Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a marketing automation software, which helps businesses to improve the efficiency of their marketing activities. And it does so providing:
Source: Salesforce Relationship Survey
Having gained experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud, we’re able to deliver a set of related services from consulting to support aimed to help your business benefit from using the software.
KEY TOOLS OF SALESFORCE MARKETING CLOUD
With Salesforce Marketing Cloud, you get a set of tools intended to cover all marketing needs:
Data Management Tools
Capturing and processing data with Salesforce DMPWe choose to introduce Salesforce Data Management Platform (DMP) first as it’s a hub of marketing data that will be further leveraged by other marketing tools. The DMP captures and stores data from all customer touchpoints (e.g., emails, live chat, phone calls, social media) giving your marketing team insights into the audience. From there, they can segment customers based on a variety of attributes and personalize communication by customizing marketing activities to interests and needs of particular segments. This data-driven approach is likely to pay off with more engaged customers and, therefore, higher revenue. |
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Gathering insights about customer communication with Interaction StudioInteraction Studio serves to capture every customer interaction with your brand across all touchpoints in real time. Its power is in delivering the data right when it can be used to the best advantage. With the Studio, marketers get suggested the best action or journey adapted to how a customer’s interaction with a company is unfolding at a given moment. For example, they will be able to personalize product recommendations during an online shopping journey of a customer based on the products the latter has browsed. |
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Reaching new audiences with Data StudioSalesforce offers Data Studio – a data-sharing solution that creates a safe environment for data owners and purchasers to connect directly and exchange the information. Basically, Data Studio is a marketplace of second-party data. This means that marketers have a unique opportunity to discover new audiences and include them in marketing activities. Let’s say, a sports retailer could purchase a database of subscribers to an online workout resource and launch a campaign offering them sportswear. |
Customer Communication Tools
Targeted email marketing campaigns with Email StudioEmail Studio provides extensive functionality covering all the features required to effectively communicate with customers via emails:
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Building social media presence with Social StudioSocial Studio allows companies to build effective social media presence. This is how the Studio might be helpful to several departments:
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Integrating personalized advertising into your marketing strategy with Advertising StudioIf you are going to invest in advertising, this Studio may increase ROI. Leveraging customer data stored in Salesforce, your marketers can advertise relevant content to customers in Google Search and on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn). For example, in Advertising Studio, one can create upsell ads tailored to the purchase history of customers. As a result, they are more likely to click and move on to shopping – the aim is achieved. |
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Effective mobile communication with Mobile StudioYour team can turn to Mobile Studio to:
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Where Data Management and Customer Communication Meet
Creating customer communication scenarios with Journey BuilderThe bigger your customer base grows and the more communication channels you engage, the more challenging it becomes to achieve data-driven customer-focused marketing. This is when marketers will fully appreciate Journey Builder to create communication scenarios for different customer segments (created with the help of data management tools) and engage with them timely and in the winning way (using customer communication tools). Journeys unfold depending on how customers react to marketing actions. For example, one can send an offer with the product assortment to new customers a week after their first purchase. The two possible pathways for the journey are:
Journey Builder in Salesforce Marketing Cloud allows developing targeted marketing campaigns for a large customer base effectively. |
Example of a Promotional Campaign Created in Salesforce Marketing Cloud
All the tools of Marketing Cloud work together for your marketing team to succeed in multichannel marketing. Here is how a draft plan for a promotional campaign developed in Salesforce can look.
Aim: To create a Black Friday promotional campaign for a fashion retailer.
We are planning to announce the Black Friday sale, send different emails with discounted products to female and male customers, and offer free delivery to loyal buyers exclusively.
Plan:
Expand the target audience of the campaign by purchasing contact details of subscribers to an online fashion magazine via Data Studio.
Segment customers in Salesforce DMP. You should use gender- and behavior-based segmentation. Let’s say, you consider customers who have made at least three purchases for the last three months as loyal.
Create several types of emails – an announcement email and its reminder, an email with complimentary free delivery for loyal buyers and its reminder, and an email with discounted products – in Email Studio.
Use Advertising Studio to engage ads in Google Search and reach a broader target audience.
Announce the campaign on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter via Social Studio.
Turn to Journey Builder to create a customer journey for the campaign. Here is how the journey unfolds. All customers get an email announcing the upcoming Black Friday while loyal customers get an additional email with a free delivery offering. If customers open the announcement email, they get a follow-up with discounted products customized for female and male segments. If they don’t open, they get a reminder in 2 days (plus loyal customers are reminded of their bonus) and then an email with product offerings.
Send push notifications to customers on the very day of the sale via Mobile Studio.
Use Interaction Studio to upsell during a customer’s shopping journey during Black Friday.