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Online Marketing and Metrics Presentation at UEIA, 2012
1. Online Marketing and Metrics:
because everything counts
Justo Hidalgo
jhidalgo@24symbols.com
@justohidalgo
2.
3. Hi!
■ Co-founder,
■ Data Integration and Management,
Product Strategy and Innovation
■ Ph.D. in Computer Science on Data
Integration and Web Automation
■ Ergo: Love Data
■ @justohidalgo
4. 24symbols is a service to read digital books on
the Internet based on a subscription model
= cloud + social + freemium
@justohidalgo
6. My goals today
Basic marketing and product strategy
• The Whole Product
• Segmentation, targeting and positioning
Online marketing 101
• Two big realities (not trends anymore!)
• SEO, SEM, Social media
Metrics
A/B Testing
7. What I won’t talk about
Qualitative measurement
• Competitive landscape, UX quality, …
Standard financial metrics
• Revenue, Balance, Burn rate, Runway, …
All possible metrics in the world
• As many as asses
25. What’s a market segment
■ Group of clients or potential clients of a set of
product/services that posess a series of needs,
behavioral patterns and common characteristics,
and that communicate among each other when
deciding upon a purchase decision.
26. Tipos de segmentos
■ Geography (e.g. Per region)
■ Size (e.g. Per income, revenue,
growth rate, …)
■ Industry (e.g. Per SIC code)
■ Purchase type (e.g. Centralized vs
decentralized)
■ Personal (e.g. Risk profile)
■…
29. ■ Product must be
positioned w.r.t.
two elements:
• Client needs
• Competitors
30. How to position
■ Relative to technologies, products o
processes
■ Relative to competitors
• Avis: “We’re #2, that’s why try harder”
■ Finding a unique niche
• Genentech: “small” ($300M-$600M)
oncology markets
■ Becoming a category leader
41. The BIG mistake
Cisco just offered me a job! Now I
have to weigh the utility of a fatty
paycheck against the daily
commute to San Jose and hatingthe
work.
47. Cluetrain Manifesto
1. Markets are conversations
2. Markets are comprised by
human beings, not
demographic sectors
3. Conversation among human
being sounds human
■ … and other 92 thesis
http://www.cluetrain.com
48.
49.
50. Basic, basic, basic introduction
For more info, check:
➤http://www.slideshare.net/randfish/introduction-to-seo-
5003433
➤http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
➤http://www.slideshare.net/randfish/fundamentals-of-
great-seo
➤http://www.slideshare.net/randfish/the-evolution-of-
googles-rankings
➤http://www.slideshare.net/ajaxlogos/meet-panda-seo-
google-the-algorithm-and-publishing
➤http://www.slideshare.net/humanlevel/posicionamiento-
en-buscadores-seo-y-sem-bsicos
51. Basic types of promotion
■ Sales promotion
■ Advertisement
■ Sales force
■ Public relations (PR)
■ Direct marketing
56. SEO is the practice of improving and promoting
a web site in order to increase the number of
visitors the site receives from search engines.
57. Marketing in search engines
■ Advantages
• Top ranking captures 90% of clicks
• No cost per clicks
• Helps select prospects during discovery stage
• Content beats budget (by now!)
■ Cons
• No guarantee
• Takes time (months!)
• Difficult to control
• Difficult if competitors are already positioned
58.
59.
60. Reasons to take care of SEO
Deep Web
• Search
• Submission-required forms
Links in un-parseable javascript
Robots.txt or meta robots tag
• Is Google a rogue bot?
Frames, iFrames
• They *should* work
Flash, applets, …
100’s, 1000’s of links on a page
• Search engines don’t crawl ALL of them
64. Don’t look like a Farm site
Old SEO tricks don’t work anymore:
• Reciprocal link pages
• Keyword-variant abuse
• Generic design and layout (watch out CMS tools!)
• Anonymous contact forms
• Keyword-stuffed titles and pages
• …
65. Marketing in search engines
■ SEM: Search Engine Marketing
■ PPC: Pay per Click
■ Used in paid searches
■ E.g. Google AdWords
■ Paid per keyword use
■ Advantages
• Control on ranking, text and “landing page”
• Typically uses “auctions”. One can compete
• Campaigns can be tested
■ Cons
• No pay, no exist
• Not so reliable
• Expensive
• If someone pays more, wins
66. Marketing in search engines
■ Contextual advertisement
■ E.g. Google AdSense
■ Advantages
• Good for branding
• Not just in search engines! blogs, facebook,
twitter, …
• Easy to test
■ Cons/Challenges
• Do FB users want to click on ads when
chatting?
• Difficult (i.e. expensive) to test and succeed
67. Social Media + SEO: big win
Facebook shares
Twitters tweets, RTs
Google +1s
Youtube
…
These are all taken into account by Google, Bing
78. AARRR
Acquire Activate Retain Refer Get Revenue
SEO Landing Content Campaigns Shopping
SEM Page (blogs, Emails cart
Campaigns Product articles, … Subscriptions
Email Features …) Lead Gen
Blogs … Emails …
… Alerts
…
traffic social business
89. Metrics
# Sign ins!!! Recency (time since user did
85000
something meaningful)
80000
75000
70000
65000
60000
55000
50000
45000
40000
Time per page
Time on site
(and churn as well!!!)
90. Biggest Apple
Reseller in Spain
1-year
subscription to
24s per iPad/Mac
purchased
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102. Virality
Amplification rate:
• (#shares, #RTs, …)
K-Factor = AR *
conversion rate
• = 1: steady state
• > 1: growth
➤ 1.4 < x < 2.1 => hot &
viral!!!
• < 1: decline
103. The Four Viral App Objectives
% viral hosts
Contact rate per active host
Duration of each active host’s
infectious time period
Infection conversion
Source: http://framethink.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/the-four-viral-app-
objectives-aka-social-network-application-virality-101/
113. Customer Acquisition Cost
gross margin per customer
CAC Ratio=
sales/marketing costs per customer
Bessemer: average ratio of SaaS companies = 0.6
114. LTV vs CAC
Of course, LTV > CAC
But, moreover: LTV > 3x CAC
115. Freemium. Conversion Rate
Free
Users
Delayed subscription Premium
(test the service & engage)
Conversion
Rate
Time
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116. Freemium for Books. Price per page
Price/page
Profit threshold
Growth Consolidation
time/conversion rate
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117.
118. One key question for the whole AARRR
cycle
■ How effective is a web page compared to another?
?
119. What’s A/B Testing?
Visitors are randomly distributed
Version A Version B
time
1200 new users 1000 new users
Version A is better than B
120. What should you test?
The call to action’s (i.e. the button’s) wording,
size, color and placement,
Headline or product description,
Form’s length and types of fields,
Layout and style of website,
Product pricing and promotional offers,
Images on landing and product pages,
Amount of text on the page (short vs. long)
… anything that you think it might affect your Key Metrics.
121. Is A/B testing perfect?
Very good for ONE-SINGLE-GOAL
projects where the KPI can be
measured by counting actions
• E.g. Downloads vs Quality perceived
Granularity of the A/B test is
paramount
• If “A” better than “B” or is it just that
the headline in B is horrible, but the
rest is much much much better than
“A”?
A/B testing is suboptimal*
* Recommended:
http://untyped.com/untyping/2011/02/11/stop-ab-testing-and-
make-out-like-a-bandit/
140. Thanks for your time!
Justo Hidalgo
http://www.loscuentosdelabuelo.com
jhidalgo@24symbols.com
@justohidalgo
141. Credits
Olivier Guin, from The Noun Project
Dima Yagnyuk, from The Noun Project
Redesign from Otl Aicher’s icon, from The Noun Project
Axsys, from The Noun Project
Monika Ciapala, from The Noun Project
Rob Schill, from The Noun Project
Martin Karachorov, from The Noun Project
Alexandre Mendes, from The Noun Project
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