Transforming the way brands engage with people.
1320
OMNICHANNEL
INSIGHT REPORT

02
70% OF CONSUMERS
LOOK AT REVIEWS
BEFORE MAKING
A PURCHASE.
1

WELCOMETOTHENEWOMNICHANNELWORLD.
Engaging with consumers is more complex today than ever
before. We live in a multi-platform world, where content
is consumed along various platforms, traversing multiple
technologies. The way we shop is changing and marketing
strategies are simply not keeping pace. Whether we’re
shopping for cereal, concert tickets or a honeymoon in Paris,
the Internet has changed how we decide what to buy. Today
we’re all digital explorers, actively seeking out online
ratings, social media-based peer reviews, videos and
in-depth product details as we move down the path to
purchase. Modern marketing strategies have to evolve with
the changing shape of shopping.
Would it surprise you that 70% of consumers look at product
reviews before making a purchase?2
Or that 79% of consumers
use a smartphone to help with shopping?3
Or that 83% of
moms do online research after seeing TV commercials for
products that interest them?4
Virtually every aspect of our
lives – the way we work, shop, communicate, seek information,
spend our free time, and so on – is becoming digitized and
that means data is being produced at a tremendous rate.
FROM EVOLUTION
TO REVOLUTION.
03
#1 PUTTING OMNICHANNEL MARKETING INTO PERSPECTIVE
SINGLE
CHANNEL
EARLY
MULTICHANNEL
CURRENT
MULTICHANNEL OMNICHANNEL

Marketers are feeling the impact. According to McKinsey
& Company not only is the world’s data doubling every
two years,6
digital campaigns are the source of some of the
largest and most complex big data sets. Forrester agrees,
highlighting that 45% of surveyed clients’ big data initiatives
address marketing campaigns. In addition, the estimates for
social media, email and mobile marketing market – which is a
$6 billion market opportunity today – will be skyrocketing to
$16 billion by 2016.7
As technologies continue to evolve – becoming faster,
cheaper and more versatile than ever before – big data’s role
will continue to swell and consumers and retailers will begin
interacting across an even wider array of channels. Already it’s
increasingly difficult to determine where e-commerce stops
and in-store retailing begins. Forward-thinking marketers
recognize they have plenty to learn from e-commerce sites
like Amazon. Amazon’s five-year average return on investment
is 17%; traditional retailers average less than half that at 6.5%.8
Simply developing e-commerce capabilities is no longer
sufficient. Having a multichannel “presence,” or tracking
customer data across one or two channels, is just not enough.
Customers expect more. They expect a seamless and
consistent experience across all channels. They expect
you to be able to manage and integrate all their big data
so you can provide them with an immersive experience,
regardless of the channel where they found you. That is by
definition the omnichannel marketing approach.
Omnichannel marketing differs from multichannel in that
its goal is not solely to optimize the broadcast of content
across customer touchpoints, but rather to create a media-
agnostic infrastructure that links products, consumers, and
communications channels together. This creates an ecosystem
that is constantly evolving and getting smarter as new data is
received.
04
79% OF
CONSUMERS USE
A SMARTPHONE
TO HELP WITH
SHOPPING.5

An omnichannel go-to-market model is an idea whose time
has come, at least according to Macy’s Chairman, CEO, and
President Terry Lundgren:
We talk a lot at Macy’s about omnichannel retailing. Our
customer is multi-dimensional. She is busy at work and out
with friends. She always has her mobile device in her hand.
She’s active on Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and a
dozen other social media sites… We want that customer to
be able to interact with Macy’s no matter where she is or how
she shops. It makes no difference to us whether she buys
something in our store or online… or whether she is shopping
from her desktop computer or her Droid or her iPad. Macy’s
best customers are those who shop us in-stores and online.
We have a whole series of strategies in place to drive our
store customers to the Web, and our online customer to the
stores…Today’s customer is not monolithic. And that’s the
way we are approaching our customer.9
05
‘
’

06
OMNICHANNEL
SHOPPERS
OUTSPEND
MULTICHANNEL
SHOPPERS BY 20%.
10

Inthegoodolddays,itusedtobethatwhateverbrandshouted
the loudest won. You could simply blast out your message on
television, radio and in print. It didn’t matter what the value
proposition was – frequency was your friend, and the world
of “push marketing” never failed to target the shoppers you
wanted to reach and capture their attention.
SAY HELLO TO THE
OMNICHANNEL SHOPPER.
07
# 2 HOW OFTEN ARE CONSUMERS SHOPPING?
Tablet PC
Mobile
Social Media
PC
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Less than once a month
Never
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Source: Demystifying the online shopper: 10 myths of multi-channel retailing. PwC.

The Omnichannel Shopper isn’t handing over their hard-
earned dollars without doing some research. From tablets to
tables,theyconsumeamultitudeofinformationbeforemaking
a purchase. While the consumption of content does fluctuate
based on the product or service category, it’s important to
note that even the lowest priced items are researched before
they end up in the shopping cart. This isn’t surprising. Unlike
traditional multichannel shoppers, this consumer uses all
channels – store, catalogue, flyer, magazine, web and mobile
– simultaneously.
The Omnichannel Shopper likes to get their research
right from the source. Sixty percent head to the brand’s or
manufacturer’s website. And according to Forrester, 57% will
visit the retailer’s website.12
How long the Omnichannel Shopper spends exploring a
brand depends on what they’re buying. For instance, 51% of
consumers who recently purchased clothing started thinking
about it within a day to within minutes before making the
purchase, while only 22% said the same of a recent electronics
transaction.13
08
60% OF
CONSUMERS
INTERACT WITH
BRANDS THROUGH
MULTIPLE
CHANNELS.11

A recent Forrester report reveals that the channels
Omnichannel Shoppers rely on for purchasing don’t always
align with the channels they use to research. In other words,
they are exploring your brand anywhere, everywhere and
at any time. Therefore, brands must allocate budgets and
optimize content to make each interaction high-impact.
Proper leverage of the most influential touchpoints has
the potential to increase consumers’ spend or basket size,
facilitating a smooth transition between the explore and buy
phases of the customer journey.
The Omnichannel Shopper is the gold standard consumer.
While the multichannel shopper will spend on average
15% to 30% more than someone using just one channel,
the Omnichannel Shopper outspends the multichannel
shopper by over 20% according to IDC Retail Insights’
research.14
What’s more, the Omnichannel Shopper exhibits
strong loyalty and is more likely to influence others to endorse
a brand or retailer.
Think about the last time a brand wowed you with great
customer service. Did you keep it to yourself? One-fifth of
US consumers active online are frequently recommending
brands, products or services to their friends and family.
09
#2 HOW ARE CONSUMERS SHOPPING?
20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Books, music, etc.
Electronics
Electricals
H & B
Clothing
Furniture
Grocery
Research and
buy in store
Research online
buy in store
Research and buy
online
Research in store
and buy online
Source: Demystifying the online shopper:
10 myths of multi-channel retailing. PwC.

The key is to take an outside-in approach to knowing your
customers’ business and purchase needs. Shift focus from
product features and benefits to solving business problems
that show economic value. Taking into account that store sales
influenced by online customer research are up to four times
higher than total e-commerce sales,15
the implications for
brands and retailers are clear: Failure to deliver the complete
package in terms of a unified omnichannel buying experience
puts overall sales and customer allegiance at risk.
Rather than leaving a consumer to hem and haw over a product
purchase, marketers can speed up the decision by providing
relevant marketing messaging. But keep in mind, one size
doesn’t fit all. To gain sales from Omnichannel Shoppers,
protect yourself against falling into the trap of focusing
on one channel alone or becoming locked into a channel-
specific solution. Instead, take a unified and converged
channel approach that supports seamless processes to deliver
consistent information and marketing communications across
all sales channels.
Retailers need to provide a complete package of pricing and
product information in real-time and across every channel.
Achieving this depends on having the right product content
layer in place. Omnichannel Shoppers leverage different
sources based on where they are within the purchase cycle
and what they are buying. The trick is to fulfill their needs at
every stage of the consumer journey. By doing so, the brand
is rewarded with loyalty, repeat purchases and positive brand
influence. In fact, more than half of US online consumers say
they are or may be willing to pay a higher price for a product
or service from a brand that is able to impress them with its
customer interactions.
It’s not surprising that people love getting something extra
for interacting with brands. More than half of US online
consumers engage with brands to get deals, discounts, and
special promotions and four in 10 do so to get free samples.
While fewer people engage with brands for reasons unrelated
to these types of benefits, 33% interact with brands in order to
learn more about the latest offerings and another 31% interact
just because they like the brand and like being associated
with it.17
10
50% OF
CONSUMERS
ENGAGE WITH
BRANDS TO GET
DEALS, DISCOUNTS
AND SPECIAL
PROMOTIONS.16

Mobile adds an important twist to the mix. Now that
consumers are able to make price comparisons and access
product reviews in real time while on the move, mobile
commerce is proving to be a key enabler in the unified
retail consumer experience. As a result, retailers now need
to cater to this additional channel to ensure customers and
prospects buy through their desired brand, channel or outlet.
As consumers become increasingly channel agnostic, retailers
need to ensure content seamlessly follows consumers on their
cross-channel journey – providing the right information and
incentives to maximize the purchase decision-making process
at each and every point.
11
#4 HOW ARE OMNICHANNEL SHOPPERS EXPLORING YOUR BRAND?
Join the brand’s email list
Join the brand’s customer
loyalty program
Visit the brand’s physical store
Browse a brand’s website
Become a fan/friend of the
brand on facebook
54%
TO GET DEALS,
DISCOUNTS OR
SPECIAL PROMOTIONS
33%
TO LEARN ABOUT THE
LATEST PRODUCT OR
SERVICE OFFERINGS
12%
TO SHOW
SUPPORT FOR THEIR
MISSION OR CAUSE
8%
TO SHARE
CONTENT WITH
FAMILY OR FRIENDS
31%
TO SHOW BRAND
LOYALTY AND
AFFINITY
18%
TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE
EXCLUSIVE CONTENT
38%
TO GET CUSTOMER
LOYALTY POINTS OR
REWARDS
41%
TO GET FREE SAMPLES31 53 40 47 60
53 47 49 63 39
43 65 45 58 66
40 30 50 43 61
58
47
38
47
32
65
47
44
64
35
53
47
49
63
39
43
65
45
58
66
Source: How To Engage Your Omnichannel Consumer. Forrester Research, Inc.

NIKE SHOWS US WHY
YOU SHOULD JUST DO IT.
It’s no secret that Nike understands its customer. It was
evident from the moment the iconic and incredibly perceptive
tagline Just Do It was born. But like every great brand, Nike
is constantly evolving. With the launch of Nike+ seven years
ago, followed by Fuel Band in 2009, Nike moved from a
horizontally integrated company that offered a wide variety
of closely related products and services, to a functionally
integrated company that is built around the consumer.
The magic of Nike+ and Fuel Band is that it helped Nike
create a complete omnichannel ecosystem with the consumer
planted firmly in the center. Nike’s market positioning and
brand messaging combine across each and every channel to
create a unified customer experience. Technology provides
the backbone for the experience with Client Relationship
Management, payment systems, marketing campaign
management tools and IVRs working in unison.
It is important for digital marketers to understand how their
channel responsibilities fit into the complete consumer
journey. Nike achieves this through their mobile apps. Rather
than creating a store in app form, they’ve created running and
training programs to support what their brand stands for.
All of this results in rich data – in other words, it’s a digital
marketer’s dream. Nike realized tying in-store, mobile, social
and web customer data into a single, intelligent business
system that drives next-best offers and can orchestrate one-
to-one experiences is a utopia. A utopia that Nike can grow
endlessly.
12
THESE BRANDS
KNOW HOW IT WORKS.

13

14
DISNEY - TOY STORY 3
A BLOCKBUSTER OMNICHANNEL STRATEGY
THAT’S RIGHT ON TARGET.
When Toy Story 3 was released 11 years after Toy Story 2, it
dominated the box office, doing just north of $1 billion in sales.
That’s a big jump from when Toy Story broke onto the movie
scene ($361,958,736) and then bested itself with Toy Story 2
($485,015,179). Toy Story 3 soared above its predecessors by
using an omnichannel strategy.
Toy Story 3 was absolutely everywhere when it launched. From
faux-vintage toy commercials that went viral on YouTube,
ticket sales where you could build your social group on
Facebook, a full roster of mobile apps, to a broad range of
print implementations – Toy Story 3 employed an omnichannel
engagement model from the outset and targeted its markets
with surgical precision. Back that up with Disney’s incredible
in-store experience and merchandising, and you have taken
touchpoints to a new level.
In the end, the campaigns for the film before, during and after
its release have solidified Toy Story 3’s role in history, both as a
feat in film and as a great example of omnichannel marketing.

15
SAMSUNG
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WIRELESS GOES SEAMLESS.
Consistency is one of the principal tenets of omnichannel
marketing (along with awareness and tracking). Getting your
products to market is the easy part. Getting your products to
market with consistency seems easy enough, but with all the
different retailers, agencies, let alone consumers touching your
products, sometimes that consistency is elusive. Brands used
to notoriously keep their assets in a “walled garden” with no
access from the outside world. However, with the Internet and
consumer reviews becoming a mainstay of how people search
for products (think Google’s Zero Moment of Truth), brands are
now opening their assets up to be used. Better to have retailers
and consumers download a high-res picture, logo and block of
copy than to take a shot of your beautifully designed product
with their “happy-snap” and post that for the world to see.
Samsung has done an incredible job of product consistency
worldwide. No matter what website you go to (Best Buy,
Verizon, AT&T, Rogers, Bell, etc) or what blog you frequent for
that matter, you get Samsung products that are displayed the
way Samsung intended. And by opening up the walled garden,
it provides Samsung the ability to track where and how their
products are showcased and maintain even better control.

16
HOW CAN
OMNICHANNEL
MARKETING
WORK FOR YOU?

17
3. THINK CONTEXT AND
CONTENT FIRST.
4. DON’T GET COMFORTABLE.
MOVE WITH YOUR CUSTOMER.
1. SUPPORT INTERNAL
OMNICHANNEL COLLABORATION.
2. CONNECT WITH
CONSISTENCY.
Real-time data is necessary when
moving towards an omnichannel
approach, as socially connected
consumers move from one
channel to another. A consistent
and convenient brand exposure
from an omnichannel retailer
will create better top of mind
awareness from consumers.
Rather than trying to present every
communication permutation in high fidelity,
firms should aim for the right fidelity to allow
teams to get their heads around the customer
journey and take action. Not all channels are
equal in their importance or focus. The right
content and context will elicit the highest rate
of return.
Traditional measures are not always applicable within an
omnichannel model. Rather, marketers need to review
not only channel metrics but overall network metrics to
ensure that the overall omnichannel network is successful
and getting smarter. This involves analyzing behaviours
and how customers are moving within devices. Overall
accountability for the success of the networks needs
to be centralized and not siloed. This ensures that the
optimization and evolution of a single communication
channel doesn’t overshadow the overall optimization of
the network.
To give great results to the outside world, you have
to look on the inside first. Firms need to bridge gaps
between internal silos. Investments are required to
ensure that marketing, sales and technology teams are
aligned on company goals and strategies.
5. TEST. TEST. TEST.

18
“A RISING TIDE
LIFTS ALL BOATS.
IT’S NOT UNTIL
THE TIDE GOES OUT
THAT YOU REALIZE
WHO IS SWIMMING
NAKED.”
– WARREN BUFFETT

Traditionally, brands only had to ensure that their print campaigns meshed
with their TV spots, and that their TV spots meshed with their direct mail
campaigns. However, as online marketing has increased in importance, a
brand’s websites, email campaigns, banner ads and other online media
must all tell the same story as its offline content. The marketing model of
the not-so-distant past is now altered in a profound way.
It’s time to embrace ‘omnichannel customer engagement solutions’
that can draw in the most savvy consumer cohort in history. Brands
need to look at solutions such as enhancing shopper marketing; delivering
on-demand product comparisons and recommendations; creating unique
and richer connections between products and digital experiences;
connecting print advertising, out-of-home, digital and augmented reality;
and fundamentally transforming marketing and media communications to
cross-channel, participatory, interactive and two-way media.
The key takeaway for brands – as the consumer moves towards multi-
touch, multi-delivery, 360-degree product and service experiences – is
to deliver relevant messaging along the consumer’s path to purchase.
Delivering enhanced omnichannel marketing solutions in balanced,
measured and optimized ways (at home, on-the-go and in-store), enables
brands to deliver the most innovative, relevant messages to consumers at
the right time and in the right place.
In order for brands to take advantage of the business potential in this
evolving marketplace, they must focus on the requirement to manage
content and distribute it over an exploding number of current and
emerging digital channels. Social networking applications, e-commerce
initiatives, email blasts, web 3.0, mobile, news feeds, animation and
access to product and service information at the POS level are all being
added to the brand’s arsenal of marketing strategies.
High-performing brands are heartily tackling the new paradigm
and omnichannel marketing – an approach that’s all about end-to-
end, closed-loop campaign creation, execution and analysis. Once
implemented, it holds tremendous promise for streamlining marketing
processes and providing meaningful insights into the ROI for omnichannel
customer engagement programs. It is well within any brand’s grasp to
move down this path, and brands are advised to move swiftly before their
competitors do.
Let’s call it a convergence of media with the rise of the active consumer.
Marketing needs to be holistic, 360 degrees and integrated to take
advantage of the active consumer. People want to share by nature – and,
given the chance, they will socialize and evangelize brands that make it
pleasurable to do so. Brands and organizations that fail to take their cues
from connected consumers will be missing a great opportunity.
THE WRAP-UP.
19
MARKETING
NEEDS TO BE
HOLISTIC, 360
DEGREES AND
INTEGRATED.

St. Joseph Communications is spearheading transformational
change by redefining the way in which organizations connect
with their customers. Our omnichannel marketing approach
lets us build solutions and ecosystems anchored by people,
technology and insight that intuitively merge all data and
visual assets to create multichannel publishing solutions for
all mediums. This gives marketers the opportunity to be more
efficient at creating and grouping content while focusing
on strategy and analytics. Through these solutions we can
deliver the widest array of interconnected solutions across
our Content, Media and Print groups. By redefining how
brands develop experiences, we build sales, boost loyalty
and create evangelists across all communications channels
and technologies.
Simply put ? We transform the way brands engage with people.
For information about this report, its contents and usage, please
contact our Corporate Marketing team at content@stjoseph.com.
20
ABOUT US
REFERENCES
1. The New Info Shopper. Penn Schoen & Berland Associates.
2. Ibid.
3. The Mobile Movement. Study. Google/Ipsos OTX Media CT
4. 2012 American Media Mom Report. BabyCenter.
5. The Mobile Movement. Study. Google/Ipsos OTX Media CT
6. “Ten IT-enabled business trends for the decade ahead” by Jacques
Bughin, Michael Chui, and James Manyika (May 2013). McKinsey &
Company - McKinsey Global Institute.
7. How Forrester Clients Are Using Big Data. Forrester Research
8. “We’re Ready for the Omnichannel Revolution -- Are You?” by Lisa
Arthur (May 8, 2012). Forbes.
9. “Macy’s Terry Lundgren talks holiday trends, Black Friday, and the
importance of “believing”” by Ellen Davis (November 18, 2010).
National Retail Federation Blog.
10. Retail Insights Predictions 2013: Retail Report. IDC Corporate USA.
11. Demystifying the online shopper: 10 myths of multi-channel retailing.
PwC.
12. Consumer Buying Decisions Most Influenced By In-Store Experience.
Forrester Research, Inc.
13. Ibid.
14. Retail Insights Predictions 2013: Retail Report. IDC Corporate USA.
15. The Conversation Index. Bizarre Voice.
16. How To Engage Your Omnichannel Consumer. Forrester Research, Inc.
17. Ibid.

Transforming the way brands engage with people.
For more information, visit stjoseph.com