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xcuv SummRyThe Internet and its mobility have undamentally changed marketing. Over the past decade, websites have
become the hub or all marketing activities, i.e. the centralized landing pages through which all tactical
programs both online and ofine can be driven, tracked and measured. Mobile phones will soon
overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide. nd within the last tw ears, lal aretin has
eered as the net bi frntier in eetie deand eneratin.
As a marketing services provider, you ully understand how important a local presence is or your national
brand customers its imperative to ensure consumers can nd your clients resellers and products at the
local level. Local websites do this they are the rst step required or national brands to build a local market
presence. They ensure search engines direct customers to the right place at the right time; they make sure
local reseller messages are consistent with national campaigns; and they guarantee customers arent routed
to the competition.
This paper explains how marketing services providers or national brands e.g. ad agencies, web
development companies, direct marketing rms, etc. can use marketing automation to create and
implement local websites or their clients campaigns, and in turn:
Quickly scale and extend national campaigns to the local level
Leverage the growing importance and strength o local markets or their clients
Maintain control o clients brands urther down the sales cycle
Increase ROI o their clients marketing expenditures
pleentin aretin atatin enables aretin series priders and aenies t epand their prtfli f series
and strenthen relatinships with their lients.
HSoRc cHgS oF xg o cmPgS o H oc vFor the majority o national brands who sell through local outlets, local marketing has always been a highly
under-served marketing channel. Brand marketers, their agencies and service providers spend millions
o dollars nationally both online and ofine to build brand awareness, interest, consideration and
preerence o the consumer, with consistent messaging that builds across multiple touch points in the cycle.
(see Figure 1)
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However, when it comes to marketing at the local level, where nal preerence and purchases actually
occur, national brands and their marketing services providers oten lose control o the brand message and
the eectiveness o their marketing dollars. (see Figure 1) The reasons behind the historic struggle with local
marketing are varied, but they all into 3 categories:
mltiple eraphies bined with lts f resellers pliate stizatin and anaeent. Local marketingrequires customization o messaging and graphics across a growing number o mediums at a highly
localized level oten across hundreds o cities with multiple outlets in each one. Without technology, itssimply not cost-eective or a national brand to modiy and manage all o these elements at a local level.So until the recent advent o marketing automation, most national brands did not attempt to manage it.Rather, they implemented aliate or co-op marketing programs, hoped or the best, and then threw theirhands up in the air when local-level partners did not comply with national campaigns. The problem is thesame or marketing services partners who attempt to develop or implement aliate or co-op programsor their clients, only they also struggle to get their clients to provide access to the data needed to doeective local marketing in the rst place.
Reliane n aliates and partners delas tie-t-aret and leads t pr eetin.National brands and theirmarketing services agencies typically have to rely on aliates or channel partners to execute brandmarketing at the local level. This is problematic because otentimes, when responsibility is placed onseparate entities to nish-out marketing programs, it has a negative impact on program adoption, qualityand eectiveness. Local-level partners are usually either business owners who are time-constrained andnot ocused on marketing, and/or resellers who also sell competing brands. I a national brands programsare not extremely easy to implement, they oten get completely ignored by partners. And in best-casescenarios, there are usually time delays between when a national campaign launches and when thecampaign is embraced and executed by the local-level partners.
a f apain perfrane data aes it dilt t easre Ro and jstif spendin.National brands and theiragencies typically have to rely on sell-through or order data rom aliates and partners to gauge theimpact o local marketing eorts, and this data is typically incomplete, unreliable and dated. Withoutgood visibility into the ROI and eectiveness o local programs, its dicult to justiy spending and showthe real results o a national campaign. Having comprehensive results enables better learning or both thebrand and their marketing services partner, and it increases the likelihood o increased unding or uture
campaigns.
The disconnect between national and local marketing is particularly interesting when one considers that
local marketing is the last mile o marketing i.e. communication a potential customer receives when they
are at their closest point to making an actual purchase decision making it highly relevant when it comes
to converting consumers with purchase intent into buyers o a brands products. There is no doubt that
by closing this gap, brand-level marketers can signicantly improve leads and sales at the local level and
increase the brands top-line revenue.
gRog mPoRc oF g m oc mRkSWithin the last two years, local marketing has emerged as the next big rontier in eective demand
generation. As partial proo, Google recently announced that over 2.8 billion searches a month have a localintent.
H SHF FRom Ro o o mRkgWhen it comes to what works at the local level, the importance o online vs. traditional marketing is shiting.
Digital media is growing exponentially and is expected to represent 23.6% o advertising spending by
2015. And with that growth, the way consumers are buying is changing. From 2010 to 2011, the number o
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sources used by consumers in making buying
decisions increased rom 5.27 to 10.4.
(see Figure 2) Consumers are embracing the
many sources o inormation and including
them in their investigation process.
(see Figure 3) And increasingly, theyre
accessing them while on the go. Gartner
predicts that by 2013, mobile phones willovertake PCs as the most common web access
device worldwide. (Gartner, 2010)
H oc BAll o these new digital outlets or marketing
and accessing inormation make up The Local
Web, an integrated growing ecosystem o
online media channels that collectively drive
online local marketing. (see Figure 4 Pg. 4)
For a national brand to succeed in todaysmarketing environment, they must claim and
at least minimally participate in the majority
o the Local Webs integrated channels or risk
being invisible in local searches.
So how does a marketing services partner
help their national brand clients take
advantage o the Local Web? The rst step is
by creating and implementing local websites
or their local resellers. Local websites are at
the heart o the Local Web.
oc BSS:H FRS SP oc B mRkgLocal websites serve as the centerpiece, or
hub, or all local marketing tactics both
online and ofine. They are smaller variations
o a national brands corporate website,
carrying through the brands image and
messages. They allow the national brand
and its local resellers to be ound at thelocal search level. Local websites unction as
centralized landing pages through which all
o the local marketing tactics can be driven,
tracked and measured. While there are other
Local Web elements that are important to
take advantage o sooner rather than later, its
necessary or local websites to be in place rst.
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al websites an tae ltiple frs. Here are
three eaples:
c-branded aliate sites with each o thebrands agents, distributors, dealers,etc., which allow all partner/aliatelocations to show up individually in
location searches and maps cit sites ocused on the corporate brand,
which enable all o the brand locationsor that city to be listed in a single spot,and or the nationally branded site tobe ound in organic search listings orthe city
Prtinal sites which enable a brandsnew oers or products to be ound inorganic searches in each relevant city
A brand and its marketing services partners
might choose to implement one type olocal website, or all o them simultaneously,
in order to ensure their products and resellers
are always ound in local searches. Besides
ensuring the brand is ound at the local level,
these websites provide brand-level marketers
the ability to update national campaign
messages and promotions to all the local
markets with basically a click o a button (and
a little pre-planning).
To illustrate how a brand might implementmultiple types o local websites, consider this
example: A manuacturer o utility sheds sells
through 1,000 resellers including national
home improvement stores, local mom-and-
pop hardware stores, and local remodeling
contractors in 300 dierent cities. To ensure
their products are always ound at the local market level, they or their agency might set up:
1,000 co-branded reseller/aliate sites that link to each and every resellers website
300 dierent city sites that list all their partners in a given city
300 promotional sites (one per city) per quarter to promote their most important oerings
All these local website variations will ensure the manuacturers brand and resellers are always ound at the
local level by customers who are looking to buy a utility shed, regardless o whether or not a reseller has a
good web presence or might be promoting a competitors similar product at the time.
For national brands and their marketing services partners, relying on resellers to help implement such a large
number o local websites would not be easible, but its possible to scale to this level using local marketing
automation.
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uomg oc BSSMarketing automation makes implementing a large number o nationally branded local websites easy.
First, brands or their agencies build and oer local website templates to the brands aliates and resellers,
providing them with as many, or as ew, customization options as they choose, along with a brand message
appropriate or each regions local presence. These templates are typically built using data provided by the
national brand inormation like reseller name, location, phone number and products carried.
Ater the templates are built, using automation, its then possible to launch hundreds or even thousands o
sites simultaneously. When its time to make campaign updates, with the same eort it would take to update
one site, hundreds o sites can be updated simultaneously.
tatin f lal websites enables aretin series partners f natinal brands t:
rie tp-line rwth and aretshare fr their lients by ensuring that a brands products, services and dealerscan be ound locally and inuencing the customer experience closer to the point o purchase.
nrease Ro f aretin ependitres. Automated local websites oer a simple way or resellers to engage inmarketing with a national brand they can even be implemented without any direct eort by the reseller.This helps increase reseller participation in marketing programs, resulting in more leads being driven to
the local level. maintain ntrl f their lients brand iae and essae urther down the sales cycle while driving leads to the
brands local resellers.
mre eientl anae a brands reseller aretin prras. Automation enables brand updates andpromotions to be quickly and easily disseminated across all websites, to all markets, at once.
ra and easre Ro at the lal reseller leel. Local websites provide outstanding, measurable perormanceas a landing page or digital marketing eorts, such as pay-per-click (PPC), email marketing and banneradvertising. This improves overall campaign results and provides real-time data to both the nationalbrand and their marketing services partner.
cocuSoWithout eective local marketing strategies that take advantage o the Local Web (i.e. the integrated growingecosystem on online media channels), national brands and their marketing services partners risk losing
visibility and sales at the local level. Local websites are a strategic way to combat this problem. They are
the hub o the Local Web and the rst step in building a local market presence. And with local marketing
automation, they can be implemented eciently and cost-eectively.
Oering marketing automation enables marketing services providers and agencies to expand their portolio
o services and strengthen relationships with their clients.
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xRcS: Rmg BR PRFoRmc H oc vThe objective o this exercise is to determine the percentage o real estate your clients brand and product
categories own or strongly inuence on Page One o search engine results pages (SERPs) in brand name
searches and in searches with local intent. The higher the percentage, the better the brand is perorming at
the local level. The lower the percentage, the more they need local marketing support.
We will start with an example and then provide you with a worksheet to calculate the results or your clients
brand. One thing you may notice is that most national brands perorm well on the national level, but resultstend to decline steadily as the ocus switches to the local market.
aple: Hw t che a Brands al maretin visibilit
In this example, well use a Converse brand, Chuck Taylors, as the brand and basketball shoes as the
product category were measuring. Google will be the search engine. The search will be perormed on a
laptop. The city we will be searching in is Boise, Idaho.
We will run the three searches listed below and determine the results.
1. Brand Name Search (Chuck Taylors)
2. Brand Name + City Search (Chuck Taylors, Boise)
3. Product Category + City Search (Basketball Shoes, Boise)
Fr eah searh, we will deterine the reslts fr Paid opprtnities, al istins (e.. gle Plaes) and orani Searh b
ntin the nber f ties the brand shws p in the reslts fr eah f thse areas and diidin b the ttal nber f reslts
retrned fr eah area.
The results or our Chuck Taylors example look like this:
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cHuck yoRS
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saRcH RsULts:
Searh Reslts tal yr clients Brandowns r nenes yr clients Brand Reslts
Paid Opportunities 5 5 100%
Local Listings 0 0 0%
Organic Listing 11 11 100%
Total Search Real Estate 16 16 100%
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bRaND NaM saRcH + ctY saRcH (XaMPL)
cHuck yoRS + BoS
xRcS: Rmg BR PRFoRmc H oc v
saRcH RsULts:
Searh Reslts tal yr clients Brandowns r nenes yr clients Brand Reslts
Paid Opportunities 1 1 100%
Local Listings 0 0 0%
Organic Listing 10 1 10%
Total Search Real Estate 11 2 18%
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The results o our example show that Chuck Taylors perormed well in the broad search or the brand name,
garnering 100% o the paid and organic listings. However, searches at the city level or both the brand name
and product category were dismal at only 18% and 0%, respectively. Its also worth noting that the local
results returned in all three examples were 0% each time. Ideally, instead o no listings, the top retailers who
sell Chuck Taylors would show up in Google Places listings.
These results are airly typical or national brands. But by shiting a relatively low level o resources and
budget to local marketing, brands will see a dramatic, positive shit in their local marketing results. And
by implementing a local marketing automation solution to ensure local partners are ound and actively
marketing the brand, channel organizations will quickly see measurable increases in channel program ROI.
PRoDUct catGoRY + ctY saRcH (XaMPL)BSkB SHoS + BoS
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Searh Reslts tal yr clients Brandowns r nenes yr clients Brand Reslts
Paid Opportunities 2 0 0%
Local Listings 0 0 0%
Organic Listing 10 0 0%
Total Search Real Estate 12 0 0%
saRcH RsULts:
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oRkSH: Rm SRcH R S FoR youR cS BRUse this worksheet to gauge the local marketing visibility o your clients brand.
o: y a want t rn the reslts ltiple ties fr dierent brand naes, prdt ateries, aret seents and ities in
whih pla. Fr eaple, in the ch alrs eerise, the eerise ld als be rn fr ch alr, cnerse ch alr,
cnerse, Ja Prell and cnerse Hdies.
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For each search outlined below, run the search and tally the results in the corresponding spreadsheet beore
moving on to the next search. Follow these three steps or each:
1. Fr cln , nt p all f the reslts that shw p fr eah f the Paid, al and orani searh areas, reardless f if therelate t r lients brand r nt, and enter them in the appropriate row. Add the numbers in Rows 1, 2 and 3.Enter the total in Column A, Row 4.
2. Fr cln B, nt p the reslts that relate slel t r lients brand within eah f the searh areas (i.e. Paid, Localand Organic). These can be the brands paid ads or search results, ads paid or by their partners, locallistings or their partners and/or directory listings (such as Yellow Pages,) or web pages or the brand ortheir partners, as long as they clearly relate to the brand. Enter the results or your clients brand in the
appropriate row under Column B. Add the numbers in Rows 1, 2 and 3. Enter the total in Column B, Row 4.
3. Fr eah rw within cln c, divide the number in Column B by the number in Column A. The results in Rows1, 2 and 3 are the percentages o real estate your clients brand owns or each respective search area Paid, Local and Organic search. The results in Column C, Row 4 are the brands total results, or real estate,or Page One o that particular search. The higher the percentage, the better.
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Ro 1 Paid Opportunities 2 1 1 2 = .5 or 50%
Ro 2 Local Listings +4 +0 0 4 = 0 or 0%
Ro 3 Organic Listing +10 +1 1 10 = .1 or 10%
Ro 4 Total Search Real Estate 16 2 2 16= .125 or 12.5%
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Searh Reslts tal yr clients Brand owns r nene yr clients Brand Reslts
Ro 1 Paid Opportunities
Ro 2 Local Listings
Ro 3 Organic Listing
Ro 4 Total Search Real Estate
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Ro 4 Total Search Real Estate
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Searh Reslts tal yr clients Brand owns r nene yr clients Brand Reslts
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Bou BHooBalihoo is the premier provider o local marketing automation technology and services to national brands with
local marketing needs and the marketing services partners who support them.
Balihoo enables enterprise-class marketing at the local level and gives national brand marketers ull visibility
into all local marketing activities and results.
Providing a combination o web-based sotware and services, Balihoo enables national brand marketers todramatically reduce marketing expenses and immediately increase local sales revenue. For local aliates,
Balihoo takes the complexity out o local marketingmaking it easy to quickly implement an expert,
integrated marketing strategy that is consistent with the national brand.
For more inormation about how Balihoo helps marketing services providers improve their clients marketing
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