Adam Proehl's presentation at Online Marketing Summit Conference June 6-8th 2011.
Achieving Integrated Success: How to identify & overcome challenges in a multi-channel world
Learn how savvy organizations are addressing modern day problems from poor site conversion to underperforming emails, the tools they are using to scale and measure and finally channel alignment for a more fruitful campaign.
Focus: B2C/B2B on Social Media, Conversion, Analytics
1. Marketing Challenges And how to overcome them Adam Proehl Managing Partner, NordicClick Interactive @adamproehl 6/7/2011
2. About Me 14 years of online marketing experience Principle at NordicClick Interactive – a full service Digital Marketing Agency Spoken at Pubcon, SEMPO, eMetrics, B2B, OMS, DMA Instructor at the Online Marketing Institute
3. Topics 21 Common marketing challenges How smart marketers overcome them Tools (either free or really cheap) that will help you Applications for your business
14. Helpful links & resourcesScans first 100 pages of your site free www.sitescanga.com
15. Challenge #1: Analytics aren’t tracking Tool: GA Debugger (Chrome Extension) Ideal for your web developer to have http://chrome.google.com/webstore
30. Challenge #4: Need a Simple Way to Track EVERY Promo Free Tool: Snip-n-Tag (Firefox Add on) - Shorten URL (bit.ly, ow.ly, etc) - Make it trackable in Google Analytics -All in one interface from a Firefox sidebar http://addons.mozilla.org
42. Challenge #6: I think our site usability sucks but how do I prove it?
43. Challenge #6: I think our site usability sucks Cheap Tool: UserTesting.com www.usertesting.com
44. Challenge #6: I think our site usability sucks Cheap Tool: UserTesting.com Follow up questions after site review Standard demographics www.usertesting.com
45. Challenge #6: I think our site usability sucks Cheap Tool: UserTesting.com Video Follow Up Question Answers Price: $39 per test www.usertesting.com
46. Challenge #6: I think our site usability sucks Cheap Tool: Feedback Army www.feedbackarmy.com
47. Challenge #6: I think our site usability sucks Cheap Tool: Feedback Army Price: $15 for 10 answers www.usertesting.com
48. Challenge #7: Will my landing page work? Cheap Tool: Clicktest (from Usability Hub) www.theclicktest.com
74. Challenge #12: “Here’s how we’re doing it” “It’s gotta ‘POP’ out at people when they come to it” “I don’t wanna lot descriptions and content” “I wanna do what these guys are doing”
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76. 15% reduction in support costs for FY10Example Corporate Objectives
77. Challenge #13: “Well, our competitor is doing…” Leverage many of these same tools for competitive analysis
85. Challenge #18: How bad (or good) is my SEO Free Tool: WooRank www.woorank.com
86. Challenge #18: How bad (or good) is my SEO Free Tool: WooRank www.woorank.com
87. Challenge #19: How do I compare to my competitors? Free Tool: Website Grader www.websitegrader.com
88. Challenge #19: How do I compare to my competitors? Free Tool: Website Grader www.websitegrader.com
89. Challenge #20: What do our users REALLY want? Cheap Tool: UserVoice Crowdsource market research Price: Starting at $15/mo www.uservoice.com
90. Challenge #21: Where can I learn more? A few Resources: Top Rank Blog www.toprankblog.com Clix Marketing www.clixmarketing.com/blog aimClearwww.aimclearblog.com Marketing Pilgrim www.marketingpilgrim.com Occam’s Razor www.kaushik.net Bruce Clay www.bruceclay.com/blog Ion Interactive www.ioninteractive.com/post-click-marketing-blog/
91. Takeaway Points Challenges are many, but they can be overcome Doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg Tools are only as good as the user. Seek help if you need it.
92. Thank You and how to overcome them Adam Proehl Managing Partner adam@nordicclick.com 952-460-3331 @adamproehl www.linkedin.com/in/adamproehl Marketing Challenges