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Capstone 1 – Nike

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Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Data Analysis + Insights
  3. Customer Journey & Channel Mapping
  4. Brand Positioning + Competitors
  5. Channel Strategy
  6. Content Marketing Plan
  7. Offline Media
  8. Assumptions + Risk Mitigation
  9. Proposed Testing
  10. Budget Allocation
  11. Metrics
  12. Future Opportunities

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1. Overview

  • Business objective 🡪 Transfer sales from wholesale channel (84%) direct to consumer sales Nike.

  • Marketing objective 🡪 Consumer awareness of the channels and advantages for purchasing directly from Nike (direct to consumer) specifically the Nike phone App

  • What is the challenge 🡪 Awareness of Nike’s DTC channels and customer journey to purchase

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Nike Worldwide Competition

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NIKE Worldwide Revenue Sales

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US Market eCommerce and Mail Order Revenue for Sporting Goods

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2. Data Analysis + Insights

  • Target US Nike customer:

Target customer is everyone that has access to internet via the online channel which includes PC, smartphones, and access to Nike’s physical store. Segmentation of Nike’s products are primarily with tennis shoes, apparel fashion and equipment.

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What can you learn from keyword data?

Nike strategy of direct to consumer offense can be seen as it relies enormously on Nike’s brand equity value for Keyword bidding and therefore can target just about any product it launches with the product name after the “Nike” keyword branding allowing traffic directly to their web page including Nike branded shoes.

General keywords should be a focus since this might direct consumers to wholesale distributors.

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3. Customer Journey + Channel Mapping

How does this customer typically find/research/buy your product?

Consumer would like to buy a tennis shoe or fashion apparel from Nike

Consumer searches online for product or goes to a retail store that carries Nike Products (ex. Dicks)

Consumer decides if order on line or goes physically to a store

Consumer creates account at Nike site, downloads App, Nike Store puechase, or retail site

Consumer makes purchase

Consumer receives purchase

Consumer ☺ or with purchase

Consumer research/analyzes product (size, quality, specific sport, $) and chooses best option

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Mapping to marketing channels?

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4. Brand Positioning + Competitors

Where does this brand sit within its competitive space?

Competition are tennis shoes and apparel fashion which also include specific segments such as running, tennis, and other sports.

What is the Reason to Believe for consumers?

Attributes: Tennis shoe technology, App all in one running (tracking), fashionable (cool) channel, discounts, sports news channel, sport events.

Does this company have brand equity?

Brand Value is US $42 billion – 2022

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5. Channel Strategy

Which digital marketing channels will you use?

  1. Search
  2. Social Media for product launch and fashion apparel all linked to Nikes App
  3. Display Ad
  4. eMail – app messaging to database customers

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Where will they target in the funnel?�How will they work together?�

www.nike.com, Google Search, Google Display

Social media

Call to Action: download Nike App

Online purchase, App purchase or

In store -purchase

App Data Targeting

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6. Content Marketing Plan - Social Media

How is the brand message communicated?

  • Track your tennis shoes life cycle for runners
  • Get a discount for downloading and registering on the app new users
  • New arrivals of your likes and dislikes
  • History of Nike tennis shoes used
  • Quick order – 24 hours
  • Discounts

The tennis shoe is a hook for all other products (Fashion & Apparel)

All these campaign attributes will be for customers benefit which they can post on Instagram, Twitter, Tik-Tok, and other social platforms creating content which presently has 3.38% participation.

For each specific product – down load the app 10% on next purchase and discounts

Tik-Tok, Facebook

Instagram, Tweeter =

NIKE APPS

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7. Offline Media

Will you use offline media?

Yes, on the shoe itself or via a unique QR scan pasted on the sole or attached like a key chain (not permanent)

How will this tie in with the online campaign? Every consumer of tennis shoe will eventually download the app.

“Must be placed on the shoe sole”

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8. Assumptions + Risk Mitigation

What assumptions are built into your plan?

That all consumers will download the Nike App when purchasing a tennis shoe and/or get curious of the QR code on the sole

Each QR code will be unique on the bottom of the shoe which will eventually fade and therefore consumer will do immediately

U.S. market only

How will you course-correct if things do not go to plan?

Change the Ad Copy

Allocate budget according to metrics

CRO – Conversion Rate Optimization

Choose the correct placement of QR code that generates the largest # downloads of the Nike App

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9. Proposed Testing - download of app via QR code via display Ad or on the sole of the shoe

What is an experiment that could help validate/falsify a hypothesis?

What are best practices for conducting a test?

Two A/B Testing:

1. Display Ad with a QR code direct to the App or Nike page (shown or not shown the Ad)

2. With a some 20,000 pairs of shoes with the QR code on the sole and the other 20,000 random shoe without the QR code on the sole.

The no show of a QR code will not be placed on the shoe but on the box

We will be able to find out where is the best place to put the QR code which eventually creates a call to action to download the Nike App.

All of the shoes will come with informative pamphlets about the Nike App and its benefits inside the box.

We will also be able to calculate the incremental impact of the proposed testing

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10. Budget Allocation How will you split the allocated budget across channels for optimal efficiency?�

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How will you analyze results and optimize once campaign data is available?

Nike will use:

Zodiac a consumer data analytics company acquired in 2018

Celect a Boston-based predictive analytics company acquired in 2019

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11. Metrics: which metrics will you analyze? �

What would be a reasonable estimate of the ROI for each channel’s budget?

The optimal ROI I would use is cost per acquisition compared to the estimate CLV (customer life time value) were the lifetime value after acquisition is greater than the acquisition cost.

In other words, just by acquiring a consumer with this purchase notion all other additional products such as Apparel/Fashion and repurchase of new tennis shoes will be profitable.

CPM🡪 Cost Per Mile: Ad Spend/Impressions shown*per 1000 Ads

CTR🡪 Click Through Rate: Total clicks/total number ads shown *100

CPC🡪 Cost Per Click: total campaign costs/total clicks

Conversion rate🡪 Products purchased/number of clicks

Cost Per Action🡪 Original Ad Spend/total number of purchases

CAC🡪 Customer Acquisition Cost

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12. Future Opportunities

  1. Pilot of QR code on the shoe for Marketing Campaign
  2. Nike App : luring in the customer for Fashion/Apparel and you will be able to target each consumer individually and usage of AI can be adopted
  3. Social Media (ex Tik-Tok) : Create a link Nike Fashion Apparel platform where you can begin ordering through social media platforms

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Jose A. Serrano

Columbia Business School

Capstone Project 1

Nov. 2022

Bibliography

  1. The Balance in Nike’s business is shifting dramatically by Marc Bain 2021 (https://qz.com/emails/quartz-weekend-brief/1849713991/alphabets-soups )
  2. Columbia Business School – Kinshuk Jerath
  3. Cross Channel Overview- Rival IQ
  4. Similar Web
  5. Statista
  6. Wikipedia
  7. Semrush
  8. John Reed (image)