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+Learn About • Business Traveller • SME Finance • HR Management • Tax for Small Business • Home Based Business
The Magazine for Entrepreneurs of INDIA
Volume-II, Issue-V KARENG/2010/33835 May 2014 Price: `75/-
STATE SCAN
Maharashtra
SUCCESS STORY
Creating a ‘RIOT’ in
the Offline Retail Market
FINANCE
An “Outside In” Approach for
Understanding SMEs
AUTOMOTIVE
CELERIO: The latest flagship hatchback
from MARUTI
WOMEN
ENTREPRENEUR
For Children with Special Needs
20 Small Enterprise May 2014
Basics of Planning
A DIGITAL
MARKETING
CAMPAIGN
Cover Story I DIGITAL MARKETING
Daksh Sharma
Planning an effective digital
campaign is a vital cog in any
marketer’s wheel. Every year we
see innovative digital campaigns
that steal the limelight & make it
to the list of top campaigns. These
campaigns boost the brand value
and deliver unique experiences
that create a long-term stakeholder
impact.
As brand marketers we often ask ourselves the
million-dollar question –What is it that we need
to do to create these campaigns and make them
big & successful?
In hindsight, these campaigns require weeks
and sometime months of meticulous planning
from multidisciplinary teams. The key is to
understand that the planning components for a
digital campaign are largely similar to an
ATL/BTL marketing campaign. The
only difference is the platform and
the roles of the team-members
involved.
While planning your
campaign, look around, do
some research and see what
your competition is doing.
This medium is so open that
you might get a digital
campaign idea from looking at
something completely unrelated.
I strongly believe that while planning
a digital campaign, you should not restrict
yourself by bracketing within the boundaries of
the digital medium only. Sometimes the idea
might go beyond the digital medium and take the
mainstream route. Instead of thinking about a
Facebook app, a contest or a video you should
focus on the core-idea or the brand message that
needs to be propagated. Then you should think of
what’s the best way to take this idea forward.
Video is great to convey your message, portray
emotions with a unique storytelling approach.
Google India’s Reunion commercial video hit the
emotional chord and garnered over 1million
views by showing how a granddaughter in India
uses Google to find her grandpa’s long lost friend
who now lives far away in Pakistan.
Wrangler for instance has beautifully
positioned itself as biker friendly denim by
nurturing biking communities in India through its
nationwide campaign ‘True Wanderers’. While
the interaction between bikers and the brand takes
you through a portal, the campaign has broken
the shackles with a holistic retail, print & BTL
presence.
The 7 Point Checklist for Crafting a Digital
Campaign – Key Questions to Ponder Over
1. What is our top-level campaign budget? (Everything
else will come to a standstill if we don’t define our
budget. We might have a great viral video idea, but if
we don’t have the budget to shoot it then the idea is
better kept in a bag.)
2. What’s our core idea? (E.g. - Our idea is to depict
usage of our product through an emotional story and
generate buzz for our brand).
3. Why is it different and what will achieve? (How does
our idea cut through the clutter? This is where we have
to clearly set out our campaign objectives i.e. generating
buzz or we want to improve conversions, build
awareness).
4. To what degree is it resonating with the
brand image? (How will this campaign
amplify our brand reach and drive
footfalls)
5. Who are our audience for this
campaign?(Segmentation and
Profiling)
6. How & why will they engage?
(Will they be using a portal or an
application? Are they being rewarded
with gratification or is the message so
compelling that they would like to visit it. Videos
that keep branding to a minimum and create high level
of emotional content generally do well).
7. How will we measure the success of this campaign
(While everyone knows that we can measure Views for
Video, Impressions/Traffic for a website, Entries for a
campaign, Transactions/Sales for an e-commerce site,
quite often we don’t benchmark the success. Are
1million views, good for my YouTube video? What’s
the industry average? How many views do my
competitors usually get on their campaign videos)
Sometimes campaign managers feel that their job
is done once they’ve launched a digital campaign.
Launching a campaign is just one end of the
spectrum as not everything that you create goes
viral on its own. You need to use tactics to push it
ahead, be it through ads or through word of
mouth and make your Digital campaign
successful.
- DAKSH SHARMA is the Director and Co-Founder of Delhi-NCR based Digital Agency, Iffort- www.iffort.com
ATL/BTL marketing campaign. The
only difference is the platform and
the roles of the team-members
some research and see what
This medium is so open that
campaign idea from looking at
something completely unrelated.
4. To what degree is it resonating with the
brand image? (How will this campaign
amplify our brand reach and drive
footfalls)
5. Who are our audience for this
campaign?(Segmentation and
Profiling)
6. How & why will they engage?
(Will they be using a portal or an
application? Are they being rewarded
with gratification or is the message so
May 2014 Small Enterprise 21
22 Small Enterprise May 2014
Cover Story I DIGITAL STRATEGY
May 2014 Small Enterprise 23
SME’s today, whether in the B2B
or B2C space must consider digital
marketing as a big focus area in
their marketing mix. One of the
key benefits of this is the ability to
identify and target consumers and
influence them across their
consumer journey.
One of the main activities of consumers when they come
online is to search for answers when they research products or
services. This is typically the start of a user journey. It is
important for all SMEs to ensure that their search strategy
(SEO and SEM) is in place. This can help drive traffic to their
website or a landing page.
Having a great website is important. A website needs to
not just answer all the questions that a prospect or customer
has, but should also be able to influence them to move to the
next level of decision making. For example, give information
around key interest areas/ explore what others feel about the
product /or have the ability to place an order online.
Driving traffic to one’s website which is the single
repository of everything about your brand and your pitch to
consumers is critical and there are several strategies to achieve
this. Apart from ‘search’ it’s important to also tie-up with the
right publishers and use targeting techniques. You can target
people based on interests. If someone has visited your website
but has moved away fast, you can now target this person via
retargeting techniques and e-marketing.
The entire journey from awareness to consideration,
preference and sales can be covered on digital. It is also
extremely important to have a presence on social media as no
digital strategy is complete without it. Today people are
interested in participating in conversations at social watering
holes such as Linkedin, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and blogs.
Integrating social media into your website strategy and having
a robust strategy for keeping the conversation going at all
levels on social media channels is important.
Digital is for the curious; for the explorers and for the
people who want to be better informed. A great content
strategy around your product offering is at the heart of what
needs to be done to bring alive a connection between a
customer and a brand. People love to snack on content when
they are online. They love to consume videos, articles and
infographics. This is why Youtube is now the second largest
search engine in the world and it is estimated that they have
almost 50 million visitors in India.
When taking a decision on which medium in the digital
world you should choose, it’s important to first understand the
consumer and how they are interacting with your brand.
Unlike any other media, in digital, you can have access to a
huge number of data points and have an ability to track
customer behaviors across channels. No customer journey is
linear- customers traverse the internet across websites, social
channels, publisher sites and devices (PC, Mobile, Tablet). It’s
important to define consumer journeys based on analytics and
take a decision on the channels that are best for your
campaigns. Observe consumer journeys using analytics,
correlate to actual goals/KPIs set by you such as leads, sales
or even consuming of content and optimize as you go.
More and more people are transitioning their marketing
spends to digital and its important to start today.
- KANIKA MATHUR
KANIKA MATHUR is the Managing Director of Razorfish India, part of Publicis Groupe, one of the world's largest interactive agencies.
Kanika Mathur

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Basics of Planning a Digital Marketing Campaign

  • 1. +Learn About • Business Traveller • SME Finance • HR Management • Tax for Small Business • Home Based Business The Magazine for Entrepreneurs of INDIA Volume-II, Issue-V KARENG/2010/33835 May 2014 Price: `75/- STATE SCAN Maharashtra SUCCESS STORY Creating a ‘RIOT’ in the Offline Retail Market FINANCE An “Outside In” Approach for Understanding SMEs AUTOMOTIVE CELERIO: The latest flagship hatchback from MARUTI WOMEN ENTREPRENEUR For Children with Special Needs
  • 2. 20 Small Enterprise May 2014 Basics of Planning A DIGITAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN Cover Story I DIGITAL MARKETING Daksh Sharma
  • 3. Planning an effective digital campaign is a vital cog in any marketer’s wheel. Every year we see innovative digital campaigns that steal the limelight & make it to the list of top campaigns. These campaigns boost the brand value and deliver unique experiences that create a long-term stakeholder impact. As brand marketers we often ask ourselves the million-dollar question –What is it that we need to do to create these campaigns and make them big & successful? In hindsight, these campaigns require weeks and sometime months of meticulous planning from multidisciplinary teams. The key is to understand that the planning components for a digital campaign are largely similar to an ATL/BTL marketing campaign. The only difference is the platform and the roles of the team-members involved. While planning your campaign, look around, do some research and see what your competition is doing. This medium is so open that you might get a digital campaign idea from looking at something completely unrelated. I strongly believe that while planning a digital campaign, you should not restrict yourself by bracketing within the boundaries of the digital medium only. Sometimes the idea might go beyond the digital medium and take the mainstream route. Instead of thinking about a Facebook app, a contest or a video you should focus on the core-idea or the brand message that needs to be propagated. Then you should think of what’s the best way to take this idea forward. Video is great to convey your message, portray emotions with a unique storytelling approach. Google India’s Reunion commercial video hit the emotional chord and garnered over 1million views by showing how a granddaughter in India uses Google to find her grandpa’s long lost friend who now lives far away in Pakistan. Wrangler for instance has beautifully positioned itself as biker friendly denim by nurturing biking communities in India through its nationwide campaign ‘True Wanderers’. While the interaction between bikers and the brand takes you through a portal, the campaign has broken the shackles with a holistic retail, print & BTL presence. The 7 Point Checklist for Crafting a Digital Campaign – Key Questions to Ponder Over 1. What is our top-level campaign budget? (Everything else will come to a standstill if we don’t define our budget. We might have a great viral video idea, but if we don’t have the budget to shoot it then the idea is better kept in a bag.) 2. What’s our core idea? (E.g. - Our idea is to depict usage of our product through an emotional story and generate buzz for our brand). 3. Why is it different and what will achieve? (How does our idea cut through the clutter? This is where we have to clearly set out our campaign objectives i.e. generating buzz or we want to improve conversions, build awareness). 4. To what degree is it resonating with the brand image? (How will this campaign amplify our brand reach and drive footfalls) 5. Who are our audience for this campaign?(Segmentation and Profiling) 6. How & why will they engage? (Will they be using a portal or an application? Are they being rewarded with gratification or is the message so compelling that they would like to visit it. Videos that keep branding to a minimum and create high level of emotional content generally do well). 7. How will we measure the success of this campaign (While everyone knows that we can measure Views for Video, Impressions/Traffic for a website, Entries for a campaign, Transactions/Sales for an e-commerce site, quite often we don’t benchmark the success. Are 1million views, good for my YouTube video? What’s the industry average? How many views do my competitors usually get on their campaign videos) Sometimes campaign managers feel that their job is done once they’ve launched a digital campaign. Launching a campaign is just one end of the spectrum as not everything that you create goes viral on its own. You need to use tactics to push it ahead, be it through ads or through word of mouth and make your Digital campaign successful. - DAKSH SHARMA is the Director and Co-Founder of Delhi-NCR based Digital Agency, Iffort- www.iffort.com ATL/BTL marketing campaign. The only difference is the platform and the roles of the team-members some research and see what This medium is so open that campaign idea from looking at something completely unrelated. 4. To what degree is it resonating with the brand image? (How will this campaign amplify our brand reach and drive footfalls) 5. Who are our audience for this campaign?(Segmentation and Profiling) 6. How & why will they engage? (Will they be using a portal or an application? Are they being rewarded with gratification or is the message so May 2014 Small Enterprise 21
  • 4. 22 Small Enterprise May 2014 Cover Story I DIGITAL STRATEGY
  • 5. May 2014 Small Enterprise 23 SME’s today, whether in the B2B or B2C space must consider digital marketing as a big focus area in their marketing mix. One of the key benefits of this is the ability to identify and target consumers and influence them across their consumer journey. One of the main activities of consumers when they come online is to search for answers when they research products or services. This is typically the start of a user journey. It is important for all SMEs to ensure that their search strategy (SEO and SEM) is in place. This can help drive traffic to their website or a landing page. Having a great website is important. A website needs to not just answer all the questions that a prospect or customer has, but should also be able to influence them to move to the next level of decision making. For example, give information around key interest areas/ explore what others feel about the product /or have the ability to place an order online. Driving traffic to one’s website which is the single repository of everything about your brand and your pitch to consumers is critical and there are several strategies to achieve this. Apart from ‘search’ it’s important to also tie-up with the right publishers and use targeting techniques. You can target people based on interests. If someone has visited your website but has moved away fast, you can now target this person via retargeting techniques and e-marketing. The entire journey from awareness to consideration, preference and sales can be covered on digital. It is also extremely important to have a presence on social media as no digital strategy is complete without it. Today people are interested in participating in conversations at social watering holes such as Linkedin, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and blogs. Integrating social media into your website strategy and having a robust strategy for keeping the conversation going at all levels on social media channels is important. Digital is for the curious; for the explorers and for the people who want to be better informed. A great content strategy around your product offering is at the heart of what needs to be done to bring alive a connection between a customer and a brand. People love to snack on content when they are online. They love to consume videos, articles and infographics. This is why Youtube is now the second largest search engine in the world and it is estimated that they have almost 50 million visitors in India. When taking a decision on which medium in the digital world you should choose, it’s important to first understand the consumer and how they are interacting with your brand. Unlike any other media, in digital, you can have access to a huge number of data points and have an ability to track customer behaviors across channels. No customer journey is linear- customers traverse the internet across websites, social channels, publisher sites and devices (PC, Mobile, Tablet). It’s important to define consumer journeys based on analytics and take a decision on the channels that are best for your campaigns. Observe consumer journeys using analytics, correlate to actual goals/KPIs set by you such as leads, sales or even consuming of content and optimize as you go. More and more people are transitioning their marketing spends to digital and its important to start today. - KANIKA MATHUR KANIKA MATHUR is the Managing Director of Razorfish India, part of Publicis Groupe, one of the world's largest interactive agencies. Kanika Mathur