Online Marketing Summit focuses on social, search, content
22.05.12
Social media, search and content marketing were among the hot topics at the Online Marketing Summit 2012, which drew almost 2,000 marketers last week in San Diego.
The opening keynote session, “Big Brands and Their Digital Marketing Plans,” featured a panel of digital marketers from General Motors Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., SAP and Salesforce.com.
Crispin Sheridan, senior director-search marketing at SAP, said that last year the company opened a digital lab to implement a more rigorous testing process for digital content.
“Instead of letting the content owners and Web developers do the testing, we put a team together to make testing a competency in the company. We test all those things that make the most difference,” he said.
SAP uses software from DataXu, as well as its own software, to tag digital activity and perform deep analyses of the different digital channels used in marketing campaigns as users interact with them.
Paul Vallez, director of worldwide search at HP, echoed the importance of testing digital marketing programs. “We always have about 10 tests running at any time,” he said. “Last year, we built a methodology that puts multiple versions of content on a page so we can test new features and functionality.”
Source: BtoB Magazine