The Case for Tag Management
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Tag Management An Emerging Digital Marketing Essential
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• Brief overview of tag management • Benefits of tag management • Tag management solutions
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WHAT IS A ?TAG
Tag Management
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A growing problem
• Tags are also known as tracking pixels, beacons or JavaScript snippets
• Embedded within webpages
• Used by digital marketers for measurement purposes
• Uses include web analytics, retargeting, personalization, advertising, affiliate marketing, email, Pay Per Click (PPC), and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Absolutely critical for many digital marketing solutions. For example, an analytics solutions may return no data without a functioning tag
Tags
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Measuring digital marketing
• Tags were once added, deleted and modified manually.
• The number of tags and the number of digital marketing assets continues to increase in many companies
• This has led to several problems
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IT DevelopmentManaging tags required IT development and deployment cycles
A Time Consuming Process
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IT development could take weeks or months in some cases
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Develop Request
Prioritization Process
Write Requirements
Schedule Updates
Assign Resources
Design Pages
Code Updates
Code Review
Unit Testing
Regression Testing
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Webpage Updated with Tag
Customer Experience ImpactMalfunctioning tags can disrupt the digital customer experience
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Changing VendorsManual approach made it difficult to change
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• A manual approach meant that companies often felt “locked in” to their digital marketing vendors
• Vendor tags were manually embedded across numerous web properties
• Made it more difficult to switch to another solution
• Also made it difficult to test two different solutions
Tag Management SolutionsLike a Content Management System for Tags
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Enter Tag ManagementSimplification, agility, speed
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• One of the most innovative new solutions in digital marketing
• Makes it possible for digital marketers to add, change, and remove tags without IT assistance
• Reduces errors and costs • Reduces complexity of tagging content • Reduces cycle time to make changes • Reduces tag malfunctions
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Now Considered Key to Success 87% of digital marketers cite tag management as a key to success. !Source: Survey conducted by Tealium and Econsultancy in “The ROI of Tag Management” (2012).
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Significant
Benefits
Tag Management BenefitsMaking the case
• Qualitative Benefits
• Ability to switch vendors (no “lock in”)
• Faster marketing campaign cycle time
• Ability to track sessions across domains
• Opportunity to create custom tagging solutions that are vendor independent
• Ability to integrate with existing CMS systems to ensure standardized taxonomy and alignment with metadata derived from CMS
• Quantitative Benefits
• Reduced cost of vendor deployments
• Reduced cost of tag addition, modification, & removal
• Value of more accurate data analytics
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VendorsThe vendor landscape includes these leading solutions
• Adobe • BrightTag • DC Storm • Ensighten • IBM Digital Data Exchange • Impact Radius • Google Tag Manager
• QuBit • Site Tagger • SuperTag • Tag Commander • TagMan • Tealium • UberTags
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Contact Me !
@DaveBirckheadwww.davebirckhead.com