Yesterday I had the pleasure of teaching the first session of the new edition of Digital Marketing Course for Cultural Industries organized by the SDE (Servei and Business Development, the Catalan Institute of Cultural Industries).
One of the points that we saw was Benchmarking and I explained to the students that Marketing cannot be done without taking the market into account and therefore it is essential that we know what our position is with respect to the companies with which we compete or with respect to companies similar to our.
How to make a benchmark?
This requires defining the variables we want to analyze, to know what our position is based on these variables, see what the position of the competition, then, is ideal capture it all in a positioning map.
The variables that I propose in my classes are as follows:
Benchmark technical level:
- How many pages indexed in Google have a website? (: (Without quotation marks and domain name who wish to analyze) in Google this information looking for "nombredominio.com site" is obtained).
- What authority does a website have? (obtained from the Google bar, any SEO plugin or from an online tool).
- How many pages are linking to the page you analyze? (I recommend obtaining these data from which Alexa.com offers). Later note: Alexa stopped working in 2021. We now use SEMrush (www.semrush.com)
- What position does that website ranking in Alexa.com? Later note: Alexa stopped working in 2021. We now use SEMrush (www.semrush.com)
Marketing Benchmark level:
- What is the target audience for that enterprise and which segments attacks through its online communication?
- What is your value proposition?
- What Digital Marketing actions have detected that performs this company? (This can see watching who linkea to page [online news, blogs, directories ...] and looking for his name on Google [see social networking profiles, quotes, articles, etc.]).
- What features we would highlight their website.
With this a good record for each of our competitors and also for our own company is obtained. And these data will help us know where we want to be, where we want to go and how we will do it.
The positioning map that I use is a graph showing bubble techniques 3 variables: the PageRank (the radius of the bubble), the position in the Alexa ranking (eg
and abscissa) and the size of the page (vertical axis).
The attached image is of one of these maps, the other image corresponds to a record of competence (in this case corresponds to a theater).
Yesterday I promised the students would write this post and would hang up Excel I had created from the websites of some of the companies attending the class, so that you have sample and was not needed to start it from scratch (the graph it is complicated to make, the axis scales are logarithmic, the axes are reversed so that the best position appears on the top right, and definitely not a chart by selecting data from a table is displayed by pressing a button ... of Hence recommend students to use mine as a basis for their work).
Anyway ... here goes the Excel worksheet for creating the graphic benchmarking.
Excel Chart "How to Make a Benchmark” to serve as a base.
(If you do not see the graphic good or bubbles are not 3D is because you are using an older version of Excel. Although I have saved the file in .xls format so that everyone can open, you are actually created using the .xlsx )
I hope you find it useful and now already know cow do a good benchmark.
If you attended the event and want the complete slides of the entire Digital Marketing for Cultural Industries course, remember that the SDE will send you an email with a link to their servers from which you can download them.
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Dear,
Your session was simply fantastic. Acalrit me a lot of doubts and a lot m'gardaria could deepen the theme that you expose. You recomanr a manual Anaya that I present, I do not know if the master pe`ro online would also be a good choice, or is suitable for professionals.
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Olga F.
Thanks :-) Olga
The book I recommend is "search engine Posicionamiento" F. Macia and J. Gosende, Editorial Anaya (http://www.fernandomacia.com/)
The Master in Search Engine Optimization: the IDEC - UPF http://www.masterenbuscadores.esAnd 100% line.
The Master in Digital Marketing UAB is: http://www.master-online.es/programas-online/master-online-direccion-marketing-canales-distribucion-digitales/index.php
is a 100% online Masters and the title you give this program is to: Master in Marketing and Sales, specializing in online distribution channels. The title of the UAB. Perhaps this is what should be a professional who wants to know more about Digital Marketing in general rather than specialized search engines.
Olga everything that goes very well.
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Montse.
Your session was simply fantastic. Acalrit me a lot of doubts and a lot m'gardaria could deepen the theme that you expose. You recomanr a manual Anaya that I present, I do not know if the master pe`ro online would also be a good choice, or is suitable for professionals.Una hug,
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Your session was very good, educational and professional. Thanks for all the information you gave us, that from now I will be very useful.
I hope soon to have the slides of the course to expand their knowledge.
See you soon
Joana Demestre
Your session was simply fantastic. Acalrit me a lot of doubts and a lot m'gardaria could deepen the theme that you expose. You recomanr a manual Anaya that I present, I do not know if the master pe`ro online would also be a good choice, or is suitable for professionals.Una hug,
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Dear Montse,
I attended training ICIC and helped me a lot !. In fact, the root of your class have started to improve Web Deuvede Music.
I'm really grateful to have learned so much. Thank you!
See you soon.
Carmina
Hi Montse, I am following your blog, there is much to learn, greetings ...
Hi Montse,
Excel interesting. I recently published a similar with some other variables that can be added to make a more extensive study benchmarking post. Here is the link:
http://www.frannagaro.com/como-hacer-un-estudio-de-mercado-en-internet/
Regards,
Fran
Fran is very interesting post you posted, enter the variables that can be very useful in benchmarking. Thank you for recommending it.
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I went to talk to the Chamber of Sabadell and found it very interesting, and I really liked staffs clarify many doubts.
Thank you very much,
Sandra
Montserrat Hello, I know this post is old but could upload a new version of Excel where the radius of the balls were the number of pages indexed? It makes more sense that the radius is related to the size of the site, and change the index PageRank and Alexa index is seen reflected in the x and y axes (both are positioning)?
Ummm it is true that you need to change the entire property to adapt it to the changes being made on the Google algorithm.
Let's see if I have time and I think a new way to create it to be useful to make benchamrking.
But thanks anyway for the suggestion, Joseph.
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Hi Montse,
I was attending the workshop in your speech at the symposium of the Association of Tourist Apartments in Girona, La Bisbal on Thursday 07 November. Like the rest of replicated, I thank you for your speech and presentation of the Marketing coneixaments online.
I have already put to work and have ready the technical part of the Benchmark, but I find the effect that competing companies have positions Alexa ranging from 15M in 1000.
For a casual would excel sheet with the axis of abscissa starting from 1000?
Many thanks in advance and see you soon.
Oscar Caralps
http://www.costabravaforrent.com
Oscar, on this page you something ... the link above. Tell me if you get problems.
Kisses.
Fantastico article, very easy to read and understand.
I'm with a similar project.
Who could attend the Digital Marketing Course, excellently explained and a great material, thank you very much for sharing
An amazing post. A greeting.
Thank you very much Montse, the Excel is very useful to know the relative position of competitors.
What if one of the companies in the benchmark is in a position 750,000 Alexa? the shaft reaches only up to a million.
Does PR no longer applies, that can be used instead?
Of course I appreciate your comments and ideas.
Thanks for the article!
Ara que ja no es publica, podem substituir el PageRank pel Trust Flow i/o Citation flow de Majestic?
Always fantastic, Montse. We follow as a student since 2008 and I do not get tired! A hug
Montse Thanks :-)
Yes, you can replace the PageRank Citation Trustflow or the ... whatever suits you best for your case. You have to pass it as Majestic 10 base gives it to you on base 100.
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Montse.
Thanks, Go !, until I find what
I need to take hours looking for something with all the information and complete and
you have it, thank you for sharing! grateful
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