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In Data We Trust

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In Data We Trust
Ajit Sivadasan, VP/GM Global eCommerce, Lenovo

Icebreaker: How you hold your drink reveals your personality.

2009 study established 8 personality types based on how you hold your drink in a bar.

How Lenovo Transformed their brand

Key Questions

  1. What is driving change?
  2. What are the new rules?
  3. How do we leverage the new model?

Macro Change Agents

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  1. Online traffic is accelerating
    1. 560% growth in adoption since 2000
    2. Moving to massively online platforms
  2. Social / Digital driving the network effect
    • Social media reaches 82% of the world and uses 19% of total time spent online
  3. Marketing Model has changed
  4. Data is creating opportunities
    • By 2020, the digital universe will grow by a factor of 300
    • From now until 2020, the digital universe will double every two years

Harnessing the Power of Intent Data and Predictive Analytics

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Harnessing the Power of Intent Data and Predictive Analytics
Michael Mire, SweetIQ

Local search is the ultimate indicator of intent.

  • We’re doing it all the time. (4 in 5 consumers use search engines to find local information.)
  • We’re doing it more and more. (Google search interest in “near me” has increased 34x since 2011.)

We’re on our way to online to offline (O2O) direct attribution.

Today, there are lots of moving parts, which makes it look a lot like Swiss Cheese.

You’re only able to track <3% of the market today, so it’s difficult to create a reliable model.

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Build an O2O attribution funnel / model.

  • Impressions – number of times your stores appeared in local search

The Relentless Pursuit of the Right Answer: Why Achieving Relevance at Scale is Worth Your Time

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The Relentless Pursuit of the Right Answer: Why Achieving Relevance at Scale is Worth Your Time
Scott Ensign, DAC Group
Erin Heffernan, Optimedia US

What does relevance mean in Search?

Inherent in every search is a question. Context is extremely important.

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  • Give the right answer every time
  • Leverage more than just the keyword
  • Get highly targeted in your ad copy
  • Keep to the leading edge of user expectations
    • Mobile can be the primary driver for some campaigns
  • Search engines know a lot about the user. How do you leverage that data?
    • Not settling for “best available” destination

Building Scaled Search Programs

  • Think of the user (the user doesn’t care about your org chart)
  • Think of the client
  • Leverage business/third-party data
  • Campaigns are the new ad groups
  • Leverage technology

Tools to Manage at Scale

  • Proprietary tools
  • SEM tools