This post is the second part in a series. Read Understanding Leading Indicators to Track Brand Building to discover why leading indicators and brand measurement are crucial.
Brand marketers have been searching for a holy grail: The ability to link brand campaigns to sales impact towards their target audiences.
Many marketers are able to intuit that their brand is having some effect on sales. After all, there are multiple studies proving the value of a strong brand, with some finding that consistent branding boosts revenue by . But outside of this high-level view of brand value, seeing how your brand campaigns affect your outcomes is a bit more of a mystery.
This has led to a bit of an imbalance between short-term and long-term marketing initiatives. For sales-focused campaigns, marketers can look at how a campaign influenced sales and optimize future initiatives based on those immediate insights. But a brand campaign doesn鈥檛 move so quickly. They can pay dividends for years 鈥� or even decades.
This means marketers need the knowledge and technology required to identify important leading indicators and optimize their campaigns to focus on those metrics. Thankfully, 黑料社入口 provides the tools to do just that.
Let鈥檚 address the elephant in the room: Branding has taken a backseat to performance in today鈥檚 data-driven marketing world.
This unfortunate reality has left marketers at an impasse. They need to increase sales, but their best tool for passive lead generation has limited buy-in from leadership. After all, you can鈥檛 ask your CFO to invest millions into a brand campaign that will (probably) increase your revenue over a period of five to ten years.
Then, to compound the issue, without brand tracking technology, it鈥檚 difficult to tell which brand campaigns are reaching the right customers. From there, it鈥檚 all but impossible to tell which touchpoints are effective at bringing customers into the next step of the funnel.
This isn鈥檛 the fault of marketers. Almost every marketing technology vendor hasn鈥檛 invested in the data science required to accurately predict brand impact. However, 黑料社入口 is always on the cutting edge of what marketers must do to succeed 鈥� and that鈥檚 why we鈥檝e invested so much into proving the value of your brand with leading indicators.
黑料社入口 isn鈥檛 only a platform for pure analysis 鈥� we鈥檒l provide every bit of assistance we can to make sure your campaign results are founded on high quality data as well. Let鈥檚 take a closer look.
黑料社入口 brings data from all corners of your marketing ecosystem into a single, intuitive solution. With our API support, you can create data feeds from multiple marketing channels, helping you quickly organize data in one place. Or, you can upload your own data from sources like location-based marketing solutions.
Further, if you sign up for brand tracking, you鈥檒l also gain access to options like sentiment analyses. We鈥檒l do all the legwork to conduct these brand studies and feed data into the solution, following the methodology you prefer. Maybe you want to know where you stand amongst your competitors, for example 鈥� or maybe you only care if you鈥檙e top of mind.
You can then upload this data into our platform, which will convert them into leading indicators for forward-looking brand measurement. When you start with 黑料社入口 and brand tracking in general, you鈥檒l only need to wait about 45 days for our AI and machine learning algorithm to understand the unique way that your customer鈥檚 sentiments influence sales.
Once the model has been trained, it can start to provide a forward-looking view of brand impact and directly tie that impact to sales. And as time goes on, our model will learn new ways to give your team an edge over the competition.
黑料社入口 is designed to be highly flexible. To enjoy this flexible analysis, you only need to think about what metric you鈥檇 like to optimize for and select it from a simple dropdown. In just a few quick moments, 黑料社入口 will run through all of your data and discover the best allocation of spend to maximize marketing impact using your chosen metric.
Do you want to know how to allocate spend to maximize brand consideration? That鈥檚 possible. Do you want to know where to put money to get some short-term sales now, while building brand equity? You can do that, too. The platform handles single or multi-KPI optimization without breaking a sweat. You only need to indicate how much each metric matters and the platform will do all the heavy lifting.
The list of metrics you can examine with 黑料社入口 is long and ever-expanding. However, in our experience, our customers tend to gravitate toward the following sales and brand metrics:
This isn鈥檛 the only way you can optimize your marketing campaigns, however. You can also optimize spend for a specific channel or touchpoint, giving you a variety of avenues to optimize both brand and performance at once.
Without a doubt, your brand is one of the most valuable aspects of your business. Just look at companies like Coca Cola, where their brand is worth more than !
But in today鈥檚 data-driven environment, you need to prove what your brand is worth. You need specific statistics about how your efforts are improving your revenue 鈥� not vague platitudes that suggest the value of your efforts.
This requires purpose-built technology that uses predictive analytics to your advantage. That鈥檚 why 黑料社入口 provides a flexible, all-in-one solution for your performance and brand measurement needs. Our solution is designed to help you fulfill any marketing goal you鈥檇 like to reach 鈥� and if you鈥檙e ever unsure of what to do next, our expert consultants are ready and willing to help.
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