Digital Marketing & Strategy
Digital Marketing Plan for
Grainger.com
Client: Grainger.com
Objective
To design a multi-channel digital marketing campaign for the client,
Grainger, as they target a sales increase of Bosch Power Tools by 10% on
Grainger.com. The client wants the campaigns to focus on display
advertising and email for this project.
Prepared by,
Kazi Ashikuzzaman
Digital Market analyst
Dhak, Bangladesh
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Table of Contents
I.
Executive Summary............................................................................................... 2
II.
Client/Brand analysis: .......................................................................................... 2
History of Grainger
Business Model
Strategy for Growth
Online Presence
Audience
Bosch Brand Position
Brand Personality/ Value
SWOT Analysis
III.
Consumer Decision Journey (CDJ):...................................................................... 6
Scenarios of the Problem
Business Objectives
IV.
Collect & Analyze Data: ........................................................................................ 9
KPI & Data Source Selection
Possible steps to Prevent Biases
Analysis Report:
V.
The Channel & Content Strategy: ........................................................................ 15
Display Strategy:
Email Strategy:
Campaign Strategy for Audience Profile 1:
Campaign Strategy for Audience Profile 2:
Content Strategy:
Recommendation for the Content/ tone of the message:
VI.
Test & Control Plan: ............................................................................................ 19
Research Statement:
Research Objective:
Secondary Research:
Primary Research:
Recommended Test Campaign:
VII. Appendix:.............................................................................................................. 21
Executive Summary
Grainger is the 13th largest online store in the USA and leading the repair and maintenance tool
industry for its unbeatable customer service and network of distribution. Currently grainger is
launching its new brand Bosch in its directory. The challenge for this marketing plan is to design
a multi-channel digital marketing campaign for the client, Grainger, as they target a sales
increase of Bosch Power Tools by 10% on Grainger.com. The client wants the campaigns to
focus on display advertising and email for this project.
In this marketing plan we try to suggest the best possible marketing strategy in the field of
display and email advertising. We have started with the history of grainger continued with the
client/brand analysis. Then we have moved to consumer decision journey (CDJ) where we have
examine the different stages particularly for the grainger brand and set all the required
experiment and analysis types for this problem. We have identified the business objective, key
question to reach to this objective, type of data needed to do analysis and testing to reach this
objective. In the 3rd module we discuss the type of data and their sources, possible biases those
are required to highlight when the data is being collected. We set the benchmark to summarize
the insights of different analysis stage. Finally we summarize the analysis in order to help direct
our channel plan and to help in developing the campaign.
In module 4, we have dig deep into the channel and content strategy. We have discussed about
the customer segmentation for different campaign condition. We have suggested different
content and display advertisement techniques and tones and make sure the suggestion is aligned
with the brand’s core value.
In module 5 we discussed on the research method for the recommended campaign. We also
determined the test recommendation across the different channels.
Client/Brand analysis:
History of Grainger
1927
• William W. (Bill) Grainger founded a wholesale electric motor sales and distribution
business in Chicago
1928
• The business was incorporated as W. W. Grainger, Inc.
1936
• there were 15 branches in operation. It was evident that local branch service would be
an integral part of the company's future growth
1967
• , Grainger became a public company, and its stock was traded in the over-the-counter
market. Today, Grainger stock is sold under the GWW symbol on the New York
Stock Exchange
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1976
• Grainger became the first in the industry to implement optical character recognition
equipment
1980
• Grainger continued to advance its systems by installing a national satellite-based digital
communication network
1991
• Grainger introduced the first comprehensive electronic MRO catalog on CD-ROM
1995
• Grainger launched the corporate Web site.
1996
• began taking orders online-
• Over the years, Grainger's product line has expanded to more than 1 million products
and repair parts. The Grainger branch network has grown steadily.
Business Model
Grainger runs branch based business. Grainger has created a legacy of success by building strong
customer relationships through its branches with a team of highly engaged employees who believe
in providing exceptional service. It is currently expanding its business also in the ecommerce
platform, producing 30% of the total revenue of Grainger.
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Strategy for Growth
Strategy for Growth
The most locations
Grainger has more
than 600 stocking
branches in North
America. Sometimes
customers need things
extremely quickly,
even the same day,
and Grainger is the
closest and fastest
alternative more often
than other distributors
The most inventory
Grainger carries
enormous stocks of
inventory which in
turns attract a big
number of customer.
The easiest to use
website
Sometimes, the
The best catalog.
speediest and most
In some types of
convenient way to
distribution, paper
purchase something is
catalogs are still
by using the keyboard
essential because they
that’s right in front of
are the fastest and
you. If you are a
easiest way to look up
business buyer, you
many types of
already know Grainger
products.
is more likely to have
what you need quickly
vs. other distributors.
Online Presence
Website: Grainger is the pioneer in ecommerce comparing with its competitor. For the last 6
Month it has total 3.10 Million of visits to its website grainger.com with a bounce rate of 38%.
The visit curve is decreasing with time only for the desktop type, proving that the newly launched
mobile apps are in more use by the customer. Nearly 87% of the audience are from the, USA
representing the major customer share all over the US. A small market is also growing in Canada,
Mexico and in India.
Social Platform: 0.65% of total website traffic are driven from the social sites including Reddit,
Face book, YouTube, LinkedIn, Stack Exchange and so on. Facebook and you tube are 2 major
social site through which Grainger is publishing display advertising. Reddit is leading the social
site in conversion performance 41.47% and Facebook is the second one with 27.25% of the total
social site conversion.
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Audience
Primary Audience: The Primary audience of the Bosch power tools are from business and
industry experts. This group consists of occupations such as carpenters and other construction
workers, painters, mechanics, plumbers, electricians, utility workers, landscapers and
manufacturing employees. More than 25% of power tools audience are from this category.
Home and garden enthusiast & software enthusiast are other 2 major primary audience category
covering nearly the 25% of total audience.
Secondary Audience: In this category the DIY professionals and the young apprentice are playing
vital role for Bosch brand.
Bosch Brand Position
Bosch brand is standing as a key players in the global power tool with Stanley Black & Decker
Inc., Atlas Copco AB and Techtronic Industries Company Limited. Stanley Black & Decker Inc.
and Robert Bosch GmbH focus on research and development initiatives to introduce innovative
products to attain sustainable advantages over the competition. In addition, these players also focus
on expanding their global presence through mergers and acquisitions and new product
development.
Brand Personality/ Value
Bosch has always been a value-driven company that encompasses change and continuity. Many of
its values can be traced back to founder Robert Bosch, while other values have evolved over time.
Bosch values reflect the manner in which it conducts business: professional ethics in dealing with
business partners, investors, employees and society. Bosch takes advantage of its position as one
of the world’s foremost technology and services companies to encourage global opportunities for
strong and meaningful development in different global areas. To ensure the highest quality, Bosch
focuses on its core competencies in automotive technologies, power tools and security systems. At
Bosch, quality is the most valued asset, and it is on this platform that all other values are based.
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Bosch believes that innovation today ensures business tomorrow. The Bosch values steer all
company actions, a continual guide to priorities and commitments.
SWOT Analysis
•High Customer
satisfaction.
•Established brand image
around the world over
the centuries.
•Continuous
improvement.
Strength
Threat
Weakness
Opportunity
•Delay in decision making.
•In certain situation
centralized management is
followed.
•Marketing of products is
given less impornce.
•Increase in competition.
•Too many substitute
products are available in
the market.
•Growing bargaining
power of companies.
•Continues cost pressure.
•It can produce more
economic and ecofriendly products.
•It helps to compete with
other companies.
Consumer Decision Journey (CDJ):
Scenarios of the Problem
There are four particular scenarios for this Marketing plan. The first Three of them regarding the
customers who first visit boshtools.com. We can put these scenarios in different stage of the CDJ
asFor Potential Customers:
•
Scenario 1: Audiences that visit Boschtools.com, look at a power tool (for example a drill), but
do not visit Grainger.com.
•
Scenario 2: Audiences that visit Boschtools.com, look at a power tool, and then visit
Grainger.com, log in to Grainger.com, and visit the power tools category.
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Scenario 3: Audiences that visit Boschtools.com, look at a power tool, and then visit
Grainger.com, log in to Grainger.com, and visit the plumbing category but not power tools.
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For Current Customers:
•
Cross-sell/up-sell more Bosch products from categories beyond power tools to its existing
customers.
Scenarios
Position on CDJ
Key concerns
Analysis
Scenario 1
Initial Consideration
Stage
Customers are not
going to grainger.com
as potential customer
may not recall or
recognize the brand
grainger.com.
The
initial set of customer
requirement is either
not present or lack of
awareness about the
brand products.
Competitive
Intelligence
Scenario 2
Active Evaluation
Stage
As the customer log in
to grainger.com and
visiting power tools
category they are
initially considering
the brand. But we need
to influence their
decision more by
marketing technique to
drive them to First
moment of truth.
Experimentation/
Testing
Scenario 3
Moment of Purchase
Stage
Existing Customer
Post-Purchase
Experience Stage
The customer visited Outcome Analysis
the grainger.com and
also browse the power
tools cut category and
after that they go for a
different category. This
represents that the sales
effort result doesn’t
win the brand. We must
look at the details of
sales effort and the
purchase funnel step by
step.
The existing customer
who already purchased
Bosch tools from the
grainger.com will be
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Voice of
Customer
Analysis
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the target segment for
this stage. The main
concerns of this stage is
to make them loyal to
the brand by providing
good customer service,
discount
on
next
purchase, or doing
improvement
according
to
the
feedback from the
customer end.
Business Objectives
Potential Customer:
Scenario -1:
Business Objective
Build Awareness
Key Question
How many visits did my
competitor get?
Who are the referrals and
destinations of Grainger and
its competitors?
How is the top keyword
performance trend between
Grainger and its competitors?
Who are the audience and
what are the segmentations of
the Competitors?
Data ( Sources)
Hybrid data for Website
traffic analysis. ( google
trend)
Hybrid data for Website
traffic analysis. (Google
trend, compete).
Hybrid data (Google Insight
for search).
ISP & Panel data (Hit wise).
Scenario – 2:
Business Objective
Influence Consideration
Key Question
What is happening in the
Grainger’s website?
Why is it happening? Why
the customer are not
converting?
What are the solutions?
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Data ( Sources)
Actionable data ( Google
analytics or any other analytic
software)
Qualitative data ( Surveys,
group discussion)
Experiment & testing ( A/B
testing, Multivariate testing)
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Scenario – 3:
Business Objective
Improve Sales Process
Key Question
What are happening in the
sales funnel?
Is the user interface is
working the right way?
Is the costing and delivery
method is wining for the
customer conversion?
Data ( Sources)
Actionable data ( Google
analytics or any other analytic
software)
Experiment & testing ( A/B
testing, Multivariate testing)
Qualitative data ( Surveys,
group discussion)
Existing Customer:
Business Objective
Grow loyalty
Key Question
Who are the loyal customer?
What are the additional
products they are searching?
Which marketing program
was effective to produce past
advocacy?
Data ( Sources)
Consumer group –
Segmentation study,
Twitter volume ( twitter API)
Keyword & search data,
Qualitative data ( Surveys)
Marketing events (company
intranet site), Hashtag volume
(topsy).
Collect & Analyze Data:
KPI & Data Source Selection
Scenarios
Type of Data
Data Source
Major KPI
Scenario 1
We will look at the
search overview data,
Top SEO words,
referrals, Social
comparison and
audience for the above
mentioned 5
competitors of
grainger.com
In this analysis we will
look at grainger’s
website data provided
Similar web. It collects
it data through hybrid
data collection system.
Bounce Rate,
Time On site,
Page View,
Major Countries
Referrals,
Traffic source.
Grainger’s campaign
data, Survey Report
(Not present), email
Click Through
Rate (CTR), Cost
per, Acquisition
Scenario 2
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Scenario 3
Existing Customer
by them, mostly
containing few
campaigns data they
have run recently. For
completing this
analysis it should be
better to get some
Survey data (not
present) and also some
data from the email
department of grainger
(Not present).
marketing Insight.
(Not present), Social
network data.
(CPA), Return On
Advertisement
Spent. (ROAS),
Macro conversion
rate, Micro
conversion rate,
Different Social
KPI.
In this analysis we will
look at grainger’s
website data provided
by them, mostly
containing few
campaigns data they
have run recently.
Grainger’s campaign
data.
Cart
Abandonment
rate, Micro
conversion rate,
macro conversion
rate, Macro
conversion rate,
Micro conversion
rate, Different
Social KPI.
Topsy for sentiment
analysis in twitter. Post
–purchase survey
report. Analytics
report.
Customer
retention rate, Net
promoter Score
(NTS), Overall
Satisfaction
(OSAT),
Customer Loyalty
Index, Customer
effort score.
(CES).
We will look at
different sentiment
analysis over the
social network,
post-purchase
feedback from the
current customer
and also the post
purchase survey
form.
Possible steps to Prevent Biases
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•
The biasing that may have occur in this analysis will sampling bias. For tackling with this
biasing I have used a hybrid source who initially collect their data from multiple vendors like
browser org, ISP data and finally super impose those data along with their own collection
method. This, reduces the sample biasing to an acceptable data for further analysis.
If we run any survey in this stage we should keep in mind about the fact of questionnaire bias
to evaluate the survey in the right direction.
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•
If we run any survey in this stage we should keep in mind about the fact of questionnaire bias
to evaluate the survey in the right direction.
Analysis Report:
Competitive Intelligence Analysis Report:
Traffic Overview:
Competitors
Total Visit
Time on Site Page view
Bounce rate
Homedepot.com
45.80 M
00:05:48
6.67
30.03%
Lowes.com
23.60 M
00:06:02
8.14
20%
Acetoolsonline.com 45 k
00:02:16
3.31
61.74%
Amazon.com
1.30 B
00:09:01
11.60
27.30%
Grainger.com
2.80 M
00:04:26
5.45
37.13%
Country ( %
of major
share)
USA
(94.04%)
USA
(97.27%)
USA
(71.70%)
USA
(73.14%)
USA
(85.86%)
Traffic Sources
Display
Mail
Social
Search
Referrals
Direct
0
10
Grainger.com
Competitors
Homedepot.com
Lowes.com
20
Amazon.com
30
Acetoolsonline.com
40
50
Lowes.com
60
70
Homedepot.com
Top Referrals
Slickdeals.net, dealnews.com, bensbergains.com, ebay.com,
fatwallet.com
Slickdeals.net, dealnews.com, bensbergains.com, fatwallet.com
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Acetoolsonline.com
Amazon.com
Grainger.com
Dewalt.com, boschtools.com, amazon.com, dremel.com,
cmtutensili.com
Slickdeals.net, deals.kinja.com, audible.com, smzdm.com, imdb.com
Searchlock.com, swagbucks.com, boshctools.com, prosperent.com
Analysis Insight:
From the traffic overview we see an interesting co-relation between the Bounce rate, Page view
& time on sight. And for Lowes, amazon & Grainger the Page view and time on sight are
directly proportional to the bounce rate. So, an achievement of bounce rate in Grainger will
result more page view and time on site.
Analyzing the traffic sources we can clearly see that Grainger is leading on the search terms. So
it should continue to its search strategy to its current one. In regarding to the display advertising
it is also doing good compare with its main competitors. But there are still scope to develop in
the display channel as the total percentage is too low comparing the total channel distribution.
There is a clear scope of development in the mail traffic sources. Grainger is far behind the
amazon and Lowes in this channel. It should improve more in this channel and take some
innovative new strategy to do better in this channel.
After the investigation of top referral we see that slickdeals.com, dealnews.com and
bensbergains.com are the top referrals for the most of the competitor of Grainger. But the most
interesting thing is that Grainger is not using a single of them for their referrals network.
Suggestion has been made to include these sites in their referrals network.
Benchmark:
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•
•
•
•
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Lowering the bounce rate below 25%.
Increasing page view above 8.50.
Increasing time on site above 00:06:00.
Increase the social conversion above 1.0%
Increase the mail conversion above 0.70%
Including slickdeals.com, dealnews.com and bensbergains.com in the referral network.
Experimentation/testing Report:
Targeting Tactic
Bosch Tools.com Only
Bosch Tools Visit, No
Grainger.com visit
Impressions
2,885,607
CTR
0.06%
Total Orders
21
2,459,467
0.05%
0
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CPA
$ 517.08
ROAS
$ 0.49
$-
$12
Grainger Power Tools
Category
2,989,892
0.04%
$ 168.28
66
$ 5.08
Analysis Insight:
There is a comparatively good ROAS from the customers who visited Grainger power tools
category. But there is definitely no return from the customer who visited Bosch tools but do not
visit the grainger.com
We need to do more variation in A/B testing for the later scenario.
We also have to do A/B testing for email and other social sites those data are not available right
now for using in this assignment.
Benchmark:
•
•
Average click through rate 1.5-2%
ROAS – 20-30 USD.
Outcome Analysis Report:
Targeting Tactic
Bosch Tools.com
Only
Bosch Tools Visit,
No Grainger.com
visit
Grainger Power
Tools Category
Grainger & Bosch
Visitor and No
Purchase
Grainger & Bosch
Visitor and Purchase
Grand Total
CTR
Click
Orders
View Orders
0.06%
2
18
CPA
ROAS
$ 517.08
$ 0.49
$0.05%
0
0
0.04%
1
65
0.06%
0
1
0.02%
0
192
0.05%
4
276
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$
-
$ 168.28
$ 5.08
$ 5,312.61
$0.24
$
11.71
$ 142.24
$ 57.24
$ 4.82
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Investigating the ROAS it is visible that the ROAS in the first moment of truth or the purchase
stage is very low. We need to investigate the sales process including the pricing option, delivery
system or the online sales funnel flow system thoroughly to find out the problem.
A questionnaire survey also should be useful to find out the problem in the outcome stage. We
can run the survey through social network or through the email system.
Benchmark:
•
To reduce the CPA up to a profitable ROAS level.
Voice of customer Report:
We have used analyze words to run a general investigation on the twitter sentiment analysis. The
result found are shown below.
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In the sentiment analysis we see Grainger on a good standing on the emotional & social
attachment. That provide us the information that it has a big loyal customer base who can be the
future customer of Bosch power tools.
The Channel & Content Strategy:
Grainger is using email and Display advertising for promoting the Bosch tools. We will see the
proper position for this two channel in the consumer decision journey (CDJ).
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Display Strategy:
Display advertising now a days fits for more than one stage of the CDJ. As they using compelling
visual arts, display advertising is using for recruiting new customers as well as retargeting the old
customers.
Display advertising can be used in the Brand awareness stage for raise awareness in the new
customer base, Active evaluation stage to influence the decision of the customers or in the postpurchase experience stage to retarget the loyal customers.
Intended Persona:
Demographic Position:
USA, Canada, Mexico, India and Philippines.
Intent/ behavior: Construction Specialist, DIY user, Construction Individual, Corporate decision
maker, Procurement specialist.
Context: First time visitors for grainger.com, current customers.
Email Strategy:
Email advertising is the oldest strategy in the digital marketing and still considered as the effective
low cost strategy. As email marketing requires a vast database of customers and their permission
to send the email effectively we can’t use it in all stage of CDJ. In the given context of this problem
we will use email strategy both in the active evaluation stage and the post-purchase experience
stage to influence the existing customer to be loyal to the brand.
Intended Persona:
Demographic Position:
USA, Canada, Mexico, India and Philippines.
Intent/ behavior: Construction Specialist, DIY user, Construction Individual, Corporate decision
maker, Procurement specialist.
Context: Visitors who have showed interest to the Bosch power tools product by providing their
email address and the existing customer who can be reached by using their existing database.
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Campaign Strategy for Audience Profile 1:
New Customer:
Display: Showing display of Bosch Power tools on the grainger.com website to attract new visitor
which takes the visitors to the Bosch brand filter search landing page.
Email: Adding sign-up letter link in the grainger.com which will let them to visit the to the Bosch
brand filter search landing page and let them download any white papers, material specification or
any other content in exchange of their email address to grow the email database for next stage of
email marketing.
Current Customer:
Display: For the current customer it will be more effective to use the retargeting strategy using
grainger’s already developed marketing platform. Display advertisement will be shown to the
existing customer using the retargeting method for display advertisement distribution through their
various distribution channel. The display consequently lead the existing customer to a specific item
landing page (for example, for a cordless screwdriver).
Email: As the customer in this category have already shown their interest on both Grainger and
Bosch tools, we can use their email to provide them more information to drive them towards the
first moment of truth channel through the loyalty loop. To be successful in this strategy we can do
two types of campaign. The first one is the email newsletter with links to the specific item landing
page and the second one is the email with links to engage more with the existing customer. It can
be a direct conversation link to talk with the sales representatives via the email campaign.
Campaign Strategy for Audience Profile 2:
Scenario 1:
Display: Showing display of Grainger on the Bosch website to attract new visitor which takes the
visitors to the Bosch brand filter search landing page on the grainger.com.
Scenario 2:
Display: As the audience shows interest on both Grainger and Bosch power tools but they didn’t
make any purchase yet. It indicates that we need some A/B testing in the display advertising. We
need to play with the display by doing A/B testing and align the message of the display more with
the brand to get more relevant customer.
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Email:
May be the customer need more information about the product or talk with a salesperson to make
their decision at this stage. So we need to design an email containing the content offer just we
mentioned.
Scenario 3:
Display: These are low potential customer. We can take 2 strategies to influence this category.
Showing them a display ad with some discount to attract them to the campaign. Another one
display ad with different visual to attract the right customer segment.
Email: An email newsletter with a small discount coupon can be sent to this segment of customers
to drive more sales. May be also a different format of email also be used to generate more sales
through this channel.
Content Strategy:
Grainger is using email and display content for this campaign.
Content strategy for display:
Display advertising will use in most of the CDJ phase for the success of these campaign. Grainger
should use all of the paid media, owned media and earned media and multi-channel distribution
strategy to be successful in this campaign.
For display advertising, it should use both the brand value of Grainger and Bosch in its visual.
Grainger is best in the industry for its next to none customer service and delivery service through
its big network of distribution channel. On the other hand Bosch is best for its uncompromising
creativity and best quality of product in its domain. So, the Bosch power tool is a product with the
emergence of this two excellence.
The display should highlight these point in the multichannel distribution over the internet.
Content strategy for email:
Email content is using for more customer engagement through giving them free articles on the
product, white papers, creative ideas to make them more interactive. The email content should be
send to only authenticated user who will love to read the content.
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Recommendation for the Content/ tone of the message:
The tone of the message should aligned with the campaign objective, brand value and the
expectation of the customer. As Bosch and Grainger both are very well established and also playing
a leading role the content tone should be friendlier, empowering, direct and community driven.
Test & Control Plan:
Research Statement:
Grainger is using display and email advertisement channel specifically for the assigned campaign.
In module 4 I have suggested various type of display advertising through different channel and
email marketing to grow the sales aligning with the project objective. The problem statement
should be –
Measuring the effectiveness of display and email advertisement for the Grainger campaign through
different channel of distribution.
Research Objective:
01. To measure the display advertisement effectiveness in different channel.
02. To measure the email marketing effectiveness in different channel.
03. To compare the effectiveness of different channel
Secondary Research:
Research on the different format of advertisement in various channel through the analytic tool. To
engage multiple level of customer segmentation the campaign will run in different format to
measure the effectiveness of each communication techniques. There should be few target KPI like
conversion rate, CPA for different ad, applause rate etc to measure the effectiveness of different
display advertisement. There should be some market data on similar campaign from the different
channels to compare the effectiveness with the market competitors.
Primary Research:
This is kind of direct research conduct by the internal team of the Grainger. It could be quantative
or qualitative research. Online survey should be arranged to ask the customer about what ad they
like to see or what they don’t like about. Grainger can also use different social channel to hear the
customer voice and their suggestion about the campaign.
Execution:
Since the audience is dominantly present in the online platform, most research can be done through
the online. It could be through online survey, social media network like Facebook, you tube or
other community platform in online media.
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Recommended Test Campaign:
New customers: Many new customers visit Grainger.com on a daily basis. Grainger wants to
target these new customers and increase the sales of Bosch power tools on Grainger.com
Banner ad highlighting the Bosch power tools. Small video clips of Bosch tools in action at the
workplace in the display ad segment. The ad will direct the new customer to the landing page of
Bosch power tools.
Current customers: Grainger wants to cross-sell or up-sell different categories of Bosch brand
products to customers who have purchased Bosch power tools on Grainger.com
Pop-up display ad highlighting the launch of Bosch power tools in Grainger.
A floating ad of power saw or drill working interactively in the page and get the customer attention.
An email campaign newsletter highlighting the launch of Bosch tools which will include some
good review of previous Bosch customer.
Scenario 1: Audiences that visit Boschtools.com, look at a power tool (for example a drill), but
do not visit Grainger.com
Display ad providing the major competence information of Grainger can attract the customer to
show interest on Grainger. Another way is to show the Bosch + Grainger combination to show the
total excellence of the product and service.
Scenario 2: Audiences that visit Boschtools.com, look at a power tool, and then visit Grainger.com,
login to Grainger.com, and visit the power tools category
Showing them the customer review or product in action to make them convince to go to the next
step of the funnel.
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Appendix:
01. http://pressroom.grainger.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=194987&p=irolcorporatetimeline
02. http://wdimagazine.com/index.php/featured-content/215-grainger
03. http://www.mdm.com/blogs/1-management-strategy/post/25913-managementstrategy--the-secret-to-being-grainger
04. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/grainger.com
05. http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=-. https://www.experiencedone.com/who/bizsegs.php
07. http://www.wdrb.com/story/-/global-demand-for-power-tools-to-surpassus-29-billion-by-2016-report
08. https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2014/08/22/three-loyalty-metrics-you-dont-know/
09. http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/competitive-intelligence-data-sources-bestpractices/
10. https://blog.kissmetrics.com/google-analytics-goal-values/
11. http://www.marketingsherpa.com/offers/2014-ecommercemarketing/overview.php?utm_source=MShChartofWeek&utm_medium=081214
ConversionRatesIndustry&utm_campaign=EcommerceBMS
12. https://www.truesocialmetrics.com/
13. http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/plan/
14. http://acceleratedgrowth.org/free-stuff/articles/196-questions/
15. http://www.pdf-archive.com/2012/07/29/web-analytics-2-0-avinash-kaushik/webanalytics-2-0-avinash-kaushik.pdf
16. http://www.speedwayinteractive.com/brand-awareness/
17. https://www.distilled.net/resources/what-is-content-strategy/
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