Digital Marketing Strategy for Extraordinary Business and Brand Value

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Maximizing Digital Marketing Strategy for brand and business valueA Bharat Bambawale & Associates Perspective 1

Before we get started with this presentation, well like to introduce ourselves.

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Bharat Bambawale & Associates Brand Architects 3

Bharat Bambawale & Associates is an independent brand and marketing consultancy based out of New Delhi, India.

We help brand owners create immediate, mid term and long-term brand value www.bb-a.co.in I www.twitter.com/bbaspeak I www.youtube.com/bbaspeak www.linkedin.com/company/bharatbambawaleandassociates

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Now that weve met lets get back to the presentation 5

The Digital Life & Implications for marketers6

The Infiltration, Immersion and Interactivity with digital devices, content, networks has transformed consumer behavior and values 7

Photo by Denise Krebs CC BY 8

People are interacting in a fundamentally different way with content, each other and brands

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Anytime, anywhere, any device content consumption Actively rating, commenting, sharing, curating and creating content Simultaneous, multi-screen content consumption and creation

1. Fundamental Transformation of Content Consumption 10

2. Fundamental Transformation of Human Connections Peoples opinions have a global audience and unprecedented influenceHaving a personal brand is de riguer How we act in our real lives is dictated by the actions of our digital lives 11

3. Fundamental Transformation of the brand-consumer relationship There is an irreversible shift in power from brand owners to consumers in shaping brand equity

By combining brand-consumer interactivity, social media, online reviews, mobile, commerce, search, the consumer voice has a virality thats more powerful than our most sophisticated marketing campaigns and brand persuasion tactics

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Technologies, access, social media conversations and connected, empowered consumers have created a completely new consumer journey to brand purchase

Simply put, the way consumers think about, research, prefer, buy, experience and talk about products and brands has transformed beyond recognition

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Source: Forrester Research

Consumers have a more complex, continuously disruptive discontinuous lateral path to purchase now Consumer Decision Making Journey Implications

Digital has created countless entry points into the consumer purchase journeyConsumers actively participate and influence the purchase journey for each other rather than passively absorb brand messaging Consumers dont distinguish between online, mobile and in-store they want to experience the brand and buy at a time and location of their choosingPost-purchase experience is as critical for brand and business health as pre-purchase evaluation Brands need to engineer sustained engagement and perhaps commerce across many channels 24/7

Source: Forrester Research

While the opportunity for increasing revenue, decreasing costs and creating tremendous brand value is obvious, immense and the platforms are numerous,most brands are still grappling to create a robust, seamless consumer-centricdigital marketing strategy mapped to consumers and business objectives 16

While most brands have a website, social media presence, SEO, SEM,ORM strategy, digital advertising plan etc these efforts are purely tactical unless they are the actions of a larger digital strategy that unlocks your business and brand value 17

The future of all business engagement whether it be sales, marketing, product development, HR, customer service is digital and social

Unlocking the potential of your people (customers, prospects, employees, partners) through a digital strategy and roadmap and in turn evolving the organization to be more nimble, transparent and connected will be the not-so-distant future for all companies 18

A cohesive digital business and brand strategy requires a change in culture, processes and often enterprise technologies.

There are three significant challenges that brands face as they leap-frog from digital marketing tactics to being a digital company 19

CChallenge I: A disruptive digital landscape where consumers adopt new tech and behaviors continuously and expect brands to keep pace and engage meaningfully this requires strategy and nimble execution 20

Challenge II: Company silos across marketing, sales, customer care, product can lead to incoherent strategy, underperforming digital assets and poor ROI 21

Challenge III: The profound transformation needed in organization, culture and process to create two-way engagement with the digitally empowered consumer is often the most difficult challenge to overcome22

At BB&A we help brands at different stages ofdigital maturity to overcome these challenges and prepare themselves for the new realities of social business23

Ultimately, strategy is about making choices.

Of the many opportunities that digital presents, every brand owner has to choose the path thatmaximizes the immediate, mid-term and long term value of the brand24

1.Creativity 2.Care 3.ContextThere are broadly three opportunities for brands in the digital marketing space 25

Creativity The brands role has evolved to being a publisher. Participating, creating, co-creating & collaborating with consumers across platforms and finding powerful ways to tell the brand story through content and experiences26

Care Digital especially social media is a unparalleled opportunity for brands to deliver superlative consumer service by resolving real-world questions & problems for consumers and building trust, goodwill and advocacy for itself 27

Context Context through data helps us understand consumer behavior and intent. Context makes brands relevant by delivering content and care thats personal and targeted. While big data is spoken about as the marketing game-changer, its power isnt massive terabytes of consumer behavior data. The true revolution is taking that data, generating it into actionable insights which are tested at scale by delivering amazing brand experiences28

Depending on the opportunity that the brand identifies for itself, there are four digital marketing models that emerge 29

Source: Strategy&30

Ultimately, whatever model you choose, we believe that Digital Everything Everywhere has brought back focus to the fundamentals of Brand Building

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While many new technologies, trends and buzzwords have been introduced to the marketing lexicon

the digital age forces us to be consumer-life and consumer-experience driven businesses

where we must constantly create value in the lives of our consumers by being relevant, authentic and useful

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We hope you enjoyed our perspective on digital marketing 33

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