Consulting Solutions
Your data. Your challenges. Our expertise.
Sometimes your trapped value can only be set free with a custom solution. We’ve done that for others, we can do if for you. Our proven process of auditing, diagnosing, and correcting problems will make your business work for you.
Isn’t it time your professional life got just a bit easier?
Why Partner with SoloSegment?
Market tested experience
We’ve successfully built and launched our own businesses and products. We know that it’s not the technology but results that matter. Our process focuses on value creation for you and your customers.
A need for speed
It’s easy to get wrapped up in the complexity of problems. We’ve seen projects get stalled by the quest for perfection. We’d rather get in the market quickly and let it be our guide. We bet that’s what you want too.
We bridge academia and business
We combine our market tested expertise with the latest thinking coming out of universities. That gives you not only the best of the tried and true technologies but also emerging solutions fresh from the leading minds.
Our Consulting Services
Machine Learning
You have unstructured data and unstructured problems. We have the data science expertise to help you find the intersection of insight and action. Let's get to work on the stuff that keeps you up at night.
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Search
Your site search is failing your customers and it's failing your bottom line. We've been down in that hole. Let us help you get out. Measurements. Technology. Know how. No worries. We've got your back.
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Taxonomy
Figuring out what your content is about is one of the most confounding problems in content management. First, there's the hard work of identifying meaningful topic categories. Then you have to label that content. And then maintain it! Wow, that's a hard problem. Unless you have the right tools. We've got them.
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Content
Your B2B marketing relies on your content marketing, but are you reaching the right prospects with the right message? You can. SoloSegment consultants provide you a working content marketing plan designed to increase traffic and revenues in just six weeks.
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Machine Learning
Traditionally, machine learning projects are difficult to implement. One would never use the words “speed” or “cost effective” to describe them. We turn those expectations on their heads. Our goal is to apply a standard set of techniques and tools to get a fast start. Of course, that assumes you’ve got good data, a committed & engaged business team, and the willingness to work fast. If this sounds like you, then we can work together.
Our Expertise
There are many types of problems to which machine learning can be applied. We focus on those associated with text analytics and natural language processing. While that may sound like a fairly narrow set of problems, it covers a lot of landscape. Instead of telling you about the skills and techniques we possess, it’s far easier to give some examples of client challenges.
- Predict the bounce rate of marketing landing pages by assessing the features in the content that are most likely to lead to bounce.
- Correctly label tens of thousands of documents with the right industry taxonomy based upon the content of the documents.
- Lattes are hard to make. We make it easier to caffeinate.
- Predict conversion with machine learning.
Our Platform
The availability of “commodity” machine learning components on all the major cloud platforms has made the price of entry low. Of course the availability of the tools in only the start. Our SoloCore platform combines cloud capabilities with some special sauce. We’re using SoloCore in our upcoming product and we can use it accelerate your project.
How we work
Assessment
Uncertainty. It’s everywhere.
Is your data good enough? Is your architecture scalable? Are you applying the right methods? How’s your code?
Whatever your concerns are we can rapidly assess your state and provide a readiness report that includes recommendations on how to proceed.
Mentoring
You have a machine learning project that’s heavy in text analytics and natural language processing and you need some help. Or you’re just getting started and want to make a good start.
Whether you’re struggling with a specific problem or you need to build general expertise, our consultants have experience building successful teams.
Custom Solutions
Your problem. Your data. Our expertise.
Yes data and techniques are important but the most important element is the business problem. What value are we trying to create?
Once we have a handle on that, we can circle back to the data, techniques and expertise that we have to bring to the table to get you that value, fast.
Search Consulting
Most B2B websites have that inviting little box in the upper right corner of the screen, offering potential customers the ability to search for the information they need to make a purchase decision. That box makes a promise. It says, “Ask me anything and I will answer.” It’s a promise many sites can’t keep.
If, instead of helpful answers, your website search engine look like a random web page generator, let us help to turn it around.
Our Approach
Measure
Iterate
Action is everything. The biggest challenge for most teams is figuring out where to start. This is where our experience is invaluable.
There’s always low hanging fruit. We go after this first. Then begins the hard work of tuning, indexing and improving content. We operate using the principles of agile development. Short cycles. Actions. Assess results. Rinse. Repeat.
When are we done? When you’re happy with the experience. The data will help guide you.
How we work
In order to ensure you’re making the best use of our analyst’s expertise, we have a structured methodology for working with your business and technical teams that aligns the search improvement efforts across your organization.
Weekly Reporting
The weekly report, distributed via email, summarizes the most critical information for your team:
- Performance trends over the past four weeks
- Commentary and recommendations for improvement efforts.
- Action Item Tracking to ensure nothing is lost and attention is focused.
Weekly Work Sessions
The reason we have the weekly reports is so that we don’t spend valuable work session time covering the basics. When our search experts meet with you, we want the time to be action oriented.
These are working meetings between our search analyst and the client search team to review actions, advise the team on opportunities, and problem solve search success challenges.
Executive Updates
- Review high level performance
- Review high level actions and outcomes
- Get Critical Issues on the table for resolution
Don’t settle for losing your hard-won website visitors when your search engine misfires. Remember, if your customers can’t find it, they can’t buy it.
Talk to an Expert and learn more about how we can transform your website search into a marketing machine.
Taxonomy
- First, you have to have a taxonomy that actually captures what your content is about. Getting that right involves taking a deep look at your content, and that's incredibly labor intensive.
- Next, you have to evaluate ALL your content against the taxonomy and apply the taxonomic category labels to that content.
- Finally, you have to maintain those labels. You thought it was tough getting budget for the initial project. Try getting funding for the maintenance of something that no one but experts really understands. Expect executive eye rolling.
- None of this scales. It requires too many fingers on keyboards. And it's outdated as soon as you're done. Sometimes before then.
Let’s talk about how to do this without the headaches. To avoid large quantities of aspirin, you basically need two things. First, you need the ability to evaluate a large volume of content, with automation in the workflow, to build meaningful taxonomic categories efficiently. Second, you need the ability to take those categories and apply them at scale to all your content. Both have to be repeatable processes that don’t require a huge maintenance investment.
We have two technologies that help you find your taxonomy value quickly and economically.
Topic Discovery
We’ve partnered with an emerging technology company, founded by leading researchers, to offer a groundbreaking topic discovery technology. This technology can evaluate content at scale, provides a workflow tool to help visualize topical categories driven by your content, and lets you provide feedback to the machine learning model so that it gets better at identifying the right topics across the content sample.
Content Labeler
Once you’ve got a taxonomy that is meaningful for your needs, our Content Labeler uses text analytics to evaluate and label existing content at scale and new content as it is added. Content Labeler solves the economics of taxonomy labeling at both the initial stages and when you have to maintain previously labeled content.
Talk to an Expert and learn more about how we can transform your taxonomy efforts.
Content
Content marketing is all the rage, but most B2B marketers say they would like to improve their content marketing program. Why? You might as well ask why you want to make more money. For B2B marketers, there’s no more important program than content marketing. B2B marketers have been doing content marketing since before the term was invented. The question is how effective your content marketing efforts are.
Have you been doing case studies? That’s content marketing. White papers? Content marketing. Webinars? Content marketing. In fact, most of the marketing activities that B2B companies do are content marketing. And why? Because clients respond. But are yours responding enough?
You can’t take a scattershot approach, throwing content against the wall to see what sticks. And you can’t win on volume—even if you keep creating more and more content, your client can’t create any more time to read it.
There has to be a better way. And there is. In most cases, our process can turn around your content marketing plan in just six weeks.
If you’re skeptical, that’s OK. Most consultants try to make content marketing look complicated, adding layers of needless complexity designed to keep you in the dark—and increase their billings. We simplify your content marketing program down to essential marketing practices designed to attract, retain, and persuade the clients most likely to buy from you.
During your engagement with SoloSegment, our consultants:
- Audit your search and social presence
- Focus on the content you need to reach your audience
- Identify any gaps in the content your prospects need
- Formulate your strategy for turbocharging your content marketing—and develop the measures that prove your content marketing works
Want to learn more? Talk to an Expert.
