January 27
Presentations:
- Ian Essling (Google Analytics)
- Aditude (Email #1)
- Google Maniacs (Email #1)
- Jact Up (Email #1)
January 29
Presentations
- Melissa Obillo (Social Networks)
- Savvy Surfers (Email #1)
- Search Engine Warriors (Email #1)
Joe DeCosmo
*Joe DeCosmo from The Allant Group was a guest speaker today in class.
*He discussed what his company does and answered questions about the industry now.
*His best advice is that in order to be successful and have longevity you have to have visibility in all of the integrated marketing challenge circle.
Some key points are:
*The DVR and how it allows people to skip ads but if you watch on the internet you can't skip the ads. This helps marketers.
*People don't like shopping online but they like purchasing on the web, this being said direct mail is still an asset to a company.
*He said that ALL marketing focuses on trying to crack "the Code".
*The metrics can't compute "the Code".
*Some major marketing areas are:
-Strategic planning=holistic view
-Analytics
-Measurement= effectiveness of media.
*The channel value varies by audience.
*Life cycle stage is very important in his slides, look over again.
*Visible world= Leader in trying to individualize advertising to each person by the TV box.
*You want to integrate marketing across all channels.
*No silos- Center of Excellence
LESSONS LEARNED & RECOMMENDED
*Understand the customer lifecycle to identify ALL customer touchpoints and interactions.
- Establish a single organizational checkpoint which is called the "center of excellence".
- Foster a test and learn culture approach.