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1st Party Data

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Mar 2, 2020 4:08:20 PM

First-party data is the data you have collected about your customers or audience, you own and manage. It can come from your own website through cookies or via your app, CRM, customer feedback, in-store beacons, purchases, contact center, point-of-sale communication, or any other information given with the consent of users. It is a result of direct, trusted relationship and communication with a consumer, which makes it the most powerful. Owning first-party data also gives you the freedom to create your own segments and profiles based on the unique consumer data you have on hand. First-party data is considered to be more valuable and relevant through its specificity and quality compared to second or third- party data.

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Wicked Onboarding FAQ

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Mar 2, 2020 3:15:57 PM

The Wicked Reports onboarding & consultation process has a goal of ROI on your Wicked Reports investment within 90 days.  This goal needs modest effort and focus from both our customer and our team.  Our framework has 4 Wicked Success Phases.

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Leads take time to buy

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 28, 2020 1:22:05 PM

“I almost canceled my most profitable ad campaign because I was measuring response every week instead of every month.”
“I stuck with an email offer that worked great although those leads took much longer to convert.”

One of these marketers understands the value of knowing how long it takes to convert a prospect into a customer. He can market smarter, report results accurately, and get the best ROI,

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Cohort Report

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 28, 2020 12:55:22 PM

Understanding how much money your leads continue to spend with you is an extremely important data point.

If over time Leads that you find through Source A tend to spend way more money faster than Leads who were found through source B, you would likely want to focus your efforts on Source A Leads.

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E-learning

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 28, 2020 11:39:58 AM

Knowing and understanding your marketing data helps you:

  • Stop “spray and pray” marketing. With Wicked Reports you won’t have to guess or take stabs in the dark. When you can see the exact impact of each marketing campaign, you can see exactly what works and what doesn’t. You can learn from your mistakes and build on what’s working.
  • Stay focused on the metrics that matter. Modern marketers have access to so much data that it can be hard to know what’s important and what isn’t. Wicked Reports helps you stay focused on what’s important — the ROI of each marketing campaign. By focusing on real results — revenue, customers, and orders — you can avoid being distracted by vanity metrics and other statistics with little correlation to your bottomline.
  • Invest your time wisely. When you invest your time into a marketing campaign, you’re missing the opportunity to invest it elsewhere. If you invest your time into a marketing opportunity that returns 20% and you could have invested it into a marketing campaign that returned 200%, you just cost your business 180% of the ROI it could have had.
  • Save on marketing and advertising spend. When you can see exactly how well each paid ad performs, when you can see the exact impact on your business in terms of revenue, you know which ads you should kill off and which ones you should invest more into.
  • Piece together your business’s unique growth plan. As Wicked Reports reveals the true ROI of each marketing campaign, and shows you where your best customers are coming from, your business’s growth plan becomes clear.

This last point deserves a bit more attention because it gets to the core of why marketing is so important to your business… effective marketing creates customers and helps your business grow.

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Subscription

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 28, 2020 11:26:43 AM

Attribution is tricky when it comes to recurring revenue, because is is critical to track lifetime value. This is where Wicked Reports shines! So it’s easy to assume that the last marketing email or online ad is what got a customer to purchase. But you’re probably wrong. Let me tell you a secret: the most important factor is time.

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Shopify

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 28, 2020 11:12:24 AM

You look in your Shopify app and see that you made a sale. That’s great!

Now you want to do more of what brought the sale in because it worked. Of course, that’s only logical. So how do you bridge the gap between your marketing programs and Shopify data?

But now you ask . . .

  • Where did that customer come from?
  • Was it that killer email you sent out last week to your own list?
  • Did it come from your new Facebook ad?
  • Or could it have been the blog post that went up last month?

Shopify can’t tell you that. Their records are based on last click, which means you see only the last thing a customer clicked on before they appeared in your Shopify store. It’s the final conversion but it’s not the whole story. So how do you bridge the gap between your marketing programs and Shopify data?

Multiple Outreach Programs
After all, we know that customers often don’t buy right away. It can take weeks or even months before they pull out their card and hit Buy. In that time you have probably reached out to them multiple times and in several different ways. You’ve used different messages, tested several offers, and tried discounts. But you don’t know which one worked.

All the data from those programs goes into your CRM but how can you bridge the gap between marketing program and action, prospect and customer, CRM and Shopify to find out which marketing program got you a customer and brought in revenue?

Again, Shopify can’t tell you that.

Tracking the Customer Journey
But Wicked Reports can. In fact, we track the entire customer journey from first optin to last click so we can tell you exactly what brought in that sale to Shopify. Not just the first optin or the last click—you see the precise program that caused your customer to buy.

You can also see where your best customers came from long before they appeared in your Shopify store. Now you can go back and mine that rich source again.

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ROI From Google Ads

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 28, 2020 11:07:35 AM

Many SMBs do not understand the ROI they are getting from Google Ads because their sales are happening offline or they have a subscription based model where one sale results in recurring monthly revenue. Wicked Reports is able to connect with CRMs and pull in sales data to show businesses the ROI they are getting from many different advertising channels.

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The Critical “Missing Piece” of the Ecommerce Growth Puzzle

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 28, 2020 10:47:52 AM

 

Growing an ecommerce store is like putting together a puzzle with four critical pieces:

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Agencies

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 28, 2020 9:56:50 AM

As a consultant or agency, you want to give your marketing clients the most value—and impact—for their money. After all, they trust you to be their expert partner, someone who knows more, has outstanding creative and can analyze the results. They want great ideas, powerful copy, and deep expertise.

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