Agile Marketing Software
Agile Marketing Software
I want to talk to you today about what is Lean Marketing if I’m going to use it
An analogy I have described quick marketing
as the operating system of marketing it is not
a type of marketing like digital marketing or content marketing
or social media marketing it is a way for marketers to organize
You may ask how do they do the work now how do they do the work today
Good question let’s take a look at
The way marketers organize how to get work done today
Something called a waterfall approach
in work flows a waterfall approach a regression goes down through stages
with little or no feedback from clients along the way starts with
a great strategy we literally spend hours in meetings hashing out that big strategy
The strategy usually focuses on
Internal needs Increase or respond to sales Competitors instead
of focusing on customer needs Next we create a creative brief
and have it Another agency briefing meeting This of course has the potential to
Information to be lost in translation between marketers and agency
The agency then creates a campaign copy image ad
and the emphasis rises above the noise instead of educating
or helping the client and then we run long campaigns oftentimes millions
of dollars spent What happens in the end if we all spend that time and money
Well even if the campaign doesn’t produce
the desired results as marketers we are storytellers
we find metrics called vanity metrics to tell the campaign story Successful
And we declare victory there is a better way to look at an agile approach In an agile approach we come up with a little strategy The best guess at the time about what will work and we articulate that as a thesis or hypothesis focusing on the customer and aligning messages and our deliverables with the needs of customers
We’re building a test maybe an ad
but more maybe another type of content and we’re testing reception between Customers who measure results after a short period of time usually a week or two We summarize our learning and modify our messaging and content to meet customer needs I’ve shown four iterations here but more commonly we can do 10 to 15 iterations in the time it takes to run a big bang campaign We can learn Lots through 10 to 15
Iterations We also don’t fear failure because we see failure because learning also means we get to market
Ok, so let’s move to the next level My Official Definition of Rapid Marketing Quick Marketing gets its inspiration from agile software development and you can read the rest Break this down into three practical sections
Values and benefits of the processes used
By agile software developers and by agile marketers are scrum,
kanban and scrumbon, but these methodologies have to be adapted
for marketers to use the most.
An important thing about these processes
is that they help us prioritize focus and get things done consistently.
Improvement and iteration also help us align with business units and make marketing more transparent The next section of the definition is on values such as responding to a change to following a plan and so now in my training I go on
Each of these values in great detail explain them and give real world values
Then there are the benefits which are the topic of why fast marketing but if you want to sum it up
About the improvement of productivity and effectiveness of marketing to summarize
Agile Marketing Software
An operating system or way of getting things
done that takes inspiration from agile software development and helps marketers prioritize focus and be more productive and efficient
This is my answer to the question What’s Agile Marketing Software