This document discusses engagement marketing and how it can help companies connect emotionally with customers. It emphasizes listening to customers, conversing across channels over the entire customer lifecycle. Data on customer behaviors and actions can provide insights into interests. Direct mail combined with personalized digital outreach is presented as an engagement strategy. The goal of engagement marketing is to build brand awareness, identify high value customers, convert opportunities quickly, and build long term loyalty and advocacy to drive greater revenue.
Not that long ago, there were few 3rd party sources of information – information scarcity – which meant that a buyer had to get most of their information from sales.It also meant we lived in a world of attention abundance, with fewer channels competing for a buyer’s attention.
But now, there is an explosion of readily available information… This is a recent phenomenon… According to IBM, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone.IDC report, Extracting Value from Chaos, says that that amount of global digital information created and shared worldwide has grown 9-fold in the five years to 2011 to nearly 2 zettabytes (2 trillion GB), and should quadruple again by 2015All this data = buyers today are more empowered. The Web provides them with instant information gratification. They can access detailed specs, pricing, and reviews about goods and services 24/7 with a few flicks of their thumbs. Meanwhile, social media encourages them to share and compare, while mobile devices add a wherever/whenever dimension to every aspect of the experience. Result: 65-90% of buying process is complete when consumer is walks into store/branch/dealer, or contacts salesRequires deep changes in how we market to consumers.So, how are we as marketers doing responding to this?
Buying has changed forever. We used to live in the age of information scarcity, where the primary sources for information about a product or service was the sales rep, publications and big ad campaigns. Now, with the Internet and thousands of 3rd party information sources, buyer’s are getting their information elsewhere, and often aren’t ready to engage with a rep until they are 60 to 70% of the way through the buying process. Reaching these buyers in new ways is the challenge for today’s marketers, and Maketo helps marketers meet that challenge.
In modern marketing, we target our messages. However, just because someone’s a target, doesn’t mean the message is going to be relevant. Especially since marketer’s aren’t listening. This is interruptive marketing.
This is what it sounds like when done wrong.It beats an incessant drum for subscribers. And does not engage them or enthuse them to open in future,
On any given day, the average customer will be exposed to 2,904 media messages, will pay attention to 52 and will positively remember 4 –SuperProfile 201060% have a negative opinion of marketing61% feel amount is out of control65% feel constantly bombarded59% feel marketing has very little relevance
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The next evolution of marketing focuses on engagement.
Interruptive marketing talks at customers. Engagement marketing talks with them.
The more frequently and consistently a brand can connect with a customer on an emotional level, the stronger and deeper the customer becomes engaged with the brand.
So how can we be more relevant and engaging?You can’t be relevant if you’re broad.We know batch and blast does not work – it is simply less engaging. One way is to be more targeted – smaller sends = more engaging. Engagement Score enables marketers to quickly judge how effectively each piece of content is engaging prospects and customers over time… combines open, click, unsubscribe, conversion, and so on into a single metrics.
Today’s consumers move seamlessly across digital and offline channels. According to a recent Experian QAS® survey, 36 percent of U.S. organizations interact with customers and prospects in five or more channels.In retail banking, 61% of consumers use three or more channels each month (e.g. branch, phone, online, and mobile – in addition to email). However, Companies Not Prepared to Deliver Integrated ExperiencesQUOTE: “Fewer than 10 percent of brands are executing true cross-channel communications informed by one view of the customer.” - The 2013 Digital Marketer, Experian = Big opportunity to increase relevancy.Organization silos:Traditionally, marketing organizations are made up of either product or channel teams. Within this structure, each team works hard to optimize their siloed marketing efforts — and, in most places, have gotten really good at delivering their individual marketing programs and defending their individual marketing budgetsTechnology silos: Many of the tools are focused on a channel — email, mobile, catalog or Web. The big challenge for marketers is that message delivery within channels almost always happens via disparate platforms. Especially a problem with ESP. Email “grew up” with companies using stand-alone email service providers (ESPs) and outside agencies. This legacy hangs over email today. Traditional email service providers (ESP) = not multi-channel, not channel agnosticThe modern, digitally-empowered consumer doesn’t think in terms of channels and doesn’t care about your silos.Uses whatever device they have in the moment… web, mobile, tabletSo, companies shouldn’t expect the consumer to adapt; companies should adapt. This means moving from channel- or promotion-centric marketing plans to customer-centric marketing plans, and enabling those plans with marketing technology that is ready to deliver.
The key to relevance is behavioral targeting.So you want relevancy and engagement – but this requires sophisticated targeting that combines online body language (web traffic, search behavior, email response) plus transactional data plus with lifestyle and demographic data (personas)When behavioral cues are not used, email can be experienced as a dissonant interruption. What the sender considers a coordinated "drip campaign" may feel more like water torture to the receiver.
Which emails did the consumer open and/or click on? How long ago did was the last interaction with your email (three days, three weeks ago or three months)?Email: sent, opened, clicked, bounced, unsubscribed, etc.
Social: Did the consumer mention your company on Twitter? Did they navigate to your site from Facebook? Share one of your messages? Comment on a post on your site?
Website: Did the consumer visit your website? How recently? What content did he or she download or watch? What keywords were used to navigate to the site? What forms?
purchase history, deposit, withdrawal, cart abandonment, data usage, etcCLOSING:Fundamentally, consumers increasingly expect this. They know how much information is available, and expect marketers to use it. They expect you to know the answers questions such as: What did they want? What did they look at? How did they react? … and then to use that information to create more relevant interactions.
Result: Big lift!More on our blog about this: http://blog.marketo.com/blog/2013/06/topic-of-interest-based-nurturing.html
Social plays an increasingly large role in the cross channel experience. consumers trust ads only about 33% of the time – but, they trust recommendations from peers 92% of the time. We believe social is just a channel. Don’t do social campaigns… make every campaign social.
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Example of a Multi-Channel Marketo Campaign
76% of consumers have been directly influenced to purchase through direct mail
They sign up for the demoWe kickoff a sales alert and create a task in the CRM systemA sales rep calls, qualifies, and sets up the demo account
They sign up for the demoWe kickoff a sales alert and create a task in the CRM systemA sales rep calls, qualifies, and sets up the demo account
This is more like what you want your communications to be….