Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

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@philnottingham

Boston, Massachusetts is
a lovely place, but it has a
number of problems.

Chief among these
problems is…

The mayor’s office had
a bright idea to fix this

And it worked
incredibly well!

Except there was one
problem…

The app was used primarily by
Boston techies, who have a lot
more money than the majority
of the population

And so the data suggested
that the potholes in the rich
parts of the city were causing
the most problems

GARY KING, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
“This was an example of really bad analytics
and it’s even worse because it’s the kind of
th...

What they think they’re solving for
The most problematic potholes

What they’re actually solving for
Potholes near rich people

What they should be measuring
Potholes in areas with highest density of traffic

When we don’t know how to
properly read and interpret
data, gathering it often causes
more problems that it solves

I think this is an endemic
issue in digital marketing

1 Valuing everything by ROI
3 Problems

1 Valuing everything by ROI
2 Treating all metrics as KPIs
3 Problems

1 Valuing everything by ROI
2 Treating all metrics as KPIs
3 Misaligning goals, channels and content
3 Problems

1
Valuing everything by ROI

(Gain from investment - Cost of investment)
Cost of investment
ROI =

What you think you’re solving for
Efficiency & efficacy of spend

So, you try to put a monetary
value on all activities

The most common, and
egregious way of doing this is
with last touch attribution

Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4
Last Touch Attribution

When you use last-touch
attribution, this is how you
end up valuing the different
parts of your website…

Product Support Blog Pricing Contact
Pretty
good!
Meh?
Rubbish
Great!
Amazing!!!

MATTHEW ZOOK, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
“Once something gets measured and put into
a model then everything starts optimising
...

No-one in their right minds would read this
blog post and then buy a car insurance
policy, but when you value your content...

A slightly better way to
measure value is a linear or
time decay model

Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4
Linear Attribution

What you think you’re solving for
Efficiency & efficacy of spend

What you’re actually solving for
Conversions

Lets take the example of PR

Earlier this year, my boss Chris
Savage was on BBC news

Gut feel tells you that this is
really good PR coverage

Here’s what the return looked
like in Google Analytics

500 visits
0 Conversions
~$10,000

Even with linear or even first
touch attribution, this looks like
incredibly poor return

But… maybe we can measure
the value of this TV spot instead
as if it were a bit of TV coverage

This was an ok way to measure
TV 30 years ago, when there
wasn’t many other marketing or
advertising channels available

But today… there’s just too
much noise to make such data
meaningful. Brands who still
measure in this way
dramatically ove...

So we’re left with the conclusion
that…

ROI is just a bad way to measure PR

Think of it like a soccer team.

#WistiaFest / @philnottingham

“ROI” in a soccer analogy is the
number of goals scored.

However… you wouldn’t measure
every player on how many goals they
score, or indeed even how they
contribute in terms of as...

Goal keepers are measured by saves,
defenders by tackles, Midfielders by
passes up the field, and strikers by
goals and as...

Yet you need a well rounded team,
with all the different players, to be
successful.

If you measure everything by “ROI”,
you’re building a team of strikers.

THE WORST CLIENTS OF ANY SEO AGENCY
“How much is this link worth?”

Anyone in SEO who’s had this
question knows how problematic
and widespread this mentality is.

What you think you’re solving for
Efficiency & efficacy of spend

What you’re actually solving for
Conversions

What you should be measuring
A sensible proxy for ‘value’

Effectiveness
Sum (DA^2)
Efficiency
KPIs for PR
Sum (DA^2)
Cost

2
Treating all metrics as KPIs

Everything needs to go up. We need
to get more conversions, more
traffic, more links, lower bounce-
rate…longer time on pa...

What you think you’re solving for
Optimising breadth of value

They appreciated the potential value
YouTube could bring to their
marketing, and so tried to optimise
their activity for a...

Views
Retention
Shares
Subscribes
Click-Throughs
Conversions
TrueView Advertising
Shorten Video
Include Share CTA
Include ...

What you think you’re solving for
Optimising breadth of value

This created a frankenstein’s
monster of a video that had no value.

What you’re actually solving for
Nothing

What you should be measuring
One specific, qualified variable

Here’s how we’ve tried to do this at
Wistia

Effectiveness
View-through Conversions
Efficiency
KPIs for YouTube Advertising
View-through Conversions
Cost

3
Misaligning goals, channels and content

Here’s a strategy I was recently
handed by a global insurance
business

Strategy
Industry Finance
Audience Millenials
Content Explainer Videos
Channel LinkedIn
Goal Sign-ups
Distribution Budget ...

What you think you’re solving for
Integrated Strategy

Channel
ContentAudience

The problem is that the strategy had
no overlap in the channel, the
audience or the content

Strategy
Industry Finance
Audience Millenials
Content Explainer Videos
Channel LinkedIn
Goal Sign-ups
Distribution Budget ...

No amount of budget in the world
can make this strategy work.

What you’re actually solving for
Discrete, unconnected and fragmented problems

What you should be doing
Creating content on channels appropriate for
the goal and audience

Goal
Audience
Channel
Content
Distribution
Metrics
KPI
What are you trying to achieve?
Who are you trying to reach?
Where ...

Here’s an example of how we
recently applied this plan to
Facebook video

We created a test video to see if
there was any latent demand for this
kind of content.

It worked!

We then encouraged further
distribution with a bit of light
influencer marketing

Effectiveness
Page Likes
Efficiency
KPIs for Facebook Competitions
Page Likes
Cost

This lead to a 30% increase in
overall page likes over the duration
of the campaign, at a cost of about
$2 per like.

• Bad Data < No Data
• Measure everything, but always optimise for just one KPI
• Only use ROI for direct response & conve...

Thanks!
Please feel free to follow
me on the Twitters!
@philnottingham

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

Phil Nottingham - How the best strategies start with the right metrics

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