Marketers now need technology solutions that can help them succeed at marketing optimization across all channels for customer engagement.
This is no small task, but technologies are available today that can bring this goal well within reach. First, however, transforming online marketing requires a strategic shift toward online business optimization. The trends and the key business objectives relevant to our customers point to the need for an online marketing suite in order make informed business decisions and optimize online marketing initiatives.
By bringing together data from multiple systems into one integrated platform, marketers have the ability to pull in data into one common platform architecture that can make help these informed real-time decisions based on data.
Pre-built integrations into other systems and the ability to develop and extend an online marketing suite allows marketers the ability to bring data in and out. Integrations in other systems such as Email, Ad Serving, and CRM allow marketers to leverage a flexible and open architecture to extend core capabilities.
Marketers need to have the ability to make real-time decision online marketing decisions based on consumer behavior across channels. These consumer insights are critical to make adjustments across web, mobile, social, and digital video channels.
Based on these insights the need to know which channel or channels are providing the maximum ROI. An online marketing suite can help optimize ad spend across and within channels.
With consumers interacting with various devices and channels, marketers must deliver engaging, relevant experiences that drive conversion.
Technology and Products deployed and implemented out of the box will not help marketers achieve their key business objectives. A crucial step when looking at an online marketing suite is looking at a comprehensive set solutions. Each industry and each customer is different and an online marketing suite must also include industry best practices and implementation support.
1st build : Platform (click until Internet and Enterprise display)
The platform is the base layer that does all of the data collection, management and what measures our 1.24 trillion transactions/quarter.
Adobe offers an open analytics platform, that brings in data from both the internet and internal enterprise systems
We provide you tools to simplify the collection of data and manage it on the platform and provide tag management capabilities.
We also provide you the ability to access that data easily with Genesis API’s and integrate into your business systems
Every click and every interaction with your business
Platform: The platform layer manages the data. The 1.24 trillion transactions that we process each quarter are housed here, as well as the capabilities to import and export data, to take advantage of our hundreds of pre-built integrations, and to leverage APIs to develop against this data. Internet data represents consumer interactions with web, mobile, social media and video; enterprise data is from customers’ systems such as CRM.
2nd Build : Analytics (click until Online and Multi-Source display)
Next we offer the capability to perform real-time analytics on the data.
The layer of analytics is about how do I look into the data and extract insight such as what parts of my site or content are performing better and why.
The insights realized from the analytics can be reported out to key decision makers across the business
You can include data from multiple sources and segment it in a variety of different ways to tease out insights that make your business better
Analytics: Our analytics products help make sense of the data through dashboarding, reporting and segmentation capabilities, so our customers can make business decisions based on what’s happening online and across their online marketing initiatives. Products in this layer include SiteCatalyst for online analytics (web, social, mobile and video) and Insight for multi-source analytics, including call center, in-store and other sources of data that help paint a complete picture of how consumers are interacting with our customers’ businesses.
3rd Build: Optimization (click until Advertising, Conversion, and Audience display)
Finally, the optimization layer helps our customers take action on their data.
For example, it’s one thing to understand that your shopping cart is broken and is showing a poor conversion rate, but the next step is now I need to test some alternatives and take some action on my site to give a better experience to the consumer.
The analytics from the data helps enrich the optimization capabilities.
We enable you to optimize audiences, advertising and conversion.
We allow you to optimize ad spend for advertisers as well as ad inventory for publishers.
Optimize the ad buying and selling process.
In the Optimization layer, our products help our customers to automate and optimize across three areas:
Audience Optimization: is enabled via our Demdex acquisition. Online audience optimization is a critical factor for advertisers and publishers to maximize their online ad investment. There’s a change in the market, where advertisers are shifting from buying content-driven placements to buying specific audiences. Our Audience Optimization capabilities help publishers identify audiences that match the criteria that advertisers are demanding, thus maximizing the value of their ad inventory. Conversely, audience optimization helps advertisers more efficiently spend ad dollars and avoid advertising to audiences that don’t meet their criteria. Lastly, audience optimization delivers more relevant, targeted ads to consumers who benefit from being served ads that align with their interests and affinities.
Advertising Optimization: previously, we referred to the products and capabilities in this area as acquisition, but as we focus on the advertising audience specifically, and increase our offerings in this area, it makes sense for us to offer advertising optimization, as it accounts for a broader set of activities for which advertisers are responsible. Advertising optimization products help our customers ensure their advertising spend is optimized (across and within channels) to yield the greatest return.
Conversion Optimization: products in this category help convert visitors to customers once they arrive at our customers online business. Products ensure that content is relevant, engaging and helps drive our customers key business metrics, whether it’s a purchase, engagement, a download, form completion, etc.
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5th Build: Solutions
The Solutions layer consists of both products and services which address and help solve the key business issues for our customers. Retail, Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, B2B High Tech, and Travel & Hospitality are five key industries where vertical specific packages are offered through the Industry Marketing and Consulting teams. The products are what we build. Solutions is what we offer our customers to solve the business issues most important to them.
Challenge
Increased competition in the CRM market elevated the need to create a high-impact online experience for each unique visitor and to optimize the sales funnel.
Salesforce.com segments its Web site traffic into existing customers and potential customers. For existing customers, the company aims to make the login process as easy as possible. For potential customers, the company’s goal is to educate them about the company’s suite of CRM products, while learning valuable information about a visitor’s preferences for future sales opportunities.
Goals
Salesforce.com strives to create a high-impact online experience that reinforces and enhances the company’s brand positioning and image.
Solution
Adobe Online Marketing Suite
Including:
Adobe SiteCatalyst
Adobe Discover
Adobe Test&Target
Gain insight into the behaviors of visitors to the company’s website and conduct deeper analysis of visitor trends in real-time.
Test a variety of content across different levels of the company’s sales and conversion funnel.
The company can test the efficacy of specific page designs on the Web site’s paid search landing pages across multiple markets, as well as test combinations of offers and designs to select the messaging that will yield the greatest number of qualified leads.
Results
US: Increased leads by nearly 25%
EMEA: Increased leads by 57%
Enhanced customer experience
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