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Internet Marketing Goals

Dr. Ofer Mintz

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Video

Outline of Today’s Class

Identifying Internet Marketing Goals

Decision Board Activity

Google Analytics Demo

Pricing

Class Approach to Digital Marketing

Understand customers, competitors, and company

Develop a goal based on this understanding

Select the appropriate marketing mediums and mix to accomplish goal

Measure, evaluate, and possibly reformulate

Recap of Understanding Customers

Flow Strategies Online

4 Shopping Strategies

Directed buying

Search/deliberation

Hedonic browsing

Knowledge building

Visual Information & Website Design

What are your Internet Marketing Goals?

Get consumers to purchase?

Spread a message?

Obtain consumer information?

Increase consumer loyalty?

Decrease distribution costs?

Internet Marketing Goals: Getting Consumers to Purchase

Pros:

Lots of money to be made

Relatively small up-front costs

Easier to target specific consumers

Cons:

Consumers don’t just come to your website and purchase from nowhere

Conversion rate has never exceed 4%

Very large shopping cart abandonment rate

Therefore need to understand the processes consumers make to purchase

Consumer Decision Processes on Automobile Website

30% of visitors to the site completed task (1)

20% of those visitors then went on to complete task (2)

34% of those visitors then completed the task (3)

Source: Bucklin and Sismeiro (2003)

Typical Consumer Decision Process

Consumers process product information by one of two processing patterns:

Alternative-based processing patterns

Attribute-based processing patterns

Processing by Alternatives

Processing by Attributes

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Alternative-Based Website Designs

Qualitative Version Quantitative Version

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Alternative-Based or Attribute-Based Website Design

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Decision Board Activity

Decision Board Activity

Go to www.decisionboard.org

If don’t have laptop, partner with your neighbor

Click on subject tab

Enter information

Scenario id: 5478

Click on cells to see more information (the information will show up as pop-up)

Click on final choice!

How to Shift Consumer Processing towards more Alternative-based Patterns?

Marketing specific products that users would distinguish and focus their search on

Make sure the website is not too complex

How to Increase Likelihood of Purchasing?

Simplify!!!

Engage users

Action points

How to Measure and Evaluate: Get Consumers to Purchase

What to measure?

What to use to evaluate?

Example: Class Choice of Charities

Internet Marketing Goals: Spreading a Message

Pros:

Easier, cheap method to get the word out

Relatively easy to analyze efforts

Provides new avenues to get consumers

Cons:

Trying to decide on which type of audience are you trying to attract?

How will your target customers hear about the message?

Which type of audience are you trying to attract?

Buyers, browsers, or knowledge builders?

General, niche, or mixed?

How will your target customers hear about the message?

Traditional Media

Online Advertisements

Search Engines

Emails

Word-of-Mouth / Social Media

How to Measure and Evaluate: Spreading a Message

What to measure?

What to use to evaluate?

Internet Marketing Goals: Obtaining Customer Info

WHERE JOE SHOULD HAVE BEEN DURING JUSTIN BIEBER CONCERT IF WE HAD A COMPLETE CUSTOMER PROFILE (AND FOUND OUT ABOUT HIS TWO GIRLS)

JOE AT A BON JOVI CONCERT

IF WE WOULD HAVE A PROFILE ON JOE, WE WOULD HAVE

KNOWN ABOUT JOE’S 2 GIRLS

JOE AT HOME DURING JUSTIN BIEBER CONCERT

Why is Collecting Data Important?

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Internet Marketing Goals: Obtaining Customer Info

Pros:

Better individualized service leads to better sales

Cheaper market research

Cons

Information Overload

Privacy Concerns!!!

Article: “Data Mining”

What do you think about the amount of your personal data businesses have on you?

Why do you think Facebook and Google are worth so much?

What does this mean for advertisers?

What about privacy concerns?

If you get enough value, do you care?

Tracking Behavior Examples

Data on 10,000K+ hotel searches conducted Oct 1-15, 2009

Travel Dates

Time/Date of Search

Number of Rooms

Number of Travelers

Free Text Associated with Search

Region/Distinct Keyword Assigned to that Text

Number of Kids (important for if family or not)

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For Each Search We Observe Most Details

Hotels Displayed

Price Displayed for Each Hotel

Was the Price a Promo?

Expedia Star Rating

Traveler Review Rating

Number of Traveler Reviews

Order Appearing on Page

Detailed Hotel Information

Hotel Name

Room Capacity

Structure Type (i.e., hotel, motel, B&B, etc.)

Star Rating

Closest Airport

Regions (13-102) / Type of Region

Location via latitude and longitude

52 SubMarket Names

(i.e., Eiffel Tower, etc.)

Brand Name

(112 names)

Parent Chain Name

(61 names)

City of Hotel

(280 cities)

Primary Booking Source

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Market Budapest Cancun Paris Manhattan
Hotels 321 115 1674 328
Regions / Distinct Keywords 17 13 102 30
# of Searches 14835 12211 13329 15242
Observed users (cookie-based) 5175 4985 4737 4778
Data Points 422616 315822 433523 374331
Details Viewed 8395 5958 5249 5346
Pricing Viewed 1566 1751 741 980
Purchases 274 86 112 116
Average number of hotel details viewed for each search 0.566 0.488 0.394 0.351
Average number of purchases for each search 0.053 0.017 0.024 0.024

Interesting Data Differences between Cities

Google Analytics (Intro Video)

Google Analytics Examples

More Generic Examples

Behavioural Flow Example

Google Analytics Example

Demo Account Providing Information from the Google Merchandise Store

Includes:

Traffic source data including information about organic traffic, paid search traffic, and display traffic

Content data about the behaviour of users on the site

Transactional data

Take time to play with Google Analytics

Demo Account

How to Measure and Evaluate: Obtaining Customer Info

What to measure?

What to use to evaluate?

Internet Marketing Goals: Increasing Loyalty

Pros:

Provides more detail about your products/policies

Improve customer service

Leads to purchases

Cons:

Will your customers enjoy your website?

At what cost? (also think about the continual upkeep)

How will you design your webpage?

Increasing Loyalty ESPN Example

Fox News Example

Internet Marketing Goals: Decrease Distribution Costs

Pros:

Direct to consumer

Cheaper

Potential increase in brand awareness

Cons:

Potential harm with current distributers

Need continual up-keep

Decrease Distribution Costs Examples

How to Measure and Evaluate: Decrease Distribution Costs

What to measure?

What to use to evaluate?

Online Pricing

Determine what is profitable for your business

Figure out what is reasonable for your customers

Find out how your competition is pricing

USE VALUE-BASED PRICING BASED ON CUSTOMERS!!!

Pricing Digital Information

Costs

Relatively expensive upfront

Relatively cheap to reproduce

Strategy with information

Differentiation

Cost Leaders

Analyzers and Prospectors

Personalizing your information

Personalize and differentiate pricing

Fully personalizing

Versioning

Group pricing

Know thy consumer

Utilize ease of analyzing digital information to measure the effects of marketing mix actions on consumer behavior

Article: Buyer Beware, Online Shopping Prices vary User to User

Do you agree with practice?

As a customer?

As a business?

Would you incorporate this in your business?

How would you segment prices?

How to mitigate potential problems?

Actual Variations in Price on Amazon (via Camel Camel Camel)

Context Effects in Pricing

Types of Context Effects:

Substitution Effect

Compromise Effect

Asymmetric Decoy (or Attraction) Effect

Mental Accounting

Let’s Play a Game:

Samsung1

$699.99

Samsung2

$749.99

Samsung3

$749.99

You want to buy a TV

Which one would you buy?

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Let’s Play a Game:

Samsung4

$799.99

Samsung5

$749.99

Samsung6

$749.99

You want to buy a TV

Which one would you buy?

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Let’s Play a Game:

Samsung7

60” Screen

$799.99

Samsung8

55” Screen

$749.99

Samsung9

50” Screen

$699.99

You want to buy a TV

Which one would you buy?

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Let’s Play a Game:

Samsung10

60” Screen

$799.99

Samsung11

55” Screen

$789.99

Samsung12

50” Screen

$699.99

You want to buy a TV

Which one would you buy?

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Substitution Effect:

Samsung1

$699.99

Samsung2

$749.99

Samsung3

$749.99

You want to buy a TV

Which one would you buy?

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Compromise Effect

Samsung7

60” Screen

$799.99

Samsung8

55” Screen

$749.99

Samsung9

50” Screen

$699.99

You want to buy a TV

Which one would you buy?

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Asymmetric Decoy (or Attraction) Effect

Samsung10

60” Screen

$799.99

Samsung11

55” Screen

$789.99

Samsung12

50” Screen

$699.99

You want to buy a TV

Which one would you buy?

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Mental Accounting

Group Priced = $6.36

Individually Priced

Context Effects Strategies

Can you use context effects to increase sales of certain items?

Are context effects negatively impacting sales of certain items?

Recap of Internet Marketing (so far)

Understand how the decision making process consumers need to use to accomplish your goals

Consider what are your main internet marketing goals for your webpage

Ad methods (next week we will discuss more)

Measure and evaluate based on your goals and methods employed

Next Class

DUE:

BY WED. at 5pm: Group Live-Case Roster (5-6 members)

BY WED. at 5pm: Personal Bio

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