Slide deck of my session at #DBS2017, October 2017, Barcelona.
- The rise of data scientist and hybrid marketer
- Embracing content marketing to drive measurable business results that impact the bottom line
- What to measure: How to gain actionable insights
- Having a better understanding of content efforts to reach new audiences, drive business, and become a more cost-effective marketing channel
Measuring Content Marketing Performance Using KPIs
1. Giuseppe Caltabiano, Content Marketing Speaker & Author, Head of Content Marketing Advisory Services
Back to basics: How content marketing is driving
measurable business success
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3. Two sections of this presentation
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Data Science and the
rise of the Data
Scientist
How to calculate
content/digital marketing
performances
7. The sexiest job (HBR, 2012)
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“Being a data scientist is not only about
data crunching. It’s about understanding
the business challenge, creating some
valuable actionable insights to the data,
and communicating their findings to the
business.”
Jean-Paul Isson, Monster Worldwide, Inc.
10. The skill gap is increasing in 2017
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11. Monstrous problem or mythical beast?
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13%
23%
31%
65%
72%
SEO
Design
Web Dev
Social Media
Data Science
The most desired skills in mktg
13. Two implications
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Any professional in the
internet world from SEO
to content marketer can
give themselves an edge
by strengthening their
data capabilities.
For brands and agencies:
the ability to manage
successful programs will
require strong data
analysis human and
technological capabilities.
14. “I mean a marketer who doesn’t leave
executional knowledge to others – but is
wired to seek continually to acquire it. I
mean a marketer who doesn’t stick to one
specialism but seeks to acquire a working
knowledge of any that might be relevant.”
The rise of the Hybrid Marketer
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18. @ g i u s e c • # C M W o r l d
Hubspot acquired Agency Post
It is $0 unless…
it builds an AUDIENCE
What is the value of Content?
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Arrow Electronics acquires United Technical
Publishing – 16 magazines, 1m subscribers
It is $0 unless…
it builds an AUDIENCE
What is the value of Content?
20. TEAM – one way to measure content performance
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Measuring and
optimizing for highest-
quality traffic
Attracting more of the
right traffic
Driving the desired
behaviors
Correlating against
real business
outcomes
TRAFFIC ENGAGEMENT ACTION MONETIZATION
22. Examples of User Journey
.com page
Google Search Content Hub
Social Media
Content Hub
.com page
.com page
Content Hub
23. Traffic Common KPIs
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Attracting more of the
right traffic
TRAFFIC
Page Views
Audience
Demographics
Page views by
channel
New visitors
Traffic share by
desktop/mobile
Traffic share by
geographies
Unbranded organic
search traffic
Social followers
Organic search share
of voice
Google Analytics
Paid campaign
parameters
24. Examples: tracking page views
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Big Rock launch
Big Rock launch
Content promotion
NewsLetter + Paid Search
pilot
Content promotion
Content promotion
26. Engagement common KPIs
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Measuring and
optimizing for highest-
quality traffic
ENGAGEMENT
Returning visitors
Increase time on
page
Lower bounce rate
Increase time on
product pages
Social likes/
engagement
Multiple stories per
session
Google Analytics
Third-party tools
27. Action-focused common KPIs
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Driving the desired
behaviors
ACTION
Newsletter opt-ins
Blog signups
Outbound clicks to
.com on content
pages
Clicks on contact us
Big Rock downloads
Chart check outs
… and many others…
Google Analytics
Marketing Automation
tools (Marketo, Eloqua,
Pardot, etc.)
32. Buyer Journey and Content Mapping
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33. Traffic Common KPIs
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Page Views
Audience
Demographics
Page views by
channel
New visitors
Traffic share by
desktop/mobile
Traffic share by
geographies
Unbranded organic
search traffic
Social followers
Organic search share
of voice
Returning visitors
Increase time on
page
Lower bounce rate
Increase time on
product pages
Social likes/
engagement
Multiple stories per
session
Newsletter opt-ins
Blog signups
Outbound clicks to
.com on content
pages
Clicks on contact us
Big Rock downloads
Chart check outs
MQL
SQL
Meetings
Marketing influenced
opportunities
Marketing influenced
revenue
% Repeat purchases
AWARENESS
EVALUATION
PURCHASE
RETENTION
34. KPIs by Stage of the Buyer Journey
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Page Views
Audience
Demographics
Page views by
channel
New visitors
Traffic share by
desktop/mobile
Traffic share by
geographies
Unbranded organic
search traffic
Social followers
Organic search share
of voice
Returning visitors
Increase time on
page
Lower bounce rate
Increase time on
product pages
Social likes/
engagement
Multiple stories per
session
Newsletter opt-ins
Blog signups
Clicks on contact us
Big Rock downloads
Chart check outs
MQL
SQL
Marketing influenced
opportunities
Marketing influenced
revenue
% Repeat purchases
AWARENESS EVALUATION PURCHASE RETENTION
Increase time on
page
Lower bounce rate
35. KPIs by Stage of the Buyer Journey (B2B)
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Page Views
New visitors
Unbranded organic
search traffic
Returning visitors
Lower bounce rate
Social likes/
engagement
Newsletter opt-ins
MQL
Marketing influenced
opportunities
AWARENESS EVALUATION PURCHASE RETENTION
36. KPIs by Stage of the Buyer Journey (B2C)
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Page Views
New visitors
Unbranded organic
search traffic
Returning visitors
Lower bounce rate
Social likes/
engagement
Newsletter opt-ins
Chart check outs
% Repeat purchases
AWARENESS EVALUATION PURCHASE RETENTION
Increase time on
product pages
37. What’s the ROI of your mother?
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38. • The data skills gap
• The rise of the data scientist / hybrid marketer
• Content Marketing works and its performances
can be calculated…
• …most of the times
Conclusions
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It’s no secret that today’s marketers are faced with mountains of customer data – in volumes that can potentially be quite intimidating. As a result, marketers now have a greater opportunity to get to know their customers infinitely better than ever before. From tweets, subscriptions, and browsing habits, right through to in-store loyalty schemes, there has never been a better time for marketers to develop cross-platform insights and build a genuine ‘Single Customer View’.
And yet, despite having the opportunity and the data available, marketers are still failing to develop an accurate depiction of their customers. Something continues to hold them back.
HBR declared that data scientist is the sexiest job of the century. Research company Gartner suggests that there will be 4.4 million big data jobs available in the next years, and that only a third of them will be successfully filled. It’s no surprise. Everything is moving toward data: big data, mobile data, performance data, campaign data, product data, and even data about how we track our data.
https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century
HBR declared that data scientist is the sexiest job of the century. Research company Gartner suggests that there will be 4.4 million big data jobs available in the next years, and that only a third of them will be successfully filled. It’s no surprise. Everything is moving toward data: big data, mobile data, performance data, campaign data, product data, and even data about how we track our data.
https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century
With the explosion of software for marketing analytics there is now the potential to create valuable data analysis from social media and make strategic decisions off the back of it.
In 2016 alone there have been 1,780 articles written on the “data skills gap”, resulting in over a quarter (27%) of marketers believing that their teams lack the skills needed to succeed in the analytics age.
Based on a recent report from BlueVenn, data analysis is considered the most important skill a person could learn for the next two years. The report says 72% of marketers consider data vital. This has placed firmly on top, above skills like social media (65%), web dev (31%), design (23%) or SEO (13%). Marketers have recognised that without skills in data analysis, the effectiveness of social media is limited.
https://venngage.com/blog/marketing-skills-2016/
Below is a simple visualization of what we found. As you can see, there is a HUGE skills shortage in the Data Analysis and Code section. But we have also found that there is a surplus in core marketing skills, including digital marketing, social media and others.
Based on a recent report from BlueVenn, data analysis is considered the most important skill a person could learn for the next two years. The report says 72% of marketers consider data vital. This has placed firmly on top, above skills like social media (65%), web dev (31%), design (23%) or SEO (13%). Marketers have recognised that without skills in data analysis, the effectiveness of social media is limited.
Being honest, many in the marketing community have never felt particularly comfortable with data analysis. Marketers rarely get into marketing to become data scientists, they expect to plan campaigns, be creative, and help bring brands to life. With the rise of customer profiling and web analytics however, the marketing skillset has been turned on its head.
It turns out that marketers don’t want to become data scientists. Instead, they simply want their marketing tools and technologies to make the tasks of unifying, cleansing and matching data more automated. Unfortunately, this is where the MarTech community has let down their customers by not focusing enough on data and too much time on functionality.
As it stands, 51% of marketers either don’t have the right tools for data analysis or believe that the tools they have need to be improved. Instead of investing in such technologies however, 27% of marketers are choosing to hand data analysis over to the IT department, while 6% are still forking out for external data analysis services.
This has two implications.
The first is that any professional in the internet world from SEO to content marketer can give themselves an edge by strengthening their data capabilities. From ensuring the success of your campaigns to making yourself un-fireable, data skills will be a huge asset.
The second implication is for brands and agencies: the ability to manage successful campaigns will require strong data analysis human and technological capabilities. As your competition becomes more sophisticated, your ability to keep up will be directly helped or hindered by your data capabilities.
This has two implications.
The first is that any professional in the internet world from SEO to content marketer can give themselves an edge by strengthening their data capabilities. From ensuring the success of your campaigns to making yourself un-fireable, data skills will be a huge asset.
The second implication is for brands and agencies: the ability to manage successful campaigns will require strong data analysis human and technological capabilities. As your competition becomes more sophisticated, your ability to keep up will be directly helped or hindered by your data capabilities.