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More Than Print

December 2014 / January 2015

RI$KY BUSINESS

Marketing’s place in the era of ROI

INSIDE Risky Business | 6 Recasting | 10 Trending with... | 14 Mail Matters | 15

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ife is full of risks and we seem to spend a great deal of time avoiding them. We worry about health, financial security and our relationships. We don’t want to jeopardize any one of these variables and will work feverishly to protect them.

Being risk-averse is kind of, well, a risky move. In other words, many of us choose not to rock the boat for fear of repercussions to our job security. We have come to realize that if something goes amiss, heads will roll and it isn’t going to be ours.

The corporate world can generate some pretty stale and uninspiring processes. Lots of red tape so that nobody is truly “on the hook” for mistakes. Lots of blaming and a general lack of accountability. However, we all know that progress comes from the disrupters and many of them exist in the marketing department.

Being risk-averse is kind of, well, a risky move. In other words, many of us choose not to rock the boat for fear of repercussions to our job security.

The people who are willing to invest in the market and challenge assumptions may rub the CFO the wrong way. But, they are the dreamers and the instigators that generate progress. They are the ones who stimulate new ideas and new hope. They are the risk-takers and we need to cultivate an environment that enables them.

Speaking of enabling the dreamers, our cover story, “Risky Business: Marketing’s place in the era of ROI,” highlights the unique challenges of being in marketing during the ROI era. It explains the risks of evolving with the industry, discusses the IT/CMO connection, and presents three things every CMO must do in order to enjoy sustainable growth.

Our second feature, “Recasting,” discusses being the right user with the right message at the right time, highlights the problems of being the wrong user with the wrong message at the wrong time, and gives some insight into how to upgrade your tackle box. This article also provides eight questions to discuss with your retargeting vendor.

We hope you enjoy the final issue of 2014. We are gearing up for a wonderful new year with a bunch of “must-read” material. Heck, maybe we’ll even take some risks along the way.

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CONTENTS 03 Publisher’s Letter Instigators

04 The Inbox 06 Risky Business Marketing’s place in the era of ROI

10 Recasting Upgrading your tackle box

14 Trending with...

Leadership expert Anne Graham

15 Direct Mail Matters...

With the hype around content marketing don’t forget that direct mail works

Publishers Gina M. Danner

Managing Editors Rosanne Kirn

All the best,

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Gina M. Danner

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The Inbox

The percent of CMOs that list “digital marketing makeover” as their No. 1 transformational project (platforms, programs and people) over the next 12 months, according to the CMO Council’s “State of Marketing” report. The data also shows that more than 70 percent of CMOs are allocating between 10 percent and 30 percent of their budgets to digital marketing in 2014.

What’s in your Big Data?

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s the world of Big Data turns, marketers continue to weigh in on what to do with the research. According to Duke University’s “CMO Survey,” while spending on marketing analytics is expected to jump from 7 per-

cent of marketing budgets to more than 12 percent in the next three years, CMOs report they only use about a third of the data that is available or requested. The study shows that 41 percent of companies use online data they collect about consumers to better target them, while nearly 82 percent say the use of such data is increasing. In addition, fewer than 9 percent of CMOs worry that the use of customer data could raise concerns about privacy.

If I’m just shouting at you the entire time, that’s not a relationship; you’re the audience. But if I say something and you respond to me and I respond to you, that’s a dialogue.

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RI$KY BUSINESS

Marketing’s place in the era of ROI

By Michael J. Pallerino

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ith $110 million in global revenue, GiftCards.com is one of the No. 1 sites for all things gift cards.

Add to it the company’s recent designation as one of Inc. magazine’s fastest growing private companies, and the brand practically markets itself, right?

Nothing is ever that easy in marketing – nothing. CMOs like GiftCards.com’s Carlos Tribino know this. Tribino is part of the new breed of chief marketing officers – a position that is evolving more than any other time in the past. Today’s marketers are playing roles they have never played before. Their job descriptions are becoming more complex, which, in turn, is giving them more traction and influence.

There is no reading between the lines here – it’s a whole new world out there today. Times and technologies are changing and evolving. In the digital age, businesses are redesigning the way they work and collaborate. And that means your marketing. While you’d be hard pressed to find a CMO that says his job is less risky than it was, say five minutes ago, Tribino is a bit more optimistic. This is a profession that carries an average tenure of 45 months, according to a report by executive recruiting firm Spencer Stuart.

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Risky business

In fact, the CMO Council’s recent “State of Marketing” report shows that chief marketing officers are more optimistic about today’s current business environment and their place in it. According to the report, 81 percent of the surveyed CMOs believe they can achieve the goals senior management bestowed upon them this year. Interestingly, just 10 percent felt their jobs were at risk, a stark departure from those “here-todaygone-tomorrow” CMO tenures.

“Beyond the obvious pressure to perform, CMOs face challenges to balance short-term versus long-term objectives, as well as the balance between the tangible and the intangible,” Tribino says. “A new business opportunity may be good for the immediate bottom line, but bad for the brand’s long-term health. And this could have an immediate positive impact on the bottom line, but potentially damage the long-term business growth.”

to ensure a comprehensive customer view is critical, as companies seek to optimize their marketing campaigns.”

A new breed of CMOs

Aman Bhutani, Senior VP of Expedia Worldwide Engineering at Expedia, is one of those CMOs that Avanade spoke with who believes marketing is becoming more technical and data-oriented. He says that today’s marketers continue to adopt more scientific methodologies in their campaigns.

“You have an observation, you test the hypothesis, and then you do what the data tells you to do,” Bhutani says in the Avanade report.

“That has led to a huge acceleration in human progress in the last 200 years. As things become increasingly measurable, it is easier to apply

this scientific method to a growing number of activities.

Marketing is ripe for this because so much of it has now moved to what we call variable channels.”

For example, 10 years ago, Bhutani says few believed that ad spend on the internet would make up such a huge portion of marketing spend for so many companies. Today, that is measurable at a level that was never thought possible. “Marketing leaders have to realize that creativity and content is always going to be important, but they really need to understand analytics and make decisions based on data,” he says. “If it – Carlos Tribino, CMO, GiftCards.com doesn’t make sense, then continue to dig until it does.”

Because today’s customers expect more, the way Tribino says that sometimes the numbers in A/B testing can prove a that businesses respond could be the new competitive differentiator. tangible gain, while experience and know-how may show the opposite. This is helping today’s CMO and marketing teams evolve. The new “It is challenging to find a happy medium or a solution not supported by breed of CMO is analytical and must possess a strong focus on renumbers,” he says. “It is a difficult task to convince a boardroom or an sults. “It’s about understanding the market, customer segmentation, executive team when ‘intuition’ contradicts the numbers and can be a purchase drivers, competitive position, third party dependencies, etc.,” Tribino says. “He must analyze, test and address.” risky proposition.”

Today’s CMOs also must be culturally connected and understand While marketing has long been one of the most scrutinized departments (take its “he said/she said” relationship with sales, for example), it what’s important to the brand and consumers in the current marketis becoming more recognized for its ability to help filter the scores of data place. “You have to constantly research and study the consumer, busithat is becoming so prevalent in identifying and understanding today’s ness and technology trends,” Tribino says. “You must be innovative and willing to take calculated and educated risks, and allow yourself to fail consumers and their buying tendencies.

In Avanade’s “Finding the CIMO Perspective” report, the busi- on occasion in order to open up high-growth opportunities. Challenge ness technology solutions provider offers a succinct analysis of the the status quo.” shifting priorities and responsibilities of today’s marketers. “The marketing and IT leaders we spoke to recognize the increasing dom- The IT/CMO connection inance of data and the value that comes from improving platform There is another trend helping to define the marketing world – the growintegration and tracking capabilities,” says Stella Goulet, CMO of ing relationship between CMOs and CIOs. According to the “IT Without Avanade. “Mining rich analytics and employing the right technology Boundaries” study by Avanade, technology budgets and control are mov-

“The new breed of CMO is analytical and must possess a strong focus on results. It’s about understanding the market, customer segmentation, purchase drivers, competitive position, third party dependencies, etc.”

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ing outside of the traditional IT department, with 37 percent of technology spending now controlled by departments other than IT, including marketing.

Trends like these are bringing the worlds of technology and marketing closer together, and changing the role of IT and marketing leaders. “As CMOs manage their brands, they also have to coordinate multiple interactions with today’s ‘always on’ customer,” Goulet says. “At the same time, CIOs must manage technology that is capable of significant innovation. But whose role is it to drive customer-centric innovation?”

The answer is both the CMO and CIO. To succeed in the new digital landscape, marketing and IT

“As CMOs manage their brands, they also have to coordinate multiple interactions with today’s ‘always on’ customer.”

– Stella Goulet, CMO, Avanade

must partner and find a common point of view, what Avanade calls the Chief Information Marketing Officer (CIMO) Perspective. “CMOs and CIOs have individual expertise and experience,” Goulet says. “But to adopt the CIMO Perspective, they must share a unified digital vision. This allows their organization to harness the combined power of marketing and IT to deliver better digitally enabled experiences for their customers and other key audiences.”

Karrie Forbes, Executive VP of Marketing of Mattress Firm, told Avanade that she believes all departments should be in regular communication, and that specific teams come together for more collaboration based on the business need. At Mattress Firm, its online, marketing, e-

commerce and ITS teams work closely together to round out different areas. This type of relationship will continue to drive and define the new marketing executive.

“Almost every interaction with a consumer provides an opportunity for data mining and deriving valuable insights,” Forbes says in Avanade’s report. “Whether it’s an online campaign or data mining of our customers who buy in-store, it’s a cross-functional effort.”

At the end of the day, a CMO’s job is to drive results at every end of the spectrum. “I don’t think ROI is overrated, because it’s all about results,”

Tribino says. “The challenge with ROI is the balancing act between short-term and long-term ROI. On occasion, the two may come into conflict, and that is when immediate ROI may be overrated. A brand needs to reach the proper balance in price point, scale, distribution strategy, etc.”

The focus, as any marketer will tell you, is on long-term results.

“Tangibles are easier to manage; intangibles not so much,” Tribino says.

“Achieving long-term growth through smart decisions on both makes a good marketing executive. But as for the bottom line, the emphasis needs to be in results. Amazing PR coverage that does not deliver on short-term or long-term goals does little benefit to the company or brand.”

THINGS EVERY CMO MUST DO Position and manage the brand with cultural relevance and salience, so that it is relevant and resonates both internally and externally. Champion the brand proposition and defend and enforce it to ensure it doesn’t get diluted along the value chain. Maintain an almost obsessive consistency across touch points.

Drive profitable and sustainable growth. Leverage the latest technologies and media to deliver results, measuring, testing, optimizing, and eventually increasing growth. Manage your marketing team with a strong focus on results. Motivate them to deliver.

Be a good communicator.

Be as transparent as possible in all communications (customers, employees, partners, the press, investors, distributors, etc.). There is confidential information and public information, understand what, when and how to share information, news and announcements at the proper time with the appropriate audiences.

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Upgrading your tackle box

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By Lorrie Bryan

evoted anglers often say that the worst day fishing is better than the best day working. But if they hope to catch at least a few bluegills or tommycods, they aren’t likely to waste a day sitting around with no bait in the water, especially if they have had a few bites and know the fish are there. They are going to assess the situation and fish with the most appropriate bait and tackle. And, if after awhile they don’t get any bites, they might be inclined to reassess, put on a different lure, try different bait, adjust the weight or fiddle with the bobber…and cast again, retargeting their prospective dinner.

Marketers have long used the term retargeting when referencing the practice of engaging customers and prospects from new angles (new bait). A few years ago, automation software helped marketers retarget customers and prospects with timely emails. Today, savvy marketers are starting to retarget customers and prospects by delivering customized online ads across the internet based on their target’s recent browsing history – and the practice is growing.

Anglers often consult the tide charts, note the phases of the moon, and chat up the locals in an attempt to determine optimal fishing opportunities – the right fish with the right bait at the right time. In recent years, anglers have realized that the proper use of a sonar fish finder takes a lot of the guesswork out of locating fish. With this technology, an angler can learn to distinguish between fish, vegetation, schools of baitfish, or forage fish and debris – and fish or not fish, accordingly.

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One of the biggest mistakes companies make is not collecting sufficient data to see how the campaign is performing so that they can make the necessary adjustments.

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– Arjun Dev Arora, Chairman & Founder, ReTargeter

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Recasting

A strategic retargeting program – executed with a smart strategy, audience segmentation and dynamic creative – is one of the best ways to deliver that experience for your customer.

– Jackie Lamping, Senior Director of Marketing, AdRoll

Right user, right message, right time

Likewise, marketers now have access to technology that can eliminate the guesswork and help them target the right user with the right message at the right time. “A strategic retargeting program executed with a smart strategy, audience segmentation and dynamic creative is one of the best ways to deliver that experience for your customer,” says Jackie Lamping, senior director of marketing at AdRoll, the global leader in retargeting with more than 15,000 clients worldwide. “It just makes sense to invest marketing dollars engaging people who express interest in your product or service, and the response rates are incredible.”

Generally, 2 percent of shoppers make a purchase on the first visit to an online store. Retargeting helps bring back the other 98 percent by tracking visitors (by placing a cookie) and displaying your ads to them as they visit other sites online. The strategy of delivering repeated messages to this highly targeted visitor is getting strong results for businesses.

And the strategy is improving as the technology evolves. “Based on our research, more than 50 percent of performance marketers have started using mobile retargeting as part of their integrated advertising strategy,” Lamping says. “Over the next year, we'll see mobile

and cross-platform retargeting play a bigger role in ad campaigns throughout the industry.”

Retargeting is getting a marketing foothold by effectively converting website visitors that didn’t initially complete an action (for example, make a purchase) online – and the strategy is rapidly expanding.

It is no longer just about trying to reel in the elusive one that got away. “Retargeting has taken many forms and is no longer limited to that definition,” says Ben Plomion, VP of marketing at Chango, a programmatic advertising company that uses live-profile technology and is one of the top new growth companies in the country. “In essence, marketers can leverage more intent data points and leverage different sources of inventory – display, Facebook and Twitter – to achieve their branding, acquisition or repeat purchases goals.”

Retargeting especially makes sense for strategic marketers looking to improve ROI and save money. First, it allows you to tap into demonstrated customer intent and target ads to very specific people who have already raised their hand to say they’re interested in a particular product or service. “With retargeting, no impression is wasted on audiences who will never buy what you’re selling,” Lamping says.

Second, it connects your ad campaign across platforms and devices – desktop, mobile, tablet, Facebook, Twitter, Google – by targeting individual users and dynamically optimizing your bids and creative based on

QUESTIONS TO DISCUSS WITH YOUR RETARGETING VENDOR

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What is your reach?

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Do you have enough intent data to be effective?

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How transparent is your reporting?

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Are you agile enough to make the right adjustments?

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Wrong user, wrong message, too many times

For a more effective campaign, it is essential to identify media waste typically associated with running standard retargeting campaigns.

“Do you really need to retarget every consumer equally?” Plomion asks. “Some consumers have expressed the highest form of intent, and should be served ads in better placement and with higher frequency. On the other hand, other consumers may not be as valuable to you. Perhaps they already converted. Or perhaps they will never convert.”

Arjun Dev Arora, chairman and founder of ReTargeter, a top 100 in Inc.’s “Fastest Growing Companies” report, says one of the biggest concerns most brands have before starting a retargeting campaign is the fear of annoying, creeping out or otherwise overwhelming their prospects.

“The concern here is a valid one, and fortunately one that is easy to avoid,” Dev Arora says. “You have to set frequency caps in a retargeting campaign. Although one of the goals of retargeting is to create brand ubiquity and be top-of-mind when your targets are ready to buy, you have to limit impressions and continually assess the effectiveness of your campaign. Just like with other marketing channels and programs, you should avoid over-saturating your message with any individual user.”

Dev Arora says it’s also important to continually evaluate your creative and optimize your campaign by adding layers of data to further refine your retargeting. “One of the biggest mistakes companies make is not collecting sufficient data to see how the campaign is performing so that they can make the necessary adjustments.”

Optimal fishing

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If your aim is optimal fishing, consider upgrading your tackle box by adding a well-managed retargeting program.

It is proving to be a valuable component in an integrated marketing strategy. In the epic fishing tale Jaws, when Chief Brody gets an up-close look at the size of the shark that’s circling their small fishing boat and realizes the magnitude of their task, he tells Quint, the grizzled sharkhunting captain, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”

And, if you’re going to engage prospects and land them – get your marketing message heard above all the noise in the digital world and convert prospects to customers – you’re going to need a bigger boat. Or perhaps a boat equipped with the right gear and the right tools to deliver the right message to the right people at the right time.

Source – Ben Plomion, VP of Marketing, Chango

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How recent is your data?

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How granular are your audiences?

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Is your retargeting efficient?

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What are the true costs of acquiring a customer?

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Q&A: Interview with Jill Salzman

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Leadership expert Anne Graham

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nne Graham is all about those “ah ha” moments. In her work as an author, speaker and director of The Legendary Value Institute, she finds that when business leaders allow themselves to think outside the box, good things happen.

Graham perfected her transformational leadership approach over a 25-year career that saw her create business growth strategies, build high value organizations and achieve rapid turnarounds in industries as diverse as high-tech, pharmaceuticals, financial services, professional services, wireless telecommunications, academia, non-profit and membership-based organizations. Here is her advice on being different.

Why it is important to set yourself apart from the pack?

One of my favorite sayings is, “Run like the rest and you too will be road kill.” The printing industry, like many others, has become highly commoditized and, in that situation, decisionmaking defaults to price. Relying on price for competitive advantage is not a sustainable advantage in an industry where everyone has access to the same knowledge and technology.

Providing value in unexpected ways by staying ahead of your competition is the only way to remain viable as a printer.

What’s the best way to do that?

One of the best methods is to look sideways at non-competing industries to see what factors are impacting their businesses. In the printing industry, it’s quite common to belong to a vertical industry association, i.e., all printers.

But it has never been more important to belong to a horizontal industry association – a chamber of commerce, for example – and to have in-depth conversations with peers that go well beyond networking. In many cases, belonging to a peer-mentoring group can be highly beneficial. I’ve often been able to use examples from one industry to spark new thinking in another.

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How important is it to keep yourself relevant?

Relevance relates to being proactive about fully understanding all of your clients’ communication needs and not just relying on the solutions you’ve provided to date. And it’s not all on your sales team. They are responsible for selling what your company can

deliver today. As a leader, you’re responsible for determining what they’ll be selling tomorrow. There is no question that if you’re not relevant in a highly commoditized industry, you’ll have a hard time being successful.

What are the best ways to get to know your customers?

Data that speaks to gaps in the experience that your customers may not even be aware of. The best way to get this is to stay in “hightouch” despite being in a high-tech world. Get face to face, executive to executive, and have what I call a “value creation conversation,” where the only thing you’re selling is trust and confidence, and the only probing you’re doing

Providing value in unexpected ways by staying ahead of your competition is the only way to remain viable as a printer. is about their experiences. A ride-along sales call won’t work, because the focus is on selling more today. A meet-and-greet won’t work, because that’s purely relationship building without the required depth.

What strategies work here?

Most executives spend at least 90 minutes per day doing email. If they spent just 90 minutes once a week having value creation conversations with their customers, they’d get a wealth of insights that would drive every future strategy in their business in a way that was aligned with their customers’ needs and wants, rather than simply guessing. This can’t be outsourced; it must be personal.

When I speak with leaders and ask them if they’d make time to speak with a consultant who was preparing a report for one of their suppliers, they all say no. But when I ask them if they’d meet with a member of their senior leadership team who asked them for input so that they could create more value for them now and in the future, they unanimously say yes. Ninety minutes, once a week – that’s all it takes.

Before You Go

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Direct Mail Matters to Marketers With all the talk of content marketing and increasing budgets for digital marketing it is important to remember that direct mail delivers real value.

79% 70%

Consumers who act on direct mail immediately, versus 45% who do the same with email

4.4% Response rate for targeted directed mail, compared to email’s rate of 0.12%

35% Direct mail’s success rate for new customer acquisition

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Consumers who renewed relationships with businesses they had previously ceased using after receiving direct mail

74% B2B marketers who rate direct mail as very effective

Consumers who say they tried a new business after receiving direct mail

Source: CMO Council

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