Sunday, July 20, 2014

Four Digital Marketing Approaches by Using Big Data


1.     Maximizing the use of data to access users to achieve optimal effect of online booking. - Agoda
For online hotel booking website Agoda, its big data application is focused on how to access its users. The foremost is how to reach our users and take these users to Agoda. Agoda’s strategy has been buying traffic from all type of search engines and other media.
They have been trying different ways of SEO optimization, such as different grouping of words, ideas, services. Over the four years, via optimization of thousands of key words, their search engine optimization ratio has improved for over 24.6 times, multiple dozen times of increased bookings.
2.   Multiple Dimension of Digital Asset - Baidu
Baidu has always been taking the lead of big data era. The services that Baidu has provided for its customers, is not only leading the traffic, but also a multidimensional solution package to its customers. For example, a live-time price fluctuation model for airline companies to maximize its online booking scale and efficiency.
Also Baidu can provide better operational service to corporations in management. Such as the baidu map in real estate projects for the best parking lot or traffic tracking for department stores.
3.  Understanding Customers’ Needs to Create Customer-tailored Insurance Product – China Insurance Co.
As the largest insurance company in Asia-Pacific Region, China Insurance has actively explored in digital marketing. It has established an digital marketing and strategy section. It focuses on SEO and data integration to understand customers’ needs. Its car insurance sales has championed China, with the digital marketing plan which increased the transition ratio of its personal property insurance users to car insurance by 354%.
However, they also face the data barriers among different platforms. For example, the users’ data on wechat, their official website, and app are relatively disparate. They can’t see exactly if any customer buys insurance from the social media channel, or if there is any overlapping. They hope to integrate data among all the platforms.
4. Provide Data Support for Marketing Decisions – Coco Cola
This year, CocoCola has launched a special marketing campaign – printing the most popular slogan or music on the bottles- all are drawing from the data analysis.
In such a marketing event, data analysis helps Coco Cola to decide which music is most popular, which lyrics is mostly welcomed, and who is best loved by fans, as well as the marketing outcome.
CocoCola is right now establishing its own customer data base so that by understanding its own customers, can it work more strategically with its online operators.


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