Meeting Title: Kim <> Brainforge - Marketing-Weekly-Meeting Date: 2024-08-22 Meeting participants: Uttam Kumaran, Suraj, Nicolas Sucari, Kim Todaro


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1 00:00:50.500 00:00:51.370 Nicolas Sucari: Hi, Jim!

2 00:00:52.420 00:00:53.869 kim todaro: Hey! How are you?

3 00:00:55.610 00:00:57.800 Nicolas Sucari: All good here. How about you?

4 00:01:00.280 00:01:01.700 kim todaro: doing pretty good.

5 00:01:03.650 00:01:04.330 Nicolas Sucari: Right.

6 00:01:07.330 00:01:13.750 Nicolas Sucari: let’s wait a minute. I invited here new guy that’s working with us, called Suraj.

7 00:01:14.390 00:01:16.569 Nicolas Sucari: We’ll be taking yeah, Herkis.

8 00:01:27.130 00:01:28.209 Nicolas Sucari: Hi, Siraj.

9 00:01:28.910 00:01:30.619 suraj: Hey, Nicholas, can you hear me?

10 00:01:31.260 00:01:33.039 Nicolas Sucari: Yes, we can hear you.

11 00:01:34.070 00:01:34.870 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.

12 00:01:35.638 00:01:56.250 Nicolas Sucari: Yes, so Kim suresh suresh, Kim, Sureash is joining the team. Brainforge. He’s gonna be taking all of the analysis stuff that Jacob was doing. He will be helping us with the dashboards with some modeling stuff, too. So yeah.

13 00:01:56.720 00:02:00.229 Nicolas Sucari: came here. Yeah, I don’t want to. I don’t know if you want to introduce yourself.

14 00:02:00.700 00:02:01.640 kim todaro: Is Jacob

15 00:02:02.160 00:02:03.650 kim todaro: Did he leave the company.

16 00:02:04.650 00:02:17.569 Nicolas Sucari: No, no, he didn’t leave the company, but it’s like, we’re we’re gonna be working more with sureash on pool parts, and we’re gonna leave Jacob, probably with other clients moving forward. I think.

17 00:02:17.570 00:02:23.665 kim todaro: Got it. That makes sense. I basically have pool parts to go. Take care of most of the marketing.

18 00:02:24.910 00:02:27.736 kim todaro: all channels pretty much except for Google.

19 00:02:28.250 00:02:34.417 kim todaro: my counterpart, Mike, does that. But we’re very close. So we we work together a lot.

20 00:02:35.170 00:02:38.580 kim todaro: but yeah, that’s really it. If you have any questions, let me know.

21 00:02:38.900 00:02:40.690 suraj: Sure, Kim nice to meet you.

22 00:02:41.710 00:02:42.960 kim todaro: Nice to meet you, Sandy.

23 00:02:44.786 00:03:00.709 Nicolas Sucari: Okay? So, Kim, what we have for today, we’ve been working on adding some of those metrics into the paid marketing performance dashboard. So you can check. Now. Yeah, we have the Cpa. Cpm, everything there, revenue and roas.

24 00:03:01.340 00:03:03.060 Nicolas Sucari: I can show you

25 00:03:03.540 00:03:04.430 Nicolas Sucari: real quick.

26 00:03:07.380 00:03:13.479 Nicolas Sucari: You will find in the paid marketing performance dashboard. Here we added

27 00:03:14.820 00:03:19.176 Nicolas Sucari: the Cpa. That it’s the cost per conversion. Remember, we left this

28 00:03:19.750 00:03:30.770 Nicolas Sucari: his name, but what we are doing is the total cost of the campaigns per each of the conversions. And we added, obviously, you can filter down by the platform or by campaign.

29 00:03:31.160 00:03:32.330 Nicolas Sucari: You will see

30 00:03:32.470 00:03:34.219 Nicolas Sucari: how that value is changing.

31 00:03:34.240 00:03:52.311 Nicolas Sucari: We are still working on understanding what’s happening with the revenue and roas that we are getting from post pilot for direct mail we are in some conversations and discussions with their team. This week. They are in an company off site. So they are not

32 00:03:53.080 00:04:06.549 Nicolas Sucari: being so responsive quickly. But yeah, we’re gonna finish that for next week. We already understood what is the difference? We are receiving a report that is filtered by postcard date.

33 00:04:06.560 00:04:08.730 Nicolas Sucari: And and I wanted to ask you like.

34 00:04:09.060 00:04:18.579 Nicolas Sucari: do you know, like, is it relevant for you to have, like the revenue per postcard date, or it has like. It makes no sense at all.

35 00:04:22.160 00:04:26.239 kim todaro: well, their days based on sent, not when the conversion happened right.

36 00:04:26.750 00:04:27.870 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, exactly.

37 00:04:29.540 00:04:33.869 kim todaro: so so what? What was your question? Exactly sorry.

38 00:04:34.080 00:04:54.890 Nicolas Sucari: Right now we have like 2 reports. One is like the overview of conversions that we have, and then we have, like a conversions list. The conversions list is that the one that we can see there in their platform? That’s okay. I mean, we see each of the conversions that they did that happen. But we are receiving a report that that is based on the date that the postcard has been sent. I think.

39 00:04:54.890 00:04:56.409 kim todaro: Yeah, yeah.

40 00:04:56.440 00:05:03.529 kim todaro: it. That’s kind of annoying. Only because, like, when I do my reports, I always have to include the month prior cause. That’s when the campaign usually goes out.

41 00:05:03.620 00:05:08.399 kim todaro: Cause it’s not immediate, right? It takes like a few weeks for people to get the postcard.

42 00:05:08.670 00:05:10.020 kim todaro: Yeah. So

43 00:05:10.220 00:05:20.460 kim todaro: the attribution’s a little confusing there, because, like, I sent a campaign at the end of July, and it’s just starting to get conversions now. So August looks like we didn’t make any money, but we really did.

44 00:05:22.290 00:05:26.509 Nicolas Sucari: Okay. So, but but is is it something that you look

45 00:05:26.600 00:05:31.179 Nicolas Sucari: at like with special detail, like to understand which postcards

46 00:05:31.420 00:05:33.410 Nicolas Sucari: brought the conversions? Or

47 00:05:33.860 00:05:39.719 Nicolas Sucari: you just go with the conversion date and try to try to see, like what are all the conversions that we’re seeing.

48 00:05:40.110 00:05:45.831 kim todaro: Yeah, I’m just kind of used to like going back and looking at like the month it was sent just to judge how performance did.

49 00:05:47.900 00:05:48.340 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.

50 00:05:48.340 00:05:49.600 kim todaro: But yeah.

51 00:05:50.540 00:05:58.260 Nicolas Sucari: Okay? Because that was was I what I was trying to understand with post pilot trying to see what is difference in the reports. And I think.

52 00:05:58.668 00:06:16.840 Nicolas Sucari: that’s like the case one. We are looking at conversions. And the day that the conversion happened, and which campaign is from that conversion, and the other one is just like understanding to match the conversions to the postcards when it, when they were sent.

53 00:06:17.940 00:06:26.880 kim todaro: Yeah, it would be nice to like, see when they happen. But it’s not like the end of the world, like I I’m just kind of used to going into their dashboard and seeing.

54 00:06:27.240 00:06:28.250 kim todaro: Okay. Now.

55 00:06:30.210 00:06:40.880 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, okay, perfect. But yeah, we also added into one of the dashboards that’s shopify customers. The customer lifetime value, as you.

56 00:06:40.880 00:06:41.280 kim todaro: Nice.

57 00:06:41.280 00:06:44.029 Nicolas Sucari: Requested. So if you go here.

58 00:06:45.150 00:06:54.790 Nicolas Sucari: we have the customer lifetime value, and this is like we followed exactly the medium article that you sent.

59 00:06:55.020 00:06:55.930 kim todaro: Okay, I think.

60 00:06:56.599 00:07:05.879 Nicolas Sucari: And yeah, we have, like, we calculated the average customer lifespan and the average order value we had, we already had it. So yeah, that’s like what the measure is doing.

61 00:07:06.970 00:07:09.529 kim todaro: Okay, I’ll dig into that. Take a look.

62 00:07:10.050 00:07:17.379 Nicolas Sucari: Perfect. Yeah, and yeah, we will continue working on the revenue stuff. Try to identify

63 00:07:17.540 00:07:30.849 Nicolas Sucari: all of those that all of what what’s going on there on the different of the reports from direct mail Facebook and Google, and yeah, I don’t know if you were able to check any of the any other stuff in the dashboard trying to see

64 00:07:31.335 00:07:36.189 Nicolas Sucari: or you. Would you like to see anything else? There? Let me know, and we can work on that.

65 00:07:36.685 00:07:43.840 kim todaro: I’m just looking at the paid marketing performance. And the Cpa is looks really low. So I just wanna like, make sure I understand that correctly.

66 00:07:45.600 00:07:46.420 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.

67 00:07:46.750 00:07:48.490 kim todaro: A dollar 92.

68 00:07:50.760 00:07:59.639 Nicolas Sucari: This is making. Yeah, all of the cost per the conversions that we’re having. Probably the issue is, this is in the last 3 months. I mean, I can go all time.

69 00:08:00.010 00:08:06.280 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, it’s $2. Yeah, probably. What’s going on here is that as we are not getting all of the conversions.

70 00:08:06.775 00:08:11.520 Nicolas Sucari: Exactly. Probably that’s happening. But yeah, I can look into that one. Yeah.

71 00:08:11.810 00:08:17.120 kim todaro: Yeah, that looks really low. It should be like over probably 50.

72 00:08:17.270 00:08:22.910 kim todaro: but I think it also has to be done by channel like Google, Google.

73 00:08:24.380 00:08:28.780 kim todaro: cost, or Google conversions over Google cost. You know what I mean.

74 00:08:29.520 00:08:30.730 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, okay.

75 00:08:30.750 00:08:39.329 Nicolas Sucari: yeah. I mean, if we filter down by platform here, you will see like, exactly, this is almost all Google, like, yeah. And if I go to Facebook.

76 00:08:39.330 00:08:47.180 kim todaro: Yeah, it doesn’t really make sense. So I would just double check that. And if you need the formula, I can send it to you.

77 00:08:48.120 00:08:49.210 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, okay.

78 00:08:49.510 00:09:04.109 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, Nico, I think one thing that would be helpful is if we can create a notion for this dashboard, it’d be great also. And I think maybe, Suraj, you can also try to handle. This is like just the definitions for Cpa and the things that are a little bit more nuanced than just like revenue coming in.

79 00:09:04.170 00:09:09.999 Uttam Kumaran: Cause, I think we basically, we have the inputs nailed. I think it’s probably just a calculation. So let’s just do that.

80 00:09:11.540 00:09:12.679 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, perfect.

81 00:09:13.618 00:09:17.179 Nicolas Sucari: I mean for this one. It’s exactly.

82 00:09:17.590 00:09:21.750 Nicolas Sucari: I think it’s costs over the conversions that we are receiving. Yeah.

83 00:09:24.450 00:09:24.790 kim todaro: Okay.

84 00:09:24.790 00:09:32.759 Nicolas Sucari: We can check. Where are we getting all those costs and those conversions? And yeah, we can create an ocean page with all of the definitions for each metric and what we are doing in each of them.

85 00:09:33.140 00:09:33.820 Nicolas Sucari: Yep.

86 00:09:34.460 00:09:35.190 kim todaro: Okay.

87 00:09:37.770 00:09:43.889 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, as you see. Probably this is the issue, too. We don’t have. We are not receiving, like the revenue from Facebook and Amazon.

88 00:09:44.300 00:09:48.440 Nicolas Sucari: or any other one. So yeah, we are still checking these ones.

89 00:09:49.240 00:09:50.360 kim todaro: Okay, got it?

90 00:09:52.237 00:10:05.579 Nicolas Sucari: Great? And yeah, you can go here and do shopify customers, too, and check this customer lifetime value. And this is in years the customer lifespan. So yeah, just take a look, dig a little bit on it, and try to.

91 00:10:05.660 00:10:11.569 Nicolas Sucari: and let us know if this value makes sense. If not, we can also go there and check. Check it out.

92 00:10:12.480 00:10:16.015 kim todaro: Alright. Yeah, that sounds good. I’m I’ll dig into that this week.

93 00:10:19.000 00:10:20.789 kim todaro: so yeah, that sounds good.

94 00:10:22.130 00:10:22.865 Nicolas Sucari: Perfect

95 00:10:23.610 00:10:27.000 Nicolas Sucari: I don’t know if we have anything else for now.

96 00:10:27.380 00:10:28.673 Nicolas Sucari: I think.

97 00:10:29.700 00:10:41.049 Nicolas Sucari: I my only question is about the direct main campaign that we were talking about a couple of weeks ago. If we were going to do some marketing action, or how are you managing that with Ben? I think.

98 00:10:42.067 00:10:45.540 kim todaro: Ben told me, cause I had messaged him about it

99 00:10:45.760 00:10:48.400 kim todaro: to take a break from it.

100 00:10:49.160 00:10:53.960 kim todaro: I don’t know why I haven’t really talked to him much much since then.

101 00:10:55.400 00:11:05.169 kim todaro: because I, you know, told him. Even working on it. He’s like, Oh, just like, stop focusing so much on that right now. I can’t tell you why I can ask him next time I speak with him.

102 00:11:05.500 00:11:11.049 kim todaro: But I think they were like I think it was because Ben and Dan were so focused on this investor meeting. And they were like, Yeah.

103 00:11:12.530 00:11:20.180 kim todaro: yeah, that’s what I think. But we can definitely circle back up with him. And if you guys, I don’t know if you guys have a separate call with him. But

104 00:11:20.680 00:11:24.860 kim todaro: definitely, you know, if it gets brought up, let me know what he says.

105 00:11:25.350 00:11:26.030 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.

106 00:11:27.670 00:11:30.729 Uttam Kumaran: I asked them. I think it. I think it was basically the same thing. Yeah.

107 00:11:30.730 00:11:31.060 kim todaro: Yes.

108 00:11:31.060 00:11:34.510 Uttam Kumaran: Like focusing on them. And you know, we’re we’re still helping on

109 00:11:34.530 00:11:37.799 Uttam Kumaran: which are getting units activated and a couple of other things. So yeah.

110 00:11:37.800 00:11:39.200 kim todaro: Oh, wow. Yeah.

111 00:11:39.230 00:11:40.250 kim todaro: Okay.

112 00:11:41.660 00:11:43.026 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, perfect.

113 00:11:44.150 00:11:46.870 Nicolas Sucari: What time do you think we have anything else for now?

114 00:11:47.130 00:12:01.110 Uttam Kumaran: No, I think that’s it. I think. Yeah. Next week, I think. I think, Siraj, hopefully, you you’re able to kind of take a look and kind of get understanding and things. If you have any other questions, we’re also in slack. So I think, Nico, maybe you can slack. And then.

115 00:12:01.280 00:12:07.080 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, just any questions about like, Hey, does this number look right? Things like that? Like, let’s handle as much of that over slack as possible. And then.

116 00:12:08.005 00:12:08.810 Uttam Kumaran: yeah.

117 00:12:09.140 00:12:10.020 suraj: Yeah.

118 00:12:10.140 00:12:11.220 suraj: and it should.

119 00:12:12.610 00:12:14.040 Nicolas Sucari: Perfect. Okay.

120 00:12:14.310 00:12:15.750 Nicolas Sucari: thank you very much. Kim.

121 00:12:16.210 00:12:18.409 kim todaro: Thanks, guys. Siraj. It was nice meeting you.

122 00:12:18.410 00:12:20.549 suraj: Thank you again. It was nice meeting you, too.

123 00:12:20.780 00:12:21.370 kim todaro: Thank you.

124 00:12:21.370 00:12:22.330 Uttam Kumaran: Thank you.

125 00:12:22.810 00:12:23.440 Nicolas Sucari: Bye, bye.

126 00:12:23.670 00:12:24.400 kim todaro: Bye.

127 00:12:24.400 00:12:25.400 suraj: Bye, guys.