Wednesday, September 2, 2015

How to Generate and Present Feedback in your Marketing Reports

Yesterday, we discussed getting back to basics by interacting with your customers, and to avoid getting lost in ubiquitous data and tools. Today, we can generally cover the two ways of including your findings in your reporting.

Good Internet marketing reporting will include your chosen dashboards (using your tools of choice, like Google Web Analytics, or Adobe SiteCatalyst), and other Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). But comprehensive reports, and those we use at 49er-consulting (http://www.49er-consulting.com/) should more context in the form of including feedback from customers. Feedback can be presented in either a narrative or statistical form.

Narrative formats present feedback under the overarching theme of chosen or popular issues.
This format is best where brand, or focus on product quality matters. There is no replacement for the nuanced wording on how customers express issues that matter to them. 

Statistical formats present feedback as simply a count or percentage of customers raising those issues. This is more appropriate if the customer base is very large, or product categories are many and varied. For these enterprises, reviewing feedback in a narrative form is just not practical.

At 49er-consulting (http://www.49er-consulting.com/), we have your developers create simple programs to automate this aspect of reporting. For narratives, the programming may want to take a count of the most repeated concept keywords, filtering out common words used in speech and grammar like prepositions, etc. Then, you can simply identify the issues to build your narrative around. For statistical, you may already know the products, issues, or concerns. In this case, have your programming take simple keyword counts of these issues, and use additional math to create percentages, etc.

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