How Do You Develop Great Creative?
In the digital age, attention spans are fleeting and content now has to be more than just eye-catching to the consumer. Not only does it need to pull the consumer in, it should also inspire them to take action, whether that be buying a product or using your provided services.
For advertising to be effective though, you must harness the power of data and transform it into actionable insights in order to unlock a realm of limitless creative possibilities. Great advertising starts with information; information about the company, its brand, its products, the market/industry in which it operates and the competition.
What’s the Foundation of Great Creative?
The foundation of great creative lies in the understanding of data. Collecting and analyzing relevant data provides a comprehensive view of your target audience, their behaviors and the trends shaping your industry. Through tools like analytics, social media metrics, reviews and customer feedback, we help uncover valuable information that serves as the building block for that creative spark.
Insights Are The Creative “Spark”
Data alone is not enough, yet it’s the driving force of developing insights. Insights shed light on the ‘why’ behind consumer behaviors, allowing our team to develop marketing strategies that are not just creative but emotionally compelling and resonate with your audience. Data-driven insights enable personalization in your marketing efforts, creating a bond between the brand and the consumer.
How Do You Measure Success?
The best part about a data-driven approach is its ability to accurately measure success. We can track key performance indicators (KPIs) and other data to showcase the impact of strategy implementation. We can also do research that helps us see conversions and movement. This not only provides valuable feedback, but it gives us the insight to make adjustments that can maximize effectiveness.
What’s the Callis Method?
Strategy is at the core of everything we do at Callis, and it all starts with insight. After analyzing your website, social media presence and your competition, Callis breaks the strategic insight process down into four parts:
- Competitive Insight
- Brand Insight
- Consumer Insight
- Overall Insight
Competitive insight is determined using a variety of secondary research, analyzing and assessing the relevant data to clearly portray the competitive landscape. Through the use of multiple resources, we’re able to determine how competitive brands are visualized, positioned and marketed. To dissect your brand, we go through a similar process, with the added data obtained through discovery with you. Consumer insights use primary, secondary and behavioral research to determine who the consumer is, what and how they buy, how they use the product/service and how they feel about each step and overall. To identify the overall strategic insight, we look at everything learned about you, your competition and your consumer. This gives us the one thing that you and only you can say – your unique and compelling differentiating insight, that drives creative messaging and imagery and delivers proven results. These insights guide the development of objectives for your business and help outline the next steps to take. Whether it’s an engaging social media campaign, creating captivating content, or a full-service marketing strategy, we tailor our strategies to align with your business goals to reach your target audiences. To learn more about our strategic process, visit https://ecallis.com/approach/strategic-process/.
Knowing who your audience is, what they want to see, how they want to receive it, what is important to them and so much more is the key to business success. Data-driven insights offer a highly personalized and targeted experience for your audience, the ability to accurately measure success and give you the confidence to deliver a campaign that will leave a lasting impression.
This article was previously published on February 12, 2019, and updated on March 11, 2024.
