1. Marketers need answers to what is working, what isn't working, and why. However, most solutions only provide limited insights that marketers don't fully trust.
2. To gain a complete picture, marketers must evaluate the entire customer journey beyond just marketing touchpoints, using holistic and unified data from across the customer experience.
3. Marketers also need to measure success using broader financial metrics like revenue and profitability, not just initial conversions, and optimize for customer lifetime value over single transactions.
The document discusses the rise of customer life-cycle marketing systems (CLCMS) and their importance for CMOs. It makes three key points:
1) CMOs need a central technology hub to manage all customer interactions across the customer life cycle in order to optimize marketing.
2) Vendors are developing CLCMS that integrate customer data, marketing operations, interactions, reporting and analytics to help CMOs address growing complexity.
3) Over the next three years the CLCMS landscape will be noisy as vendors work to demonstrate integration, reduce costs and complexity, and fully embrace a customer life cycle approach rather than just focusing on campaigns.
CRM software helps your business to manage contact information in an organized way, making it easy to follow up on your interactions and activities with customers.
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This document discusses marketing automation and why companies should use an implementation partner. It notes that while marketing automation tools can provide benefits like reducing workload and better targeting customers, simply implementing the technology is not enough - it requires an effective strategy. Common reasons for marketing automation failing to produce results include a lack of strategy, not enough relevant content, poor alignment between sales and marketing, and lack of support. The document advocates partnering with a specialist for implementation and ongoing management to fully realize the benefits of marketing automation.
Forrester Research How Interactive Marketers Should Rethink Traditional App...Julie Benlolo
Interactive marketers face numerous challenges with customer data integration and insight generation, despite aggressively testing emerging channels. The top challenges include proving results to gain support and budgets, lacking cross-channel customer insights, and insufficient staffing. While marketers experiment with new channels, the potential for customer dialogue is unrealized as channels are mainly used for one-way communications. Integrated campaign management is needed to deliver a unified customer experience across touchpoints.
Acquire Grow & Retain customers - The business imperative for Big DataIBM Software India
The emergence of Big Data and Analytics has changed the way marketing decisions are made. Marketing has moved away from traditional ‘generalisation’ practices such as customer segmentation, geographical targeting etc. and is focussing more on the individual – the ‘Chief Executive Customer’.
Insights Throughout the CPG Brand LifecycleNM Incite
NM Incite’s social media research and analytics offer brands insight into real-time, authentic consumer expression that can transform how marketers build strong brands, create passionate and engaged communities and ultimately achieve superior sales outcomes. Learn how NM Incite’s solutions can be layered with other Nielsen assets to produce powerful insights, providing a valuable competitive advantage.
Ovum Salesforce Com Sales Methods (Wp000167 Eap)RichardGilder
The document summarizes the SalesMethods solution, which provides an integrated sales methodology for Salesforce.com users. It consists of three main applications: Plan2Prosper for account development planning, Plan2Close for sales opportunity management, and Plan2Excel for sales management reporting and analytics. Plan2Prosper and Plan2Close both guide users through developing sales plans by answering sets of four critical questions. The solution is a native integration with Salesforce that aims to drive sales effectiveness through formalizing best practices and providing collaborative tools.
Best Metrics to Optimize B2B Demand GenAsad Haroon
B2B marketers who need to do more than simply create brand awareness through outbound marketing have adopted Account Based Marketing (ABM) in order to focus on key accounts. Successful ABM campaigns can produce highly qualified, valuable prospects.
The document discusses the rise of customer life-cycle marketing systems (CLCMS) and their importance for CMOs. It makes three key points:
1) CMOs need a central technology hub to manage all customer interactions across the customer life cycle in order to optimize marketing.
2) Vendors are developing CLCMS that integrate customer data, marketing operations, interactions, reporting and analytics to help CMOs address growing complexity.
3) Over the next three years the CLCMS landscape will be noisy as vendors work to demonstrate integration, reduce costs and complexity, and fully embrace a customer life cycle approach rather than just focusing on campaigns.
CRM software helps your business to manage contact information in an organized way, making it easy to follow up on your interactions and activities with customers.
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This document discusses marketing automation and why companies should use an implementation partner. It notes that while marketing automation tools can provide benefits like reducing workload and better targeting customers, simply implementing the technology is not enough - it requires an effective strategy. Common reasons for marketing automation failing to produce results include a lack of strategy, not enough relevant content, poor alignment between sales and marketing, and lack of support. The document advocates partnering with a specialist for implementation and ongoing management to fully realize the benefits of marketing automation.
Forrester Research How Interactive Marketers Should Rethink Traditional App...Julie Benlolo
Interactive marketers face numerous challenges with customer data integration and insight generation, despite aggressively testing emerging channels. The top challenges include proving results to gain support and budgets, lacking cross-channel customer insights, and insufficient staffing. While marketers experiment with new channels, the potential for customer dialogue is unrealized as channels are mainly used for one-way communications. Integrated campaign management is needed to deliver a unified customer experience across touchpoints.
Acquire Grow & Retain customers - The business imperative for Big DataIBM Software India
The emergence of Big Data and Analytics has changed the way marketing decisions are made. Marketing has moved away from traditional ‘generalisation’ practices such as customer segmentation, geographical targeting etc. and is focussing more on the individual – the ‘Chief Executive Customer’.
Insights Throughout the CPG Brand LifecycleNM Incite
NM Incite’s social media research and analytics offer brands insight into real-time, authentic consumer expression that can transform how marketers build strong brands, create passionate and engaged communities and ultimately achieve superior sales outcomes. Learn how NM Incite’s solutions can be layered with other Nielsen assets to produce powerful insights, providing a valuable competitive advantage.
Ovum Salesforce Com Sales Methods (Wp000167 Eap)RichardGilder
The document summarizes the SalesMethods solution, which provides an integrated sales methodology for Salesforce.com users. It consists of three main applications: Plan2Prosper for account development planning, Plan2Close for sales opportunity management, and Plan2Excel for sales management reporting and analytics. Plan2Prosper and Plan2Close both guide users through developing sales plans by answering sets of four critical questions. The solution is a native integration with Salesforce that aims to drive sales effectiveness through formalizing best practices and providing collaborative tools.
Best Metrics to Optimize B2B Demand GenAsad Haroon
B2B marketers who need to do more than simply create brand awareness through outbound marketing have adopted Account Based Marketing (ABM) in order to focus on key accounts. Successful ABM campaigns can produce highly qualified, valuable prospects.
3 New ways to Improve and Understand your Customers ExperienceVirginia Fernandez
This document discusses new ways for organizations to understand and improve the customer experience. It outlines three key capabilities needed: analyzing customer behavior to understand root causes of issues, visualizing customer journeys across channels, and easily pivoting between different analytics types. The document also discusses challenges like fragmented data, siloed tools and departments. It proposes that a unified analytics solution is needed to provide a holistic view of the customer experience.
The document provides a guide for evaluating and selecting a CRM solution. It discusses key areas to focus on, including an intuitive user experience, effective workflow automation, aligning business processes, and choosing an appropriate platform. The guide emphasizes that modern CRM solutions should be easy for employees to use, put relevant information in front of users to enable quick decisions, automate tasks to improve productivity, and align processes across the organization. It also stresses the importance of evaluating solutions based on factors like interface design, automation capabilities, customization options, and deployment choices.
2015 Guide to the “CMO Technology Blueprint for Midsize B2B Companies” Infogr...Gleanster Research
This document provides an overview and guide to the "2015 CMO Technology Blueprint for Midsize B2B Companies" infographic. It discusses how the blueprint can help midsize B2B companies navigate the complex marketing technology landscape by identifying a small subset of technologies that are appropriate and realistic for most companies. It also identifies "mission critical" technologies that are widely adopted and can provide competitive differentiation. The document provides guidance on how companies should use the blueprint to focus their investments in marketing operations, awareness/acquisition, retention/expansion, and loyalty.
Gleanster Research and Act-On Software sought to answer these questions. We conducted a study in Q4 2014 and Q1 2015, surveying marketing professionals in 750 companies to understand how they perceive and support customer relationship management. For the purposes of this study, we defined CRM as: Any iteraction a customer has with your brand across all stages of the customer lifecycle.
The document discusses emerging trends in marketing automation in 2011, including:
1) The emergence of Revenue Performance Management (RPM), which allows marketing to track ROI and quantify their impact on revenue. New tools from Marketo and Eloqua focus on RPM.
2) Data management and finding the right talent will be critical challenges for optimization. Integration of new channels and understanding the technology will also be important.
3) A shared focus on revenue generation between sales and marketing through new analytics tools may drive further adoption of automation in 2011. The changing B2B buyer is also driving a new sales and marketing alignment paradigm with a joint focus on revenue.
Best Metrics to Optimize B2B Demand GenFrankAliyar
B2B marketers who need to do more than simply create brand awareness through outbound marketing have adopted Account-Based Marketing (ABM) in order to focus on key accounts. Successful ABM campaigns can produce highly qualified, valuable prospects.
The 4 Machine Learning Models Imperative for Business TransformationRocketSource
Machine learning is hot right now and for good reason. We're going to break down what you need to know about what goes into a model and give you four machine learning models your business should have in production right now.
Aberdeen Group Report - Sales Intelligence: Preparing for Smarter SellingLexisNexis
Top-performing sales organizations are meeting the challenges of identifying the most likely buyers of their products and services through the deployment of sales intelligence solutions that introduce a wide variety of data streams to their front-line staff. By empowering their sellers with better information about their prospect companies, markets and individuals, these firms are able to maximize their chances of hitting quota, and at the same time create efficiencies within the sales operation environment.
Presenting the second paper in the series 'Multi-channel Customer Management' that delves deep into the design, deployment, coordination, and evaluation of customer interaction channels enterprises can and should leverage.
Today there is a lot of buzz around customer experience. Many companies have realized that investments in customer experience improvement is important not just because it helps to boost the bottom lines of their businesses but because it takes at least 4 to 6 times more cost to acquire a new customer than to retain an existing customer.
Successful sales organizations are transforming the way they sell in order to create compelling customer engagements in today's constantly changing environment. To compete, sales teams need to be prepared and insightful with real-time customer insights, collaborative and connected through social and mobile tools, and highly productive with qualified leads and 360-degree customer views. Leading vendors are helping sales teams develop these dynamic characteristics to outsmart competitors and close more deals faster.
This document discusses how marketing functions are often not held in high regard by executives due to perceptions that marketing lacks rigor and quantifiable returns. It outlines a new, more scientific approach to marketing characterized by instilling discipline, measuring tangible returns, and understanding customer needs and choices in order to influence them effectively. An example is provided of a company that used customer data and predictive modeling through a marketing accelerator platform to rapidly design and execute successful marketing campaigns.
What Is CRM and How Can It Increase Your SalesScott McKissack
This document discusses customer relationship management (CRM) solutions and how they can help businesses increase sales. It defines CRM as a system that manages customer interactions across sales and marketing operations. The document outlines key benefits of CRM such as improved productivity, more organized processes, better management of leads and customers, and real-time mobile access to data. It recommends that businesses tailor CRM solutions to meet their specific needs and emphasizes that CRM solutions are accessible options for small and medium-sized businesses to stay competitive.
Looking for new ways to win over those high-potential B2B prospects? Account-based marketing may be the answer. Learn how advances in marketing and advertising technology help you leverage account-based marketing to build affection, relevance and trust to engage your high-potential prospects.
This document discusses five key elements of data-driven campaigning with Adobe Campaign: 1) Personalization - tailoring messages for individual customers, 2) Real-time marketing - sending timely messages to customers, 3) Cross-channel integration - coordinating messaging across channels, 4) Automation - using automation to free up time and improve customer experiences, and 5) Integrated technology - having a single view of the customer across systems. It provides examples of how companies can implement these elements using Adobe Campaign to improve marketing efforts.
The document summarizes the findings of a survey on how sales teams can improve productivity through better use of information. Key findings include:
1) Sales teams need rapid access to customer information to differentiate products and services.
2) Investments often focus on symptoms rather than underlying problems.
3) Tools should reduce administrative time and allow more time for selling.
4) Success requires senior management support and input from employees.
Connect Marketing to Revenue With Performance MeasurementObservePoint
As your company becomes increasingly data-driven, it can be easy to get caught up in markers of success such as leads, bookings, or site visits. But what about the most important metric to your business—revenue?
In this tip sheet, Connect Marketing to Revenue with Performance Measurement, you'll learn how to:
- Gather clean, complete data
- Bridge the gap between marketing, sales, and service
- Increase the scope and capabilities of your attribution strategy
The document discusses key questions to consider when evaluating a marketing intelligence platform. It begins by explaining that most marketers still rely on multiple disconnected data sets and analytics tools that are difficult to use. The top questions to ask are: 1) Can the platform consolidate all marketing data? 2) Can it clean and standardize the data? 3) Can it deliver accurate customer segmentation based on long-term customer behavior? For most companies, a third-party cloud-based marketing intelligence platform is the best option to gain valuable customer insights.
Six steps to revenue boosting lead generation programsJaslynn joan
Here are six steps B2B marketers can take to enhance their lead generation programs.
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Lead Scoring: Five Steps to Getting Started How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
This How-To Guide will help marketers score leads by showing how to set up a simple lead scoring system and then refine it over time.
Lead scoring applies mathematical formulas to rank potential customers. It is chiefly used to identify prospects that are ready for direct sales contact. Because the calculations are automatic, the scores are consistent, current, and can include more variables than any manual assessment. This saves marketers work, ensures that all qualified leads are sent to sales promptly, and keeps non-qualified leads out of the sales system.
Read this brief 11-page guide to learn about:
The case for lead scoring
Setting up a simple lead scoring system
Refinements to improve results over time
Companies that follow this process will quickly gain immediate benefits from lead scoring and have a solid foundation for future growth.
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com to make a content request.
Predictive lead scoring uses machine learning algorithms to analyze large amounts of internal and external data to more accurately predict a lead's likelihood of converting. It assigns scores based on thousands of attributes and signals, including behaviors and demographics. This removes reliance on assumptions and intuition, provides a deeper understanding of prospects, and allows companies to base important decisions on data rather than opinions. When implemented, predictive lead scoring typically improves marketing and sales alignment and ROI.
3 New ways to Improve and Understand your Customers ExperienceVirginia Fernandez
This document discusses new ways for organizations to understand and improve the customer experience. It outlines three key capabilities needed: analyzing customer behavior to understand root causes of issues, visualizing customer journeys across channels, and easily pivoting between different analytics types. The document also discusses challenges like fragmented data, siloed tools and departments. It proposes that a unified analytics solution is needed to provide a holistic view of the customer experience.
The document provides a guide for evaluating and selecting a CRM solution. It discusses key areas to focus on, including an intuitive user experience, effective workflow automation, aligning business processes, and choosing an appropriate platform. The guide emphasizes that modern CRM solutions should be easy for employees to use, put relevant information in front of users to enable quick decisions, automate tasks to improve productivity, and align processes across the organization. It also stresses the importance of evaluating solutions based on factors like interface design, automation capabilities, customization options, and deployment choices.
2015 Guide to the “CMO Technology Blueprint for Midsize B2B Companies” Infogr...Gleanster Research
This document provides an overview and guide to the "2015 CMO Technology Blueprint for Midsize B2B Companies" infographic. It discusses how the blueprint can help midsize B2B companies navigate the complex marketing technology landscape by identifying a small subset of technologies that are appropriate and realistic for most companies. It also identifies "mission critical" technologies that are widely adopted and can provide competitive differentiation. The document provides guidance on how companies should use the blueprint to focus their investments in marketing operations, awareness/acquisition, retention/expansion, and loyalty.
Gleanster Research and Act-On Software sought to answer these questions. We conducted a study in Q4 2014 and Q1 2015, surveying marketing professionals in 750 companies to understand how they perceive and support customer relationship management. For the purposes of this study, we defined CRM as: Any iteraction a customer has with your brand across all stages of the customer lifecycle.
The document discusses emerging trends in marketing automation in 2011, including:
1) The emergence of Revenue Performance Management (RPM), which allows marketing to track ROI and quantify their impact on revenue. New tools from Marketo and Eloqua focus on RPM.
2) Data management and finding the right talent will be critical challenges for optimization. Integration of new channels and understanding the technology will also be important.
3) A shared focus on revenue generation between sales and marketing through new analytics tools may drive further adoption of automation in 2011. The changing B2B buyer is also driving a new sales and marketing alignment paradigm with a joint focus on revenue.
Best Metrics to Optimize B2B Demand GenFrankAliyar
B2B marketers who need to do more than simply create brand awareness through outbound marketing have adopted Account-Based Marketing (ABM) in order to focus on key accounts. Successful ABM campaigns can produce highly qualified, valuable prospects.
The 4 Machine Learning Models Imperative for Business TransformationRocketSource
Machine learning is hot right now and for good reason. We're going to break down what you need to know about what goes into a model and give you four machine learning models your business should have in production right now.
Aberdeen Group Report - Sales Intelligence: Preparing for Smarter SellingLexisNexis
Top-performing sales organizations are meeting the challenges of identifying the most likely buyers of their products and services through the deployment of sales intelligence solutions that introduce a wide variety of data streams to their front-line staff. By empowering their sellers with better information about their prospect companies, markets and individuals, these firms are able to maximize their chances of hitting quota, and at the same time create efficiencies within the sales operation environment.
Presenting the second paper in the series 'Multi-channel Customer Management' that delves deep into the design, deployment, coordination, and evaluation of customer interaction channels enterprises can and should leverage.
Today there is a lot of buzz around customer experience. Many companies have realized that investments in customer experience improvement is important not just because it helps to boost the bottom lines of their businesses but because it takes at least 4 to 6 times more cost to acquire a new customer than to retain an existing customer.
Successful sales organizations are transforming the way they sell in order to create compelling customer engagements in today's constantly changing environment. To compete, sales teams need to be prepared and insightful with real-time customer insights, collaborative and connected through social and mobile tools, and highly productive with qualified leads and 360-degree customer views. Leading vendors are helping sales teams develop these dynamic characteristics to outsmart competitors and close more deals faster.
This document discusses how marketing functions are often not held in high regard by executives due to perceptions that marketing lacks rigor and quantifiable returns. It outlines a new, more scientific approach to marketing characterized by instilling discipline, measuring tangible returns, and understanding customer needs and choices in order to influence them effectively. An example is provided of a company that used customer data and predictive modeling through a marketing accelerator platform to rapidly design and execute successful marketing campaigns.
What Is CRM and How Can It Increase Your SalesScott McKissack
This document discusses customer relationship management (CRM) solutions and how they can help businesses increase sales. It defines CRM as a system that manages customer interactions across sales and marketing operations. The document outlines key benefits of CRM such as improved productivity, more organized processes, better management of leads and customers, and real-time mobile access to data. It recommends that businesses tailor CRM solutions to meet their specific needs and emphasizes that CRM solutions are accessible options for small and medium-sized businesses to stay competitive.
Looking for new ways to win over those high-potential B2B prospects? Account-based marketing may be the answer. Learn how advances in marketing and advertising technology help you leverage account-based marketing to build affection, relevance and trust to engage your high-potential prospects.
This document discusses five key elements of data-driven campaigning with Adobe Campaign: 1) Personalization - tailoring messages for individual customers, 2) Real-time marketing - sending timely messages to customers, 3) Cross-channel integration - coordinating messaging across channels, 4) Automation - using automation to free up time and improve customer experiences, and 5) Integrated technology - having a single view of the customer across systems. It provides examples of how companies can implement these elements using Adobe Campaign to improve marketing efforts.
The document summarizes the findings of a survey on how sales teams can improve productivity through better use of information. Key findings include:
1) Sales teams need rapid access to customer information to differentiate products and services.
2) Investments often focus on symptoms rather than underlying problems.
3) Tools should reduce administrative time and allow more time for selling.
4) Success requires senior management support and input from employees.
Connect Marketing to Revenue With Performance MeasurementObservePoint
As your company becomes increasingly data-driven, it can be easy to get caught up in markers of success such as leads, bookings, or site visits. But what about the most important metric to your business—revenue?
In this tip sheet, Connect Marketing to Revenue with Performance Measurement, you'll learn how to:
- Gather clean, complete data
- Bridge the gap between marketing, sales, and service
- Increase the scope and capabilities of your attribution strategy
The document discusses key questions to consider when evaluating a marketing intelligence platform. It begins by explaining that most marketers still rely on multiple disconnected data sets and analytics tools that are difficult to use. The top questions to ask are: 1) Can the platform consolidate all marketing data? 2) Can it clean and standardize the data? 3) Can it deliver accurate customer segmentation based on long-term customer behavior? For most companies, a third-party cloud-based marketing intelligence platform is the best option to gain valuable customer insights.
Six steps to revenue boosting lead generation programsJaslynn joan
Here are six steps B2B marketers can take to enhance their lead generation programs.
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Lead Scoring: Five Steps to Getting Started How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
This How-To Guide will help marketers score leads by showing how to set up a simple lead scoring system and then refine it over time.
Lead scoring applies mathematical formulas to rank potential customers. It is chiefly used to identify prospects that are ready for direct sales contact. Because the calculations are automatic, the scores are consistent, current, and can include more variables than any manual assessment. This saves marketers work, ensures that all qualified leads are sent to sales promptly, and keeps non-qualified leads out of the sales system.
Read this brief 11-page guide to learn about:
The case for lead scoring
Setting up a simple lead scoring system
Refinements to improve results over time
Companies that follow this process will quickly gain immediate benefits from lead scoring and have a solid foundation for future growth.
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com to make a content request.
Predictive lead scoring uses machine learning algorithms to analyze large amounts of internal and external data to more accurately predict a lead's likelihood of converting. It assigns scores based on thousands of attributes and signals, including behaviors and demographics. This removes reliance on assumptions and intuition, provides a deeper understanding of prospects, and allows companies to base important decisions on data rather than opinions. When implemented, predictive lead scoring typically improves marketing and sales alignment and ROI.
Predictive lead scoring uses machine learning algorithms to analyze large amounts of internal and external data to more accurately predict a lead's likelihood of converting. It assigns scores based on thousands of attributes and signals, including behaviors and demographics. This removes reliance on assumptions and intuition, allowing companies to prioritize leads most likely to convert and improving marketing and sales alignment. Predictive scoring also identifies previously unseen patterns that can optimize a company's lead scoring system over time.
Revenue Operations Analytics: A Strategic BlueprintKwanzoo Inc
The true value in your KPIs is understanding how they complete the bigger picture of the customer journeys that drive the most impact for your business.
Driving Value with Marketing Automation How-To GuideDemand Metric
Executive Summary
B2B marketers have enthusiastically adopted marketing automation, with industry revenue growing at 50% per year according to Raab Associates estimates. The reason for this adoption is simple: marketing automation works. Users consistently report growth in quantity and quality of leads, in lead acceptance rates, and in marketing revenue contribution. Recent acquisitions by major software vendors including Oracle, Salesforce.com, Microsoft and Adobe further confirm that marketing automation is becoming a standard part of every company’s technology foundation.
But simply deciding you want to make better use of your marketing automation doesn’t end the discussion; it just raises the much more difficult question of how. This How-To Guide will provide you with some answers.
Read this 12-page guide to learn about:
The Marketing Automation Maturity Model
The levels of Marketing Automation Maturity
How to evolve your Marketing Automation strategy at each level
Demand Metric's How-To Guides are designed to provide practical, on-the-job training and education and provide context for using our premium tools & templates. If there is a topic that you would like to see covered, please contact us at info@demandmetric.com
Top Five Metrics for Revenue Generation MarketersC.Y Wong
This document discusses key metrics that B2B marketers should track to measure revenue generation. It recommends tracking:
1) Number of leads produced, close rate (new customers/new leads), and revenue per new customer to understand lead generation, nurturing, and quality.
2) Adding metrics like average time to close and cost per new customer.
3) Breaking down the buying process into stages and tracking movement through each stage via funnel reporting.
Marketing analytics is the practice of measuring and analyzing marketing performance to maximize effectiveness and ROI. It provides insights into customer preferences beyond basic sales and leads. However, most organizations fail to realize its full benefits. Marketing analytics considers all marketing efforts across channels over time, which is essential for sound decision-making. It allows monitoring of campaigns and spending to see what is most effective. Knowledge of returns on marketing investments is important for long-term business strategy. Marketing analytics software continues to evolve and provide more powerful insights.
MARKETING IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT: USING ANALYTICS TO CREATE CUSTOMER VALUERoss Soodoosingh
The document discusses how leading companies are using analytics to create customer value. It finds that companies that integrate multiple sources of customer and marketing data and focus on demand generation have significantly stronger business performance. Two examples are provided of companies, MetLife and FXCM, that are integrating various customer data sources to improve their understanding of customers and tailor their experiences. The use of analytics allows these companies to be more customer-centric and competitive.
A Crash Course, Understand Metrics vs. analytics. find the right metrics for you. Measure full funnel impact. B2B marketers are being held to new levels of accountability in this data-driven and buyer-empowered era.
Business analytics has many applications across different business functions and sectors including finance, marketing, HR, customer relationship management, manufacturing, and credit card companies. Some key uses of business analytics include using financial data to determine pricing and advise on investment performance, analyzing customer behavior and demographics to improve marketing strategies, predicting employee retention and attrition rates to inform HR practices, and examining customer transactions to help retail and credit card companies target customers. Marketing analytics specifically helps evaluate the effectiveness of marketing efforts, optimize campaigns, improve customer targeting, and support real-time decision making. While business analytics provides benefits, organizations also face challenges of data integration, selecting appropriate metrics, and ensuring privacy. HR analytics applications include measuring employee performance, informing promotion and salary decisions
This document provides an overview and guide to data management for modern marketers. It discusses the importance of data management and outlines strategies for collecting cross-channel customer data, defining target audiences, and activating meaningful marketing across channels. The guide emphasizes centralizing data from various sources, conducting data audits to understand goals and identify gaps, and using unified customer profiles to deliver personalized experiences.
This document provides an overview of marketing analytics. It begins by defining marketing analytics and explaining its benefits, such as insights into customer preferences and trends. It then discusses the types of analytics, including descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. The document emphasizes the importance of marketing analytics for making data-driven decisions, integrating across channels, understanding customer lifecycles, and tying marketing activities to sales. It outlines trends in marketing analytics, such as becoming more customer-centric and improving online-offline attribution. Finally, it profiles several leading marketing analytics companies and software.
This document outlines 9 steps for developing a successful marketing technology strategy:
1. Begin with a marketing and demand generation strategy that aligns technology with revenue goals
2. Evaluate organizational readiness to implement and utilize new technologies
3. Assess current marketing technologies and how they are used
4. Map gaps between current and needed capabilities and prioritize objectives
5. Develop a data management strategy and data model to integrate technologies
6. Consider tools that provide artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics
7. Plan strategic infrastructure and integrations between technologies
8. Prioritize analytics, performance management, and attribution to measure results
9. Ongoing management is required to operate technologies and business processes effectively
This document discusses how predictive analytics can help sales and marketing organizations overcome challenges posed by growing multi-channel marketing strategies and big data. Predictive analytics provides the ability to analyze historical sales and marketing data to determine how customers are likely to behave in the future. This allows companies to improve key operations like customer retention, acquisition, cross-selling, and price optimization. The document outlines best practices for building predictive models, including understanding business needs, preparing data, modeling, and evaluating results. It also highlights the benefits of WebFOCUS RStat for predictive analytics and a success story at a discount retailer.
The Mandate for Agile Measurement by BECKONAmanda Roberts
It’s no secret that the marketing landscape is changing faster than ever. Savvy marketers use this relentless pace to their advantage, testing, experimenting and optimizing their way to the top.
As data proliferates at a dizzying rate, marketing’s age-old questions haven’t changed. Agile marketing is, at heart, a way to answer and act on these fundamental questions at the speed and scale of modern marketing. And it mandates a new approach to measurement—one based on speed, iteration and business-building insights.
Introduction to marketing analytics.pptxIshuGupta84
This document provides an introduction to marketing analytics. It discusses traditional marketing principles and how marketing analytics can help solve problems. Marketing analytics uses data to help understand customers, measure campaign performance, and forecast results. It allows businesses to determine which programs are most effective and see a return on investment from marketing activities. The document also outlines some challenges faced by marketers today and how marketing analytics can help with data-driven decision making.
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This document outlines 4 ways to align marketing and IT analytics teams: 1) Align language, goals, and knowledge between teams; 2) Build a solid baseline for collaboration with the data layer; 3) Create a framework that facilitates ongoing collaboration; 4) Focus only on necessary data. Misalignment often stems from differing team goals, perspectives, and communication gaps. Aligning teams improves collaboration and customer experiences.
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4 ways to improve your customer performance measurement
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2. 2
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Stop relying on basic single-touch attribution models alone
2. Evaluate the entire customer journey—not just marketing touchpoints
3. Go beyond optimizing to initial conversion
4. Ensure rich data dimensionality so you can diagnose what works and why
The key to trusted insights is trusted data
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3. 3
INTRODUCTION
Marketers will tell you they need a lot of things in
order to do their jobs well, but the truth comes down
to three very “simple” things. The most fundamental
questions to which marketers need answers are:
1. What is working?
2. What isn’t working?
3. Why?
Obviously, there are many other important details
and nuances when seeking for the answers; but the
reality is that in today’s marketing landscape—where
decisions need to be made quickly and strategy
needs to be adaptable—it is essential that marketers
trust their data in order to have the confidence to
take actions that will drive their businesses forward.
This is why you’ll find dozens (if not hundreds) of
services and technologies aimed at “solving the data
problem.” Yet it’s difficult to find a solution on the
market today that actually answers the three afore-
mentioned questions across all investments an orga-
nization is making around their customer experiences.
There are 4 reasons why marketing insights of the
future are going to look drastically different than the
past; and if your team isn’t on board with them, you
will be left behind. And given the astronomical rate
at which data is being created every single day, if you
have to play catch up, your organization will be at a
measurable disadvantage.
Those three questions presented in the introduction
led marketers to the concept—and eventually the
technical capability—of attribution. It’s the process of
giving credit where credit is due, and is essential to
understanding which specific brand touchpoints (both
channel and content) are most effective in driving key
business metrics.
There are a lot of attribution models out there, from ba-
sic rules-based models to more complex machine-led
algorithms. All models give you a different view of “what
happened” and can assist in determining your organi-
zation’s performance, but they are not created equal.
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1. Stop relying on basic
single-touch attribution
models alone
Despite the access to more sophisticated models that
can remove guesswork, most marketers and analysts
still use basic single-touch models. According to recent
research released from Strala by ObservePoint, 72% of
marketers are still using last-touch attribution.
Unsurprisingly, the majority of those who report using
those particular models are unhappy with them. Not
because they’re using a “wrong” model, but because
they’re using a model that can only show them a sliver
of the complete picture.
While a single-touch model may be sufficient for cer-
tain tactics within a smaller or newer business, eventu-
ally growth must be matched by sophistication, espe-
cially in measurement and reporting. For an enterprise
business, this means still using single-touch models
where appropriate, but also adding in heuristic and
machine-driven multi-touch models to the measure-
ment and reporting mix. The world’s largest and most
successful companies are already doing this. Others
who wish to compete must begin doing the same.
Let’s take a look at that next.
A word of caution: even the most sophisticated
model is only as good as the data it’s fed. Just as
a sports car needs the right type of fuel to per-
form at the optimal level, attribution models
also need the right quality of data to produce
the insights needed for business optimization.
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2. Evaluate the entire customer
journey—not just marketing
touchpoints
When a company is analyzing tactics, hoping to either
scale successful efforts or quickly re-strategize when
certain efforts prove less promising, the full customer
journey is critical. Although we introduced more sophis-
ticated attribution models as our first reason market-
ing insights are going to look drastically different in the
days ahead, the fuel that drives those models across
the line to success is the data itself.
Forward-thinking marketers are already evaluating the
entire brand experience, attempting to collect and uni-
fy data spanning the complete end-to-end customer
journey. Nearly every solution on the market attempts
to do this after the data has been collected, resulting
in misaligned data and data sets that are enormously
complicated (often entirely impossible) to unify.
Think of the data as food for an attri-
bution model. While calorically, one
can technically exist on donuts, peak
performance can only be achieved with
the right type—and mix—of nutrients.
Complete, consistent, and unified data
are the nutritional inputs attribution
models—and your entire marketing
measurement practice—need to thrive.
Why?
Most media measurement and attribution platforms
take a myopic approach: they only consider paid chan-
nels, and often only paid digital channels, because dig-
ital is a whole lot easier to track and programmatically
manage. This results in silos, from the way the work is
done to how it’s measured. Siloed channels lead to a
significant roadblock for any organization attempting
to accurately measure performance: siloed data.
Unfortunately, most organizations are forced to use
siloed data when looking at performance because it’s
how their marketing efforts are structured.
The organizations attempting to unify data beyond
paid media for the sake of more accurate attribution
do so by actively gathering data from all paid, owned,
and earned marketing channels—and hopefully con-
sidering both online or offline touchpoints. They also
begin to look beyond the “channel lens” and collect
data highlighting performance tied directly to content
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(creative assets, promotions, etc.). It’s only through
breaking down these data silos that brands can truly
move toward a more complete view of the entire cus-
tomer experience.
Taking this a step further, leading measurement
professionals know that truly holistic performance
measurement requires incorporating data that ex-
ists outside the walls of marketing. For example:
Sales
Services
CX/VoC
In-product experiences
All these areas have unique and valuable data sets
that provide powerful insights into the end-to-end
customer journey, and can help you more completely
and accurately measure not only transactional attri-
bution, but also full customer lifetime value.
It can feel daunting, but holistic data collection and
unification is the only way to produce accurate in-
sights that can be trusted. After all, many solutions
already deliver some insights, but as reported in the
2019 Marketing Benchmark Report,
89% of marketing leaders have
stated that just because the insights
exist doesn’t mean the insights are
actually trusted enough to lead to
confident actions.
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3. Go beyond optimizing
to initial conversation
Once all marketing channels and brand touchpoints
are measured holistically, the metrics marketers em-
ploy will begin to shift. Obviously sign-ups, leads, book-
ings, orders, and other primary conversion events are
relevant KPIs to be tracked for most organizations; but
as the acronym implies, these are simply indicators of
business success.
Marketers need to become financially literate—and
communicate in the language of the broader busi-
ness—tying program performance to broader busi-
ness outcomes. Learning to connect function-spe-
cific KPIs to concrete enterprise metrics like top-line
growth and bottom-line profitability help to strengthen
marketing’s position and prove the value of both effort
and money spent.
One buzz term attempting to lay claim to this shift in
perspective is the designation of “data-driven mar-
keter.” However, it is not simply the use of data, but
also which data a marketer focuses on that is import-
ant. We’d argue that the better designation is being a
“bottom-line marketer.”
And the only way to get an accurate view of market-
ing’s contribution to the bottom line is by measuring
and running attribution on every single interaction
each customer has with your business. This includes
everything from initial brand awareness to post-pur-
chase experiences in the ongoing customer journey.
Additionally, this will help you measure and optimize
customer lifetime value, which moves measurement
beyond the narrow view of “transactional attribution”
to more holistically measuring and placing value on the
ongoing customer relationship.
Customer centricity is clearly becoming a significant
focus for many businesses, and the most advanced
companies are discovering unique and meaningful
ways to incorporate customer experience data into
their performance measurement practice.
According to Peter Fader, Professor of Marketing at
Wharton University,
“Customer centricity is a strategy that aligns a
company’s development and delivery of its products
and services with the current and future needs of a
select set of customers in order to maximize their
long-term financial value to the firm.”
To fall behind on such a critical metric will be problem-
atic for any company hoping to keep pace.
bot•tom line mar•ket•er
“Bottom-line marketers” maintain an avid focus on
the core economic drivers of your organization’s
short- and long-term profitability and growth.
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Quick Recap
1. Basic attribution models are too limited by themselves for an enterprise business
to measure channel and content success.
2. The entire customer experience—not just marketing touchpoints—must be evaluated
when trying to gain an understanding of an organization’s performance.
3. In order to prove marketing’s impact on the broader business, marketers must
learn to measure and communicate using financial metrics, not just functional KPIs.
These principles ensure that marketers and analysts are holistically measuring and attributing credit to all touchpoints
across all channels a customer may interact with during their relationship with a brand. They also ensure that success
(and failure) is framed using broader economic performance metrics relevant to the entire business’ bottom-line.
With these holistic insights, you can be confident that the data you apply to your attribution models and the
resulting performance calculations (such as ROI) are complete, consistent, accurate, and what you need in order
to move ahead of your competition.
So let’s talk about how to answer the final question: why are these things working, or why are they not working?
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There are some important questions every marketer
desperately wants to be able to answer, and frustrat-
ingly often can’t.
• Why is my email program outperforming my pro-
grammatic display campaigns?
• Why does my annual customer conference produce
such a high ROI, while other events don’t?
• Why do certain types of content lead to more book-
ings than other types of content?
The most successful marketers who add significant
value to an organization are relentlessly curious about
why certain actions get results while others don’t. Yet
despite ongoing technological advances in analytics,
marketing automation, programmatic advertising, and
other digital marketing disciplines, the ability to con-
sistently answer these questions hasn’t necessarily
kept pace. Analysts and marketers need to look deep-
er than the typically limited, out-of-the-box dimen-
sions and attributes most ad and martech solutions
provide.
It’s not that simplistic measurements like UTM param-
eters don’t have a place in a marketer’s toolkit, but
UTM parameters alone only provide a limited amount
of data and are subject to significant pitfalls such
as human error. Eventually, an enterprise company
needs to justify its enterprise-level marketing budget,
and doing so requires precision in reporting (some-
thing UTM parameters simply aren’t built to do), partic-
ularly when it comes to return-on-ad spend.
The “why” partly lies within a rich and consistent meta-
data layer that marketing analysts require in order to
answer key business questions. Don’t misinterpret this
to mean every little data piece that could ever possibly
be collected should be. There are certain levels of data
that may not be pertinent to your organization, and
it’s important to audit what that looks like when imple-
menting a more robust metadata layer to enrich your
attribution and performance measurement.
However, very few organizations today capture a con-
sistent enough layer of data to accurately pinpoint the
“why” of their marketing efforts’ successes and failures.
And even more rarely are measurement standards ap-
plied consistently across all the relevant touchpoints
in the customer experience, unifying once-siloed data
sets.
A great example is how certain brand campaigns are
both defined and measured across numerous chan-
nels, especially campaigns that include social, digital,
and offline components. One campaign alone can have
a staggering number of platform- or publisher-specific
data sets that should in fact only be one unified data
set. Yet so few organizations take the time to predefine
the data in such a way that each channel can use a
holistic, common taxonomy that provides dimensional
4. Ensure rich data
dimensionality so you can
diagnose what works and why
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Some may argue that A/B testing accomplishes this
without needing to expand the channel and content
attributes included in your enterprise taxonomy,
but today’s marketing environment is extraordinari-
ly complex. It isn’t enough to simply test subject line
length. Even things as seemingly uninspiring as font
size, image location, or playback speed can have sig-
nificant impact on performance. Quite simply, there
just aren’t enough letters in the alphabet to account
for how many variables must be measured against
each other (and in which optimal combinations).
analysis along any performance-influencing attri-
butes. Not only can each tactic not be compared
apples-to-apples to all others in the campaign,
but performance insights cannot be shared across
channels to benefit the entire effort.
Certain channels can be really consistent and detailed
regarding channel attributes, and therefore have more
consistent and detailed data to analyze performance.
Paid search does well in this regard; email is a bit less
standardized; and website or in-app metadata struc-
tures can vary wildly from company to company. Unify-
ing measurement attributes in an enterprise-wide stan-
dard enables meaningful and consistent insights across
all channels and content, regardless of where or how
consumers interact with them.
Overcome content attribution challenges
Nowhere is this felt more acutely than by content mar-
keting and creation professionals. These teams and in-
dividuals assist both sales and marketing departments
to generate the messages and assets delivered across
a myriad of channels. Yet for years the measurement
available to prove the value of their contribution to
customer experiences has been relegated to a single
UTM parameter, or at best half a dozen classification
columns in an analytics implementation.
Yet leading marketers know these are false constraints,
and that there are dozens (if not hundreds) of dimen-
sions along which content performance can and should
be measured. No longer are they stuck assuming case
studies will always perform better than an infographic.
Or that a direct “Buy Now” call to action will consistently
outperform the more subtle “Learn More” prompt. It
is indeed possible to know which messaging resonates
most, if a video truly does engage more than the image,
and how to better structure a pitch for the next sales
sequence send.
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Every additional variable accounted for and then ap-
plied to a measurement program enables deeper inqui-
ry into business performance. This empowers analysts
and marketers to finally know not only what happened,
but why it happened. And perhaps equally as important,
how they can share those insights across channels to
“raise all ships.”
Sample of Recommended Channel
& Content Attributes
Channel (Medium)*
Channel Type
Publisher (Source)*
Campaign Name*
Campaign Theme
Campaign Owner
Campaign Budget
Media Cost Model
Placement
Audience
Device
Keyword (Term)*
Geo Country
Geo State/Province
Geo City
Language
Target Life Cycle Stage
Target Customer Persona
Target Industry
Promoted Product Name
Promoted Product Category
Promoted Product Description
Promoted Product SKU
Content Title*
Content Type
Content Description
Content Promotion
Content Call to Action
Promoted Asset Type
Promoted Asset Name
Promoted Asset Description
Asset ID
Asset Owner
Touchpoint URL (external)
Landing Page URL
Landing Page Title
Landing Page Description
*traditional UTM parameters
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All of the resulting insights give data professionals the
confidence to know precisely what their next move
should be. That sort of trust in the data is hard to come
by, but as more marketers tear down the false con-
straints of their dimensional measurement—especial-
ly in the realm of content analysis—this approach will
quickly move from “best practice” to “standard prac-
tice.” Those who begin this process now will be expo-
nentially ahead of the curve, particularly in crowded
fields where even a small increase in return has a sig-
nificant impact on the bottom line.
There are marketers and analysts today who are al-
ready reaping the benefits of these sophisticated, ho-
listic attribution models, who take into account the en-
tire customer experience, who measure beyond basic
metrics and KPIs. They have already broadened and
deepened the dimensions and attributions necessary
to capture the entire performance picture, and as a
result, they are winning.
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They aren’t winning because they have more data
than anyone else—they’re winning because the infor-
mation they do have gives them the confidence they
need to reinvest dollars, cut losses, and account for
all efforts across every customer touchpoint.
This foundation of trusted data and insights enables:
Accurate forecasting
Budget optimization
Experience personalization
Increased ROI
Stronger, longer customer loyalty
Your peers who have implemented these key prin-
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for superior ROI. The good news for most marketers
is there’s still an opportunity to be an early adopter
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