{"id":161,"date":"2011-05-23T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T23:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bubblemedia2.wpengine.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2013-09-04T19:32:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T01:32:57","slug":"whats-neighborhood-marketing-black-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Inside Your Neighborhood Marketing Black Box?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neighborhood marketing and advertising is often a black box. Money pours in at the top of the marketing black box and results (or sometimes the lack of) magically occur. What happens inside the block box is left a mystery. The information most businesses want to know can\u2019t be seen.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did people see my ad?<\/li>\n<li>Did they like it?<\/li>\n<li>Are they interested in what I sell?<\/li>\n<li>Do they know about my business?<\/li>\n<li>Did they tell their friends about it?<\/li>\n<li>And the ultimate question, did the ad bring me a customer or would I get the customer anyway?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When businesses market and customers call or come through the front door, there might or might not be a cause and effect. When\u00a0 businesses ask customers where they heard about them, customers don\u2019t remember the process that led them there (see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/neighborhoodmarketing.bubblelife.com\/community\/blog\/library\/353170\/key\/3501610\/Winning_the_Customer_Pinball_Challenge\">pinball marketing<\/a>). So, what should be the best source of the information, the customer, may not be the most reliable.\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This is why \u201cword-of-mouth\u201d gets so much credit. It\u2019s easier for the customer to explain<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dang you marketing black box!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But, with the right tools, we can see inside the black box.\u00a0 With the right tools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We can see if people view an ad.<\/li>\n<li>We can see if they responded to it.<\/li>\n<li>We can see if they read more about your business.<\/li>\n<li>We can see if they tell their friends.<\/li>\n<li>And ultimately, we can see if the ad brings a new customer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The right tools transform neighborhood marketing from guessing into a consultative process that can be reviewed and modified to achieve the desired results. At BubbleLife, we call these tools \u201cInsights\u201d. Insights is a monthly report that goes to all of our customers that gives them information they can use to improve their marketing results. Insights is valuable when the process works, because there is always room for improvement. But, Insights is absolutely essential if results are not up to expectations. Insights can help figure out the problem and design a new solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neighborhood marketing and advertising is often a black box. Money pours in at the top of the marketing black box and results (or sometimes the lack of) magically occur. What happens inside the block box is left a mystery. The information most businesses want to know can\u2019t be seen. Did people see my ad? Did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}