1. How to Prove Marketing
ROI: Overcoming Digital
Marketing Challenges
June 4, 2020

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The Open-Source
Expansion Partner

3. Ally has a deep passion for people and data. She has led
strategic initiatives for Pricewaterhouse Coopers,
MagMutual, Habitat for Humanity, Guardian Insurance, and
NOAA. Her expertise ensures the business goals of our
clients are met through digital solutions.
Ally takes pride in her ability to make others feel valued
and appreciated. As a strategist, this allows her to see
through the lens of various users to provide the best
possible digital experiences across a variety of platforms.
She works with clients to analyze and improve these digital
experiences through strategic roadmaps, user research
and testing, data analysis, and execution.
Ally DelGuidice-Bove
Digital Strategist
“Happiness can be found
even in the darkest of times,
if one only remembers to
turn on the light.”
- Albus Dumbledore

4. Danielle Barthelemy
Senior Digital Strategist
"It’s supposed to be hard. If
it wasn’t hard, everyone
would do it. The hard is what
makes it great."
- Jimmy Dugan,
A League of Their Own
Danielle is a Senior Digital Strategist who loves all
types of marketing from marketing strategy to social
marketing. She built her impressive expertise through
a love for education and her experience at several
boutique marketing agencies. She loves partnering
with clients on projects to create data-driven
strategies.
In addition to her agency roles, Danielle developed
and taught a new digital marketing course at St.
Cloud State University as an adjunct professor.

5. Vicky Walker
Digital Strategist
“Always believe in yourself. Do
this and no matter where you
are, you will have nothing to
fear.”
- The Cat Returns (2002)
In her role as a Digital Strategist, Vicky combines her
background in international business and digital ad
strategy to help Mediacurrent clients build
relationships between brands and their customers.
Her areas of expertise include project launch
coordination, user experience, and digital advertising.
Vicky has worked on social ad campaigns for Disney,
Target, Wyndham Hotels, Bose, Royal Caribbean, and
other enterprise brands representing tens of millions
of dollars in ad revenue. Prior to joining Mediacurrent,
Vicky owned a social media strategy consultancy
supporting PPC-focused ad agencies and individual
companies who needed social ad expertise.

6. Today’s
Agenda
1. Attribution Overview
2. The Right Mindset
3. Implementing an Attribution Strategy
4. Q&A

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8. Attribution
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Impact of Attribution
Justify investments
through data
Reduce wasted spendBetter understanding of
customer journey
Better allocation
of budget
Increase leads Increase revenue Creates actionable insight
Justify investments
through data
Reduce wasted spendBetter understanding of
customer journey
Better allocation
of budget
Increase leads Increase revenue Creates actionable insight

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Aligning metrics across varying
technology platforms with
different means of measurement.
Tying metrics to business
objectives
Bad data (inaccurate,
incomplete, siloed)
Can be costly for resources
and technology
Buy-in + alignment from
organization
Complex buyer’s journey with
multiple touchpoints
Attribution is Hard
Aligning metrics across varying
technology platforms with
different means of measurement.
Tying metrics to business
objectives
Bad data (inaccurate,
incomplete, siloed)
Can be costly for resources
and technology
Buy-in + alignment from
organization
Complex buyer’s journey with
multiple touchpoints

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The Right Mindset

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Without the right mindset, you will
be facing an uphill battle in making
data a sustainable competitive
advantage and communicating the
ROI of your efforts.
Three key elements include:
● An infinite mindset
● A data driven culture
● Critical, multifaceted thinking
Overview

13. An Infinite Mindset
is Critical
Proving ROI requires more than a “we have achieved attribution!”
mindset. It can’t be finite. We need to see attribution, success of
marketing strategy and data driven decision making in an infinite
light. There is always room to grow, always room for optimization.

14. Foster a Data
Driven Culture
The value of data has to be understood by employees at every
level in order to have the resources to execute on a data
strategy, to leverage the data and realize the value of the insight,
and enrich the data with contextual meaning.

15. Understanding the
Role of Data
The goal is not simply to gather all the data! To best use data
to communicate ROI, you have to:
● understand the unique role of data in your strategy
● apply critical thinking to define how you plan to use
analytics to create business advantage
● execute and continually optimize
Without a clear, cross functional consensus on the role of
data, people and teams and entire departments go off on
their own. There is a lot of activity but little sustained benefit
and little chance of cumulative positive impact.

16. Implementing an
Attribution Strategy

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Understand where you’re going
before you build a map. In this
section we’ll cover:
● Establishing Goals + KPIs
● Customer Touch Points
● Centralizing Data
● Analyzing Data
● Optimizing Strategy
Overview

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Establish Goals and KPIs
“Marketers who set goals are 376% more likely to report success
than those who don’t. And 70% of those successful, goal-setting
marketers achieve them.” 1

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When beginning a conversation about
attribution, always start with a conversation
about organizational goals.
What is at the heart of our goal? What does the
organization really want to accomplish?
If you haven’t been given any goals, select a
few and get confirmation from leadership. Then
you can further define KPIs.
Tying Marketing
Objectives to
Business
Objectives

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Organizational Goal
Increase revenue by 2% YoY.
Marketing Goal
Increase leads by 10% YoY
while keeping conversion
rate consistent.
KPIs
● # of leads
● Conversion rate
Example 1:

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Organizational Goal
Build brand awareness in
new niche market.
Marketing Goal
Display 100,000 ad
impressions to new target
audience within Q3.
KPIs
● # of impressions
● Click Through Rate
● New User Sessions
Example 2:

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Challenges Tips + Tricks
Tying Marketing Objectives to
Overall Business Objectives
Ask yourself, “What’s the purpose
of the goal? Brand awareness?
Lead generation? Revenue?”
I know the organizational goals, but
I’m having a hard time tying them to
what we’re able to do in marketing.
Our organizational goals are not
actionable.
We don’t have defined
organizational goals.
Collaborate with leadership to
define how marketing can best
serve the organization.

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Tying Marketing Objectives to
Overall Business Objectives
Challenges Tips + Tricks
There is SO MUCH DATA!
Everything has a data point. How do
I choose the most important
metrics for KPIs?
Designate some metrics as metrics
to watch.
It’s okay to evolve them over time.

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...especially at first!
Choosing a goal based on the
data you have, and adapting
your goals over time as you
learn more, will get you much
farther than having no goals
at all.
It’s OK to Be
Wrong...

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Map Customer Touchpoints
and Common Journeys
The consumer journey has seen monumental shifts over the
past few decades. It’s important to understand where we
started, in order to properly plan for the nuances that come with
the modern customer journey today.

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Back in the Day...
Asked friends
and family
Visited a car
showroom
Sat down with the
salesman to ask
questions
Test drove a few
models
Purchase!
Need: Buy a new car!

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To Now!
Awareness Interest Consideration Purchase Retention Advocacy
Saw a friend get a
new car
Read blogs on car
safety ratings
Researched
different car
models
Received an
email about a
car model
Searched for car
dealerships
near you
Began evaluating
pricing options
Post on social
media about the
new car
Told friends about
the experience
Visited a
dealership website
Continued to
compare price and
finance options
Visited a
dealership to test
drive different
models
Purchase!
Joined a branded Facebook
group with other car owners to
keep up to date on latest
changes and trends
Reviewed their
website for FAQs

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Understanding the User Journey
Challenges Tips + Tricks
Look closely at the trends within
your industry to get an idea of
where your customers might be.
The internet has vastly changed
how users search for products.
Where do I even start?
How do I create a sustainable plan
to track customer touchpoints?
Start small. Examine your
sales journey.
My users are everywhere. How do I
know which channels to focus
mapping out touchpoints for?
Tie this back to your organizational
goals and KPIs. Ask yourself: “Which
channel will give me the most ROI?”

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Centralize Data
The process of centralizing data will help give you a global vision
of your customers, empower your analytics to gain a 360 degree
view, and help to determine customer or account level
profitability.

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Three Popular Approaches
Blending
More flexible. Optimal for
long-term insights for
datasets with disparities.
Joining
Combining two databases.
These datasets need to have
the same key.
Integration
Extracting data and importing
it into another. Not ideal but
can be relevant.

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Streamlining Your Data Processes
Challenges Tips + Tricks
I have data from a TON of
different sources.
Take inventory and ask yourself: “What
data is needed to help solve my specific
problem?”
How do I help my leadership
easily understand our progress
against our goals?
Utilizing a visualization tool like Google
Data Studio with only your KPIs and how
they tie in to the business objectives.
How do I know if my data
is accurate?
Consistently audit your data
configurations and gut check the data.

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Capture and Analyze
Insightful Data
One-third of industry professionals highlight that the right
technologies for data collection and analysis are essential for
better understanding customers. So what is the right way to
accomplish this?

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Put Your Data
to Work
Improve your
product
Capture more
market share
Increase
operational
efficiency
Better
understanding of
the user journey
Decrease call
volume
Gathering data is just the first step
in the process - it only becomes
useful once you:
● Assign attribution
● Perform analyses
● Move from insight to impact
Then you can put your data to
work improving outcomes across
your business.

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Attribution Modeling
Challenges Tips + Tricks
Get buy-in from leadership.
Explore how the model fits within your
organization’s analytics toolset.
Align the business goals across your
organization.
Ask yourself again: “What are our goals?”
I don’t know how to
assign attribution.
How do I know which attribution
model is right for my organization?

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Data Analyzation
Challenges Tips + Tricks
I don’t have the bandwidth on my
team to analyze the data.
I lack the skills needed to analyze
the data in an insightful way.
Use the resources available to you to
level up your data literacy.
Create automated reporting or dashboards
to make analyzation more efficient.

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Current
Measurement
Quarterly Goal
Measurement
Percent Increase
or Decrease
Value per
Item
Expected Revenue
or Cost Savings per
Item
Organic Search Traffic 18% 25% 38.89% $3.00 $ 1.17
Email Click-Through
Rate
1% 3% 200.00% $ 0.75 $ 1.50
Bounce Rate 65% 40% -38.46% $ 2.50 $ (0.96)
Qualified Students
Applications
200 300 50.00% $ 10,000.00 $ 5,000.00
Alumni Donations 100,000 150,000 50.00% $ 1.00 $ 0.50
The ROI Scorecard

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Optimize!
With an infinite mindset, this process is cyclical. You continually
are pushing through to improve your attribution. To be stronger
than you were yesterday. To be a step further in understanding
your audience than you were last month.

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2 Is my data centralized?
What were the findings of my last
A/B tests?6
3 Has my marketing budget changed
recently?
Has my organization launched a new
product or service?7
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How is sales performing? What
insight are we learning from sales
opportunities?
When was the last time I set up
segments for my various audiences?5
4 How are consumer behaviors
shifting?
How are my paid advertising
campaigns performing?8
When to Optimize
2 Is my data centralized?
What were the findings of my last
A/B tests?6
3 Has my marketing budget changed
recently?
Has my organization launched a new
product or service?7
1
How is sales performing? What
insight are we learning from sales
opportunities?
When was the last time I set up
segments for my various audiences?5
4 How are consumer behaviors
shifting?
How are my paid advertising
campaigns performing?8
Knowing when to optimize is a challenge all marketers have. How do you know how often you
should be tracking, readjusting, and testing your data?

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every quarter depending on how your
campaigns are set.
7. Repeat the process
from all channels and sources
you are current tracking from.
1. Review data
of successes, areas of
opportunity, and what you are
learning about your audience.
2. Take inventory
of how the data is
being tracked.
6. Adjust current setup
to address
opportunities.
3. Map out plan
and failures of what the
testing is telling you.
5. Track successes
Create a plan to test on various channels
4. Testing, testing, testing
Review, Readjust, Repeat!
Optimize!
Growing your
data measurement
strategy is cyclical

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Foster a data driven culture.
Establish goals and KPIs first to know what return you’re measuring.
Evolve your understanding of your audience and map their journeys.
Centralize your data to tell a stronger story of ROI.
Adopt an infinite mindset.
Optimize your data and analysis approach to further establish data as
a competitive advantage.
Key Takeaways
Adopt an infinite mindset.
Foster a data driven culture.
Establish goals and KPIs first to know what return you’re measuring.
Evolve your understanding of your audience and map their journeys.
Centralize your data to tell a stronger story of ROI.
Optimize your data and analysis approach to further establish data as
a competitive advantage.

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