The ‘modern shopper’ encounters endless messages via a plethora of online and offline marketing channels, executing transactions across multiple devices wherever and whenever they please. This creates a complex challenge for advertisers to analyse which promotional activities are most effective.
Rakuten Attribution’s (formerly DC Storm) Commercial Director Lewis Lenssen will look at how consumer behaviour has evolved while identifying key drivers for this change. Demonstrating the importance of a holistic customer view for accurate attribution, Lenssen will also cover how best to use consolidated user activity data in taking appropriate action.
3. Agenda
• What is driving the complexity?
• The Challenge
• Is it worth it?
• What are they doing better?
• Conclusion
• Questions
4. Background
Rakuten Attribution (formerly DC Storm)
• Pioneers in tracking, attribution and measurement
• Over 2,000 tracked websites with configured attribution
• Tracking ~100M events and £9m of sales per day
About me
• 5 years leading and building a search agency
• 1 year social media and online PR consultant for retail
brands (focusing on measurement and valuation)
• 5 years as Commercial Director of DC Storm
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2014
7. Modern shopper behaviour
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Visits in Converting Journeys
Jan 2010 Jan 2011 Jan 2012 Jan 2013 Jan 2014
Source: Rakuten Attribution Client Sample
8. Modern shopper behaviour
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Marketing Channels in Converting Journeys
Jan 2010 Jan 2011 Jan 2012 Jan 2013 Jan 2014
Source: Rakuten Attribution Client Sample
9. Modern shopper behaviour
60 /
Of customers that have bought
have used more than one device.
Source: Rakuten Attribution Client Sample
10. Modern shopper behaviour
Identified a direct relationship between
rainfall and purchase channel.
Source: The Guardian
15. Retail performers
• Stores that excel online had a bumper Christmas
• Those without a multichannel strategy struggled
to keep up
• Multichannel was key to driving growth
16. Retail performers
• 7% overall sales growth and 28% online
• 70% growth in ‘Click and Collect’ utilising Waitrose
• 1/3 customers who used ‘click and collect’ bought
additional items in store
17. Retail performers
• Like-for-like sales for the three weeks leading up
to 28th December rose 7.3%, with online sales up
by almost 58%
• ‘Buy and Collect’ stores growing and evolving
18. Retail performers
• Online sales grew to 46%
• ‘Click and Collect’ accounts for 1/3 of business
• Partnership with eBay
19. Retail performers
• Over 50% of stores were down on week of Feb 8th
compared to the same week last year
• Online sales were up by 17.7%, helping the
company to post a 3.3% sales rise in the week
26. Channel optimisation
• Quality, granular performance data is far more important than
the choice of optimisation or automation tool
• 15-30% improvement in performance just by using attributed
data
• Even channel optimisation has to take some account of
customer journeys and the relationships between channels
28. Affiliate founding principles
• Introducing visitors
• Monetise content sites
• 100% performance marketing
• Networks to make the process efficient
• Compromise - One click wins!
29. Affiliate marketing reality
• All focus on the bottom of the purchase funnel
• Crowded market driving down margins
• No reason to contribute to the top
• Limited top funnel marketing often
managed directly between
Advertisers and Publishers
30. Rediscover the dream
• Payments made on attributed sales
• Attribution across device
• Attribution across online and offline
34. Thank you for listening
Questions
Measuring the Modern Shopper
Performance Marketing Insights
Notas del editor
What to say
Lets look at some really high level evidence
I have taken a look at some high street retailers and their results during the Christmas period
Here are some of the star performers and some of the reasons that have identified for their excellent performance
Clearly this is not detailed or exhaustive study but there is a satisfy correlation and alignment of those that are growing and prospering and those that are embracing the challenge of omnichannel
Modern shopper
o Little loyalty
o Transacts when and where it suits them
o Influenced by many media, social media, offers, deals and experience
o Many devices
o Success stories of today are complex multi channel businesses
What to Say
Modern shopper more demanding than ever - high expectation and who quickly responds to the good and bad experiences that they have during their consuming journey. No longer satisfied by the finding what they want a good price
The behaviour of the modern hopper
They will use lots of online devices
They will use apps
They will click and collect
They will order in store and take delivery at home
They will use a market place of it suits them and
They
The number and complexity of the marketing channels and marketing options
The complex consumer is moving faster and seeing more media than ever
Measurement is crucial
What to say
Lets look at some really high level eveidence
I have taken a look at some high street retailers and their results during the Christmas period
Here are some of the star performers and some of thereasons that have identified for their excellent performance
CLearley this is not detailed or exhaustive study but there is a satisfy correlation and alignment of thise that are growing andpropserin and those that are embrassing the challenge of Omni channel
What to Say
The change that has happened and the scale of the new challenge can be illustrated using a trusty rubiks cube analogy.
In the past where businesses could be really successful by focusing on a single sales channel and a limited set of marketing channels. The ioptimisation challenge was like solving a single side of the rubiks cube. The twists and changes that you made clearely impacted other side of the cube but in the scale of this those things were not important to your success. All the company want was performace in the limited sales and markering channels they focused on
The challenge now with consumers dictating that you have to partipate in lots of sales channels Combined with you actuall marketing in in more channels. The puzzle switches to full challenge of the Rubiks cube where changes that solve one issue can have a direct impact on other channels and where a more complex overall strtagey is required.
It is solving the this highly multiple dimensional puzzle that DC Storm is al about with our measured success proposition
Objective
Measurement Hub eco system –
Argument Structure
Here is a simple diagram to give you a sense of how the Measurement Hub eco system
Data on the left relating to lots of different channels
Measurement hub in the middle that consolidates an djoins the data
Attribution engine that applies the attribution model to the data in near realtime
Set of audiences to the right that get the output of the anaysis
Potential systems that cab be powered by the data
With the findings of the strategic review firmly in our mind we set out to get DC Storm ready to realise our global potential
2012 we reviewed the business and concluded:-
Global potential
Preparing the business for scaling
Proved go to market and delivery
Options for scaling fast
Key basic attributes of the business.
Turnover
Profit
Staff
Offices,
Why we are talking to you
We have a really hot proposition that is proven
It can scale and grow and diversify but in order to maximise the potential we need investment/money/other skills/
What to say
Lets look at some really high level eveidence
I have taken a look at some high street retailers and their results during the Christmas period
Here are some of the star performers and some of thereasons that have identified for their excellent performance
CLearley this is not detailed or exhaustive study but there is a satisfy correlation and alignment of thise that are growing andpropserin and those that are embrassing the challenge of Omni channel
What to say
OK, its anectdotal eveidence, let drill in a little more and see what is is that these retails that are joing the dots with measurement systems are ale to do and how this is ttranslating into results
For the moment lets imagine that the challenges of producing a brilliantMeasurement hub that has a complete view of the marketing and trading of a multi channel business. What can it be used for that makes a real difference? What is it the data driven Omni channel business has that the other don’t have:-
What to say
Budget planning is often where the really big gains lie
Most businesses retain a budget planning process that is based on what was spent last year.
There is often a process to try and reflect strong feeling of success or failutre of particular campaigns of channels but the basis model for the new year undoubtedly
The Business with a real view of all marketing performance can start the process from the position of know not only what they did last year but how it performed. The result is not always as dramatically different as you might imagine but the reality is that shifting budget from a channel that doesn’t’ work to one that does and which is complemented and supported by the other channels, transforms overall performance massively.
Take a look at this simple model that illustrates the impact of a really killer budget change.
It is impossible to identify a meaningfully average or typical improvement that can be made by shifting budget between channels howvere:-
In businesses where single digital improvements in performance have a direct correlation with significant share price increases, the regular budget shidts and spend increases that we power
BUdgetting is a really complex process because of the interaleted issues of stock availability but here are some straight forward examples of budget changes that wehave been involved in :-
HoF – Powering a completely revised budget process that has included significant investment in prospecting display that had previously never been justifyable.
Play.com – Channle valuation tht has given them confidence and information to support a tripling of makrreting budget. A move that directly relates to their understanding and confidence in marketing performance
Unnamed retailer that is struggling and actually wanted to minimise the impact of cutting budget. A less exciting but equally important process
It is impossible to identify a meaningfully average or typical improvement that can be made by shifting budget between channels howvere:-
In businesses where single digital improvements in performance have a direct correlation with significant share price increases, the regular budget shidts and spend increases that we power
What to say
Ironically it is channels optimisation that often drove businesses to implement more sophisticated measurements systems. Even within a channel there are acivities or keywords that were contributing in a way that is not reflected or captured by last click wins or some of the
Paid Search is a great example because it is an area where there are lots of agency and technology proposition that are all about optimisation.
In the last five years there have been a series of key optimisation propositions that have
Porfolio management of keywords
Demand driven optimisation
Offline driven
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Sam - omething that suggest the funnel and only the bottom being important
Target funnel is great. Fit it in the text
What to say
With a Measurement Hub that is fully populated with all of the marketing touchpoints, all of the sales and all of the tracked website and app events, the relatively simple addition of a stock feed and order processing feed quickly turns a marketing oriented solution into a fantastically powerful trading tool.
In the world of luxury fashion, brand is what really matters and the understanding the brands that are hot now and in the assendency is crucuial to success. Most retails treat the issue as a creative or taste challenge but our data driven Omni channel trader has Harvey Nichols -
With a complete view of all transactions and all marketing touchpoints it is
Presenter is Lewis Lenssen
Date is today
Audience is Macmillan Science and Education
It isn’t a client presentation