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MODULE 1 TASK :1 1.Describe the following about Grainger Its business model and strategy for growth Grainger is North America’s leading broad line supplier of maintenance, repair and operating products. Grainger helps customers save time and money by providing the right products and solutions to keep facilities up and running in North America. Grainger is following all traditional methods of marketing as well as new one. Their partnership with Bosch clearly indicates that they are very active and focused towards their marketing strategy. Their strategy for growth is to maintain the existing customers and create new once for that they are using display advertising, social media, email marketing, SMS, call center services and lot more. Every year they are coming up with 100 new power tools so they are keep on updating their stocks as per current requirement of their clients. i Its online presence (website traffic trends, social platforms. Grainger has total 5.30 million visitors every year with average duration of 3.56 min par page and average no. of pages 4.73. ii Traffic by Countries U.S. 85.11% Canada 1.76% Mexico 1.65% India 1.1% U.K. 0.72% Traffic Sources on desktop Direct 22.60% Referrals 11.54% Search 62.32% Organic Search :- 84.04% Paid Key word :- 15.96% Social 0.76%

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Page 1: MODULE 1 TASK :1 · W.W. Grainger Inc. says that e-commerce accounted for virtually all of its growth in 2014. For the year ended Dec. 31, Grainger, which sells maintenance, repair

MODULE 1 TASK :1

1.Describe the following about Grainger

Its business model and strategy for growth

Grainger is North America’s leading broad line supplier of maintenance, repair and operating

products. Grainger helps customers save time and money by providing the right products and

solutions to keep facilities up and running in North America. Grainger is following all traditional

methods of marketing as well as new one. Their partnership with Bosch clearly indicates that they

are very active and focused towards their marketing strategy. Their strategy for growth is to

maintain the existing customers and create new once for that they are using display advertising,

social media, email marketing, SMS, call center services and lot more. Every year they are coming

up with 100 new power tools so they are keep on updating their stocks as per current requirement

of their clients.i

Its online presence (website traffic trends, social platforms.

Grainger has total 5.30 million visitors every year with average duration of 3.56 min par page and

average no. of pages 4.73. ii

Traffic by Countries

U.S. 85.11%

Canada 1.76%

Mexico 1.65%

India 1.1%

U.K. 0.72%

Traffic Sources on desktop

Direct 22.60%

Referrals 11.54%

Search 62.32% Organic Search :- 84.04%

Paid Key word :- 15.96%

Social 0.76%

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Mail 2.20%

Display 0.58%

Grainger is very active on social media they are using following social networking site for sales and

marketing they are getting 0.76 % traffic from social media split in to following: - iii

Reddit 37.89%

Facebook 30.14%

Youtube 15.40%

Linekdin 9.16%

Twitter 3.08%

Its customers (with numbers, segments, demographics, etc.) Include tables for segmenting

the customers on the basis of demography, numbers etc.iv

Country MRO Market

Size

Market

Share

Branches Distribution

Centers

App. No. of

Customers

served in

2015

U.S > $127

Billion

6% 330 19 1,938,00

Canada >$11 Billion 8% 165 5 40,000

Latin

America

>$16 Billion 1% 33 3 50,000

Japan >$37 billion 1% 0 3 789,000

Asia

( China )

>$90Billion <1% 0 1 9,000

Europe

Fabory :

Belgium ,

France ,

Hungary

>$34billion

<1%

73

2

83,000

Cromwell

:UK

>$ 18 billion 2% 67 1 32,000

Zror Europe

:Germany

>$30 Billion <1% 0 0 125,000

Any trends in customer's purchasing patterns

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W.W. Grainger Inc. says that e-commerce accounted for virtually all of its growth in 2014.

For the year ended Dec. 31, Grainger, which sells maintenance, repair and operations products ranging from janitorial supplies to machine parts, reported:

E-commerce sales increased 16.1% to $3.6 billion from $3.1 billion in 2013. Total sales increased 5.6% to $9.964 billion from $9.437 billion Net earnings jumped 5.7% to $812.3 million compared with $807.7 million in 2013. The web accounted for 36.1% of all sales compared with 32.8% in 2013. E-commerce accounted for 94.3%, or $500 million, of the growth in all sales of $530 million.

The web is becoming a higher priority for Grainger, No. 13 in the Internet Retailer 2014 Top 500 Guide as corporate purchasing managers look to conduct more of their maintenance, repair and operations purchasing online, including via mobile apps, the company says. Grainger’s mobile app accounts for about 40%—$23.4 million—of the company’s 2014 Internet Retailer-estimated mobile commerce sales of $58.5 million. But within two or three years, Grainger’s mobile app, deployed in 2012, could account for 60% to 70% of all mobile sales, the company says.v

2. Detail the Maintenance, Repair, and Operation(MRO) industry in the North American region,

highlighting any major characteristics, trends and major players.

Some of the largest distributors in Industrial and Construction/Facility MRO markets include:

W.W. Grainger (NYSE: GWW)

MSC Industrial Supply (NYSE: MSM)

The Fastenal Company (NASDAQ: FAST)

Lawson Products (NASDAQ: LAWS)

The North America Industry has always been more competitive and cost sensitive the economic

downturn intensified their aggressive pricing strategies to gain (and retain ) business. Many

integrated MRO services providers are getting parts and operating materials from lower cost

countries, and some are expanding into new products and services. Manufacturers are contracting

with these suppliers for various capabilities , including sourcing , procurement, logistics , reporting ,

invoicing and payment for all parts and services.vi

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MODULE 1 TASK: 2

1. Describe Bosch's brand with specific focus on the power tools category. This will inform your

marketing and content strategy (Note: Our focus is only the Bosch tools segment and not the entire

Bosch).

Bosch has 1880 associates in Power Tools North America. The Power Tools division of Bosch

Group is the world market leader for power tools and Power tool accessories. The core success

factors are innovative strength and pace of innovation. Each year, Bosch launches more than 100

new power tools onto the market. Their mission is to provide a full line of high quality power toll

accessories for industrial and constriction professionals.vii

2. Describe the primary / secondary customers (See Glossary for definition of audience primary,

audience secondary) that Bosch power tools caters to and list the specific needs of the customers.

Primary Buyers

Most of your revenue from sale of products or services will come from the primary target market.

This market shares common characteristics and behaviors. This market accounts for the highest

volume of sales and are most likely to buy now! When identifying your primary target market, be

precise in your definition of a “primary buyer” so you can focus your marketing efforts where you

will receive the greatest return. procurement officer is the primary buyer and foreman or executive

are Secondary buyers.

Secondary Buyers

The secondary target market includes future primary buyers, which are those buying at a higher

rate within a small market segment and are those who influence primary buyers. Their

characteristics and buying behaviors usually differ from those of the primary target market.

3. Describe any trends that you noticed among the primary/secondary customers.

The primary customer is a procurement officer. Procurement officers wants to buy a product that

will provide a certain quality level and will not malfunction or become obsolete. They also want to

minimize costs to please the Finance Department and shareholders. Secondary customers of

Bosch Power Tools are end user, forepersons and executive. The end user are primarily concerned

with the utility.

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4. Describe any existing perceptions of the Bosch power tools that you came across.

(Bosch), the North American branch of the largest power tool and accessory manufacturer in the

world, today announced Chicago-based Tech Image as its public relations agency of record.

“We are delighted to partner with such a well-respected brand”“ Tech Image

brings us a unique digital and creative perspective that will help us tell the Bosch story more

effectively. The agency leverages digital public relations best practices that will expand and

engage our audiences across traditional and new media channels.viii

5. Conduct and present a SWOT analysis of the brand, with specific focus on power tools for the

North American Market. Include Visuals for making a SWOT analysis. A sample visual can be seen

here http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/swot.asp

SWOT Analysis

Strengths

1. Strong manufacturing base with the engineering skills to make value-added

products suiting to the needs of the regional environment

2. Largest distributor of networking product in country

3. Sales support and after sales service

4. Good brand reputation in the industry

Weaknesses

1. Most of the revenue from country, inability to get many global clients

2. Brand recall is lesser as advertising activity is lesser than competition

Opportunities 1. Digital Marketing

2. R& D investments

Threats 1. competitors

2. High prices

6. List any assumptions regarding overlaps between Bosch and Bosch Power Tools brand image that

you may have made while answering the prompt.

The assumption is that overall brand image of Bosch overlaps and helps the brand image of Bosch

power tools .

7. Describe Bosch's Power Tools online presence on various social media and other online channels

( including Bosch Power Tools website).

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Bosch Power Tools Facebook Page. Available at https://www.facebook.com/BoschToolsNA.

106,481 likes , Bosch Twitter A/C :-26.5K followers ,

Bosch Power Tools LinkedIn Page. Available at https://www.linkedin.com/company/bosch-power-

tools. 10,001+ employees , Bosch Power Tools Main Page. Available at

http://www.boschtools.com. Bosch Power Tools Main Page. https://www.tumbr.com/tagged/bosch-

power-tools. Bosch Power Tools USA Website. Available at https://www.bosch.us. Bosch Power

Tools Website. Available at https://www.boschtools.com. . Bosch Power Tools YouTube Page.

Available at https://www.youtube.com/user/BoschToolsNA. 861733 views

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MODULE 2 TASK :2

The decision-making process is now a circular journey with four phases: initial consideration; active

evaluation, or the process of researching potential purchases; closure, when consumers buy brands;

and post purchase, when consumers experience themix.

Scenario CDJ specific concerns of Customer

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Scenario 1 Initial Consideration Customer is confused with lots of advertisements,

offers and brands. ZMOT is a most confusing stage of

CDJ

Scenario 2 Active Evaluation At this stage buyer already made up his mind to buy

Bosch Power Tools, now his main concern is look for

best offer which Grainer can offer or some other

competitor, here buyer going to compare Grainer with

others key distributors.

Scenario 3 Loyalty Loop Here the customer already using Power Tools but due

to advertisement or better offer he shifts to different

category.

Analysis :-

Scenario 1: Audiences that visit Boschtools.com, look at a power tool (for example a drill), but

do not visit Grainger.com

In this scenario Bosch tools should display an advertisement of Grainger.com on their web

page so that it could attract the buyer and buyer will go Grainger.com for further action. The

advertisement should be catchy to attract buyer’s attention. Boschtools .com can send email

to customer who visits their sites to buy Power tools from Grainger.com. Here traffic analysis

of Boschtools .com is required. his data will help to Build awareness among the power tools

customers.

Scenario 2: Audiences that visit Boschtools.com, look at a power tool, and then visit

Grainger.com, log in to Grainger.com, and visit the power tools category

In this scenario Grainger .com should run some promotion on Bosch Power tools products

like discounts which have time frame like buy now and get 5% off on other power tools

product so it will attract the customer to make purchase as he was just visiting the site and

not making any purchase. This shall push the buyer to take immediate decisions to buy.

Even they can send promotional email to website visitors and ask them to register on

Grainger.com.x

Scenario 3: Audiences that visit Boschtools.com, look at a power tool, and then visit

Grainger.com, log in to Grainger.com, and visit the plumbing category but not power tools

Here it requires to improve the loyalty with existing customer by sending him promotional

email and offers. For that data has to be analyzed, web traffic, items they are looking for ,

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purchases they have made . Marketers have long been aware of profound changes in the

way consumers research and buy products. Yet a failure to change the focus of marketing to

match that evolution has undermined the core goal of reaching customers at the moments

that most influence their purchases. The shift in consumer decision making means that

marketers need to adjust their spending and to view the change not as a loss of power over

consumers but as an opportunity to be in the right place at the right time, giving them the

information and support they need to make the right decisionsxi.

Word Count :- 509 Words

MODULE 2 TASK: 3

Scenario Key Questions

Business Objective1

Data Required Data Sources 2

Scenario 1 DO the Customer

know that

Grainger.com

carries Bosch

Power Tools?

Build

Awareness

Here the data required is

web traffic and customer

data base of Bosch.com

Clickstream3

Traffic,

desktop and

mobile search

activity ,

Google

Trends and

Traffics

Analysis

Scenario 2 Influence

Consideration

Do customer

wants more

information of

Grainger . com

Power tools

section like

prices and

services ?

Here Click stream Traffic

of both Grainger.com and

Bosch tools.com, Mobile

and web search activities

Google

Trends and

Traffic

Analysis

Google

Analytics

1 http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/competitive-intelligence-data-sources-best-practices/ 2 http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/marketing-and-sales/our-insights/the-consumer-decision-journey 3 https://www.google.com/trends/ ,

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Scenario 2 Improve Sales

Process

Is there any

increase in

sales of Bosch

Power tools on

Grainger .com

?

Number of Customers

buying Powertools from

grainger.com is required

Google Web

Optimizer

Scenario 3 Reposition the

Brand

How to Improve

Brand

experience so

the customer

who visit

Grainger buy

Bosch Power

tools ?

For this Voice of

Customer is required,

views and comments of

existing customers on

social networking sites

can be useful. Customers

experiences and after

sales serves of Power

Tools are useful

information.

Google

Customer

Survey ,

Tweeter , and

facbook

followers and

their

comments

and feedback

, Email

Surveys by

Grainger and

Bosch about

Powertools

Scenario 3 Grow Loyalty Are customer

ready to

advocate

BoschTools ?

For the Customer survey

required

Google

Customer

Surveys .

Email advertising can be used across all phases in the Customer Decision Journey, carrying different messages to each audience. This message should be relevant to the audience and moreover to the place on which this audience is set. Since Grainger already has the email address of this person, this means two things. 1. That this person is already a customer of Grainger 2. That this person has shown some interest in Grainger products.

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Therefore, the audience of the email campaign is either on 1. Post-Purchase Experience 2. Initial Consideration Set To drill down Grainger can filter through its database the customers that bought Bosch tools and so the messages sent to these two audiences should be 1. Voice of Customer (Do the experiences delivered fulfil consumer expectations?) • Consumer Satisfaction • Product Reviews • Relevant Product Offers etc. 2. Loyalty Relationship (Am I part of the initial consideration set?) • New Products • Offers Display Advertising should be used on both Audience Profiles4 Scenario 1: Remarketing from Boschtools lists can be used to show this audience Grainger banner ads and drive them to the website. • Scenario 2: The specific cookie and reference analytics can be used to identify this audience and when they login into the website show them a relevant banner add with new tools or promotional offers. • Scenario 3: Tracking of this audience should be as above and the promotional banners can follow them across all Grainger website. * For all campaigns to be more productive the Bosch power tools landing

Word Count : 474 words

4 https://www.pdf-archive.com/2012/07/29/web-analytics-2-0-avinash-kaushik/web-analytics-2-0-avinash-kaushik.pdf

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MODULE 3 TASK :2

DATA Collection and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)56xii7

Objective Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

BUILD AWARENESS Acquisition KPIs :-

Click through Rate-

Bosch Power Tools

Page and Ads

% New Visits – Bosch

Power Tools Page and

Ads

CPC on Ads or Cost Per

Mile on Ads

CPA or Impression on

Ads

Behavior KPIS:-

Bounce Rate on

Boschtools.com ,

Ads and Grainger

.com

Depth and Length

of Page Views

Shopping Cart

Abandonment

Rate on E pro

Loyalty on

Boschtools.com

and Bosch P0wer

Tools page on

Grainger .com

Event per Visit on

Boschtools.com

and Bosch Power

Tools

Outcome KPIs :-

Return on

Advertising

spend

(ROAS)

Days to

Conversion

on Ads

%Assisted

Conversion

Rate .

Objective (KPIs)

INFLUENCE

CONSIDERATION

Acquisition KPIs :-

Click to Open (CTO ) on

email asking customer

to join the Email

Registry

Unique Open Rate /

Site Traffic

CPA on Email

Behavior KPIS:-

Bounce Rate on

Email, Email

Registry

Depth and Length

of Page Views

Shopping Cart

Abandonment

Rate

Outcome KPIs :-

Database

Conversion

Rate on

Email

Registrants

in response

to Email

5 http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/best-web-metrics-kpis-small-medium-large-business/ 6 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/67353-7-Crucial-KPIs-for-Email-Marketing- 7 https://www.impactbnd.com/blog/8-social-media-kpis-you-should-track-and-monitor

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Session Length on

mobile email

registry

application /

Loyalty

Event per Visit on

Bosch tools.com

and Bosch Power

Tools Page .

ROAS – Sales

Conversion

Rate / Days

to Sales

Conversion

on Email

% Assisted

Conversion

Rate .

Objective Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Reposition the

Brand

Acquisition KPIs :-

CTO on email asking

the customer to

complete a survey

indicating reasons why

they might shop on

Grainger.com again

Unique Open Rate /

Site Traffic

% New Visits on Survey

Page and Bosch Power

Tools Page on Grainger

.com

CPA on Email and

Survey Page.

Behavior KPIS:-

Bounce Rate on

Email, Email

Registry

Depth and Length

of Page Views

Shopping Cart

Abandonment

Rate

Session Length on

mobile email

registry

application /

Loyalty

Event per Visit on

Bosch tools.com

Outcome KPIs :-

Database

Conversion

Rate on

Email

Registrants

in response

to Email

ROAS – Sales

Conversion

Rate / Days

to Sales

Conversion

on Email

% Assisted

Conversion

Rate .

Objective (KPIs)

IMPROVE SALES

PROCESSES :-

Acquisition KPIs :-

CTO on email giving

necessary details on an

ePro order

Unique Open Rate/ Site

Traffic

CPA on email

Behavior KPIS:-

Bounce Rate on

Email , ePro and

Bosch Power

Tools Page on

Grainger .com

Outcome KPIs :-

ROAS -Sales

Conversion

Rate on

Email

Days to

Conversion

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Depth and Length

of Page Views

Shopping Cart

Abandonment

Rate

Session Cart /

Loyalty

Events Per Visit on

Boschtools.com

on Email and

e Pro

% Assisted

Conversion

Rate

Objective (KPIs)

INFLUENCE

CONSIDERATION

Acquisition KPIs :-

Click to Open (CTO ) on

email asking customer

to join the Email

Registry

Unique Open Rate /

Site Traffic

CPA on Email

Behavior KPIS:-

Bounce Rate on

Email, Email

Registry

Depth and Length

of Page Views

Shopping Cart

Abandonment

Rate

Session Length on

mobile email

registry

application /

Loyalty

Event per Visit on

Bosch tools.com

Outcome KPIs :-

Database

Conversion

Rate on

Email

Registrants

in response

to Email

ROAS – Sales

Conversion

Rate / Days

to Sales

Conversion

on Email

% Assisted

Conversion

Rate .

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Objective (KPIs)

REPOSITION THE

BRAND

Acquisition KPIs :-

CTO on email asking

the customer to

complete a survey

indicating reasons why

they might shop on

Grainger.com again

Unique Open Rate/ Site

Traffic

% New Visits on Survey

Page and Bosch Power

Tools Page on

Grainger.com

CPA on email and

Survey Page.

Behavior KPIS:-

Bounce Rate on

Survey Page and

Bosch Power

Tools page on

Grainger.com

Depth and Length

of Page Views

Shopping Cart

Abandonment

Rate

Session Length on

e Pro app/ Loyalty

on Bosch Power

Tools Page

Event Per Visit on

Boschtools.com

Outcome KPIs :-

ROAS- Macro

conversion/

Micro

conversion

Rate on

Email and

Survey Page

Days to

Conversion

on Email and

Survey Page

% Assisted

Conversion

Rate .

Objective (KPIs)

Improve Sales

Processes

Acquisition KPIs :-

CTO on email

giving necessary

details on an

epro order

Unique Open

Rate/Site Traffic

CPA on Email

Behavior KPIS:-

Bounce Rate on Email ,

ePro and Bosch Power

Tools Page on

Grainger.com

Depth and Length of

Page Views

Shopping Cart

Abandonment Rate

Session Length/ Loyalty

Events Per Visit on

Boschtools.com

Outcome KPIs :-

ROAS -Sales

Conversion

Rate on

Email

Days to

conversion

on Email and

ePro

%Assisted

Conversion

Rate

Data Collection – Potential Biases: - Biases can arise when inappropriately phrasing and ordering

questions ( questionnaire bias)xiii, allowing preconceived notions to influence how data is evaluated (

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interpretation bias) and incorrectly choosing a survey sample to represent a market segment ( sampling

bias). All can be overcome and the one that could have the greatest influence on the actual success of

the marketing strategy is interpretation bias.

Interpretation bias is not likely with descriptive analysis, as it involves the reading of directional data on

customer’s affinity for a brand or product. Directional data that would be the focus of descriptive

analysis would include many of the Key Performance indicators mentioned above, including Click

Through Rate (CTR), Click to open (CTO) Rate, Percent New Visits, Bounce Rate and Applause rate, There

is a greater propensity for interpretation bias with other analytical techniques, particularly the making of

patterns in exploratory analysis, finding casual connections or predicting outcomes from certain known

events. To avoid interpretation bias to influence these analytical techniques, time -tested logic and

reasonableness tests and approved statistical methods should be utilized.

For example, we can make exploratory patterns correlating two or more data points-such as the CTO

rate for an email with a customer testimonial touting Grainger’s brand attributes and a future sale on

Grainger.com reflected in the Conversion Rate. But it is important to recognize that correlation does not

always equal causation. Grainger cannot be absolute certain that a cause and effect relationship exist

between the content marketing contained in the email, the Megaphone of the Monitored social media

feedback, and the desired option, the sale of Bosch Power Tools on Grainger .com. unless we perform a

confirmatory customer survey for verification.

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MODULE 3 TASK 3

Data Analysis – Analysis to be performed On the Data Collected and KPIs

Measured

By listening to data points and measuring KPIs, relevant, powerful insights can be

developed the communicated and distributed to Grainger’s target markets of

procurement officers and end Users.xiv To generate relevant, powerful insight,

descriptive, exploratory, casual, inferential and predictive analyses are required.

Many of the data points and KPIs Grainger should measure require descriptive

analysis. For example, analyzing the behavior of clicking in the CTR KPI reveals that

the customer has awareness of the brand. Exploratory analysis takes the descriptive

data and forms patterns of customer activity such as the pattern of a CTO on an email

and a subsequent purchase on ePro. Causal relationship may be deducted from the

exploratory analysis, such as the possibility that adding specific email content brought

about a desired outcome, a sale on Grainger.com. However, this causal connection

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must be later verified through survey research. When responses to the customer survey

are received, Grainger can verify the casual relationship and make inferences about the

larger market segment. Then, Predictions can be made about expected behavior of the

market segment – when one variable exists, another variable will soon follow.

Data Analysis – Benchmarks for Data Collected

To Achieve this goal of a 10% increase in sales of Bosch Power Tools on Grainger.

Com , Online customer activity will need to reach certain benchmarksxv

Display Ads- Facebook , Answer.com and Invitation to join Email Registry

The benchmark CTR for display for Google Adwords should be at least.35, the

industry average.xvi This CTR rate is achievable. According to Similar Web site

traffic taken the past three months, Grainger’s actual display CTR for all search

engines is .43.xvii

Based on industry average , Grainger ‘s benchmark CPA for display should be

$34.425 or lower .xviii

Email- Follow Up To Email Registrants Touting Grainger’s Advantages

Using industry average , Grainger ,s benchmark CTO rate for these emails

should be at least 19,19% and the bounce rate .365% or lower .xix

Email -Details On ePro Purchase

For email recipient who have attempted a purchase and abandoned a shopping

cart, the CTO should be 21.52%, Mail Chimps CTO Rate for Retail, and achieve

the median Sales Conversion rate of $28.50

For email recipients who made a past purchase, CTO should be 30%, HubSpots

eCommerce CTO industry average and better than the median Conversion Rate

of $28.50.

Social Media Activity- Email with youtube Video / Invitation To

Ambassadorship

If there are 1.4 million Grainger customers and 19.19% percent open the email, it

is hoped that at least one percent would view the YouTube video.xx

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The benchmark number of social media interactions with the post by the social

media ambassador would be 11.4xxi

Data Analysis – Summary of Insights -The 60 Second Story

Grainger will utilize display ads, email content marketing and social media

outreach to attract customers and increase sales. By retargeting display ads at

new customers who visit Boschtools.com , Grainger will convert more customers

and should easily achieves the -35benchmark. Grainger can meet the median

email conversion rate of $28.5 with customers who abandon a shopping cart, and

improve upon that figure with past customers. Since word of mouth advertising

has been shown to cinch new or repeat purchase, this should be also be a

lucrative, marketing strategy for Grainger.

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