This document discusses conversation marketing and the MD5 Conversation Manager tool. It describes how the Conversation Manager allows for more personalized dialogue between brands and customers by facilitating two-way conversations through online portals. It highlights how this addresses challenges in traditional one-way marketing by enabling richer, real-time conversations to gain better customer insights. The document outlines the steps to implement conversation marketing using the Conversation Manager, including choosing information to share, creating portals, and integrating them on brand websites and campaigns.
2. MD5 Conversation Manager
More than a Preference Centre, the Conversation Manager is an
integrated, online place for Brands and customers to have
personalised dialogue.
Driving your marketing, and with far greater insight into real
customer preferences than ever before, Marketers can deliver
right message, right time, right channel.
...how not to do it...
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3. Traditional model
Audience
Marketing systems
Compiles and broadcasts
Analysis
Data
Database Campaigns
Limited response
Channel1
Channel2
Channel3
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4. Conversation marketing
Greater engagement:
Increase the number of usable, permissioned (and engaged) contacts you
recruit onto your database
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Conversation
Manager
Audience
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5. Richer, real-time conversations
"Here are your last 10
transactions & an offer
"Monthly digest by based on your profile"
text is best "
Conversation Portals
Information published for
sharing & collecting
"Only tell me
about UK
holidays &
term time
offers "
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6. Addresses marketers challenges
I know little about what makes my audience receptive at
an individual level
We are flying blind about interests, preferred channel, frequency
One way traffic doesnt make a conversation
We dont generate enough new leads from campaigns
How do I recognise my audience as individuals?
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7. MD5 Conversation Manager
Delivers one to one marketing
Enables two way marketing conversations
Permission based marketing and Data Protection compliance
Access and capture social media channels
Builds & publishes dynamic, configurable customer info sites
Direct, dynamic two way link between marketing and customer
Connects & publishes information between individuals & brands
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8. Steps to Conversation Marketing
Help your audience engage with you
- Let them tell you more about themselves
- Give them more information and value;
- Offers, buying history, articles, deliveries, subscriptions
- Ask them more about themselves
- Surveys, interests, competitions, feedback
1. Define what information you want to exchange
2. Create as many online portals as you need
3. Publish & integrate within your brand sites
4. Share with your marketing systems
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9. 1. Choose the info to share in MD5
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10. 2. Create your new Conversation Portal(s)
Auto creates an online site.
Choose your branding
Choose the information
areas you want
to publish and collect
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12. 4. Integrate within multiple brand websites
& campaigns Brand A
Loyalty Brand B
Brand C
Customer Portals: Warranty
Surveys
New standard method to publish & Brand D
Transactions
collect web customer data Loyalty
Warranty
Brand B
Brand C
Client Push
Conversation
marketing Manager(s)
infrastructure June
Pull Surveys July
August
Transactions
Brand E
Brand F
Promotions
Brand A
Brand B
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