Marketing Your Business with Data, Rather than Feelings

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Marketing Your Business with Data, Rather than Feelings Ashley, Shannon, Bhavik, jt

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This presentation is from Affiliate Summit West 2014 (January 12-14, 2014 in Las Vegas, NV). Session description: Don’t rely on your gut. Discover tips, tricks, and hacks to use data to drive efforts in your marketing processes, on site optimization, and social media.

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Marketing Your

Business with Data,

Rather than Feelings Ashley, Shannon, Bhavik, jt

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Questions?

#DataNotFeelings

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About Us

James Thompson • Affiliate, 10 Years

• Programmer, 20 Years

• Founder of Daft Labs

Bhavik Modi • Six Sigma Black Belt, 8 Years

• Affiliate, 3 Years

• Runs Inkdatabase.com

Shannon Vogel • Social Media Strategist, 7 Years

• Owner of The Be - Scene

Ashley Coombe • Social Media Strategist, 7 Years

• All Inclusive Marketing

• DoBizLo.com

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on-site optimization

james thompson - @jtgraphic

Daft Labs

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track shit. use math, not feelings.

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have goals.

know EXACTLY what

‘conversions’ are

and why you’re

trying to get them.

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brainstorm.

photos

• mood

• gender

• filters

• colors

chartreuse is the most visible color

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brainstorm. words

• “words that sell”

• thesaurus.com

• whatrunswhere.com

• specific products

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Genetify Roll Your Own

try stuff.

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know when your statistics are relevant.

sample size is important http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm

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rinse. repeat.

determine whether your

experiment was

successful.

establish another goal.

start over.

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check out a recent case study.

break even

● spent $50,048

● profited $10,252

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check out a recent case study.

break even

● broke even week 12

● lost $9,899 before I

made anything back

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check out a recent case study.

break even

● no profit for 20 weeks

● lost $9,899 before I

made anything back

investment recouped

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check out a recent case study.

break even

● started at $308.80

● currently $70.97

● expect to make

~$72,000 over the

next 24 weeks

investment recouped

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process improvement

bhavik modi - @bhavik_modi

Six Sigma Black Belt

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• Disciplined, data-driven approach and methodology for

eliminating defects in any process – from manufacturing

to transactional and from product to service.

• Reducing variation in your process so its repeatable &

reliable

• Defects?

• Why is Data important?

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DMAIC process

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Define

• Define and refine the

problem or focus area

• Measurable Attributes

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Why are these

outside the

norm?

Measure the Data and observe Trends

Measure & Analyze

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Analyze

Use structured methodologies to understand

the Root Cause of the issues

Examples:

• Fault Tree

• 5 Why’s

• Fishbone Diagram

• Apollo Root Cause

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Improve & Control

Implement systemic fixes to ensure

improvements are sustained.

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data on facebook

shannon vogel - @thebescene

The Be Scene

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Use Your Insights

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Dates and Days - Impressions

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Dates and Days - Sharing

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However…

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Constant Inspiration

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Great content is not enough…

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Constantly Reevaluate

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cultivating the perfect

message

ashley coombe - @AshleyBCoombe

DoBizLo.com

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Listen to your Gut, but Rely on the Facts:

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Listen to your Gut, but Rely on the Facts:

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Listen to your Gut, but Rely on the Facts:

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Listen to your Gut, but Rely on the Facts:

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Listen to your Gut, but Rely on the Facts:

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Cultivate your perfect message.

• Calendars- # of Times

• Stock Photos Vs. Personal

• Scenery Vs. Events

• Events Vs. Drama

• Selly Vs. Informational

• Informational with pic Vs. Informational without

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Test Your Ads

•Calendars- # of Times

• Stock Photos Vs. Personal

• Scenery Vs. Events

• Events Vs. Drama

• Selly Vs. Informational

• Informational with pic Vs. Informational without

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Tools

• Sprout Social

• Hootsuite

• Shariest

• Facebook Insights

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Questions?

#DataNotFeelings