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The Integrated Marketing Playbook:
How to Create Simplicity from Complexity




                    A fundamental guide for digital marketers
The Integrated Marketing Playbook:
  How to Create Simplicity from Complexity
               A fundamental guide for digital marketers
4	    Foreword


7	    Chapter 1 The Evolution of Direct Marketing to Integrated Digital Marketing


17	   Chapter 2 Setting Your Organization Up for Success


27	 Chapter 3    Tools and Technologies for Integrated Marketing


37	   Chapter 4 Centralized Data for Actionable Insights


43	 Chapter 5    Bridging the Gap: Advertising, Conversion Optimization and Marketing Automation


49	 Chapter 6    Optimization: Get More, Do More, Learn More


57	   Chapter 7 The Future of Integrated Marketing


65	 Chapter 8    Discussions on Integrated Marketing


78	 Glossary of Terms

80	 About IgnitionOne		


                                                                                             3
Foreword


    Will Margiloff, CEO | IgnitionOne




      	The Integrated Marketing Playbook: How to Create Simplicity from
       Complexity




    D
                 igital marketing has the potential to    with their own data sets and their own way
                 achieve the dreams marketers have        of looking at the conversion path. In addition
                 held for generations: the ability to     to data and tools, the silos set up in our own
                 directly reach potential customers at    organizations end up working against central
    the right time, with the right message, every time.   marketing goals by putting the focus on the
    This dream consists of the extraordinary ability to   success of individual tactics or channels.

    track marketing efforts and consumer behavior
                                                          This structure does not have to be the norm. It
    in order to optimize budget and understand the
                                                          is possible to integrate your marketing. Break
    audience and what is most effective, as well as       down those silos, break down the walls, connect
    the innovation and technology to manage all of        the dots and centralize data, tools and efforts.
    this efficiently and easily.
                                                          We have written this guide to serve as a
    While achieving this dream is closer than it has      valuable resource when mapping out how to
    ever been, digital marketing has become so            approach integrated digital marketing in your
    complex due to the multitude of point solutions       organization. It is our goal to answer some core
    that have flooded the digital landscape, each         issues marketers face:




4    Foreword
What are the central challenges to achieving
 	                                                We hope that the discussion won’t stop here
  integrated digital marketing?                   and that you will continue to comment and

 How do I set up my organization to facilitate
 	                                                share your thoughts on integrated marketing.

  and take advantage of integration?              Please reach out and share your feedback with
                                                  us anytime at info@ignitionone.com or on
 How do I centralize tools, data and
 	
                                                  Twitter @IgnitionOne.
  measurement to achieve integrated
  marketing?
                                                  Will Margiloff
 What is the payoff for integrating my
 	
                                                  CEO
  marketing?
                                                  IgnitionOne
Many people assisted in the creation of “The
Integrated Marketing Playbook” and their time
and efforts are thoroughly appreciated. We
would also like to thank our CMO contributors,
Julie Cary of La Quinta Inns & Suites and Peter
McDonough of Diageo for graciously agreeing
to share their insights with us.
                                                                   Technology


                                                                                 Centralized
                                                   Media
                                                                                   Data

                                                                   INTEGRATED
                                                                   MARKETING

                                                    User                            Site
                                                  Behavior                       Experience

                                                                     Aligned
                                                                      Goals




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1
The Evolution of Direct
Marketing to Integrated
Digital Marketing

                          7
The Evolution of Direct Marketing
      to Integrated Digital Marketing
    Stephan van den Bremer, Managing Director, Europe | IgnitionOne




     	New Data = New Opportunity, New Responsibility




    T
              he phrase, “integrated marketing”             requires     data   resources   and    ways       to
              now     seems     as    ubiquitous     as     analyze them.
              “synergy,” “thinking outside of the
              box” and of course, “paradigm shift.”         Our industry has spent a lot of time recently

    But how many companies are actually moving              talking about how we navigate lots and

    beyond the hype and executing the integration           lots of data, so much in fact that we’ve just
    of marketing efforts well? In a survey done by          decided that it’s, well, BIG. Beyond the buzz,
    the Association of National Advertisers (ANA ),  1      Big Data is about processing, segmenting
    51% of marketers claimed to be developing and           and understanding large amounts of data to
    executing integrated marketing programs for all         be actionable in real-time. In that sense, the
    brands/products/services. This is up from 19%           term “real-time actionable information,” would
    in 2006. So who are these brands and what are           be more appropriate. Data is meaningless to
    they doing? Are they any more successful than           a marketer, unless it can be translated into
    those brands not using integrated strategies            valuable information. Similarly, a pile of bricks
    and tactics?                                            is not a house.

    Reaching the level of having a unified and              To be “actionable in real-time” is a very big
    holistic view on digital marketing programs             statement in and of itself. For years, marketers
                                                                                               1 ANA Survey 1/2012




8    The Evolution of Direct Marketing to Integrated Digital Marketing
have been able to piece together data for               	Point Solution Innovation:
disparate media optimization systems, but                Our Savior and Secret Enemy
that data is crunched in a third party solution
(often something as unsophisticated as Excel),         Online marketing has come far in the last 17
                                                       years. In such a young field, we’ve seen so
and then the decisions made off of that data
                                                       many chapters of innovation as the industry
are usually delayed as humans determine the
                                                       has matured. From the early days when the
proper action. This is a far cry from making big
                                                       Internet was poised to change every facet of
data “actionable in real-time”, and it is not really
                                                       our daily lives and create world peace, to the
possible to act in real-time with such disparate
                                                       days after the “dot com bust” when people
media optimization.
                                                       thought digital marketing would never pan out

Put simply: If your marketing team is managing         - we’ve seen many concepts come and go. But
                                                       over time, the establishment and acceptance
online media and site optimization via a series
                                                       of core digital marketing channels has sped
of point solutions while attempting to stitch
                                                       innovation that marketers can, and must, keep
together big data sets, you are already behind
                                                       pace with to stay competitive. This innovation
your competition.
                                                       has created huge expectations of the benefits
We are already seeing the most innovative              that   new   technology,    new    devices,   and

marketers racing to consolidate their online           new monetization allow people to connect,
                                                       communicate and convert.
marketing    budgets    into   a   unified   Digital
Marketing Suite (DMS).                                 In order to keep up with big data, marketers have
                                                       added new point solutions, tested new tactics,
This is the challenge that this playbook will
                                                       collected new data and sometimes created new
address. The innovative marketers we have
                                                       metrics. In the beginning, the siloed results were
worked with to create this playbook call this
                                                       amazing in comparison to offline methods – you
The DMS Imperative.
                                                       could see, track and improve upon ROI much
                                                       faster. For every marketer who’d ever promoted
                                                       a product launch on a billboard, placed an ad
                                                       in the paper or bought a radio spot – this was




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More on BIG Data Challenges

     Companies that are attempting to process
     and utilize massive data sets do so with the
     intention of making good things better for                           1 Day = 2,250 movies
     companies and the customers they serve.
     What we’ve seen so far is that data can either
     do very good things or very bad things. And            Let’s bring this back to companies and their
     more data is not always a welcomed thing. It’s         customers. Customer data is growing by
     an immense new opportunity, but at times an            50% every year. Two billion people access
     overwhelming new responsibility.                       the Internet each day with over 4.3 billion
                                                            mobile devices across the globe. That’s a lot
     Sifting the good data from the bad sounds like
                                                            of devices, each creating its own share of
     an easy enough task. But in 2004, Facebook
                                                            data, resulting in 2.5 quintillion bytes of data
     was a mere 1 million members strong and now it
                                                            developed every day. More significantly, 90%
     has over 1 billion. Every day, 15 Terabytes of data
                                                            of all digital data was produced in the last two
     are created by Facebook members alone. What
                                                            years. This trend isn’t expected to reverse. We
     do we know about these Terabytes? A Terabyte
                                                            are creating increasing amounts of data each
     could hold about 3.6 million 300 Kilobyte
                                                            year. With all this in mind, online marketers
     images or about 300 hours of good quality
                                                            have to be creative and technical while finding
     video – that’s 150 movies or 1,000 copies of the
                                                            ways to transform this data into actionable
     Encyclopedia Britannica. Ten Terabytes could
                                                            information and remain competitively nimble.
     hold the printed collection of the US Library of
                                                            We’ve never before faced challenges like this.
     Congress. That’s a lot of data. I’d even say BIG2.
                                                            But our history as an industry shows that as
     So everyday Facebook alone creates more data
                                                            online marketers, we can prosper by adapting
     than the entire US Library of Congress. You’re
                                                            with innovation and technology. That’s the
     starting to see the state of affairs that today’s
                                                            only way to transform data into information
     digital marketer faces.
                                                            and shift to actionable information.


                                                                                         2 http://www.whatsabyte.com/




10   The Evolution of Direct Marketing to Integrated Digital Marketing
a major evolution. And this evolution also made   by a sea of data but now a deluge of technology
tracking consumer behavior and customizing        vendors. Marketers struggle with separate data
user experience on websites a reality.            streams that don’t communicate, in addition
                                                  to disparate and often competing teams that
However, with all of these new methods of
                                                  suffer from a lack of centralized and shared
digital marketing, things became very complex,
                                                  goals. The results are silos across the marketing
very quickly. We‘ve now come to a point where
                                                  organization that separate people, data and
marketers find themselves separated from the
                                                  budgets, making the attainment of goals ever
customers that they wanted to reach not only
                                                  more challenging.




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How Did Digital Marketing                              	Enter Integrated Marketing
       Get So Messy?
                                                             While integrated marketing is not a new thing,
     This culture of analytics and innovation being          to some marketers it seems like a goal that
     built within silos has failed marketers in a major      moves further away as they run toward it. But in
     way. Click-through rates plunged from around            fact, the attainment of this aspiration is closer
     5% when the dot-com market collapsed, to                than ever.
     about .1% by 2011. In consolidating all the buying
     power, local advertising markets went under             By integrating online efforts, marketers are
     with the promise of lower costs.                        able to merge all of these silos, eliminating
                                                             the complexity that has been created through
     More recently, low barriers to entry have created
                                                             individual solutions. By merging resources,
     a myriad of these start-ups, applications and
                                                             tools, data and measurement, you gain the
     point solutions. They are often funded and
                                                             unique ability to score all data sets in relation
     supported by venture capital backing that
                                                             to each other.     It’s the discovery of these
     looks to solve an immediate problem without
                                                             relationships that allows integrated marketers
     the context of larger issues. And although each
                                                             to categorize, prioritize and act across multiple
     tries to solve a problem (search, mobile, content
                                                             channels in a unified manner to achieve a goal.
     personalization, etc) at a micro level, in doing so
     they create isolated online data sets, in addition
                                                             Once we have taken a step back to see the
     to existing offline sets. And these disparate data
                                                             forest from the trees, we‘re reminded that in
     sets ultimately become the major roadblock
                                                             the midst of solving problems, we’ve lost sight
     barring the online marketer’s ability to interpret
                                                             of the core goal: increasing customers and
     and act on a macro level.
                                                             revenue. Messaging and efforts must be aligned
     So with every innovation to solve an immediate          and prioritized across teams and technologies
     problem, a quieter and more detrimental                 to create a common language that can be
     paralysis spreads through an organization.              leveraged across channels. The good news
     Resource allocation and prioritization is central       is that this alignment can result in a single
     in determining a company’s success or failure           methodology and metric that every team can
     and it requires actionable information. But             relate to, interpret and act upon together.
     adding additional separate layers of data can
     actually result in less action being taken.



12    The Evolution of Direct Marketing to Integrated Digital Marketing
Fighting Past Isolation                              company at large. Budgets and goals were set
                                                       at the beginning of the year for each channel
  for Future Results
                                                       and the teams work feverishly in seclusion to
As obvious as the solution may seem, many              earn a bonus for results within their channel.
marketers are sitting in a sea of isolated data,
                                                       Many    senior      marketers   are   incapable   of
unable to develop insights and take action
                                                       reallocating resources after budgets are set
in union. The most common roadblocks are
                                                       before the start of the fiscal year. So they find
the bi-products of two antiquated elements
                                                       themselves beholden to a quickly obsolete
– corporate structure and incentives. Just
                                                       snapshot of business while operating in a rapidly
like data and reporting are siloed, people are
                                                       shifting environment.
also forced into arbitrary divisions due to
technology, budgets and goals. We find the
person running lead generation sitting next to,
but not speaking to, the guys running the search         	Where is the Art?
program or the Facebook community manager
                                                       As much as organizational incentives and
not communicating with the Facebook ads
                                                       collective technology decisions can serve as the
manager. They all might as well be working for
                                                       foundation for success, unifying the message
different companies.
                                                       is also critical.   The core message should be

Each group is focused on its own narrow area           consistent across all channels, whether website,

and in many cases, is hitting its goals in isolation   mobile or print (leveraging the unique strengths

while unknowingly becoming a detriment to the          of each). Achieving data-centric precision but
                                                       communicating a fragmented message may be
                                                       the most painful type of failure in integrated
 Technology, Data and Measurement
                                                       marketing efforts.      Marketers should always
 In order to properly centralize data, to use          know their audience and voice. The key tenants
 that data to measure a unified metric and             of good marketing shouldn’t be lost in the midst
 then to use that metric to optimize your              of wrangling data and technologies.
 marketing efforts- a clear technology inte-
 gration plan is needed.




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The Origins of                                        and the opportunity for consumers to react to,
                                                             create and influence them through social. For
       Integrated Marketing
                                                             the first time, people have the ability co-create
     During the last century, direct marketing came          their experience with brands.
     out of the realization that someone’s age, income,
     education, place of birth, etc., would make them
     more or less likely to be affected by certain            	Modern Digital
     messaging. Instead of one message and identity,           Marketing Channels
     suddenly a brand could cater to the desires of
     people in unique and meaningful ways.                   Today marketers can take advantage of all
                                                             channels and tactics that comprise digital
     This was a massive change in how brands
                                                             marketing,   including:   paid    search,    natural
     started telling stories and creating desire within
                                                             search, retargeted and traditional display, social,
     consumers. This simple idea revolutionized
                                                             email, affiliates and site optimization. Each
     marketing and in many ways was the birth of the
                                                             of these elements is based on the principles
     modern day advertising industry.
                                                             of direct marketing. What differs is how the
     Online marketing does not go against the                brand engages and interacts with that targeted
     foundation of marketing. The principles of              audience - an important point as one starts to
     direct marketing still apply in full. Advanced          orchestrate channels to work together in an
     segmentation of an audience through online data         “integrated” way.
     allows the long-held vision of direct marketing to
                                                             What    makes    a   channel     different   is   the
     be realized – a one-on-one relationship between
                                                             experience it offers and where in the purchase
     the brand and the consumer.
                                                             funnel it will be most successful. The purchase
     Understanding that online is not a new                  funnel is a useful organizational concept, used
     marketing method, but simply the purest form            to see where a consumer is on their path to
     of direct marketing to date is important. And           making a decision. This is especially useful in
     while the fundamental rules still apply, there          digital marketing where it can be easier to track
     are two things that have changed – the ability          the progress of a user through the funnel and
     to experience brand messages dynamically                interact with him appropriately.




14    The Evolution of Direct Marketing to Integrated Digital Marketing
digital version of a hardcopy until the actual
                   Attract                       content could be individualized based on data.

                                                 Search was the first experience that put
                  Engage
                                                 the consumer in control of their own media
                                                 consumption. Instead of being the passive
                  Nurture                        recipient, the individual had direct input to the
                                                 type of content and advertising he saw. Then
                  Convert                        social changed everything: consumers had the
                                                 ability to broadcast their thoughts and feelings
                                                 and those messages were able to become
                                                 advertisements in their own right.


When display ads were introduced they simply
replicated traditional ads until they were
                                                     	Bringing it Together
animated and interactive. The same was true      The key to considering successful integrated
of email marketing — a newsletter was just a     marketing is to remember that while all online
                                                 channels      are   based   on    direct   marketing
                                                 principles,    each   interacts     differently   with
 •	 Inspire your organization with an            a    consumer’s     journey.   To    properly     bring
   integrated vision and incentives              everything together you must understand how
 •	 Align your technology and data to            channels interact with the consumer, as well as
   support those priorities                      each other. This is the only way to allocate your
                                                 marketing budget in the most effective way.
 •	 Unify but individualize your message
   across all platforms

 •	 Act and react by allowing the data to
   emphasize the experiences needed to
   carry the message to result in a conversion




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How Do You Get There?                                  	What Will You Get?
     In   order    to   achieve    integrated    digital     By fully integrating digital marketing, it is
     marketing, it takes a cross-organization effort         possible to achieve a wide range of benefits.
     to align resources, goals, technology, data             Marketers    can   work   smarter   by   having
     and measurement. This is not to say that a              centralized data, clear measurements, and
     marketer will not benefit at all from achieving         unified metrics. Transparency of media mix
     partial   integration.   Marketers   should    not      effects will enable the marketer to allocate
     lose motivation by the size of the task. Every          budget most effectively. It will be possible to
     step toward integration is a step toward                work more efficiently by having aligned teams
     improvement.                                            and unified goals working with a streamlined
                                                             and coordinated technology stack. Marketers
                                                             can react more quickly and synchronized to
                                                             new challenges and be able to truly leverage
                                                             the insights gathered to reach and surpass
                                                             goals. While there is a lot of work ahead, it is
                                                             very much worth each step. Suddenly “big data”
                                                             can mean better business, because above all,
                                                             integrated marketing will deliver better returns
                                                             on your marketing investment.




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2
Setting Your
Organization Up
for Success

                  17
Setting Your Organization
       Up for Success
     Roger Barnette, President | IgnitionOne




      	Does this Sound like Your Organization?




     Y
                our company spends about the same           alternatives by examining the incremental
                amount of money this year as last.          effect on total revenue and total cost caused by
                Each channel gets slightly more sales       a very small (just one unit) change in the output
                than the year before. It sounds like it’s   or input of each alternative.
     time to celebrate and promote people, right?
                                                            This aligns the organization. Marketers should
     Not so fast.                                           look forward to optimal holistic potential.
                                                            The lesser alternative is looking through the
     When you think about integrated marketing,             rearview mirror with the satisfaction that you
     here’s the golden rule for the organization: it’s      aren’t operating quite as inefficiently as last
     not about more channel specific conversions, it’s      year. Unfortunately we can spend our budget
     about identifying the greatest possible potential      only once, so we need to be sure that we spend
     for your spend across all digital channels using       it in its most optimal way.
     Marginal Return Analysis and then tracking your
                                                            Truly integrated marketing is the end goal for
     trajectory to reach that potential.
                                                            many marketers. However, there are so many
     Marginal Return Analysis is the process of             pieces to link and so many silos to knock down
     identifying the benefits and costs of different        along the way. While integrating technology and




18    Setting Your Organization Up for Success
centralizing data to act on is clearly important,
none of that will work without first addressing
the most important (and challenging) piece of
the puzzle: the organization.
                                                    ➊
                                                    CHALLENGE #1:
                                                    ADOPTING MARGINAL
                                                    RETURN ANALYSIS
                                                    ACROSS YOUR TEAMS
There are four key challenges to address for
                                                    Marginal Return Analysis supports decision-
your teams to succeed:
                                                    making based on marginal or incremental
➊	 All channels must be considered holistically     changes to resources instead of one based on
   using Marginal Return Analysis for goal
                                                    totals or averages. It is extremely important to
   setting.
                                                    understand this principle and how to apply it.
➋	 You must get creative in how you develop         Without this core piece in place, little else will
   data/performance-focused       unity   across    result in an uptick in performance. Having a
   your team by eliminating “my channel”            good framework like this to foster teamwork
   factions and identity distinctions.              toward transparent, logical collective goals

➌	 Get cozy with IT as your ability to affect       is the most critical element in aligning the

   change in digital is dependent upon this         organizational structure.

   close relationship.
                                                     PROOF POINT
➍	 Ensure budget allocation decisions are both
                                                     Why is this so important? In a case
   fluid and centralized with allocation based
                                                     study with Center Parcs, performance in
   on performance data.
                                                     search and display were up by marginal
                                                     percentages. But after integrating search
                                                     and display they achieved a whopping 54%
                                                     increase in revenue. When benchmarking
                                                     performance by last year at the channel level
                                                     the outcome may have been a gain of 4%
                                                     when unknowingly the 50% gain was missed
                                                     out on. That is the scary and exciting part for
                                                     your organization.




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What Often Happens Today                            related to the display program without any
                                                           connection to cross-channel efforts. This means
       in the Absence of Marginal
                                                           that no marginal return is being considered
       Return Analysis
                                                           holistically. This is the same in search, social,
     Today, many siloed department heads are               email, etc. Unfortunately that measurement
     responsible for creating goals that incentivize       of success does not map to the reality of how
     their   teams   to   achieve    highly      focused   these budgets perform or support the health of
     performance. The display team must get an             overall business. Many organizations benchmark
     ROI of 3:1 based on spend and conversion data         against the previous year’s performance at


       Start thinking possibility vs probability

      Marketers      seeking   to    advance       their   together? How do all channels assist each
      organization will need to evangelize against         other to reach a goal? Perhaps if all channels
      the desire to constantly look behind. Each           are optimally aligned, search may directly
      person in the organization should consider           produce less than last year as a channel,
      what’s   possible   versus    what’s    probable.    but it serves a more valuable role by making
      That simple shift in framing questioning and         significantly more total conversions possible.
      rationale will start to change their thinking.
                                                           A short-sighted team can tell what will
      For example, a search team has $100 and sells        probably happen based on doing what they’ve
      10 widgets this year with search ads. At the         always done, just slightly better. Integrated
      beginning of the following year, the manager is      marketers need to implore what is possible. It
      asked how many widgets she could expect to           is possible to move past “what you’ve always
      sell with the same budget. She might respond         done, plus 1%.” Are you ready to see what’s
      that with some refinements and testing that          possible?
      it’s probable she could sell 12 next year. But
                                                           This holistic perspective and the improved net
      what is the potential of the search team, the
                                                           results are at the heart of the DMS Imperative
      display team and the social team working
                                                           challenge and goal.




20    Setting Your Organization Up for Success
the channel level. And while every channel
may perform better this year than last in total
number of sales for the same media spend, it is
still possible for overall potential to be harmed
                                                        ➋
                                                        CHALLENGE #2:
                                                        GETTING CREATIVE WITH
                                                        ELIMINATING BARRIERS:
                                                        MARKETING TEAMS ARE LIKE
by a significant margin.       This seems like a
paradox, but it’s not.                                  MEXICAN FOOD
The classic example is if there is land and a           What’s the difference between a burrito, an
farmer plants a crop, the result would be the           enchilada and a soft taco? Not much other than
amount of crops planted and the profit you get          whether the sauce and cheese is inside, outside
from the crop if he sells it. If he buys a tractor      or on the side. But people perceive them as
and the amount of farming land remains the              different because they’ve been taught that’s
same size, productivity and profit will increase.       how things are. The same concept applies for
But, if he buys another tractor, the profit will not    the marketing organization. Each department
increase the same as before when he bought              is a part of a greater whole and the sequence
the first tractor. In fact, his profit will decrease.   and placement of these parts is what matters,
Looking at tradeoff decisions to maximize the           not the parts themselves. So often people
performance of your digital teams differs little        refer to “the display guys” and “the search
from the farmer maximizing crops. Everything            guys.” But nobody prefers to eat sour cream
is interrelated.                                        or cheese alone. Each piece contributes to the
                                                        resulting whole.

 Three Keys:                                            Make the idea of collective team performance
 1	 Adopt Marginal Return Analysis holistically         a fun and inspiring effort. Start by finding ways
                                                        to change your language and team metrics.
 2	 Stop using last year’s channel-level
                                                        For example, search conversions and display
    benchmarks
                                                        conversions should only be referred to when a
 3	 Strive to look for the greater missed               single exposure lead to that action. Marketers
    opportunity of integrated optimization like         can uncover the most critical paths and create
    Center Parcs                                        identities around them. For example, if 20% of




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conversions come from a display click followed       to make this manageable for an organization,
     by a search click, then maybe one should call        there can be a number of integrated teams with
     that a disearch. It’s not about the parts, so        a digital head. Instead of having search, display,
     marketers should be encouraged to create their       social and conversion optimization teams
     own language that embodies the parts and             that focus on campaigns related to multiple
     makes it fun to break old patterns of thought.       products or promotions, smaller integrated
     This new vocabulary can drive common thinking        teams could operate independently. To foster
     across the team. If that sounds silly to you, then   discipline and excellence, there should still
     just take to heart that changing old habits will     be educational forums and events to refine
     require new creative thinking. Simply saying,        skills and share best practices, but the days of
     “we are one team” won’t cut it.                      discipline departments as the primary structure
                                                          to which people identify themselves has come
                                                          to an end. If you want your team to produce
                                                          an integrated mindset and strive toward an
     disearch /dis ‘s r CH/                               integrated result, then you need to promote the
                          e
     DEFINITION                                           right team relationships and identity.

     noun the conversions that come from a                If you’re a small company, then by necessity this
     display click followed by a search click.            may come easy to you in that one person has
                                                          to manage and optimize multiple disciplines.
                                                          If you’re mid-sized, where there may be 3-5
                                                          people managing, then again this should also
                                                          be easy as long as there is one person adept
                                                          at actually optimizing multiple types of media
     Today’s model of having a head of discipline         to lead the team. The person leading the team
     at the channel level will no longer do the           should have hands-on experience in multiple
     trick in our cross-channel world. While it’s still   channels if you’re serious about getting good
     beneficial to have discipline specialists and        results. If you’re a larger corporation or looking
     senior members on that team, any heads of            to outsource your digital marketing to an
     department should be cross-functional. In order      agency, then the above applies. As the client,




22    Setting Your Organization Up for Success
you have the right to know how an agency is
structured and led. Structure reflects strategy.
If your integrated agency is still working in silos,
then it is time to take a deeper look at how
                                                       ➌
                                                       CHALLENGE #3:
                                                       WHAT ABOUT I.T.?
                                                       With all of this data and technology in the
things are being managed day to day.                   mix, we haven’t mentioned much about new
                                                       necessities and dependencies. Surveys suggest
                                                       that the single biggest barrier to a company
  Three Keys:                                          embracing Big Data is creating the business
  1	 Get creative in the ways you use language         case behind it. This is often tied to the fact that
     and internal metrics to reflect your              with all this new data there are increased costs
     dedication to being an “integrated team.”         not just in hardware, but the staffing to make
                                                       and keep it working. So with all this innovation
  2	 Evolve your team structure internally to
                                                       and technology most marketing teams are still
     reflect your direction in implementing
                                                       yet to include technologists.
     integrated marketing strategies.

  3	 Ensure that any agency you’re working
     with to execute integrated marketing and
                                                        	Are Your CMO and
     has the right internal structure to make
                                                         CIO Best Friends?
     it a reality.
                                                       We can see evidence of this in a study titled,
                                                       “Why Leading Marketers Outperform3.” It shows
                                                       that in companies where CMOs and CIOs worked
                                                       closely to build a “system of engagement” — an
                                                       integrated and innovative set of technologies
                                                       and processes that are born out of marketing
                                                       and IT collaboration, performance increases
                                                       were significant. As a group, enterprises with
                                                       forward-thinking marketing organizations that
                                                       engage customers effectively and invest their
                                                       marketing spend better have a three-year
3 http://asmarterplanet.com blog/2012/10/20181.html




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revenue growth that is more than 40 percent           	So How is This Done?
     higher than other companies. And their gross
     profit is growing at a rate double that of their    With results like this coming from the partnership
     peers. Some highlights include that these           between marketing and IT, it begs the question
     companies are:                                      as to what it would look like or how it would
                                                         work best. As much as some companies have
      	33 percent more likely to serve personalized
                                                         built highly specialized systems, others just
       or targeted offers in at least four channels in
                                                         need a tag placed on the website for tracking
       real-time.
                                                         capabilities or a new widget to work within the
      	36 percent use location-specific mobile           homepage of the website.
       messaging campaigns and ads compared
       to the 20 percent without a system of             In order to accomplish day-to-day functions
       engagement.                                       necessary for integrated marketing, some
                                                         basic functions of IT must be accessible and
      	48 percent of the top performers are using or
                                                         streamlined. More fluid changes needed for
       plan to use, social/local group buying in the
                                                         websites, social media and tagging for analytics
       next 12 months. As for the group without a
                                                         ideally will fall under the management of the
       system of engagement, that number drops
                                                         marketing function. Many organizations fail to
       significantly to 31 percent.
                                                         understand the size of missed opportunities
     According to the study, currently 88 percent        and the death of ambition when they face a
     of leading companies engage in attribution          six-month queue for any change to tagging. In
     in some way and of that group, 93 percent           order to have a positive relationship between
     have a set process for determining marketing        the CMO and CIO, these more base tasks of
     activity results. Clearly integrated marketers      accessibility must be made self-sufficient for
     are getting more and they’re doing it not just      the marketing function. Without the ability to
     by selecting technologies but by building their     make basic changes nimbly to fundamental
     own internal systems.                               pieces of the marketing infrastructure, progress
                                                         will halt.




24    Setting Your Organization Up for Success
Three Keys:
1	 With more data and technology, the
  relationship between marketing and IT
                                               ➍
                                               CHALLENGE #4:
                                               CENTRALIZED, DATA-DRIVEN
                                               DECISION MAKING + FLUID
                                               BUDGETS = SUCCESS
  has never been more critical.

2	 Companies that have these departments       Now that we’ve covered team structure and
  working in collaboration consistently        the relationship with IT, we should speak a bit
  outperform the competition.                  about decision-making and budgets. In using
                                               a data-driven approach along with Marginal
3	Basic necessities for integrated marketers
                                               Return Analysis, it’s critical that the planning
  like tagging, updating the website and
                                               and allocation of resources is reactive. This
  social media must be able to be executed
                                               means that you can’t plan static budgets for
  autonomously from IT.
                                               each channel and expect them to work as part
                                               of an integrated marketing framework.



                                                	Who’s Your Integrated
                                                 Decision Maker?
                                               In the evolved team structure, heads of
                                               integrated digital will do the budget allocation.
                                               By leveraging attribution, you will gain the full
                                               ability to correctly allocate this budget weekly,
                                               monthly or quarterly. As there are no heads
                                               of departments, the political fighting over
                                               bigger budgets equaling more staff and more
                                               supposed prestige in a company become moot.

                                               When the budgets are fluid and reallocated
                                               regularly and the person authorized to approve




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the allocation is impartial to channel politics     Where to Start?
     and making the decision based solely on data,
     the organization is free to act efficiently and   When     discussing   these    broader       topics,
     in the company’s best interest. We’ll discuss     marketers    often    state    that   they      feel
     attribution analysis and budget allocation more   overwhelmed and don’t know where to start.
     in later chapters. But if you can’t re-allocate   To overcome this, marketers need to focus and
     more or less budget throughout the year based     align budget with testable media. Marketers
     on what the data is telling you, then that is a   should start where they can achieve the biggest
     major roadblock and making any other efforts      impact and work downward. None of this has
     toward success become significantly limited.      to happen in unison to make a major impact on
                                                       efficiency in the near term.

      Three Keys:
      1	 Allocation of resources needs to be             Summary
        reactive to data.
                                                       The alignment of the marketing organiza-
      2	 The person heading an integrated team         tion needs to change as much as the digital
        should be able to make that decision.          marketing environment. Before making con-
      3	The inability to reallocate budgets            siderable investments in technology platforms
        throughout the year is a major roadblock       and partners, the fundamentals of the organi-
        to integrated success.                         zation need to get ironed out. The easiest and
                                                       most significant step to take in getting there
                                                       is to move to goal setting and budgets based
                                                       on marginal return goals. With that initial piece
                                                       in place, other aspects will start to more easily
                                                       follow. The relationship between the CMO and
                                                       CIO will continue to evolve over time as market-
                                                       ing and technology become further intertwined
                                                       when discussing a company’s strategy.




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3
Tools and
Technologies for
Integrated Marketing

                       27
Tools and Technologies for
       Integrated Marketing
     Dave Ragals, SVP Client Services | IgnitionOne




     F
                or marketers working towards true                	The Jigsaw Puzzle
                integrated     digital   marketing,     the
                biggest obstacle in reaching this goal         Choosing to go the path of integrating multiple
                is often their technology and tools.           solutions is a direction that many take, but it
     The current arena of marketing management                 often proves an uphill battle. One initial challenge
     technologies is oversaturated with single point           is finding solutions that can truly integrate, as a
     solutions with multiple platforms existing for            majority of these systems have been developed
     every aspect of digital marketing. Navigating this        by independent companies. Finding a package of
     complex landscape is a daunting task and presents         platforms that all work together in a truly integrated
     numerous challenges to managing integrated                fashion — and will continue to scale that way– can
     marketing. What is most frustrating for many              prove next to impossible. Most systems have some
     marketers is that the technology they sought out          form of API integration, which essentially means
     to make their lives easier actually is the piece of the   they can import or export data: but how they
     puzzle that will hold them back from integrating          actually interact with another platform’s data can
     their marketing in an effective way.                      be very limited. So just because two systems can
                                                               talk to each other doesn’t mean they can have a
     To get to the next level of integration, marketers        productive conversation.
     can approach this challenge in two ways –
     integrating multiple single-point solutions together      Major insights may be overlooked as integration of
     or leveraging a multi-point solution.                     the data is likely to be only surface-deep.




28    Tools and Technologies for Integrated Marketing
Trying to integrate separate solutions can be        needs under a single platform. The goal of
inefficient from a business standpoint as well,      integrated marketing is to consolidate the
as it means identifying the right solution for       many silos that marketing organizations work
each part of a digital marketing program and         in, and this is even more important for the
then managing numerous disparate vendor              tools they use. In order to best take advantage
relationships. Each piece of the puzzle runs its     of the benefits of integrated marketing, the
own risks and challenges and managing them           marketer is advised to reject piecing together
together can be counter-productive.                  individual systems and instead leverage a
                                                     multi-point or centralized solution such as
Perhaps the biggest risk is that the market
                                                     a digital marketing suite (DMS). This type of
cannot continue to support all of these individual
                                                     centralized solution will allow the marketer to
point solutions long-term.      Many of these
                                                     manage multiple channels, run cross-channel
nascent providers are backed by VC money and
                                                     attribution, view all marketing analytics in a
continue to operate at a loss. Consolidation has
                                                     single place and can include other features
already begun and in a few short years, many of
                                                     such   as   on-site    optimization   and   even
the names out there will dry up, forcing users of
                                                     proprietary RTB systems. The challenge here
these products to scramble for replacements.
                                                     is finding an all-in-one system that has best-
                                                     of-breed solutions in each area, or at least
                                                     in the areas that are most important to the
 	Simplifying the Chaos                              marketer. These systems, too, often have API
                                                     integrations that allow the platform to tie into
Integrating your digital marketing tools can be
                                                     other single- or multi-point solutions to help
difficult, but the benefits are sizeable. Done
                                                     round out capabilities or to better meet the
correctly, not only does it allow for a more
                                                     marketers’ needs. As capabilities within these
efficient use of time and resources, but also
                                                     systems grow and functions centralize, the
offers the potential for deeper insights and
                                                     need for API integrations will decrease over
greater returns on marketing investment.
                                                     time but due to constantly changing needs will
Our recommended approach is to seek out a            never fully go away.
unified, central technology solution that can
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Paid                  Smart
                                         Search               Retargeting



                                                                                      Organic
                   Display
                                                                                      Search




                                                      Media
        Mobile                                                                               Facebook
                                                   Optimization



     MEDIA OPTIMIZATION IS JUST ONE PIECE OF THE PUZZLE.


     Marketers     have   begun    to   demand      these   This has already begun to happen with mixed
     centralized    solutions,   and    as   the   market   results (Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick and
     continues to mature, it will continue moving           Adobe’s acquisitions of Efficient Frontier and
     away from single-point solutions and toward            Omniture are two examples), and this trend will
     truly integrated platforms.         Many of the        likely continue. Others will build single systems
     individual solutions will be acquired by bigger        designed and developed organically around the
     companies who, in turn, will look to invest            idea of a DMS.
     heavily in merging these disparate systems.




30    Tools and Technologies for Integrated Marketing
The Payoff                                           Even little things, like whether you have to
                                                       hit “submit” after making a change, can differ
The benefits of integrating technologies are           between platforms and can result in changes
immense. It is truly a situation where the whole       a marketer thought they had made never
is greater than the sum of its parts.      Some        going through.
benefits that can potentially be gained by a
                                                     	 True Attribution. A single platform also means
central technology include:
                                                       that the data that lives within a given channel
	 Single Data Source. From a marketer’s                is already de-duped and attributed without
  standpoint, it creates a single source of            going through a maze of technology, such as
  data which leads to consistency throughout           going through an API to a separate system
  efforts. The ability to see paid search, display     for attribution against another channel’s data,
  and social marketing data, for example,              which is coming in from yet a third platform,
  in a single dashboard and with detailed              to be processed and then sent back to the
  reporting creates huge workflow efficiencies,        original system.   Unattributed data can be
  as marketers only need to log into and               very valuable for deep dive analysis, but it’s
  understand in detail how to use a single             of little to no use when trying to optimize
  platform. Whether each channel is managed            accounts in real time.       Having this data
  by a different user, a separate agency or by         together opens the door to innovative ways
  the same team, this continuity in data and           to understand users, their actions and the
  workflow ensures smoother and more reliable          effect of media on them – such as optimizing
  work. It also means not having to switch             based on engagement levels. A single system
  between browser tabs or applications to see          also cuts down on potential points of failure
  data for different channels.                         or lag between disparate solutions as well as
	 Fewer Errors. Not only is a single platform          potential for delays or errors in one system
  less confusing and more efficient, but it also       creating problems downstream that then
  cuts down on the opportunity for errors              have to be fixed by multiple partners.
  introduced   by   forgetting   which    system     	 Removal of Silos. Properly-aligned technology
  someone is working in or how to accomplish           results in a single – and consistent – source for
  the same task between different systems.             training, technical support and best practices.




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As digital marketing becomes more complex               go beyond merely relying on human-built
       and integrated, the lines between channels              business rules. The result is a higher efficiency
       and solutions blur. If a marketer has a                 through bringing the right message to the
       question concerning the impact to attribution           right people at the right time.
       of paid search on a remarketing campaign, is
       that an attribution question, an SEM question
       or a display question?      With an integrated         	What to Look for
       technology, all that matters is that it’s a digital
       marketing question and the expertise for all          Navigating    this   landscape      and   selecting

       aspects resides with the same partner.           It   the best solution can be very complex; it is

       also cuts down on the wild goose chase that           critical for marketers to understand their goals

       results from each vendor pointing to another          before initiating the process. Some important

       for answers or fixes.                                 considerations include:

     	 Provide Deeper Insights and Greater Returns.           	Which channels and tactics need to be

       By having data coming from a single source,             managed      through    technology?      Feature

       attributing success across efforts and more             sets can vary greatly, so it’s vital to consider

       profoundly integrating marketing across the             which tools are necessary for managing each

       board, a marketer opens the door to deeper              channel. Large, complex SEM accounts may

       insights. With these insights, budgets can be           need bulk editing capabilities, while creative

       more intelligently, and even automatically,             repositories can be invaluable for Facebook

       managed and returns on investments can                  Marketplace Advertising. Make sure to match

       reach new heights.                                      your channels’ needs with the solution you
                                                               choose while keeping an eye on flexibility to
     	 Steering of Marketing Automation. By having
                                                               handle future requirements that may come up.
       a holistic view of data we can steer better
       content and interactions on the website.               	Which other efforts, potentially managed

       This, in turn, will improve user experience             by other partners, need to be reported on

       and conversions. Using all this data also gives         and attributed in the same platform? While

       us the possibility to create high performing            specific channels may be managed directly

       algorithms for marketing automation and                 in the system, other channels – whether




32    Tools and Technologies for Integrated Marketing
“unmanaged,” like organic search or managed         	What are the requirements for accessing huge
by other partners – can still be tracked within     sets of data that typically can’t be transmitted
the same platform. This allows the marketer to      and/or presented efficiently in a Web-
see reporting in one place and obtain a more        based interface?    Even the most advanced
thorough understanding of how channels              Web-based UI can run into bandwidth or
work together. With this knowledge you can          rendering limitations when trying to deliver
focus on solutions that allow for integration       or manipulate extremely large sets of data.
with these externally managed channels.             If huge files are necessary, how can they be

	 How important is cross-channel attribution?       delivered and can they be pumped directly

Many marketers are still tied to standard           into an internal data warehouse? Understand

models like last-click or, even worse, they allow   your data and bandwidth needs and find a

each channel to be optimized in a vacuum,           solution that won’t limit you.

without taking into account the interactions        	Is the primary goal branding, direct response
among       channels.    Integrated    solutions    or both? Being able to optimize to and report
can provide the ability to allocate partial         on performance requires setting specific
credit across a range of exposures, allowing        goals and identifying the right metrics. These
marketers to understand how certain channels        can differ greatly between direct response
or campaigns feed the funnel. As almost all         goals, such as CPA and ROAS, and branding
marketers are juggling multiple channels and        goals, such as acquiring new users, propensity
customer touchpoints, attribution needs to be       to convert and session time. It is important to
top of mind when integrating technology.            find a solution that can meet your specific

	What are the plans for growth? Managing            goals.

integrated marketing together helps grow            	Who     needs   access    to    the   day-to-day
the whole pie with continuous cross-channel         management tools?         Who needs access to
feedback, leading to growth in marketing            reporting? Does management or the client
programs. By having an idea of long-term            need to be able to log in to see how campaigns
needs, marketers can prepare for success            are being managed or just view reports? Do
and choose a flexible, scalable technology          reports need to be available on-demand, or
solution.                                           can they be scheduled to run and be emailed




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on a recurring basis? All stakeholders need to     platform that best suits the company’s overall
      be satisfied and armed with the tools to help      needs and properly manage cross-departmental
      them succeed.                                      expectations.

      	What is the level of service needed? Even
      the most sophisticated marketer can benefit
      from experts who have deep insights into            	Pitfalls to Avoid
      the challenges they face. It is key to find a
                                                         When    attempting   to   develop   the   best
      technology backed by top-level service. Talk
                                                         integrated technology solution for a marketing
      to current clients. Ask questions about client
                                                         organization, there are many potential pitfalls
      retention and relevant case studies.
                                                         for marketers to avoid. If the following are
      	How far do we need to link online channels        side-stepped, a marketer will be more likely to
      with click behavior on the site? Linking things    succeed.
      like keywords and display to conversion
                                                          	Not looking long-term: A common pitfall
      actions on the website is mandatory and used
                                                           in this process is failing to look long-term.
      in most tools nowadays. It’s good but gives us
                                                           Marketers who consider how they may roll out
      only a one dimensional view of our campaigns.
                                                           a platform across all channels – as opposed
      Campaigns are ranked based on their ability
                                                           to just looking at, say, paid search for now
      to convert people, nothing more nothing less.
                                                           and waiting on the others – will find much
      Advanced metrics like brand awareness and
                                                           greater success down the road. Benefits of
      engagement are not measured if we take
                                                           moving to an integrated platform can be felt
      only conversion points into account. With the
                                                           almost immediately via easier workflow and
      analysis of all click stream data we can not
                                                           more efficient reporting.   But considerable
      only measure conversion but also potential
                                                           value comes in the mid- to long-term with
      future conversion and engagement.
                                                           better insights of how channels work together
     A lot of these questions can only be answered         through attribution, lower training costs for
     by involving stakeholders.     By seeking their       new employees, business efficiencies through
     involvement   up-front,   marketers     can   put     fewer vendor relationships to manage, etc.
     themselves in a better position to choose a




34    Tools and Technologies for Integrated Marketing
“Switching” costs between platforms can          	 By allowing separate data sets in individual
 be extremely high. Implementation, training         point solutions, the marketer enters worlds
 and simply becoming comfortable with a              of parallel data which causes confusion and
 new partner to help manage complex digital          mistrust between departments.      Combining
 marketing campaigns is a big investment             them into a single source prevents efforts
 and not one that marketers want to have to          from working at cross-purposes and allows
 repeat frequently. Switching can also mean a        the marketer to see how each piece supports
 disruption in the constant inflow of data from      the other to grow the whole pie.
 one system to the next. Companies that move
 from platform to platform every couple of
 years can find themselves constantly behind        	Summary
 the curve as they start from scratch and need
 to get back up to speed on data collection,       The technology decision is at the center of

 implementation and training each time. This       an integrated marketing strategy.     The right

 is exponentially true for those changing          solution will best match the marketer’s needs

 solutions for multiple channels.                  and create both operational and technical
                                                   efficiencies and consistency.   It will lead to
 	Failing to think through the impact on data:
                                                   higher ROI through better performance and
 Centralizing reporting across channels results
                                                   lower management costs. By merging channels
 in a common data set used by the entire
                                                   together, the marketer gains the tools needed to
 digital marketing team. It allows marketers
                                                   more effectively manage campaigns cohesively,
 to de-duplicate orders and use attribution
                                                   cutting down on waste and ensuring that all
 models to better understand how channels are
                                                   teams are working together. It also makes it
 working together. It also creates a single set
                                                   easier for marketers to tout the results. From
 of digital marketing data that is shared across
                                                   a cost-saving standpoint, picking the right
 teams. This provides operational efficiencies
                                                   integrated solution can make this investment a
 and cuts down on wasted media spend as
                                                   one-time cost that pays off over the long run.
 individual channel owners can work together
 instead of competing for the same purchase.




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4
Centralized Data for
Actionable Insights

                       37
Centralized Data
         for Actionable Insights
     Dave Ragals, SVP Client Services | IgnitionOne




     B
                   ig Data is a term we hear a lot about,        of your users, how they interact with your
                   but it is easy to forget that bigger          marketing efforts, conclude what is successful
                   is not always better. Marketers have          and then automate your optimizations. Let’s
                   become buried under a mountain                take a closer look at the situation…
     of data that comes from a variety of sources
     –    separate     marketing    systems,        analytics,
     reports, vendors, internal teams, etc. We asked              	The Data Mess
     for all this data, we wanted to be smarter,
     to understand more. But the data that was                   The concept of centralized reporting is nothing
     supposed to make us smarter in the end has                  new. Analytics platforms have been around
     only paralyzed us. Having all of this data and              for years, and many companies also manage a
     no way to act on it in an instantaneous and                 separate internal data warehouse. These “back-
     automated way puts us in a situation where we               end” data solutions ensure there’s an archive
     are data rich but insights poor.                            of website activity that can, through heavy
                                                                 analysis, help businesses better understand
     So what do we do now? In order to reach the                 their website visitors.
     goal of truly integrated marketing you need to
     wrestle this Big Data and centralize everything.            But as digital marketing has evolved, the
     A single repository for all your information                granularity of data – and the ability to use it
     allows you to actually obtain a clear picture               in near real-time to make effective marketing




38       Centralized Data for Actionable Insights
decisions – shifts the need for centralized data        engines – or display networks or affiliates, for
up front for marketers to use before and during         that matter – work together.
campaigns, not just after.
                                                        The downside, of course, is this puts deep
Single-point solutions have helped part of this         channel-specific data in silos. By shifting the
problem by providing marketers with in-depth            depth and breadth of data back up to the front,
and instant (or close to it) access to data for their   the marketer winds up back where he or she
individual channels. Paid search practitioners,         started – with more actionable data, perhaps,
for example, can use a platform to access all           but still in multiple sources.                 And there’s no
of their SEM data and pull various levers in            means to look across channels to understand
real time based on this rich data.       Marketers      how they’re working together or how much
can better understand how different search              someone is overpaying for a given action.


                                                         Third PARTY
                                                         • Blue Kai
                                                         • Exelate
                                                         • Others
           FIRST PARTY (CRM)
           • Customer ID                                                             TRANSACTION
           • Subscription Info:                                                      •   SKU, Data, package
             Renewal date, package,                                                  •   Attributed Exposures
             lifetime value                                                          •   Order ID
           • Demographics                                                            •   Conversion Events
           • Anonymized PII: Credit
             score, etc




      EXPOSURES
                                                                                               PROFILE
      • Display Requests – lost &
        won: time, creative, bid,                                                              •   Interests
        URL,geo…                                                                               •   Propensity to buy
      • Search Click – time, kwd,
        CPC…
                                               Visitor_ID:                                     •
                                                                                               •
                                                                                                   Device ID
                                                                                                   Geo
      • Site Optimization                   18uqzyyfkrmxc
        Interactions
      • Other: email, affiliate



                                                                      On-Site
                                                                      • Click Path
CENTRALIZING DATA ALLOWS YOU TO FOCUS ON THE USER LEVEL.




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Enter the data warehouse. Channel-specific           	Attribution to the Rescue
     data can be exported out of all the various point
     solutions and stored in a centralized location.     Much has been said about attribution over
     From here, an analytics team can run cross-         the past few years. Most marketers agree that
     channel analysis. But that still can’t happen       simple first- or last-click models are no longer
     until after the fact. And the marketer is back to   viable and managing and reporting on each
     where he started.                                   channel in its own silo is completely inefficient.
                                                         Whereas with individual point solutions, the
                                                         same sale could be claimed by all the marketing
      	Break the Silos                                   channels in the funnel. In a centralized system,
                                                         these can be de-duplicated at a minimum or
     The way to break this vicious cycle is to have      attributed through multi-exposure models that
     data for all channels in a centralized platform,    give partial credit across all channels.
     updated as frequently as a point solution, while
     running attribution at the same time.       This    This has given rise to an influx of attribution
     creates the best of both worlds – real-time         systems and services. Many follow the same
     data, de-duplicated and attributed across all       point-solution approach – a standalone system
     channels, usable by the marketer and accessible     that can import marketing data across channels
     by all from a centralized system. This way, all     and run attribution analysis to be returned to
     media decisions, optimization and reporting are     the marketer.
     performed in the same place using the same
                                                         This, of course, is fraught with some of the same
     data set.
                                                         problems as any point solution approach, and
                                                         it introduces some new ones.       While data is
                                                         attributed and housed in a central location and
                                                         can be sent back to the other point solutions for
                                                         campaign management, it’s far from immediate.
                                                         Channel-specific data has to be passed from all
                                                         point systems to the attribution system, where
                                                         it’s processed and fed back to each platform.




40    Centralized Data for Actionable Insights
That has inherent delays and creates multiple             	Centralized Reporting
potential points for failure. And these can easily
                                                           is the Answer
cascade – a communication failure between the
search point solution and the attribution system         The only sure way to avoid all of these headaches
has an immediate impact on all the other point           is through truly centralized reporting.
solutions and the teams that manage those
                                                         Once the decision is made to centralize
channels. As with anything, a chain is only as
                                                         reporting, the next questions are what and how
strong as its weakest link.
                                                         to measure. A user’s path to a sale or sign-up
Not only does this put data at risk, it creates          can touch on numerous marketing efforts. So
logistical   and    resource     issues    as   well.    making sure all of those channels are tracked is
Coordinating and managing each individual                critical. Some obvious and common channels
integration and keeping tabs on these multiple           include paid search, organic search, display and
flows of data can be a full-time job in and of itself.   social media. But there are others to consider
It also means multiple business relationships            as well.
and the risk that if one solution changes its
                                                         Marketers with active affiliate programs no
requirements or technology, it could impact the
                                                         doubt see high numbers reported by their
rest of this forced alliance.
                                                         partners. This makes sense, as affiliates rely
                                                         heavily on users who have already made
                                                         their decision and are about to take action.
                                                         But most of those users were driven through
                                                         awareness and interest nurtured by other
                                                         channels. So tying all of those efforts – up to
                                                         and including that “coupon” or “promo code”
                                                         search that got them to the affiliate site – is a




                          
                                                         key piece of the puzzle.



     paid search                     display               organic search             conversion




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The same can be true for email, as the user has            It goes beyond removing duplicates and proving
     likely already engaged with the brand’s site               that each channel doesn’t get full credit for a
     when they provided their email address. Did that           single action. This alone can create immediate
     email blast close the sale, or did it re-engage the        efficiencies, as the marketer is no longer paying
     user to the point of interest? Once again, seeing          double or triple the target CPA for a single
     where email fits in the funnel is important.               action that came after a paid search click, a
                                                                remarketing view and an email blast.
     And once the user visits the site, what part does
     user experience and content personalization
     play? Communicating with your audience does
                                                                 	Cross-Channel Optimization
     not end with advertisements.
                                                                When all is said and done, compiling all of your
     There could, of course, be other channels too,
                                                                data together allows an understanding of what
     so having a firm understanding of the different
                                                                efforts work together to move you towards
     touch points before starting down this path is
                                                                your goals and where to best spend your
     essential.
                                                                money. You begin to see that it is not about a
     Another      important   consideration       is     that   single campaign, a single keyword or a single
     attribution is a means to an end.           Crediting      message. Your marketing is a holistic beast and
     different exposures across multiple channels               one that you can now tame.
     provides      the   marketer    with     a        better
     understanding of how they’re engaging with
     their users and getting them to convert. But it’s
     what they do with that knowledge that really
     matters.     Unless marketers embrace this and
     use attribution to help adjust their media mix to
     increase the overall pie, it will be simply another
     bright, shiny object.    To keep the luster from
     fading, it’s important to know what to measure.




42    Centralized Data for Actionable Insights
5
Bridging the Gap:
Advertising, Conversion
Optimization and
Marketing Automation

                          43
Bridging the Gap: Advertising, Conversion
       Optimization and Marketing Automation
     Filip Lauweres, VP Client Services, Europe | IgnitionOne




     O
                  ne of the tasks of digital marketers    and advertising is providing us with ways to link
                  – and marketing professionals in        campaigns, analyze them and attribute the right
                  general – is bridging gaps.     We      value. Connecting the dots or tearing down the
                  advertise on the Internet to bring      silos –when done in a proper way – will result in
     people to our site, and once they land there,        higher conversion rates.
     we try to convince them to interact with us
                                                          Of course, there are already prospects ending
     by filling in forms or by reading the content
                                                          their online journey by filling in forms and
     we have prepared for them to eventually buy
                                                          starting chats with sales people, for example.
     something or to better position ourselves in the
                                                          But this is only a very small percentage of all
     consumer’s mind.
                                                          visitors. We can do more and we can do better.
     Going from the Internet to your website and
                                                          The next step in bridging gaps is ensuring that
     from there to conversion is about bridging gaps.
                                                          websites deliver concrete performance. Digital
     Every step of the way, people are dropping
                                                          marketing strategies must convey relevant
     out of the funnel and “great marketing” will
                                                          content and facilitate dialogue with customers
     convince them to stay.
                                                          pro-actively without increasing spend.
     As a digital marketer, we have tools and data
                                                          These trends – personalization and interaction
     – “big data” – to optimize our advertising and
                                                          - will be key.
     website strategy. Moreover, digital marketing




44    Bridging the Gap: Advertising, Conversion Optimization and Marketing Automation
Active   personalization    through    behavioral    of the website visitors. This analysis is called
targeting is the first key element. Because of the   behavioral targeting and is far more powerful
near-infinite variety of content available online,   than the current methodologies.       If used in
customer engagement becomes increasingly             a proper way – in line with privacy laws – this
important. Providing “sticky” content is not         approach is highly beneficially for the online
enough anymore; matching this sticky content         audience. Behavioral targeting can be used to
to the individual website visitor is becoming a      show the right audience a specific white paper,
necessity.                                           product information or video. But behavioral
                                                     targeting does not end there.      It’s also used
The right content, delivered at the right
                                                     to assist with analyzing the vast amount of
moment and to the right audience will be one of
                                                     data generated with social, search and display
the leitmotifs of the e-future. If you look at the
                                                     advertising campaigns.
success of television on demand, web content
management      systems    and   interest-specific   This analysis is called engagement optimization.
blogs, you will see the huge potential. But …        Engagement     optimization   is   based   on   a
all of these technologies are based on declared      combination of conversion and engagement
personal preferences.      You have to actively      metrics of a visitor (behavioral analysis) and
select your interest in jobs, news, movies and the   was created to empower marketers to move
website will respond by adjusting its content.       beyond last-click attribution. This encourages
                                                     key decision makers to gain true insights on
This approach is changing as we speak. More
                                                     how to attribute the correct credit across
and more websites are adopting their content
                                                     search, display, Facebook, email and affiliate
not only in line with the declared interest of web
                                                     visits before making decisions.
visitors but also based on their un-declared or
“behavioral” input.                                  The result of active personalization – when
                                                     used in advertising or site optimization – is
This is done by analyzing the history of the
                                                     generating a much better user experience and
online behaviors of an individual or a group
                                                     more repeat visits to companies’ websites. In
of people and by observing their behavior in
                                                     other words, the results are higher customer
real-time. Using this data, websites today can
                                                     engagement and more conversions.
pre-determine the true, undeclared interests




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The Integrated Marketing Playbook: How to Create Simplicity from Complexity

  • 1. The Integrated Marketing Playbook: How to Create Simplicity from Complexity A fundamental guide for digital marketers
  • 2. The Integrated Marketing Playbook: How to Create Simplicity from Complexity A fundamental guide for digital marketers
  • 3. 4 Foreword 7 Chapter 1 The Evolution of Direct Marketing to Integrated Digital Marketing 17 Chapter 2 Setting Your Organization Up for Success 27 Chapter 3 Tools and Technologies for Integrated Marketing 37 Chapter 4 Centralized Data for Actionable Insights 43 Chapter 5 Bridging the Gap: Advertising, Conversion Optimization and Marketing Automation 49 Chapter 6 Optimization: Get More, Do More, Learn More 57 Chapter 7 The Future of Integrated Marketing 65 Chapter 8 Discussions on Integrated Marketing 78 Glossary of Terms 80 About IgnitionOne 3
  • 4. Foreword Will Margiloff, CEO | IgnitionOne The Integrated Marketing Playbook: How to Create Simplicity from Complexity D igital marketing has the potential to with their own data sets and their own way achieve the dreams marketers have of looking at the conversion path. In addition held for generations: the ability to to data and tools, the silos set up in our own directly reach potential customers at organizations end up working against central the right time, with the right message, every time. marketing goals by putting the focus on the This dream consists of the extraordinary ability to success of individual tactics or channels. track marketing efforts and consumer behavior This structure does not have to be the norm. It in order to optimize budget and understand the is possible to integrate your marketing. Break audience and what is most effective, as well as down those silos, break down the walls, connect the innovation and technology to manage all of the dots and centralize data, tools and efforts. this efficiently and easily. We have written this guide to serve as a While achieving this dream is closer than it has valuable resource when mapping out how to ever been, digital marketing has become so approach integrated digital marketing in your complex due to the multitude of point solutions organization. It is our goal to answer some core that have flooded the digital landscape, each issues marketers face: 4 Foreword
  • 5. What are the central challenges to achieving We hope that the discussion won’t stop here integrated digital marketing? and that you will continue to comment and How do I set up my organization to facilitate share your thoughts on integrated marketing. and take advantage of integration? Please reach out and share your feedback with us anytime at info@ignitionone.com or on How do I centralize tools, data and Twitter @IgnitionOne. measurement to achieve integrated marketing? Will Margiloff What is the payoff for integrating my CEO marketing? IgnitionOne Many people assisted in the creation of “The Integrated Marketing Playbook” and their time and efforts are thoroughly appreciated. We would also like to thank our CMO contributors, Julie Cary of La Quinta Inns & Suites and Peter McDonough of Diageo for graciously agreeing to share their insights with us. Technology Centralized Media Data INTEGRATED MARKETING User Site Behavior Experience Aligned Goals www.IgnitionOne.com 5
  • 6.
  • 7. 1 The Evolution of Direct Marketing to Integrated Digital Marketing 7
  • 8. The Evolution of Direct Marketing to Integrated Digital Marketing Stephan van den Bremer, Managing Director, Europe | IgnitionOne New Data = New Opportunity, New Responsibility T he phrase, “integrated marketing” requires data resources and ways to now seems as ubiquitous as analyze them. “synergy,” “thinking outside of the box” and of course, “paradigm shift.” Our industry has spent a lot of time recently But how many companies are actually moving talking about how we navigate lots and beyond the hype and executing the integration lots of data, so much in fact that we’ve just of marketing efforts well? In a survey done by decided that it’s, well, BIG. Beyond the buzz, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA ), 1 Big Data is about processing, segmenting 51% of marketers claimed to be developing and and understanding large amounts of data to executing integrated marketing programs for all be actionable in real-time. In that sense, the brands/products/services. This is up from 19% term “real-time actionable information,” would in 2006. So who are these brands and what are be more appropriate. Data is meaningless to they doing? Are they any more successful than a marketer, unless it can be translated into those brands not using integrated strategies valuable information. Similarly, a pile of bricks and tactics? is not a house. Reaching the level of having a unified and To be “actionable in real-time” is a very big holistic view on digital marketing programs statement in and of itself. For years, marketers 1 ANA Survey 1/2012 8 The Evolution of Direct Marketing to Integrated Digital Marketing
  • 9. have been able to piece together data for Point Solution Innovation: disparate media optimization systems, but Our Savior and Secret Enemy that data is crunched in a third party solution (often something as unsophisticated as Excel), Online marketing has come far in the last 17 years. In such a young field, we’ve seen so and then the decisions made off of that data many chapters of innovation as the industry are usually delayed as humans determine the has matured. From the early days when the proper action. This is a far cry from making big Internet was poised to change every facet of data “actionable in real-time”, and it is not really our daily lives and create world peace, to the possible to act in real-time with such disparate days after the “dot com bust” when people media optimization. thought digital marketing would never pan out Put simply: If your marketing team is managing - we’ve seen many concepts come and go. But over time, the establishment and acceptance online media and site optimization via a series of core digital marketing channels has sped of point solutions while attempting to stitch innovation that marketers can, and must, keep together big data sets, you are already behind pace with to stay competitive. This innovation your competition. has created huge expectations of the benefits We are already seeing the most innovative that new technology, new devices, and marketers racing to consolidate their online new monetization allow people to connect, communicate and convert. marketing budgets into a unified Digital Marketing Suite (DMS). In order to keep up with big data, marketers have added new point solutions, tested new tactics, This is the challenge that this playbook will collected new data and sometimes created new address. The innovative marketers we have metrics. In the beginning, the siloed results were worked with to create this playbook call this amazing in comparison to offline methods – you The DMS Imperative. could see, track and improve upon ROI much faster. For every marketer who’d ever promoted a product launch on a billboard, placed an ad in the paper or bought a radio spot – this was www.IgnitionOne.com 9
  • 10. More on BIG Data Challenges Companies that are attempting to process and utilize massive data sets do so with the intention of making good things better for 1 Day = 2,250 movies companies and the customers they serve. What we’ve seen so far is that data can either do very good things or very bad things. And Let’s bring this back to companies and their more data is not always a welcomed thing. It’s customers. Customer data is growing by an immense new opportunity, but at times an 50% every year. Two billion people access overwhelming new responsibility. the Internet each day with over 4.3 billion mobile devices across the globe. That’s a lot Sifting the good data from the bad sounds like of devices, each creating its own share of an easy enough task. But in 2004, Facebook data, resulting in 2.5 quintillion bytes of data was a mere 1 million members strong and now it developed every day. More significantly, 90% has over 1 billion. Every day, 15 Terabytes of data of all digital data was produced in the last two are created by Facebook members alone. What years. This trend isn’t expected to reverse. We do we know about these Terabytes? A Terabyte are creating increasing amounts of data each could hold about 3.6 million 300 Kilobyte year. With all this in mind, online marketers images or about 300 hours of good quality have to be creative and technical while finding video – that’s 150 movies or 1,000 copies of the ways to transform this data into actionable Encyclopedia Britannica. Ten Terabytes could information and remain competitively nimble. hold the printed collection of the US Library of We’ve never before faced challenges like this. Congress. That’s a lot of data. I’d even say BIG2. But our history as an industry shows that as So everyday Facebook alone creates more data online marketers, we can prosper by adapting than the entire US Library of Congress. You’re with innovation and technology. That’s the starting to see the state of affairs that today’s only way to transform data into information digital marketer faces. and shift to actionable information. 2 http://www.whatsabyte.com/ 10 The Evolution of Direct Marketing to Integrated Digital Marketing
  • 11. a major evolution. And this evolution also made by a sea of data but now a deluge of technology tracking consumer behavior and customizing vendors. Marketers struggle with separate data user experience on websites a reality. streams that don’t communicate, in addition to disparate and often competing teams that However, with all of these new methods of suffer from a lack of centralized and shared digital marketing, things became very complex, goals. The results are silos across the marketing very quickly. We‘ve now come to a point where organization that separate people, data and marketers find themselves separated from the budgets, making the attainment of goals ever customers that they wanted to reach not only more challenging. www.IgnitionOne.com 11
  • 12. How Did Digital Marketing Enter Integrated Marketing Get So Messy? While integrated marketing is not a new thing, This culture of analytics and innovation being to some marketers it seems like a goal that built within silos has failed marketers in a major moves further away as they run toward it. But in way. Click-through rates plunged from around fact, the attainment of this aspiration is closer 5% when the dot-com market collapsed, to than ever. about .1% by 2011. In consolidating all the buying power, local advertising markets went under By integrating online efforts, marketers are with the promise of lower costs. able to merge all of these silos, eliminating the complexity that has been created through More recently, low barriers to entry have created individual solutions. By merging resources, a myriad of these start-ups, applications and tools, data and measurement, you gain the point solutions. They are often funded and unique ability to score all data sets in relation supported by venture capital backing that to each other. It’s the discovery of these looks to solve an immediate problem without relationships that allows integrated marketers the context of larger issues. And although each to categorize, prioritize and act across multiple tries to solve a problem (search, mobile, content channels in a unified manner to achieve a goal. personalization, etc) at a micro level, in doing so they create isolated online data sets, in addition Once we have taken a step back to see the to existing offline sets. And these disparate data forest from the trees, we‘re reminded that in sets ultimately become the major roadblock the midst of solving problems, we’ve lost sight barring the online marketer’s ability to interpret of the core goal: increasing customers and and act on a macro level. revenue. Messaging and efforts must be aligned So with every innovation to solve an immediate and prioritized across teams and technologies problem, a quieter and more detrimental to create a common language that can be paralysis spreads through an organization. leveraged across channels. The good news Resource allocation and prioritization is central is that this alignment can result in a single in determining a company’s success or failure methodology and metric that every team can and it requires actionable information. But relate to, interpret and act upon together. adding additional separate layers of data can actually result in less action being taken. 12 The Evolution of Direct Marketing to Integrated Digital Marketing
  • 13. Fighting Past Isolation company at large. Budgets and goals were set at the beginning of the year for each channel for Future Results and the teams work feverishly in seclusion to As obvious as the solution may seem, many earn a bonus for results within their channel. marketers are sitting in a sea of isolated data, Many senior marketers are incapable of unable to develop insights and take action reallocating resources after budgets are set in union. The most common roadblocks are before the start of the fiscal year. So they find the bi-products of two antiquated elements themselves beholden to a quickly obsolete – corporate structure and incentives. Just snapshot of business while operating in a rapidly like data and reporting are siloed, people are shifting environment. also forced into arbitrary divisions due to technology, budgets and goals. We find the person running lead generation sitting next to, but not speaking to, the guys running the search Where is the Art? program or the Facebook community manager As much as organizational incentives and not communicating with the Facebook ads collective technology decisions can serve as the manager. They all might as well be working for foundation for success, unifying the message different companies. is also critical. The core message should be Each group is focused on its own narrow area consistent across all channels, whether website, and in many cases, is hitting its goals in isolation mobile or print (leveraging the unique strengths while unknowingly becoming a detriment to the of each). Achieving data-centric precision but communicating a fragmented message may be the most painful type of failure in integrated Technology, Data and Measurement marketing efforts. Marketers should always In order to properly centralize data, to use know their audience and voice. The key tenants that data to measure a unified metric and of good marketing shouldn’t be lost in the midst then to use that metric to optimize your of wrangling data and technologies. marketing efforts- a clear technology inte- gration plan is needed. www.IgnitionOne.com 13
  • 14. The Origins of and the opportunity for consumers to react to, create and influence them through social. For Integrated Marketing the first time, people have the ability co-create During the last century, direct marketing came their experience with brands. out of the realization that someone’s age, income, education, place of birth, etc., would make them more or less likely to be affected by certain Modern Digital messaging. Instead of one message and identity, Marketing Channels suddenly a brand could cater to the desires of people in unique and meaningful ways. Today marketers can take advantage of all channels and tactics that comprise digital This was a massive change in how brands marketing, including: paid search, natural started telling stories and creating desire within search, retargeted and traditional display, social, consumers. This simple idea revolutionized email, affiliates and site optimization. Each marketing and in many ways was the birth of the of these elements is based on the principles modern day advertising industry. of direct marketing. What differs is how the Online marketing does not go against the brand engages and interacts with that targeted foundation of marketing. The principles of audience - an important point as one starts to direct marketing still apply in full. Advanced orchestrate channels to work together in an segmentation of an audience through online data “integrated” way. allows the long-held vision of direct marketing to What makes a channel different is the be realized – a one-on-one relationship between experience it offers and where in the purchase the brand and the consumer. funnel it will be most successful. The purchase Understanding that online is not a new funnel is a useful organizational concept, used marketing method, but simply the purest form to see where a consumer is on their path to of direct marketing to date is important. And making a decision. This is especially useful in while the fundamental rules still apply, there digital marketing where it can be easier to track are two things that have changed – the ability the progress of a user through the funnel and to experience brand messages dynamically interact with him appropriately. 14 The Evolution of Direct Marketing to Integrated Digital Marketing
  • 15. digital version of a hardcopy until the actual Attract content could be individualized based on data. Search was the first experience that put Engage the consumer in control of their own media consumption. Instead of being the passive Nurture recipient, the individual had direct input to the type of content and advertising he saw. Then Convert social changed everything: consumers had the ability to broadcast their thoughts and feelings and those messages were able to become advertisements in their own right. When display ads were introduced they simply replicated traditional ads until they were Bringing it Together animated and interactive. The same was true The key to considering successful integrated of email marketing — a newsletter was just a marketing is to remember that while all online channels are based on direct marketing principles, each interacts differently with • Inspire your organization with an a consumer’s journey. To properly bring integrated vision and incentives everything together you must understand how • Align your technology and data to channels interact with the consumer, as well as support those priorities each other. This is the only way to allocate your marketing budget in the most effective way. • Unify but individualize your message across all platforms • Act and react by allowing the data to emphasize the experiences needed to carry the message to result in a conversion www.IgnitionOne.com 15
  • 16. How Do You Get There? What Will You Get? In order to achieve integrated digital By fully integrating digital marketing, it is marketing, it takes a cross-organization effort possible to achieve a wide range of benefits. to align resources, goals, technology, data Marketers can work smarter by having and measurement. This is not to say that a centralized data, clear measurements, and marketer will not benefit at all from achieving unified metrics. Transparency of media mix partial integration. Marketers should not effects will enable the marketer to allocate lose motivation by the size of the task. Every budget most effectively. It will be possible to step toward integration is a step toward work more efficiently by having aligned teams improvement. and unified goals working with a streamlined and coordinated technology stack. Marketers can react more quickly and synchronized to new challenges and be able to truly leverage the insights gathered to reach and surpass goals. While there is a lot of work ahead, it is very much worth each step. Suddenly “big data” can mean better business, because above all, integrated marketing will deliver better returns on your marketing investment. 16 The Evolution of Direct Marketing to Integrated Digital Marketing
  • 18. Setting Your Organization Up for Success Roger Barnette, President | IgnitionOne Does this Sound like Your Organization? Y our company spends about the same alternatives by examining the incremental amount of money this year as last. effect on total revenue and total cost caused by Each channel gets slightly more sales a very small (just one unit) change in the output than the year before. It sounds like it’s or input of each alternative. time to celebrate and promote people, right? This aligns the organization. Marketers should Not so fast. look forward to optimal holistic potential. The lesser alternative is looking through the When you think about integrated marketing, rearview mirror with the satisfaction that you here’s the golden rule for the organization: it’s aren’t operating quite as inefficiently as last not about more channel specific conversions, it’s year. Unfortunately we can spend our budget about identifying the greatest possible potential only once, so we need to be sure that we spend for your spend across all digital channels using it in its most optimal way. Marginal Return Analysis and then tracking your Truly integrated marketing is the end goal for trajectory to reach that potential. many marketers. However, there are so many Marginal Return Analysis is the process of pieces to link and so many silos to knock down identifying the benefits and costs of different along the way. While integrating technology and 18 Setting Your Organization Up for Success
  • 19. centralizing data to act on is clearly important, none of that will work without first addressing the most important (and challenging) piece of the puzzle: the organization. ➊ CHALLENGE #1: ADOPTING MARGINAL RETURN ANALYSIS ACROSS YOUR TEAMS There are four key challenges to address for Marginal Return Analysis supports decision- your teams to succeed: making based on marginal or incremental ➊ All channels must be considered holistically changes to resources instead of one based on using Marginal Return Analysis for goal totals or averages. It is extremely important to setting. understand this principle and how to apply it. ➋ You must get creative in how you develop Without this core piece in place, little else will data/performance-focused unity across result in an uptick in performance. Having a your team by eliminating “my channel” good framework like this to foster teamwork factions and identity distinctions. toward transparent, logical collective goals ➌ Get cozy with IT as your ability to affect is the most critical element in aligning the change in digital is dependent upon this organizational structure. close relationship. PROOF POINT ➍ Ensure budget allocation decisions are both Why is this so important? In a case fluid and centralized with allocation based study with Center Parcs, performance in on performance data. search and display were up by marginal percentages. But after integrating search and display they achieved a whopping 54% increase in revenue. When benchmarking performance by last year at the channel level the outcome may have been a gain of 4% when unknowingly the 50% gain was missed out on. That is the scary and exciting part for your organization. www.IgnitionOne.com 19
  • 20. What Often Happens Today related to the display program without any connection to cross-channel efforts. This means in the Absence of Marginal that no marginal return is being considered Return Analysis holistically. This is the same in search, social, Today, many siloed department heads are email, etc. Unfortunately that measurement responsible for creating goals that incentivize of success does not map to the reality of how their teams to achieve highly focused these budgets perform or support the health of performance. The display team must get an overall business. Many organizations benchmark ROI of 3:1 based on spend and conversion data against the previous year’s performance at Start thinking possibility vs probability Marketers seeking to advance their together? How do all channels assist each organization will need to evangelize against other to reach a goal? Perhaps if all channels the desire to constantly look behind. Each are optimally aligned, search may directly person in the organization should consider produce less than last year as a channel, what’s possible versus what’s probable. but it serves a more valuable role by making That simple shift in framing questioning and significantly more total conversions possible. rationale will start to change their thinking. A short-sighted team can tell what will For example, a search team has $100 and sells probably happen based on doing what they’ve 10 widgets this year with search ads. At the always done, just slightly better. Integrated beginning of the following year, the manager is marketers need to implore what is possible. It asked how many widgets she could expect to is possible to move past “what you’ve always sell with the same budget. She might respond done, plus 1%.” Are you ready to see what’s that with some refinements and testing that possible? it’s probable she could sell 12 next year. But This holistic perspective and the improved net what is the potential of the search team, the results are at the heart of the DMS Imperative display team and the social team working challenge and goal. 20 Setting Your Organization Up for Success
  • 21. the channel level. And while every channel may perform better this year than last in total number of sales for the same media spend, it is still possible for overall potential to be harmed ➋ CHALLENGE #2: GETTING CREATIVE WITH ELIMINATING BARRIERS: MARKETING TEAMS ARE LIKE by a significant margin. This seems like a paradox, but it’s not. MEXICAN FOOD The classic example is if there is land and a What’s the difference between a burrito, an farmer plants a crop, the result would be the enchilada and a soft taco? Not much other than amount of crops planted and the profit you get whether the sauce and cheese is inside, outside from the crop if he sells it. If he buys a tractor or on the side. But people perceive them as and the amount of farming land remains the different because they’ve been taught that’s same size, productivity and profit will increase. how things are. The same concept applies for But, if he buys another tractor, the profit will not the marketing organization. Each department increase the same as before when he bought is a part of a greater whole and the sequence the first tractor. In fact, his profit will decrease. and placement of these parts is what matters, Looking at tradeoff decisions to maximize the not the parts themselves. So often people performance of your digital teams differs little refer to “the display guys” and “the search from the farmer maximizing crops. Everything guys.” But nobody prefers to eat sour cream is interrelated. or cheese alone. Each piece contributes to the resulting whole. Three Keys: Make the idea of collective team performance 1 Adopt Marginal Return Analysis holistically a fun and inspiring effort. Start by finding ways to change your language and team metrics. 2 Stop using last year’s channel-level For example, search conversions and display benchmarks conversions should only be referred to when a 3 Strive to look for the greater missed single exposure lead to that action. Marketers opportunity of integrated optimization like can uncover the most critical paths and create Center Parcs identities around them. For example, if 20% of www.IgnitionOne.com 21
  • 22. conversions come from a display click followed to make this manageable for an organization, by a search click, then maybe one should call there can be a number of integrated teams with that a disearch. It’s not about the parts, so a digital head. Instead of having search, display, marketers should be encouraged to create their social and conversion optimization teams own language that embodies the parts and that focus on campaigns related to multiple makes it fun to break old patterns of thought. products or promotions, smaller integrated This new vocabulary can drive common thinking teams could operate independently. To foster across the team. If that sounds silly to you, then discipline and excellence, there should still just take to heart that changing old habits will be educational forums and events to refine require new creative thinking. Simply saying, skills and share best practices, but the days of “we are one team” won’t cut it. discipline departments as the primary structure to which people identify themselves has come to an end. If you want your team to produce an integrated mindset and strive toward an disearch /dis ‘s r CH/ integrated result, then you need to promote the e DEFINITION right team relationships and identity. noun the conversions that come from a If you’re a small company, then by necessity this display click followed by a search click. may come easy to you in that one person has to manage and optimize multiple disciplines. If you’re mid-sized, where there may be 3-5 people managing, then again this should also be easy as long as there is one person adept at actually optimizing multiple types of media Today’s model of having a head of discipline to lead the team. The person leading the team at the channel level will no longer do the should have hands-on experience in multiple trick in our cross-channel world. While it’s still channels if you’re serious about getting good beneficial to have discipline specialists and results. If you’re a larger corporation or looking senior members on that team, any heads of to outsource your digital marketing to an department should be cross-functional. In order agency, then the above applies. As the client, 22 Setting Your Organization Up for Success
  • 23. you have the right to know how an agency is structured and led. Structure reflects strategy. If your integrated agency is still working in silos, then it is time to take a deeper look at how ➌ CHALLENGE #3: WHAT ABOUT I.T.? With all of this data and technology in the things are being managed day to day. mix, we haven’t mentioned much about new necessities and dependencies. Surveys suggest that the single biggest barrier to a company Three Keys: embracing Big Data is creating the business 1 Get creative in the ways you use language case behind it. This is often tied to the fact that and internal metrics to reflect your with all this new data there are increased costs dedication to being an “integrated team.” not just in hardware, but the staffing to make and keep it working. So with all this innovation 2 Evolve your team structure internally to and technology most marketing teams are still reflect your direction in implementing yet to include technologists. integrated marketing strategies. 3 Ensure that any agency you’re working with to execute integrated marketing and Are Your CMO and has the right internal structure to make CIO Best Friends? it a reality. We can see evidence of this in a study titled, “Why Leading Marketers Outperform3.” It shows that in companies where CMOs and CIOs worked closely to build a “system of engagement” — an integrated and innovative set of technologies and processes that are born out of marketing and IT collaboration, performance increases were significant. As a group, enterprises with forward-thinking marketing organizations that engage customers effectively and invest their marketing spend better have a three-year 3 http://asmarterplanet.com blog/2012/10/20181.html www.IgnitionOne.com 23
  • 24. revenue growth that is more than 40 percent So How is This Done? higher than other companies. And their gross profit is growing at a rate double that of their With results like this coming from the partnership peers. Some highlights include that these between marketing and IT, it begs the question companies are: as to what it would look like or how it would work best. As much as some companies have 33 percent more likely to serve personalized built highly specialized systems, others just or targeted offers in at least four channels in need a tag placed on the website for tracking real-time. capabilities or a new widget to work within the 36 percent use location-specific mobile homepage of the website. messaging campaigns and ads compared to the 20 percent without a system of In order to accomplish day-to-day functions engagement. necessary for integrated marketing, some basic functions of IT must be accessible and 48 percent of the top performers are using or streamlined. More fluid changes needed for plan to use, social/local group buying in the websites, social media and tagging for analytics next 12 months. As for the group without a ideally will fall under the management of the system of engagement, that number drops marketing function. Many organizations fail to significantly to 31 percent. understand the size of missed opportunities According to the study, currently 88 percent and the death of ambition when they face a of leading companies engage in attribution six-month queue for any change to tagging. In in some way and of that group, 93 percent order to have a positive relationship between have a set process for determining marketing the CMO and CIO, these more base tasks of activity results. Clearly integrated marketers accessibility must be made self-sufficient for are getting more and they’re doing it not just the marketing function. Without the ability to by selecting technologies but by building their make basic changes nimbly to fundamental own internal systems. pieces of the marketing infrastructure, progress will halt. 24 Setting Your Organization Up for Success
  • 25. Three Keys: 1 With more data and technology, the relationship between marketing and IT ➍ CHALLENGE #4: CENTRALIZED, DATA-DRIVEN DECISION MAKING + FLUID BUDGETS = SUCCESS has never been more critical. 2 Companies that have these departments Now that we’ve covered team structure and working in collaboration consistently the relationship with IT, we should speak a bit outperform the competition. about decision-making and budgets. In using a data-driven approach along with Marginal 3 Basic necessities for integrated marketers Return Analysis, it’s critical that the planning like tagging, updating the website and and allocation of resources is reactive. This social media must be able to be executed means that you can’t plan static budgets for autonomously from IT. each channel and expect them to work as part of an integrated marketing framework. Who’s Your Integrated Decision Maker? In the evolved team structure, heads of integrated digital will do the budget allocation. By leveraging attribution, you will gain the full ability to correctly allocate this budget weekly, monthly or quarterly. As there are no heads of departments, the political fighting over bigger budgets equaling more staff and more supposed prestige in a company become moot. When the budgets are fluid and reallocated regularly and the person authorized to approve www.IgnitionOne.com 25
  • 26. the allocation is impartial to channel politics Where to Start? and making the decision based solely on data, the organization is free to act efficiently and When discussing these broader topics, in the company’s best interest. We’ll discuss marketers often state that they feel attribution analysis and budget allocation more overwhelmed and don’t know where to start. in later chapters. But if you can’t re-allocate To overcome this, marketers need to focus and more or less budget throughout the year based align budget with testable media. Marketers on what the data is telling you, then that is a should start where they can achieve the biggest major roadblock and making any other efforts impact and work downward. None of this has toward success become significantly limited. to happen in unison to make a major impact on efficiency in the near term. Three Keys: 1 Allocation of resources needs to be Summary reactive to data. The alignment of the marketing organiza- 2 The person heading an integrated team tion needs to change as much as the digital should be able to make that decision. marketing environment. Before making con- 3 The inability to reallocate budgets siderable investments in technology platforms throughout the year is a major roadblock and partners, the fundamentals of the organi- to integrated success. zation need to get ironed out. The easiest and most significant step to take in getting there is to move to goal setting and budgets based on marginal return goals. With that initial piece in place, other aspects will start to more easily follow. The relationship between the CMO and CIO will continue to evolve over time as market- ing and technology become further intertwined when discussing a company’s strategy. 26 Setting Your Organization Up for Success
  • 28. Tools and Technologies for Integrated Marketing Dave Ragals, SVP Client Services | IgnitionOne F or marketers working towards true The Jigsaw Puzzle integrated digital marketing, the biggest obstacle in reaching this goal Choosing to go the path of integrating multiple is often their technology and tools. solutions is a direction that many take, but it The current arena of marketing management often proves an uphill battle. One initial challenge technologies is oversaturated with single point is finding solutions that can truly integrate, as a solutions with multiple platforms existing for majority of these systems have been developed every aspect of digital marketing. Navigating this by independent companies. Finding a package of complex landscape is a daunting task and presents platforms that all work together in a truly integrated numerous challenges to managing integrated fashion — and will continue to scale that way– can marketing. What is most frustrating for many prove next to impossible. Most systems have some marketers is that the technology they sought out form of API integration, which essentially means to make their lives easier actually is the piece of the they can import or export data: but how they puzzle that will hold them back from integrating actually interact with another platform’s data can their marketing in an effective way. be very limited. So just because two systems can talk to each other doesn’t mean they can have a To get to the next level of integration, marketers productive conversation. can approach this challenge in two ways – integrating multiple single-point solutions together Major insights may be overlooked as integration of or leveraging a multi-point solution. the data is likely to be only surface-deep. 28 Tools and Technologies for Integrated Marketing
  • 29. Trying to integrate separate solutions can be needs under a single platform. The goal of inefficient from a business standpoint as well, integrated marketing is to consolidate the as it means identifying the right solution for many silos that marketing organizations work each part of a digital marketing program and in, and this is even more important for the then managing numerous disparate vendor tools they use. In order to best take advantage relationships. Each piece of the puzzle runs its of the benefits of integrated marketing, the own risks and challenges and managing them marketer is advised to reject piecing together together can be counter-productive. individual systems and instead leverage a multi-point or centralized solution such as Perhaps the biggest risk is that the market a digital marketing suite (DMS). This type of cannot continue to support all of these individual centralized solution will allow the marketer to point solutions long-term. Many of these manage multiple channels, run cross-channel nascent providers are backed by VC money and attribution, view all marketing analytics in a continue to operate at a loss. Consolidation has single place and can include other features already begun and in a few short years, many of such as on-site optimization and even the names out there will dry up, forcing users of proprietary RTB systems. The challenge here these products to scramble for replacements. is finding an all-in-one system that has best- of-breed solutions in each area, or at least in the areas that are most important to the Simplifying the Chaos marketer. These systems, too, often have API integrations that allow the platform to tie into Integrating your digital marketing tools can be other single- or multi-point solutions to help difficult, but the benefits are sizeable. Done round out capabilities or to better meet the correctly, not only does it allow for a more marketers’ needs. As capabilities within these efficient use of time and resources, but also systems grow and functions centralize, the offers the potential for deeper insights and need for API integrations will decrease over greater returns on marketing investment. time but due to constantly changing needs will Our recommended approach is to seek out a never fully go away. unified, central technology solution that can bring together all of the digital marketing www.IgnitionOne.com 29
  • 30. Paid Smart Search Retargeting Organic Display Search Media Mobile Facebook Optimization MEDIA OPTIMIZATION IS JUST ONE PIECE OF THE PUZZLE. Marketers have begun to demand these This has already begun to happen with mixed centralized solutions, and as the market results (Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick and continues to mature, it will continue moving Adobe’s acquisitions of Efficient Frontier and away from single-point solutions and toward Omniture are two examples), and this trend will truly integrated platforms. Many of the likely continue. Others will build single systems individual solutions will be acquired by bigger designed and developed organically around the companies who, in turn, will look to invest idea of a DMS. heavily in merging these disparate systems. 30 Tools and Technologies for Integrated Marketing
  • 31. The Payoff Even little things, like whether you have to hit “submit” after making a change, can differ The benefits of integrating technologies are between platforms and can result in changes immense. It is truly a situation where the whole a marketer thought they had made never is greater than the sum of its parts. Some going through. benefits that can potentially be gained by a True Attribution. A single platform also means central technology include: that the data that lives within a given channel Single Data Source. From a marketer’s is already de-duped and attributed without standpoint, it creates a single source of going through a maze of technology, such as data which leads to consistency throughout going through an API to a separate system efforts. The ability to see paid search, display for attribution against another channel’s data, and social marketing data, for example, which is coming in from yet a third platform, in a single dashboard and with detailed to be processed and then sent back to the reporting creates huge workflow efficiencies, original system. Unattributed data can be as marketers only need to log into and very valuable for deep dive analysis, but it’s understand in detail how to use a single of little to no use when trying to optimize platform. Whether each channel is managed accounts in real time. Having this data by a different user, a separate agency or by together opens the door to innovative ways the same team, this continuity in data and to understand users, their actions and the workflow ensures smoother and more reliable effect of media on them – such as optimizing work. It also means not having to switch based on engagement levels. A single system between browser tabs or applications to see also cuts down on potential points of failure data for different channels. or lag between disparate solutions as well as Fewer Errors. Not only is a single platform potential for delays or errors in one system less confusing and more efficient, but it also creating problems downstream that then cuts down on the opportunity for errors have to be fixed by multiple partners. introduced by forgetting which system Removal of Silos. Properly-aligned technology someone is working in or how to accomplish results in a single – and consistent – source for the same task between different systems. training, technical support and best practices. www.IgnitionOne.com 31
  • 32. As digital marketing becomes more complex go beyond merely relying on human-built and integrated, the lines between channels business rules. The result is a higher efficiency and solutions blur. If a marketer has a through bringing the right message to the question concerning the impact to attribution right people at the right time. of paid search on a remarketing campaign, is that an attribution question, an SEM question or a display question? With an integrated What to Look for technology, all that matters is that it’s a digital marketing question and the expertise for all Navigating this landscape and selecting aspects resides with the same partner. It the best solution can be very complex; it is also cuts down on the wild goose chase that critical for marketers to understand their goals results from each vendor pointing to another before initiating the process. Some important for answers or fixes. considerations include: Provide Deeper Insights and Greater Returns. Which channels and tactics need to be By having data coming from a single source, managed through technology? Feature attributing success across efforts and more sets can vary greatly, so it’s vital to consider profoundly integrating marketing across the which tools are necessary for managing each board, a marketer opens the door to deeper channel. Large, complex SEM accounts may insights. With these insights, budgets can be need bulk editing capabilities, while creative more intelligently, and even automatically, repositories can be invaluable for Facebook managed and returns on investments can Marketplace Advertising. Make sure to match reach new heights. your channels’ needs with the solution you choose while keeping an eye on flexibility to Steering of Marketing Automation. By having handle future requirements that may come up. a holistic view of data we can steer better content and interactions on the website. Which other efforts, potentially managed This, in turn, will improve user experience by other partners, need to be reported on and conversions. Using all this data also gives and attributed in the same platform? While us the possibility to create high performing specific channels may be managed directly algorithms for marketing automation and in the system, other channels – whether 32 Tools and Technologies for Integrated Marketing
  • 33. “unmanaged,” like organic search or managed What are the requirements for accessing huge by other partners – can still be tracked within sets of data that typically can’t be transmitted the same platform. This allows the marketer to and/or presented efficiently in a Web- see reporting in one place and obtain a more based interface? Even the most advanced thorough understanding of how channels Web-based UI can run into bandwidth or work together. With this knowledge you can rendering limitations when trying to deliver focus on solutions that allow for integration or manipulate extremely large sets of data. with these externally managed channels. If huge files are necessary, how can they be How important is cross-channel attribution? delivered and can they be pumped directly Many marketers are still tied to standard into an internal data warehouse? Understand models like last-click or, even worse, they allow your data and bandwidth needs and find a each channel to be optimized in a vacuum, solution that won’t limit you. without taking into account the interactions Is the primary goal branding, direct response among channels. Integrated solutions or both? Being able to optimize to and report can provide the ability to allocate partial on performance requires setting specific credit across a range of exposures, allowing goals and identifying the right metrics. These marketers to understand how certain channels can differ greatly between direct response or campaigns feed the funnel. As almost all goals, such as CPA and ROAS, and branding marketers are juggling multiple channels and goals, such as acquiring new users, propensity customer touchpoints, attribution needs to be to convert and session time. It is important to top of mind when integrating technology. find a solution that can meet your specific What are the plans for growth? Managing goals. integrated marketing together helps grow Who needs access to the day-to-day the whole pie with continuous cross-channel management tools? Who needs access to feedback, leading to growth in marketing reporting? Does management or the client programs. By having an idea of long-term need to be able to log in to see how campaigns needs, marketers can prepare for success are being managed or just view reports? Do and choose a flexible, scalable technology reports need to be available on-demand, or solution. can they be scheduled to run and be emailed www.IgnitionOne.com 33
  • 34. on a recurring basis? All stakeholders need to platform that best suits the company’s overall be satisfied and armed with the tools to help needs and properly manage cross-departmental them succeed. expectations. What is the level of service needed? Even the most sophisticated marketer can benefit from experts who have deep insights into Pitfalls to Avoid the challenges they face. It is key to find a When attempting to develop the best technology backed by top-level service. Talk integrated technology solution for a marketing to current clients. Ask questions about client organization, there are many potential pitfalls retention and relevant case studies. for marketers to avoid. If the following are How far do we need to link online channels side-stepped, a marketer will be more likely to with click behavior on the site? Linking things succeed. like keywords and display to conversion Not looking long-term: A common pitfall actions on the website is mandatory and used in this process is failing to look long-term. in most tools nowadays. It’s good but gives us Marketers who consider how they may roll out only a one dimensional view of our campaigns. a platform across all channels – as opposed Campaigns are ranked based on their ability to just looking at, say, paid search for now to convert people, nothing more nothing less. and waiting on the others – will find much Advanced metrics like brand awareness and greater success down the road. Benefits of engagement are not measured if we take moving to an integrated platform can be felt only conversion points into account. With the almost immediately via easier workflow and analysis of all click stream data we can not more efficient reporting. But considerable only measure conversion but also potential value comes in the mid- to long-term with future conversion and engagement. better insights of how channels work together A lot of these questions can only be answered through attribution, lower training costs for by involving stakeholders. By seeking their new employees, business efficiencies through involvement up-front, marketers can put fewer vendor relationships to manage, etc. themselves in a better position to choose a 34 Tools and Technologies for Integrated Marketing
  • 35. “Switching” costs between platforms can By allowing separate data sets in individual be extremely high. Implementation, training point solutions, the marketer enters worlds and simply becoming comfortable with a of parallel data which causes confusion and new partner to help manage complex digital mistrust between departments. Combining marketing campaigns is a big investment them into a single source prevents efforts and not one that marketers want to have to from working at cross-purposes and allows repeat frequently. Switching can also mean a the marketer to see how each piece supports disruption in the constant inflow of data from the other to grow the whole pie. one system to the next. Companies that move from platform to platform every couple of years can find themselves constantly behind Summary the curve as they start from scratch and need to get back up to speed on data collection, The technology decision is at the center of implementation and training each time. This an integrated marketing strategy. The right is exponentially true for those changing solution will best match the marketer’s needs solutions for multiple channels. and create both operational and technical efficiencies and consistency. It will lead to Failing to think through the impact on data: higher ROI through better performance and Centralizing reporting across channels results lower management costs. By merging channels in a common data set used by the entire together, the marketer gains the tools needed to digital marketing team. It allows marketers more effectively manage campaigns cohesively, to de-duplicate orders and use attribution cutting down on waste and ensuring that all models to better understand how channels are teams are working together. It also makes it working together. It also creates a single set easier for marketers to tout the results. From of digital marketing data that is shared across a cost-saving standpoint, picking the right teams. This provides operational efficiencies integrated solution can make this investment a and cuts down on wasted media spend as one-time cost that pays off over the long run. individual channel owners can work together instead of competing for the same purchase. www.IgnitionOne.com 35
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  • 38. Centralized Data for Actionable Insights Dave Ragals, SVP Client Services | IgnitionOne B ig Data is a term we hear a lot about, of your users, how they interact with your but it is easy to forget that bigger marketing efforts, conclude what is successful is not always better. Marketers have and then automate your optimizations. Let’s become buried under a mountain take a closer look at the situation… of data that comes from a variety of sources – separate marketing systems, analytics, reports, vendors, internal teams, etc. We asked The Data Mess for all this data, we wanted to be smarter, to understand more. But the data that was The concept of centralized reporting is nothing supposed to make us smarter in the end has new. Analytics platforms have been around only paralyzed us. Having all of this data and for years, and many companies also manage a no way to act on it in an instantaneous and separate internal data warehouse. These “back- automated way puts us in a situation where we end” data solutions ensure there’s an archive are data rich but insights poor. of website activity that can, through heavy analysis, help businesses better understand So what do we do now? In order to reach the their website visitors. goal of truly integrated marketing you need to wrestle this Big Data and centralize everything. But as digital marketing has evolved, the A single repository for all your information granularity of data – and the ability to use it allows you to actually obtain a clear picture in near real-time to make effective marketing 38 Centralized Data for Actionable Insights
  • 39. decisions – shifts the need for centralized data engines – or display networks or affiliates, for up front for marketers to use before and during that matter – work together. campaigns, not just after. The downside, of course, is this puts deep Single-point solutions have helped part of this channel-specific data in silos. By shifting the problem by providing marketers with in-depth depth and breadth of data back up to the front, and instant (or close to it) access to data for their the marketer winds up back where he or she individual channels. Paid search practitioners, started – with more actionable data, perhaps, for example, can use a platform to access all but still in multiple sources. And there’s no of their SEM data and pull various levers in means to look across channels to understand real time based on this rich data. Marketers how they’re working together or how much can better understand how different search someone is overpaying for a given action. Third PARTY • Blue Kai • Exelate • Others FIRST PARTY (CRM) • Customer ID TRANSACTION • Subscription Info: • SKU, Data, package Renewal date, package, • Attributed Exposures lifetime value • Order ID • Demographics • Conversion Events • Anonymized PII: Credit score, etc EXPOSURES PROFILE • Display Requests – lost & won: time, creative, bid, • Interests URL,geo… • Propensity to buy • Search Click – time, kwd, CPC… Visitor_ID: • • Device ID Geo • Site Optimization 18uqzyyfkrmxc Interactions • Other: email, affiliate On-Site • Click Path CENTRALIZING DATA ALLOWS YOU TO FOCUS ON THE USER LEVEL. www.IgnitionOne.com 39
  • 40. Enter the data warehouse. Channel-specific Attribution to the Rescue data can be exported out of all the various point solutions and stored in a centralized location. Much has been said about attribution over From here, an analytics team can run cross- the past few years. Most marketers agree that channel analysis. But that still can’t happen simple first- or last-click models are no longer until after the fact. And the marketer is back to viable and managing and reporting on each where he started. channel in its own silo is completely inefficient. Whereas with individual point solutions, the same sale could be claimed by all the marketing Break the Silos channels in the funnel. In a centralized system, these can be de-duplicated at a minimum or The way to break this vicious cycle is to have attributed through multi-exposure models that data for all channels in a centralized platform, give partial credit across all channels. updated as frequently as a point solution, while running attribution at the same time. This This has given rise to an influx of attribution creates the best of both worlds – real-time systems and services. Many follow the same data, de-duplicated and attributed across all point-solution approach – a standalone system channels, usable by the marketer and accessible that can import marketing data across channels by all from a centralized system. This way, all and run attribution analysis to be returned to media decisions, optimization and reporting are the marketer. performed in the same place using the same This, of course, is fraught with some of the same data set. problems as any point solution approach, and it introduces some new ones. While data is attributed and housed in a central location and can be sent back to the other point solutions for campaign management, it’s far from immediate. Channel-specific data has to be passed from all point systems to the attribution system, where it’s processed and fed back to each platform. 40 Centralized Data for Actionable Insights
  • 41. That has inherent delays and creates multiple Centralized Reporting potential points for failure. And these can easily is the Answer cascade – a communication failure between the search point solution and the attribution system The only sure way to avoid all of these headaches has an immediate impact on all the other point is through truly centralized reporting. solutions and the teams that manage those Once the decision is made to centralize channels. As with anything, a chain is only as reporting, the next questions are what and how strong as its weakest link. to measure. A user’s path to a sale or sign-up Not only does this put data at risk, it creates can touch on numerous marketing efforts. So logistical and resource issues as well. making sure all of those channels are tracked is Coordinating and managing each individual critical. Some obvious and common channels integration and keeping tabs on these multiple include paid search, organic search, display and flows of data can be a full-time job in and of itself. social media. But there are others to consider It also means multiple business relationships as well. and the risk that if one solution changes its Marketers with active affiliate programs no requirements or technology, it could impact the doubt see high numbers reported by their rest of this forced alliance. partners. This makes sense, as affiliates rely heavily on users who have already made their decision and are about to take action. But most of those users were driven through awareness and interest nurtured by other channels. So tying all of those efforts – up to and including that “coupon” or “promo code” search that got them to the affiliate site – is a    key piece of the puzzle. paid search display organic search conversion www.IgnitionOne.com 41
  • 42. The same can be true for email, as the user has It goes beyond removing duplicates and proving likely already engaged with the brand’s site that each channel doesn’t get full credit for a when they provided their email address. Did that single action. This alone can create immediate email blast close the sale, or did it re-engage the efficiencies, as the marketer is no longer paying user to the point of interest? Once again, seeing double or triple the target CPA for a single where email fits in the funnel is important. action that came after a paid search click, a remarketing view and an email blast. And once the user visits the site, what part does user experience and content personalization play? Communicating with your audience does Cross-Channel Optimization not end with advertisements. When all is said and done, compiling all of your There could, of course, be other channels too, data together allows an understanding of what so having a firm understanding of the different efforts work together to move you towards touch points before starting down this path is your goals and where to best spend your essential. money. You begin to see that it is not about a Another important consideration is that single campaign, a single keyword or a single attribution is a means to an end. Crediting message. Your marketing is a holistic beast and different exposures across multiple channels one that you can now tame. provides the marketer with a better understanding of how they’re engaging with their users and getting them to convert. But it’s what they do with that knowledge that really matters. Unless marketers embrace this and use attribution to help adjust their media mix to increase the overall pie, it will be simply another bright, shiny object. To keep the luster from fading, it’s important to know what to measure. 42 Centralized Data for Actionable Insights
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  • 44. Bridging the Gap: Advertising, Conversion Optimization and Marketing Automation Filip Lauweres, VP Client Services, Europe | IgnitionOne O ne of the tasks of digital marketers and advertising is providing us with ways to link – and marketing professionals in campaigns, analyze them and attribute the right general – is bridging gaps. We value. Connecting the dots or tearing down the advertise on the Internet to bring silos –when done in a proper way – will result in people to our site, and once they land there, higher conversion rates. we try to convince them to interact with us Of course, there are already prospects ending by filling in forms or by reading the content their online journey by filling in forms and we have prepared for them to eventually buy starting chats with sales people, for example. something or to better position ourselves in the But this is only a very small percentage of all consumer’s mind. visitors. We can do more and we can do better. Going from the Internet to your website and The next step in bridging gaps is ensuring that from there to conversion is about bridging gaps. websites deliver concrete performance. Digital Every step of the way, people are dropping marketing strategies must convey relevant out of the funnel and “great marketing” will content and facilitate dialogue with customers convince them to stay. pro-actively without increasing spend. As a digital marketer, we have tools and data These trends – personalization and interaction – “big data” – to optimize our advertising and - will be key. website strategy. Moreover, digital marketing 44 Bridging the Gap: Advertising, Conversion Optimization and Marketing Automation
  • 45. Active personalization through behavioral of the website visitors. This analysis is called targeting is the first key element. Because of the behavioral targeting and is far more powerful near-infinite variety of content available online, than the current methodologies. If used in customer engagement becomes increasingly a proper way – in line with privacy laws – this important. Providing “sticky” content is not approach is highly beneficially for the online enough anymore; matching this sticky content audience. Behavioral targeting can be used to to the individual website visitor is becoming a show the right audience a specific white paper, necessity. product information or video. But behavioral targeting does not end there. It’s also used The right content, delivered at the right to assist with analyzing the vast amount of moment and to the right audience will be one of data generated with social, search and display the leitmotifs of the e-future. If you look at the advertising campaigns. success of television on demand, web content management systems and interest-specific This analysis is called engagement optimization. blogs, you will see the huge potential. But … Engagement optimization is based on a all of these technologies are based on declared combination of conversion and engagement personal preferences. You have to actively metrics of a visitor (behavioral analysis) and select your interest in jobs, news, movies and the was created to empower marketers to move website will respond by adjusting its content. beyond last-click attribution. This encourages key decision makers to gain true insights on This approach is changing as we speak. More how to attribute the correct credit across and more websites are adopting their content search, display, Facebook, email and affiliate not only in line with the declared interest of web visits before making decisions. visitors but also based on their un-declared or “behavioral” input. The result of active personalization – when used in advertising or site optimization – is This is done by analyzing the history of the generating a much better user experience and online behaviors of an individual or a group more repeat visits to companies’ websites. In of people and by observing their behavior in other words, the results are higher customer real-time. Using this data, websites today can engagement and more conversions. pre-determine the true, undeclared interests www.IgnitionOne.com 45