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Jul
17
2008

Internet Strategy Forum Summit – Innovate How We Connect

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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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Jul
17
2008

Internet Strategy Forum Summit – End to End Marketing: A Fundamental Shift

By | Analytics, Internet Advertising, ISFSummit, News & Notes

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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Jul
17
2008

Internet Strategy Forum Summit – Evolution of CRM

By | Internet Advertising, ISFSummit, News & Notes

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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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Jul
17
2008

Internet Strategy Forum Summit – Creating a Social Strategy That Will Work

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Presented by Charlene Li, VP & Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

The ease of posting anything on the Internet means that negative messages about your company may be higher in the search results than your own messages (ex. comcast technician sleeping on my couch – see YouTube).  This gives individuals enormous power, but it also means individuals help each other.

What can companies do about this?  Should this be something to fear?  It’s important for companies to have clear objectives about what they’re trying to achieve by using social media.  Think about relationships instead of technologies.

In the book, Groundswell, the following methodology is recommended:

  • P – People – Who is your audience? What are they doing online? How do they do it and when?
  • O – Objectives – What are you trying to accomplish for your business?
  • S – Strategy – Plan for how relationships with your customers will change.
  • T – Technology – Once all the other steps have been examined, take a look at what tools make sense to accomplish your goals.

People – Different types of people have different levels of online participation.  You can profile your customers at groundswell.forrester.com to see where they are on the participation ladder: inactives, spectators, joiners, collectors, critics, creators.  Age is a major driver of participation, but as more content becomes available online, there has been more participation.

Objectives – Different departments in your company will have different objectives for social media:

  • Market Research – Listening
  • Marketing – Talking (have open-ended conversations)
  • Sales – Energizing (activating your most passionate customers)
  • Support – Supporting (your customers can help support each other)
  • Development – Embracing (customer ideas and feedback can speed up and provide higher quality development which better meets the market needs)

Strategy – Start small because you will make lots of mistakes.  Think big about how this can transform your organization.  Control is an illusion – the conversations about your brand will happen whether or not you participate.  Understand what motivates people to participate – very rarely is monetary – they want to help, make a difference, be heard, and be part of a community.

Technology – This will depend on where the people you want to reach are already.  It may make more sense to participate in an existing community than to start your own.

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