Category Archives: Customer Engagement

How To Reach New Customers and Generate Profits Using Po.St

by Nashaat QuadriSeptember 27, 2016 As a digital marketing professional, your biggest challenge can be getting the desired results in terms of ROI and conversion. Sometimes, your returns can be completely disproportionate to your ad spend. So, what would you do in such a situation? Let’s consider all the factors that make a marketing campaign … Continue reading How To Reach New Customers and Generate Profits Using Po.St →

Connecting the dots: How the customer data platform solves what ails marketers

How does a customer data platform fit into your marketing technology stack? Columnist Josh Manion discusses the role of the CDP and how it differs from other data platforms. Josh Manion on September 14, 2016  Just when marketing thought it had sorted out the latest in data management tools, a high-profile industry analyst firm officially … Continue reading Connecting the dots: How the customer data platform solves what ails marketers →

Study Finds Consumers Increasingly Search Across Multiple Retail Sites Per Session

by Laurie Sullivan, Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, September 9, 2016 Why do consumers browse on multiple retail sites when shopping for a specific item? Excluding the fact that they look for a better price, 34% browse multiple sites looking for a better selection, 23% say the product is unavailable, 20% want to compare shipping options, and … Continue reading Study Finds Consumers Increasingly Search Across Multiple Retail Sites Per Session →

4 Cool Ways CPG Companies Are Innovating With Direct-To-Consumer

by Denise Chan Follow @denisechan26August 20, 2016 Remember a simpler time when supermarket aisles were lined with coupon “blinkie machines”? When 30-second commercials with catchy slogans like “Frosted Flakes. They’re grrreat!”, or “Mentos, fresh and full of life”, had a magical pull that made us add a box or an extra roll to our purchase … Continue reading 4 Cool Ways CPG Companies Are Innovating With Direct-To-Consumer →

Great Expectations: Are Your Technology Investments Helping or Hindering Client Engagements? [Infographic]

by Alastair MitchellAugust 12, 2016 With all the technology available at our fingertips, we should be more efficient than ever. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Our 2016 survey of 200 U.S. and UK accounting, advisory and management consulting firms found that whether managing tasks across dispersed teams or waiting on approvals, poor collaboration … Continue reading Great Expectations: Are Your Technology Investments Helping or Hindering Client Engagements? [Infographic] →

Big Ask, Little Ask

by Matthew MacQuarrie Follow @MattMacQuarrieAugust 13, 2016 Here’s a simple, foundational principle of business that every entrepreneur should know: When you approach a potential customer, you should always have a Plan A and a Plan B in mind; a big ask and then a little ask. If you ask the customer for something big, and … Continue reading Big Ask, Little Ask →

4 Strategies Sales Development Reps Can Use To Re-engage Prospects That Have Gone Dark

by Gillian SontzAugust 7, 2016 One of the most frustrating situations SDRs encounter when prospecting, is when a prospect agrees to a next step, and then “goes dark.” Despite numerous phone calls and email attempts by the SDR, the prospect remains unresponsive, leaving the opportunity “stuck” in the sales pipeline. Do not let unresponsive prospects … Continue reading 4 Strategies Sales Development Reps Can Use To Re-engage Prospects That Have Gone Dark →