers more often and more positively?

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Data for Predictive Marketing

Who are your
customers?
Social

Segmentation

What have
they done?

Social

What customers
will do in the
future

Transactional

=
What have
they said?
Social

Transactional

What do they
like?
Social

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Future Revenue

Segmentation

Web/Reviews

What tactics &
strategies
should be used

E-mail

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Anatomy of a Project
• Custom Data Projects have up to 4 core elements
–
–
–
–

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Data Audit – assessing where are we currently
Normalization – fixing what needs to be fixed
Visualizations & Analysis – getting answers from the data
Strategy & Operations – putting a data-driven approach
into practice

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Anatomy of a Project – Data Audit
• What is available to inform executives better?
• What is on the wish list & what are the operational
difficulties inherent in getting it?
• What can be collected that is not currently being
collected & used in decision-making?
• Are you collecting all the data you need in a useful,
repeatable, and scalable manner?
• What third-party data could be beneficial to arrive at
a better understanding of business or customers?

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Anatomy of a Project – Normalization
• Editing & reshaping of raw data to allow
for analysis
– E.g. data example to the right needs to be
cleaned – data formatted properly and
consistently for analysis

• Can data be exported in time frames
necessary for decision making?
• Is all data exportable in consistent and
largely automated ways?
• How is reporting & analysis done currently?
Can it be standardized and optimized for
efficiency?
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Anatomy of a Project – Visualizations/Analysis
• Bringing data to life with visualizations to inform
decision making
• Better understand a specific business problem through
data

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Anatomy of a Project – Strategy/Operations
• Who currently uses data to improve operating
efficiency & make more money?
• Are there opportunities to create dashboards to
easily provide insight that is needed?
• Who is empowered to see certain KPIs and when?
• Can data/analytics help people perform their jobs
better?
• What training is necessary to become a more datadriven organization?

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Customer Testimonials
“Mindblowing. The most actionable analysis of customer data we’ve ever seen.”
Director of Media

Responsible or over $1b
Ad spend for Fortune
50 consumer brand

“Polygraph enables scenarios we’d only hoped we could do sometime soon.
It’s like they’ve bugged our offices.”
Sean Carlos Fleming

Director, Web & Text
Analytics

“Groundbreaking work for the television industry.”
Senior Vice President
$1b Local Media
Conglomerate
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Getting Started
Contact us for a free consultation & needs assessment.
We can put a package together that is designed for
your success and budget.
Chris Treadaway, CEO
Polygraph Media
512-797-6001
ctreada@polygraphmedia.com

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The Consumer Marketer's Guide to Data - Polygraph

  • 1.
    The Data DrivenBusiness The Consumer Marketer’s Guide to Data How to Take Advantage of Big Data November 2013 Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 2.
    About Us Chris Treadaway,CEO • MBA, University of Texas • Microsoft 2005-2008, last role as Group Product Manager, Web & Social Media Strategy • Co-Author of bestseller, Facebook Marketing An Hour a Day May 2010, 2nd Edition May 2012 • Charter “Facebook Developer Hero” & participant in Facebook Developer Customer Council Robert Starek, CTO • 3-time startup founder, Chief Architect • 11 patents in big data, data security and management • Windows Azure Cloud services expert 1 Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 3.
    Stages of MarketingCompetency Manage by Feel Analytics Reliance on experts Reliance on opinion Use of “vanity” marketing & operational metrics 2 Data Literate Data Optimized Collection of data Data heavily integrated but data is being in culture and is used used primarily for to help make key basic community decisions & drive sponsored management decisions content campaigns Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 4.
    Data Strategy &Implementation Capture • Audit available information & opportunities, and how data is currently used • Analyze data sets and reconfigure/clean them for easier analysis • Establish processes for collecting and storing data properly/accurately Measure • Understand the needs of key stakeholders and decision-makers • Audit current key KPIs being used and operational impacts • Find opportunities for new, data-driven metrics and propose new solutions Inform 3 • Create dashboards that integrate opportunities, findings, and new procedures • Train executives on how data can improve customer experiences & better inform decisions • Produce custom reports and analyses on demand as business needs require Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 5.
    Mapping Customers to“The Funnel” • Each stage of the funnel is an opportunity for Social Media optimization Web Site • Rarely do organizations E-Commerce mine & understand the data to better Loyalty Programs optimize the Social media turns funnel in its customers into advocates & entirety “free” person-to-person marketing/evangelism 4 Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 6.
    Understanding Customers What andhow often customers buy • The products and services each customer is buying and has bought in the past • The frequency of purchases of each product Segmentation & Contribution to Revenue • Is there a functioning segmentation that is accurate and relevant to the marketing context? • Does customer data (internal and third-party) suggest a different or modified customer segmentation is necessary? • Is segmentation used in a way to help maximize revenue & profit? 5 Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 7.
    Understanding Purchase Decisions Howthey decide between competitors • What are the key decision-making criteria (e.g. price, convenience, quality, brand association, etc.)? • What interactions are needed to make a purchase decision? How customers buy • What channels do they use to buy products? • What other related activities or interests might impact buying decision/process or product use? 6 Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 8.
    Understanding Marketing Touch Whatpre & post-sale interactions do customers require • How do our various marketing channels perform? • How does e-mail, social media, and mobile marketing translate to revenue? • What information does the customer require after a visit? • Can marketing channels impact other KPIs? • How has couponing & event marketing impacted my business? • Does the data suggest greater or lesser investment in certain parts of the marketing mix? 7 Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 9.
    Understanding Customer Evangelism Howdo you turn customers into evangelists for your product/service? • Who are your repeat customers? • Are they influencers in the social media channel? • Are you calculating the number of influencers that you have, how often they are communicating, how positive they are, and how they impact other KPIs for your business? • Are they transmitting positive messages about your product(s), your employees, your brand? • Are specific experiences highly correlated to creating new evangelists? • Are your influencers communicating more/less frequently? • What makes your influencers communicate with their friends/followers more often and more positively? 8 Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 10.
    Data for PredictiveMarketing Who are your customers? Social Segmentation What have they done? Social What customers will do in the future Transactional = What have they said? Social Transactional What do they like? Social 9 Future Revenue Segmentation Web/Reviews What tactics & strategies should be used E-mail Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 11.
    Anatomy of aProject • Custom Data Projects have up to 4 core elements – – – – 10 Data Audit – assessing where are we currently Normalization – fixing what needs to be fixed Visualizations & Analysis – getting answers from the data Strategy & Operations – putting a data-driven approach into practice Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 12.
    Anatomy of aProject – Data Audit • What is available to inform executives better? • What is on the wish list & what are the operational difficulties inherent in getting it? • What can be collected that is not currently being collected & used in decision-making? • Are you collecting all the data you need in a useful, repeatable, and scalable manner? • What third-party data could be beneficial to arrive at a better understanding of business or customers? 11 Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 13.
    Anatomy of aProject – Normalization • Editing & reshaping of raw data to allow for analysis – E.g. data example to the right needs to be cleaned – data formatted properly and consistently for analysis • Can data be exported in time frames necessary for decision making? • Is all data exportable in consistent and largely automated ways? • How is reporting & analysis done currently? Can it be standardized and optimized for efficiency? 12 Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 14.
    Anatomy of aProject – Visualizations/Analysis • Bringing data to life with visualizations to inform decision making • Better understand a specific business problem through data 13 Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 15.
    Anatomy of aProject – Strategy/Operations • Who currently uses data to improve operating efficiency & make more money? • Are there opportunities to create dashboards to easily provide insight that is needed? • Who is empowered to see certain KPIs and when? • Can data/analytics help people perform their jobs better? • What training is necessary to become a more datadriven organization? 14 Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 16.
    Customer Testimonials “Mindblowing. Themost actionable analysis of customer data we’ve ever seen.” Director of Media Responsible or over $1b Ad spend for Fortune 50 consumer brand “Polygraph enables scenarios we’d only hoped we could do sometime soon. It’s like they’ve bugged our offices.” Sean Carlos Fleming Director, Web & Text Analytics “Groundbreaking work for the television industry.” Senior Vice President $1b Local Media Conglomerate 15 Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.
  • 17.
    Getting Started Contact usfor a free consultation & needs assessment. We can put a package together that is designed for your success and budget. Chris Treadaway, CEO Polygraph Media 512-797-6001 ctreada@polygraphmedia.com 16 Copyright 2012-2013, Notice Technologies Inc.