How effectively are the UK’s premium retailers utilising digital marketing: Home and Garden

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Thank you for taking part in this survey, aimed at investigating how effectively the UK's premium home and garden retailers are utilising digital marketing.

The survey should take no longer than 15 minutes to complete and by doing so you will have free access to the benchmark report that will follow. Please note, questions are optional and sensitive information will not be disclosed.

For help, please contact Ben Potter at Leapfrogg Digital Marketing on 01273 322833.
1. Please add your company details





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4. What is the current split of your marketing budget between online and offline activity?
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6. How involved is your company in the use of each of the following online marketing channels?
  Heavily involved Partially involved Just getting started Not yet involved but want to Have no intention of getting involved
Search engine optimisation
Paid search
Social networking i.e. Facebook
Forums and communities
Blogging
Micro-blogging i.e. Twitter
Reputation management
Articles / press releases
Image marketing
Video
Audio
Shopping / comparison engines
Voucher codes
Affiliate marketing
Email marketing
Banner advertising
Mobile marketing
7. For each of the channels where you are active, what function are they designed to serve within your organisation? (Please note, you can mark more than one for each channel).
  Generate new sales Retain customers Customer service Public relations Brand awareness Developing brand evangelists
Search engine optimisation
Paid search
Social networking i.e. Facebook
Forums and communities
Blogging
Micro-blogging i.e. Twitter
Reputation management
Articles / press releases
Image marketing
Video
Audio
Shopping / comparison engines
Voucher codes
Affiliate marketing
Email marketing
Banner advertising
Mobile marketing
8. Please indicate the department responsible for managing each of the channels. (Please note, you can mark more than one department for each discipline)
  Sales Marketing PR Customer service IT Other
Search engine optimisation
Paid search
Social networking i.e. Facebook
Forums and communities
Blogging
Micro-blogging i.e. Twitter
Reputation management
Articles / press releases
Image marketing
Video
Audio
Shopping/comparison engines
Voucher codes
Affiliate marketing
Email marketing
Banner advertising
Mobile marketing
9. How important would you consider each of these channels to the success of your business?
  Crucial Important Unimportant Don’t Know
Search engine optimisation
Paid search
Social networking i.e. Facebook
Forums and communities
Blogging
Micro-blogging i.e. Twitter
Reputation management
Articles / press releases
Image marketing
Video
Audio
Shopping / comparison engines
Voucher codes
Affiliate marketing
Email marketing
Banner advertising
Mobile marketing
10. Compared to 2009, please indicate your resource plans in 2010 for each of the same channels. Please note, resource can refer to financial investment and/or time.
  Increasing resource Resource remaining the same Reducing resource Cutting completely
Search engine optimisation
Paid search
Social networking i.e. Facebook
Forums and communities
Blogging
Micro-blogging i.e. Twitter
Reputation management
Articles / press releases
Image marketing
Video
Audio
Shopping / comparison engines
Voucher codes
Affiliate marketing
Email marketing
Banner advertising
Mobile marketing
11. Where applicable, please indicate the type of agency you use for each channel.
  SEO specialist agency Paid Search specialist agency Integrated search marketing agency Social media agency PR agency Web design agency Email marketing agency Affiliate marketing agency Full service digital agency Managed in-house
Search engine optimisation
Paid search
Social networking i.e. Facebook
Forums and communities
Blogging
Micro-blogging i.e. Twitter
Reputation management
Articles / press releases
Image marketing
Video
Audio
Shopping/comparison engines
Voucher codes
Affiliate marketing
Email marketing
Banner advertising
Mobile marketing
12. What barriers, if any, prevent you from maximising the success of each of these channels?
  Lack of internal resource Lack of budget Lack of understanding Lack of board level buy-in Poor communication internally or externally Lack of appropriate measurement tools Lack of specialist agency expertise in retail
Search engine optimisation
Paid search
Social networking i.e. Facebook
Forums and communities
Blogging
Micro-blogging i.e. Twitter
Reputation management
Articles / press releases
Image marketing
Video
Audio
Shopping/comparison engines
Voucher codes
Affiliate marketing
Email marketing
Banner advertising
Mobile marketing
13. Please indicate the channels below (if any) that you have used in the last year as part of a multi-channel marketing campaign?
14. In relation to your customers, how well informed are you of the following?
  Well informed Reasonably informed Need to know more Don’t need to know
Their online search habits
How they behave on social networks
What customers are saying about your brand online
The customers that evangelise your brand
How they behave on your website
15. How important would you rate each of the factors below in achieving high organic/natural search engine rankings?
  Crucial Important Not that important Not important at all Unsure
Meta tags
Keyword placement in web copy
Website architecture
Choice of technology platform / content management system (CMS)
Location of hosting
Site speed
External links to the website
The user-experience of the website
Blogging
Rich media content (images, video, etc)
Social media activity
16. How do you set goals for your digital marketing activity?
17. Please rate your current ability to track the following.
  Accurately tracking Tracking but not highly accurate Not tracking I do not feel there is a tracking solution available
Search engine rankings
Behaviour of visitors to your website
Cost per visit
Online conversions
Telephone conversions from online activity
Store footfall from online activity
Cost per conversion
Social media presence
Conversions from social media activity
Article marketing / press release distribution
Affiliate marketing
Email marketing
Mobile marketing
Shopping/comparison engines
ROI broken down by channel
Overall ROI from digital marketing
Lifetime value of a customer
18. Of those areas where you have invested, and you can measure the impact, rate the channel’s ability to deliver return on investment?
  Very good Reasonably good Neither good or bad Poor Very poor
Search engine optimisation
Paid Search
Social networking i.e. Facebook
Forums and communities
Blogging
Micro-blogging i.e. Twitter
Reputation management
Articles / press releases
Image marketing
Video
Audio
Shopping/comparison engines
Voucher codes
Affiliate marketing
Email marketing
Banner advertising
Mobile marketing
19. What is your current and preferred way of working with external agencies?
  One full service digital agency Employ a number of specialist agencies In-house combined with external agencies Entirely in-house
Currently working
Preferred way of working
20. Please rate the importance of the following when working with an agency.
  Crucial Important Nice to have Not important
Results
Knowledge of your market
Flexibility
Service level agreements
Quality of reporting
Open lines of communication
21. If currently working with a digital marketing agency how would you rate them in the same areas?
  Excellent Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory Poor
Results
Knowledge of your market
Flexibility
Meeting service level agreements
Quality of reporting
Open lines of communication
22. Specifically relating to communication with your agency, please rate the importance of the following.
  Crucial Important Nice to have Unnecessary
Having one point of contact
Having direct contact with those actually working on campaign
Phone communication
Email communication
The use of online collaboration tools
Regular face to face meetings
Online reporting
23. How important do you think it is for your agency to have knowledge in each of the areas below?
  Crucial Important Nice to have Unnecessary
Your company history
Your business plan
Offline marketing strategy
Your target audience
Your key performance indicators
Your offline sales data
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