Marketing managers now have a better way to measure the value of their content.
PROVO, Utah. March 27, 2018. Marketers measure the success of their content with visits, clicks, impressions, and anecdotes. But measuring the bottom-line value of content to determine ROI has been elusive—until now.
Today, Stoke, a full service content marketing and analytics agency, launched Stoke Pulse™ at Adobe Summit in Las Vegas. Stoke Pulse is a first-of-its-kind analytics solution that helps B2B marketers close the gap between knowing how customers engage with content and understanding what that has to do with their offline sales.
“Marketers are spending significant budget to develop and distribute digital content, and the need for that content continues to accelerate,” said David Acheson, managing director at Stoke. “We’ve developed Stoke Pulse to help marketers know where their content budget can have the most impact, and justify that spend in the dollar-figure language the C-suite is fluent in.”
While tools like Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics provide data about how people arrive at a website, the time spent on a page, and even a customer’s path to purchase, these tools don’t paint a full picture. The same thing goes for CRM software like Salesforce that lets you follow the progress of offline deals.
“Stoke Pulse is the missing link between marketing analytics and CRM tools,” said Laurie Lohner, managing director at Stoke. “Stoke Pulse plays a significant role in not only showing results, but also in closing the feedback loop to develop a content strategy for the entire customer journey.”
Stoke Pulse allows marketers to visualize every sales opportunity in every stage of the customer journey. Three main dashboards make it easy to track and interpret information:
- Customer Journey. Visualize the entire customer journey, from first touch to deal close. See every piece of content your contacts touched, visualized by author, content type, title, or campaign.
- Revenue Influence. See every deal that’s been influenced by content. Measure, rank, and filter all your influenced deals by industry, region, and deal size.
- Content Analysis. Measure and rank your content in real revenue terms, not just visits. See what content impacted your business the most — including leads, sales pipeline, and closed deals.
Technical requirements
Stoke Pulse is not designed to replace your current analytics solution and does not require any software installation. The technology is currently compatible with Adobe Analytics or Google Analytics and Salesforce CRM.
“Stoke Pulse is easy to get up and running,” said Sam Fonoimoana, Stoke’s chief analytics officer. “It connects your current analytics solution with Salesforce via a visitor ID pass-through, and then uses proprietary algorithms to extract data from both sources and generate meaningful insights.”
Fonoimoana is an analytics expert and has extensive working knowledge of analytics from extract, transform, and load (ETL) to visualization, to machine learning. He has spent his analytics career helping companies such as DOMO, Franklin Sports, Ancestry.com and Adobe connect their marketing efforts to revenue. Prior to joining Stoke, he was global director of marketing at DOMO and then founded Fahui Analytics.
About Stoke
Stoke is a full-service content marketing agency based in Provo, Utah, that offers strategy, editorial, design, and analytics solutions to enterprise content marketers. Stoke Pulse helps clients get the most from their marketing budget, and gives them the information they need so they never have to guess what their content is worth. Major clients include Adobe, Micro Focus, Certiport, and Ethicon, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary. For more information about Stoke Pulse, visit http://www.stokepulse.com.