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Gamification of the EnterpriseTRANSCRIPT
The Engagement Imperative - Back to the Future
Rand Schulman – Merkle Presentation
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Engagement in Social / Mobile APPS
“McKinsey Global Institute analyzed the potential value that could be obtained through the use of social media technologies is $900 billion to $1.3 trillion annually”.*
Building In APP user engagement is a key component in the Social Value Chain
Social/Mobile Gaming is making way for Enterprise Gamification of Social/Mobile APPs
LTV (engagement over time) is now critical to Digital Marketing – it doesn’t stop with the site visit or the one site/channel
Back to the Future
HBR Blog August 2012 -
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It was so easy -during FB Gold Rush…
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www.viralheat.com
…and A Great Start!
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THINK DIFFERENT.ly
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APPS SAPPS MAPPS
Shattering the website-centricengagement paradigm
And the new world of…
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Why Now? New Breakthroughs Create New Challenges – Analytics Critical
Technology enablers – Big Data / Cloud / CPU / Bandwidth advancements - real-time empirical data
Converged Workflow People - Digital Marketing - becoming more like Direct Marketing creating a new role definition for the “Marketer”
Gamers taught us that APP Engagement is Key –– Law of Large numbers means / rapid A/B/M testing – Optimization – Greater engagement / greater conversion to intent
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Viral Adoption -The Engagement Imperative
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“We’re an analytics company masquerading as a games company.”
Ken Rudin Vice President, Analytics & Platform Services
Source: WSJ
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What is Gamification?
Gamification is about taking the essence of games—fun, play, transparency, design and challenge—and applying it to real-world objectives rather than pure entertainment.
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Growth of Social Gamification in the Enterprise
70% of Global 2000 will utilize one gamified application by 2014*
25% of online Business Process will be redesigned by 2015 with Gamification in mind*
There will be $2.8 billion in revenue growth by 2016* due APPs
Wide Range of tactics to modify user behavior - from Badging, Missions, and Leaderboards and to Levels
– * Deloitte Review The Engagement Economy 2012, Gartner
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www.kontagent.com
Greater APP Engagement - 183% Increase in ARPU* in less than Two Months for Gaia**
How effective are my ads in reach?
What is the quality & age of users from different countries?
What is my campaign performance by partner and country tier?
How are my users performing APP post install?
*Average revenue per user
** 1 million post per day, 7 million Unique per mo, 26 million reg. users
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Using Kontagent - Optimizing for Viral Adoption and ARPU…
Targeting based on cohort analysis and segmentation
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…and LTV
5x increase in retention
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Speed A/B Testing (hours not days)
Dramatic increase in valuable users into the game ecosystem via large scale A/B Testing of ads
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Beyond Gamers – Enterprise Gamification Examples … a Start
Consumer – Verizon seeing increase of 30% time on site time (goal increase revenue, decrease
cost)– San Diego Power and Gas and OpsPower (decrease cost)– Samsung – Increase of 200% per month site user engagement (reviews/revenue)
Content & Media companies have seen 30-40%* increase in Reader interactions (goal - increase revenue)
– USA Networks 130% increase Page Views 40% Return Visitors
Health care – Aetna / Kaiser seeing 50%* increase in “healthy actions” (goal – decrease in cost)
• * Deloitte Review The Engagement Economy 2012
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Measure LTV
Measure viral factor and channel attribution
And conversion to intent
Test and Optimize
Omni Channel Metrics - The ROI of SAPPS and MAPPS
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How do I Get Started?
The cost to build a social app is low
Any company can get something up and running!
Cost Time
In-House $68,000 30 Days
Agency $92,000 14 Days
Vendor/Pre-Fab $44,000 8 Days
www.involver.com www.buddymedia.com
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In Summary: What Should You Do Now?
Maintain Authenticity– mesh behavioral science with social technologies to increase the interaction and engagement with
audiences. People like to be Mayor!
Collect/Track Behavioral data
Measure Results and Optimize process– not enough to just capture data; you need to be prepared for meaningful analysis of the results. Return
on investment assumptions should be thought of beyond simple project dollars spent. Develop formulas to measure the long-term value of more engaged or loyal customers across new channels – MAPPS, SAPPS and APPS
What – Create New Content on a regular basis– Inbound marketing
Who/How? The New Marketer as The Content Engineer– a multi-disciplinary team that includes business-line strategists and managers, along with social
scientists, marketers, game designers, programmers and those with data analytics expertise
Thank you
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