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Case study: Making Vodafone datalicious using SiteCatalyst, Test&Target and SearchCenter

Challenge

Implement, maintain and manage an end-to-end analytics and online optimisation platform designed to increase media effectiveness and website conversion as well as overall user experience. 

Solution

Design, implementation and ongoing management of advanced Omniture analytics and online optimisation platform across all Vodafone website properties in general and the online store in particular. The final solution combined data from various different sources, measuring performance across multiple channels above and below the line as well as visitor behaviour down to an individual customer level, both online and through call centres. By combining data sets and technologies that were separate up until then, Datalicious was able to generate additional insights, eliminate inefficiencies and execute highly targeted campaigns which were previously impossible.

Results

Advanced analytics and multi-channel media attribution enabled us to deliver a 400% return on investment on paid search in the highly competitive Telco market and establish organic search as a profitable cost centre. Identification of existing customers allowed us to save 30% of the annual display-advertising budget dedicated to acquisition messaging, which was essentially being wasted on already existing customers and re-purpose it for brand and self-service messaging. The addition of targeting parameters and coordination of on and off page re-targeting campaigns increased response rates by 25% on average. The planning and execution of an online testing strategy increased the visit to sale conversion rate by 5%. All of the above measures combined delivered an approximate return on investment on advanced analytics of over 600%.

Testimonials

“I’ve been working with SiteCatalyst for over six years, 3 years as a customer and 3 years as an employee, consulting to some of our largest customers around the world. The current Vodafone implementation of SiteCatalyst is one of the most impressive I have seen and ranks in the top 10 [globally] from my perspective. It is an amazing foundation for taking action on the data and improving online return on investment.” Adam Greco, Team Lead Business Consulting at Omniture.

“The Datalicious guys are great to work along side and to have on your team. They have a 'no stone unturned' approach to finding solutions to challenges that come up and were at ease working with different providers. Their knowledge and passion for web analytics and best of breed web optimisation was second to none. The advise on best practice use of the Omniture suite and how to make it work for me personally and Vodafone as a whole made the learning and training of others easy. I would thoroughly recommend Datalicious to anyone and they will be my first point of call.” Steve Brown, Senior Business Analyst, Vodafone

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New Google Website Optimizer API enables tests without JavaScript code

Exiting news on the Google Website Optimizer front! The optimisation team over at Google have launched an extension to their API that allows CMS providers to include the Website Optimizer service into their platforms, thereby enabling their customers to run tests without ever having to touch their website code (all happens on the backend, i.e. what page to serve to what visitor).

"[...] integrations allow you to create and launch Website Optimizer experiments without touching your website's code."

To find out more watch the below video or check out the below original blog post
http://websiteoptimizer.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-website-optimizer.html

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SmashingMagazine & Magento: Best checkout process

Have a look at the checkout process on http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ (for their book, also see below), it's one of the sleekest and best I've come across and we're pretty sure it's powered by http://www.magentocommerce.com/. I especially love the one page overview and the fact that you don't have to create an account (which is most annoying).

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Clickz: marketers fail to optimize on-site media

A survey of marketing executives found that two in three allocate less than 10 cents of every marketing dollar to optimize on-site media to encourage Web site visitors to "convert" or take an action such as make a purchase or download a white paper.

Of 1,050 marketing executives surveyed, 42 percent said they are spending less than five hours per week optimizing advertising media such as search, e-mail, and display advertising, according to Omniture's Online Conversion Benchmark Survey released this week. "This may be too low, considering many companies are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per month in advertising," the study suggests.

Astounding results and probably true for Australia as well. From experience we can say that companies in Australia still tend to focus more on the top part of the funnel (i.e. attracting cost effective traffic) rather than the bottom part (i.e. on-site conversion) even though the bottom part holds the most potential for overall conversion growth.

Clickz article
http://www.clickz.com/3634901

Omniture survey
http://www.omniture.com/go/23937

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Hubspot: link grader for organic search optimization and much more

Useful paid service for organic search optimization and other things.

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