Presented by Chris Shimojima, VP Global Digital Commerce, Nike

Make It Better.

Nike’s motto: If you have a body, you’re an athlete.

Nike Plus is an RFID chip in a shoe that interacts with an ipod or a wristband. You can get information on how you run - distance, time, pace, calories burned, etc. On their website, you can connect with other runners, establish challenges, create training regimes, log runs, download music, share routes, etc.

NikeiD - individually designed shoes. Online you can design your own shoes, share your designs and be showcased as a creator. Nike created an exclusive NikeiD design studio experience in NYC for professional athletes. In Japan, they created a mass market design studio to experiment in how to make it work for the masses. Recently they opened two stores in NYC and London for mass market NikeiD.

Nike feels that these services add to the retail experience and do not compete with their existing products. They are a way to differentiate their competitive offerings.

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Presented by Nancy Bhagat, VP Sales & Marketing Group, Director Integrated Marketing, Intel

Cost of media is low per person, but is unfocused.

There is a 300% growth rate in timeshifting TV.  But TV is not media, it’s a delivery.  Video will continue to exist, just in different places through different delivery strategies.  Behavior has changed in how people interact with ads.  56% say skipping ads is important part of timeshifting.

Technology is no longer about who is tech saavy and who is not anymore.  It is about the desire to purchase.  80% turn to Internet for information to make a purchase decision. Our targets are online.

People are looking for a person like them, but they don’t need to see or know them directly.  This is defined much differently than previously.

Great brands are no longer the brands that tell the best stories, but are the brands that have the best stories told about them. (needs source)

Power of online marketing:

• Impact
• Agility
• Targeting
• Scale

Leadership requires flexibility and focus. Online vehicles offer speed and flexibility to test multiple content types in one place and to determine what content is best.

Success metrics are shifting away from traditional impressions and CPC. The ability to evaluate success is critical.  Content is increasingly delivered through social media which is difficult to measure.  We now need to measure what matters - user engagement, behavior, movements & trends.  Data that is not actionable is meaningless.

We need to know what place people are in the buy cycle/qualification.  Data without valid business context is meaningless. We need to understand what activities are valued.  And if things don’t go well in those activities, we need to know what and why.

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Presented by Dan Stickel, CEO of WebTrends

Let’s take a look at Google’s innovation and how they do it.  They divide their efforts:

• 70% on core products - search quality, crawl/indexing, AdWords, AdSense, Toolbar
• 20% on emerging products - Blogger, Google Mini, Picasa, News, Pack
• 10% on break-out strategies - Offline Ads, Code, WiFi, Talk

Google also has these key ingredients in everything they do:

• Focus on users
• Think big
• Ignore Constraints
• Break the mold
• The right people
• Small teams
• Iteration & experiment
• Bottoms-up ideas & projects

Google harnesses the innovation of the entire world through easy-to-use tools.

Use some of these same ideas to turn motivated visitors to your website into customers.  Listen and build a better experience.

Get a 360 degree view of visitors:

• Listen - On your website, through onsite search, via surveys.
• Learn - From offsite information and CRM.
• Act - Email, Direct Mail, and use behavioral targeting.

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Presented by Geoffrey Ramsey, CEO of eMarketer

Data can be made to say anything you want.  People don’t trust advertising or marketing.

The growth rate for total media spending is only 3.3%.  The growth in traditional media - radio, tv, print is negative.  All the growth is online.  eMarketer is predicting 22.2% growth in online media spending, which includes online video and rich media.

Advice: Learn about communities. Test new marketing concepts without spending much money.

73% of online americans watch video online.  27% of online americans watch full length tv shows online.  47% are more engaged in the ads and 25% more engaged in the show than with traditional tv.  However - the audience is much smaller and spends less time per day watching.

Advice: Spending on online video ads should increase. They allow more measurability, target-ability and share-ability.

There are a few ways to use online video:

1. Post video footage of your products and services on your website.
2. Post video ads on content video sites (YouTube, etc.).  Relevancy is key.
3. Create webisodes (ex. Will It Blend)

30% of US marketers are using blogging as a tactic.  Watch for what people are saying about your company.  It may appear higher in search results than what you say.

Strategies for social networking:

1. Look, Listen, Lounge, Learn
2. Advertise - Improved Targeting
3. Advertise on smaller niche sites - be relevant
4. BYO (build your own) social network - remember its not about your product or service - create something of value to your customers

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Presented by David Placier, VP of Marketing, Disney.com

Definition of CRM - Customer Relationship Marketing

• Differentiating marketing treatment and/or service level for an individual or group
• Differentiating in order to optimize customer value to company
• ROI based
• Targeted effort, not mass

Customer value = income you receive from an individual - expenses acquiring, servicing and marketing to individual

When CRM started isn’t clear - Local shops use CRM by giving you different suggestions and service depending on what they know about you from past purchases and visits.

Direct mail credit card acquisitions change their offer based on your credit score, your assets, your zip code, public data about you.  They change their investment and marketing treatments based on this information.

Airline customer loyalty programs give premium seats and have separate lines for their best customers.

Online

Advertising - display location - where you surf may define which treatment group you get, but site experience is not differentiated by customer value or characteristics.

Search advertising is differentiated by treatment group - what you are saying, where you are landing, what you are searching for.

Product recommendations are characterized by previous choices, but maybe not by value and this experience is available to anyone.

With social media, find opinion leaders to treat differently and they will buy more, say more and influence more.

Future of CRM

• Personalization
• Optimization
• Addressability
• Commonly available data
• Cross device/platform continuity

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Presented by Mike Moran, Distinguished IBM Engineer

Yes, an engineer talking to you about marketing.

You need to watch what your customers are doing so you know what to do next.  While there are a lot of things out there that you can’t measure - there are about 20% that you can measure that lead to a sale.

You have a website out there which probably eventually leads to a sale.  What things do you do that lead to that sale?  What things does the customer do that leads to that sale?

Measure ROI in terms of (Gain - cost)/cost. For transactional ROI look at how many transactions you have.  What was the ROI for everything you had to do to make that transaction happen.  For relational ROI, how much did it cost you to acquire this new customer.

Take a look a direct marketers. They understand what works and doesn’t.  How?  They create multiple versions of every marketing piece and analyze the results.  They test the responses to multiple designs and adjust everything based on those results.

Apply this to your website. Define numeric objectives.  Try different approaches.  Get real feedback and constantly look at performance to see what’s working.

For example, you want to increase sales.  For your website there may be two ways to accomplish this - get more people to come or to persuade more of the people that do come to buy.  Measure based on the increase in traffic or the increase in conversions.

Sometimes it’s not clear what metric to use, so just choose one and stick with it.  You’re looking for a trend so just consistently measure the same thing.

Conclusion - Respond to your customers. Change things until you see something start to work.  Do it quickly.  Instead of trying to figure out what to do, just do something.  Let the market tell you what works and what doesn’t.

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