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In Data We Trust

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data-lenovoAfternoon Keynote
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

Ultimate Engagement: Data Driven Email Tactics

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email-marketingUltimate Engagement: Data Driven Email Tactics
by Jed Williams, Vendasta

We can leverage data to…

  1. Pinpoint businesses when they are “Ready to Buy”
  2. Contact them as close as possible to that moment
  3. Offer pertinent solutions at the right price and service model.
  4. Manage pipelines more effectively; Improve sales efficiency

Marketing Automatcion

  • actual business data
  • targeted email campaigns
  • evergreen marketing
  • real-time tracking

Marketing Automation Struggles

  • 70% of marketers are unhappy with their current marketing automation platform

Know your stakeholders

  • sales manager
    • needs: pipeline management & robust analytics
      • lead tracking & performance
      • easily provision, sell, fulfill
      • marketing after the sale
  • sales rep
    • needs: smart, persistent campaigns & real-time alerts
  • Business owner
    • needs: vendor declutter, education, fulfillment
      • prescriptive content
      • targeted solutions
      • agency of record

Reputation & Presence Data = Foundational

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Opening Keynote at ClickZ Live Chicago 2015 – Digital Transformation or Extinction

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Victor Lee from Hasbro - keynote for ClickZ Live Chicago 2015
Victor Lee from Hasbro – keynote for ClickZ Live Chicago 2015

Digital Transformation or Extinction

My notes from the Opening Keynote at ClickZ Live Chicago 2015

by Victor Lee @vlee, Senior Vice President, Digital Marketing, Hasbro, Incorporated

Why is change so hard? We love normal.

Netflix tried to sell 49% to Blockbuster, but Blockbuster said “no” because they didn’t want change. Now Blockbuster doesn’t exist any more.

We accept average. On average a banner ad click-through rate now is .1% to .2%. We celebrate a .25% click-through rate because it’s above average, but who wants to be average? The majority of the world has accepted the current numbers. It’s safe.

Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid to win. “Because we’ve always done it that way.” The people who have always done it that way, usually aren’t around anymore.

Newspapers, radio and TV have had to change to be relevant.

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My Notes on “Marketing Technology as Force Multiplier & Competitive Advantage” – Digital Velocity Conference 2015

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These are my notes on the presentation by Scott Brinker, Co-Founder, President, CTO, ion interactive at the 2015  Digital Velocity Conference – San Diego, California. I hope I can get a hold of the slides. It was an excellent presentation.

The Marketing Technology Landscape is constantly changing. There are thousands of technology companies available for marketers to use. You can see the system dynamics of 2000+ marketing technology  companies.

Why this explosion?

  • Marketing Segmentation
  • Environmental Factors
  • Easier to Sell Software
  • Financially Attractive Market

Marketers are dealing with a lot more software now.

The Shift from Communications to Experiences

Google - Zero Moment of TruthGoogle’s Zero Moment of Truth examines this shift.

Marketing today isn’t about getting buyers to picture your narrative… It’s about getting them to experience it.

Digital storytelling includes:

  • software bought & built
  • configurations &parameters

Software is how marketing “sees” and “touches” customers in a digital world.

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Be Real and Be Nice in Social Media

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The Jeter FamilyIt’s amazing how some days just have a theme. Today in my daily ritual of browsing my social spaces, the theme of being real, being helpful and being polite when participating in Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. kept coming up over and over again.

First, I read a great article by Jonathan Morrow on Copyblogger, (which creates the Genesis Framework that I use on my blog) called “21 Warning Signs You’re Becoming a Social Media Snob” that gives great insight and a cool self-evaluation tool to see if you have become a “Social Media Snob”. I won’t divulge my score, but I think I’m doing okay, but it’s a good reminder that I can be doing better. My favorite part of the article is the solution, which is to show empathy and caring in your social interactions online.

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Pinterest IS Making Money… …Off of YOU!

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Pinterest

I’ve been watching Pinterest with fascination because of the massive appeal it has for certain demographics. It’s really clever because it is a graphical bookmarking site billed a social online pinboard that allows you to “organize and share the things you love.” Everyone expects that a popular site like Pinterest should be making money, but noticeably absent from the interface are any advertising blocks or any other promotional spaces.

It makes sense, though considering the findings posted on Digital Trends that Pinterest is converting shared links on the site to affiliate links. This is not surprising, as it seems one of the most logical ways to convert the user-generated content on the site into monetizable traffic. However, the interesting thing is that they don’t disclose anywhere on their site or their blog that they are modifying the links that members are “pinning” to their “boards”. Looking through their terms, copyright notice and privacy policy, the standard items are in place, but nothing about modifying the content uploaded to the site to generate income via affiliate relationships. What I’m curious about is how this fits into the FTC guidelines for disclosing affiliate relationships. Maybe it only applies to bloggers and only applies to those who blog about items provided via affiliate relationships.

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Posting From WordPress to Google+

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Google+ WallpaperI’ve been working for the last few weeks to try and figure out an easy way to automatically add posts from my WordPress blog to my Google+ page. Hoping that someone else had already created a plugin, I searched in vain both in the WordPress plugins directory, as well as other WordPress sites and forums. I thought I had finally found a way, however, convoluted to be able to semi-automatically add a blog post to my Google plus page. However, it seems like every time I almost figure it out, there’s still one piece missing.

A cool thing, though, is that if you use the Google+ badge on your site, you can +1 your post (which you should do anyway for all of your posts, right?) which then allows you to share the post on your wall. It’s an extra step, but it makes it easy for you to easily share your latest post on your Google+ page.

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Navigating “The Dip”: Planning a Successful Site Re-launch

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Moderator:
Matthew Bailey, SES Advisory Board & President, Site Logic Marketing

Speakers:
Jonathan Allen, Director, SearchEngineWatch
Andrew Goodman, SES Advisory Board & President, Page Zero Media
Kevin Lee, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Didit.com

Kevin Lee

The good news is that if you follow the rules, you can pull off all sorts of site architecture pandemonium. They had a scenario where they had to simultaneously change subdomain and 301 redirect 16 million URLs and were able to pull it off successfully.

Google’s algorithm is tweaked almost daily. Once or twice a year the changes are significant and get a name, like “Panda”.

Panda was a zero-sum game. For each site that lost rank and free organic position, another site took its place. The business directory site that is a Didit subsidiary doubled in traffic, then dropped and came back. Be patient and take all also changes with a grain of salt. Changes can occur from day to day.

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