What is a Marketing CoE?

A Marketing Centre of Excellence can be defined as a physical or virtual centre of knowledge that brings together the existing expertise and resources, adds to it where required and optimises marketing in a way that ensures a high rate of efficiency, performance and value.

A Marketing CoE is your brand’s extended or outsourced marketing team comprising marketing experts - both thinkers and doers - who are ably supported by technology, analytics and processes that help in achieving marketing excellence.

A Marketing CoE helps you

Increase brand awareness, Top-of-Mind recall and salience

Drive top-of-funnel traffic

Increase lead generation

Improve leads conversion ratios

Improve customer engagement

Win back lost customers

Increase product penetration within the customer base

Maximize product adoption and usage

Increase share of wallet

Improve C-Sat scores

Drive advocacy and customer loyalty

How a Marketing CoE Helps Achieve these Objectives

The Marketing Centre of Excellence has an ideal mix of people with diverse skillsets, who can leverage MarTech stacks, analytics and processes to strategize and execute various marketing interventions targeting both prospects and customers.

Activities targeting prospects in a Marketing Center of Excellence

Attract attention
Drive traffic
Use paid, owned, earned and social media

Profile incoming traffic
Tag each source
De-anonymize
Enrich visitor profiles

Segment by behavior
Plan and execute prospect campaigns

Personalize
Re-target
Optimize

Improve yield from traffic

Score and nurture leads to convert them as customers

Marketing interventions targeted at existing customers

Analyse customer behaviours across Channels, Offers, Product features, Responses, CSAT / NPS, Sentiment, etc.
Micro-segment customer base

Plan campaign objectives across customer lifecycles for each micro-segment
Map the next best action and plan campaigns

Design and execute campaigns across relevant channels
Ensure an omni-channel approach

Focus on exposures
Use a data-backed approach in campaign execution
Orchestrate and personalize logically

Track responses and maintain contact and response history
Optimize campaigns
Attribute success factors for each campaign - copy, creative, etc.

Ensure each customer is contacted at least once every month. Drive marketing interventions based on their behavioural patterns

Integral to a Marketing Center of Excellence are

People

Processes

Marketing Technologies

Analytics

People

A Marketing Centre of Excellence is driven by a dedicated team of experts with a wide range of skills.

Marketing

Marketing Consultants

Campaign Developers

Campaign Managers

Digital Marketing Consultants

Social Media Managers

SEO Executives

Content Writers

Creative

User Experience Designers

Visual Designers

Copywriters

UI Engineers

Analytics

Web Analysts

Data Scientists

Big Data Experts

Statisticians

Modellers

Data Engineers

Technology

Content Management developers

Full-stack Developers

Support Engineers

Mobile App Developers

System Architects

Functional Consultants

Solution Architects

Engagement

Project Managers

Account Managers

Business Analysts

Process

The Marketing Center of Excellence is governed by water-tight processes agreed upon by the steering committee consisting of senior leaders from Xerago and the client.

Overview of processes that drive a Marketing CoE

Marketing Technologies

A comprehensive MarTech stack is essential to execute marketing activities at scale with greater accuracy and better control.

Typically a MarTech stack includes -

A Content Management System to manage digital content

Extract-Transform-Load platforms to aggregate data from diverse sources

A Personalization Platform for personalized pre-login portal experiences

A Data Management Platform to enrich visitor profiles and retarget audience to drive conversion

A Marketing Automation / Campaign Management Platform to enrich, profile, score, nurture and target prospects for conversion.

A Customer Data Platform to create a unified view of customers

A Digital Analytics Platform to track and report visitor / audience behaviour across platforms

A Digital Asset / Marketing Resource Management Platform for easy storage and retrieval

A Content Distribution Platform to centrally manage content across digital properties

Business Intelligence tools to deliver reports

A Tag management tool to manage tracking codes

Inbound Marketing Platforms to manage content and manage inbound traffic

Machine Learning and AI Platforms to build statistical models and predict customer behaviour

A Social Media Management Platform to manage content as well as to monitor and respond to social conversations

Creative Testing and Optimization

Analytics

In a Marketing Center of Excellence, all marketing efforts are measured and optimized with the help of analytics.

We start by augmenting your analytical stack by optimizing current data capture as well as by including more platforms as required

We tag every unit of marketing inventory generated across all digital channels to track their performance

At every possible juncture we combine reports with data captured from the analytics tool to derive insights

The derived insights are passed on to the marketing strategy function to optimize future interventions

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