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1 Developing Digital Marketing Skills in 2016 Dr Dave Chaffey, CEO, SmartInsights.com Download presentation and report: http://bit.ly /digitalskills2015

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Developing Digital Marketing Skills in 2016

Dr Dave Chaffey, CEO, SmartInsights.com

Download presentation and report:http://bit.ly/digitalskills2015

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About Dave Chaffey

• Trainer and consultant in Digital Marketing since ’97. Digital strategies developed with brands like 3M, BP, Euroffice, Mercedes, HSBC, Tui, Royal Canin (Mars Group), Microsoft and Tilda.

• Author of 5 bestselling Digital marketing books

• Co-founder and Editor of SmartInsights.com - a marketing advice community with over one million unique visitors each quarter. Expert members in over 80 countries use our RACE planning guides, templates and online courses to improve results.

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Agenda Not just a “Statfest”!

The “Top 20 Skills” plus recommendations for 5 Skills areas

The Gap between how businesses should and do support skills

Tools and frameworks to help you improve your digital marketing skills

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The Ascent of Digital Skills

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Dell’s Journey to a Social Business

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Digital in Demand

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Skills: Digital in Demand

Sample n=1028 worldwide

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Skills: Digital in Demand

Sample n=1028 worldwide

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Too much!…so focus on the online sales

drivers

Custora Pulse – leading US retailers

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The Company View?

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“We have to learn new technical skills and hire a different mix of people.

“There are two different areas of expertise developing in marketing. There is the ‘left brain’ of data, insights, marketing operations and automation.

Source: TFM Interview

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“I need to hire really good analysts to interrogate our data and make sense to produce valuable insights.

Then there is the ‘right brain’ of content and creative…”

Source: TFM Interview

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“But what we are missing are the leaders of the future who are capable to straddling both to see the overall strategy, how we use digital and social channels.

We need to train our talent to fuse the two.”

Source: TFM Interview

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What do you think is important in digital marketing?

Which digital marketing activity will increase your commercial returns most in 2016? 1. “Big Data” 2. Content Marketing 3. Marketing Automation

(incl. email, lead scoring, personalisation)

4. Mobile Marketing 5. Conversion Rate Optimisation

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Q. Which digital

marketing activity will

most INCREASE

your commercial returns in

2016?

Digital Trends 2016 post

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Content SHOCK in 2016

Mark Schaefer coins Content Shock

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‘Me-too’ content isn’t effective

BuzzSumo-Moz research

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Is Most Business Blogging a Waste of

Time? 1. Be AWESOME! 2. Think like a

publisher 3. Understand what

works for others 4. Less is more 5. Mix it up with a

range of content formats.

6. Build links by partnering

Dave’s article

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SKILLS Area : 1 Digital Strategy Recommendations: 1. Understand process planning

frameworks:SOSTAC® and RACE

2. Become an evangelist for Digital Transformation = Digital Integration

3. How to create agile, actionable 90 day plans

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SOSTAC® Planning Skills

PR Smith’s SOSTAC® Planning framework www.prsmith.org See our SOSTAC® planning guide for Expert members

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SOSTAC® : What, Why, How, When?

PR Smith’s SOSTAC® Planning framework www.prsmith.org See SOSTAC® planning guide for Expert members

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Amanda has gone as far as to ban the word ‘digital’ to encourage her team to think beyond organisational silos.

“We need to go back to what marketing is, and the product is marketing. More people need to remember that, get off the drug of digital being something separate and get back to what we do best”.

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SKILLS Area : 2 MOBILEIn-demand Mobile marketing skills 1. Advertising to audiences on mobile,

e.g. Programmatic, Retargeting, In-app

2. Analytics and CRO to understand and improve mobile (and cross-device) conversion

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Now past mobile search Tipping Point

Source: Google Data presented at ScreenPages event Mar 2015

B2B is different - Smart Insights latest figures – new visits

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Mobile vital, but don’t throw out the ‘desktop’

Is your site design mobile or adaptive?

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Mobile First – from responsive to adaptive?

PlusNet Responsive example

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AO.com adaptive example

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Mobile design support - Vote! A. Don’t have a mobile optimised site B. Separate mobile site C. Mobile responsive design D. Mobile adaptive design

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SKILLS Area : 3 CRO and Experience 1. Understand the

principles and process

2. Encourage adoption of structured tests and tools

3. Get ‘hands-on’ with GA:https://analyticsacademy.withgoogle.com/explorer

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UK Ecommerce example of mindset

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Pop-ups work (unfortunately)

Source: Kath Pay on Smart Insights

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Smart Insights research with CommuniGator

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SKILLS Area : 4 Marketing Automation Skills typically lacking:

Designing rules-based email sequences Lead scoring Email targeting and testing Testing web-based personalisation options Predictive analytics

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Our experience at Smart Insights

with using dynamic content?Open rate Clickthrough

rateBefore 20.0% 1.9%After 18.9 – 27.4% 7.5% -

20.6%

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Email 'Type' Customer Lifecycle Segmentation

  Prospects Nursery Development Lapsing Lapsed

Lifecycle P2C programme Nursery programme

Spot the winners

Prevent Lapsing programme Lapsed programme

Behavioural

Triggered by customer behaviour: ABBA, BnB, Accessories etc (max.1 email per week for each programme)

Newsletter Sent wk. 1 each month to all contacts with personalised content

Feature Email Sent wk. 2 each month to all contacts

Offers and Deals Sent wk. 3 each month to all contacts

NPI Sent wk. 4 each month to all contacts

Content insertion Automation exampleMonthly Planning Framework

Source: Harriet Mitchell Smart Insights Digital Impact conference

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The RS NewsletterHero banner

Customised content: (Customer Profile)• EDE (Electronic Design Engineers)• Non-EDE (Electronic Design Engineers)• Promo Excluded (Key and Corporates)

CLC ModuleCustomised content: (Customer Lifecycle)• Nursery• Development• Acquisition

BEH ModuleCustomised content: (Behavioural data)• Abandoned Baskets• Browsed Not Bought• Propensity to Buy (A recommendations

model)• Top Sellers

Local Module

Product modules can vary in number and format. Maximum of 8 modules per email.

Product Modules

Optional modules for any local activity/information.

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SKILLS Area : 5 Analytics & insight 1. Understand the principles and process

for successful ‘Test and Learn’ 2. Understand dashboard design and VQVC

measures 3. Be aware of the free and paid tools –

which do you use to ‘stay up-to-date’?

10 free insight tools for the ‘hands-on’ digital marketer

55Buffer Open Real Time Dashboard

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n Searches% Brand

ReachAwarenessand visits

Uniquevisitors

Bouncerate

Revenueper visit

Page views/visit

ActInteractionand leads

nLeads%

Conversion to lead

Goal value

per visit

Average order value

ConvertSales and

profitnSales

% Conversion

to saleSales value

n Brandmentions

EngageLoyalty and

advocacy% active

customers%

Customerconversion

% existing

sales value

Volume Quality Value

Creating a simplified RACE dashboard

Source: Smart Insights: RACE Planning Framework

Segment and attribute for content types and channels

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Company support

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Next Steps? See how your business rates

http://www.smartinsights.com/howgood

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Let’s Connect! Questions & discussion welcome

SmartInsights.com:: Plan | Manage | Optimize

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www.smartinsights.com/membership

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the key digital marketing skills DIY Planning and optimisation

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