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Measuring Digital Influence on in-store activity

How to use Adobe RTCDP and Customer Journey Analytics to measure the impact of digital touchpoints on physical in-store customer activity.

By Anil Umachigi

Measuring how digital activity influences in-store visits

This CDP use-case talks about measuring influence of digital marketing channels on inStore activity and transactions using Adobe RTCDP and Adobe Customer Journey Analytics.

CDP use case: Digital influence on in-store activity

Business Challenge: Measuring the digital influence

We all know how important it is to create a seamless connection between various channels and use digital to efficiently drive sales across the board.

While this all sounds good it can be quite a challenge to measure how our digital marketing investments translate to in-store activity and sales.

Some of the business challenges to addressing here are:

  • The influence of Digital marketing efforts on store purchases
  • Influence of Digital marketing efforts on Store or Offline events
  • Which marketing channel mix are most effective?
  • Which Digital campaigns are driving store sales
  • Visualise Customer journey from digital to Store
  • Create Omnichannel marketing efforts for customers shopping across channels.

The Solution, Architecture & Integration using Adobe RTCDP

Connecting the Digital Interaction with Offline Events involves:

  • Identify various touch points across digital and Store
    • Leveraging actionable analytics & experience data
    • Create Audiences to address opportunities
  • Identity management & Consolidation
    • Identities form the foundation of AEP profile and reporting; we ensured that this is consolidated and consistent across touchpoints
    • Consolidate identities and create a identity management framework
  • Campaign Tracking Conventions
    • Review, document effective ways to track campaign performance across digital and store
    • Create End to end campaign tracking conventions
  • Report, Analyze & Iterate
    • Use Adobe Customer journey analytics to report, visualize and communicate performance for business teams

Technical Architecture – Wiring it all up!

Framework for measuring digital influence on in-store activity with Adobe RTCDP

The Business Impact : Report & Visualise using Adobe Customer journey Analytics

As more data sources of customer interaction are added within Adobe CDP, the following increment benefits are available:

  • Customer Journey Across Touchpoints: Ability to report and understand customer trends from digital to store
  • Customer Analytics and Insights: Leveraging a complete set of interaction data for actionable analytics which then would become foundation for omni channel marketing efforts.
  • Marketing Mix Insights: Ability to report which marketing channel mix was effective in driving in-store sales and activities

Sample Report built within Adobe Customer Journey Analytics

Cohort Analysis of Digital Interaction & Offline Transaction

Marketing Channel Overlap for Store transactions

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