Olga shares how agile marketing principles help to achieve better results in less time and keep your team motivated and creative. While there are so many great talks on "what" to do in online marketing, Olga is speaking about "how" to do it and structure your team to succeed.
6. Adapt to change and pressure the right way
Adapting to change Embracing change
7. ADAPTING TO CHANGE
Changes your company, but not the environment
Changes the environment
EMBRACING CHANGE
8. Agile
Marketing
Validated learning over opinions
Adaptive and iterative campaigns over Big-Bang campaigns
Customer focused collaboration over silos and hierarchy
The process of customer discovery over static prediction
Responding to change over following a plan
Many small experiments over a few large bets
Flexible planning over rigid planning
9. Step 1: Empower your people
Push decision-making down the
hierarchy and find ways to increase
the focus on the customer.
#BrightonSEO
10. People are the only element
of your success that your
competitors can’t replicate.
12. What to give to your marketing team
CREATIVITY FREEDOM BUDGETS RESPONSIBILITY
13. Autonomous cross-functional teams
Product owners or process leads are setting a direction, not telling how to achieve goals
10Image source: https://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/
14. Agile marketing doesn’t mean chaos
Leaders explain
“what” to do, but not
“how”. And all
leaders are involved
in the process
themselves.
17. Scrum tests: 2-week vs. 3 week sprints
Marketing is distribution and promotion. 2 weeks are not enough to plan and execute
10Image source: http://chiefmartec.com/2013/10/3-myths-agile-marketing/
18. Scrum
10
3-week sprints
(tested 3 vs. 2 weeks)
The team defines the “how”
(“what” comes from management + the team)
Backlog is created through
brainstorming sessions
Planning sessions, standups and
retrospectives
19. Test: task management tools
Teams can use whatever tool they like best. Tools tested: Trello, Asana, Wrike, Todoist
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Next steps: Create backlog with ideas
Small campaigns and
experiments
Always listen to the
customer and check data
21. Agile marketing cases in action
Companies that incorporated agile principles in how they market
22. What was
changed
Switched to in-house design team
from agency
Constant feedback: Voice of the
Customer surveys (via SurveyMonkey)
Switched email client to cheaper and
easier option that would enable
teams to create content themselves
Source: https://simplehq.co/blog/saving-money-with-agile-marketing/
23. Saved $3m
in costs in 2
years
In-house creative department alone
saved about $1.4 million
Source: https://simplehq.co/blog/saving-money-with-agile-marketing/
Marketing budget of $9 million
brings $12 million in value
NPS changed from 48 to 72 in 12
months
24. “The understanding of our
differentiation proposition was
lower than our competitors. We’ve
dramatically improved that in the
past 12 months.”
Darren Gunton, CMO of Chemmart Pharmacy
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Agile
marketing in
SEMrush
Local presence without being local:
SEMrush Pizza Time (Australia)
Reacting to trending news: Adding
Dothraki database in SEMrush
Applying strengths of the team to
marketing: #SEMrushchat (Twitter
chat)
29. Local
approach at
SEMrush
> 90% growth for emerging
markets in 2016
500,000 new users within 8
months
Closer connections with clients
and the industry because we
really listen
31. Proactive team members suffer
from the lack of involvement of
others. Hiring mistakes lead to
disfunctional teams and
communicational disasters.
32. HIRING
Proactive + creative + responsible + flexible team players are
extremely hard to find
Equals find it hard to give negative feedback and kick out the
team members who are not performing
FIRING
34. Happy and motivated people
create awesome things.
@olgandrienko via #BrightonSEO
35. When a team commits to
something they initiated
themselves, it's likely to be
finished, because they care
about the end result.
@olgandrienko via #BrightonSEO
36. Natural leaders stand out
immediately. Every team
member reveals talents and
focus on what they do best.
@olgandrienko via #BrightonSEO
37. There is a saying…
You can’t do epic sh*t
with basic people
38. But the truth is different
All people are epic, but often there are
basic rules that block creativity.