Marketing automation is the future for digital marketers. But Mary Wallace, a columnist and marketing automation junkie, explains why in-person events and direct mail still have their place in the marketing mix. Mary Wallace on June 22, 2017 Let me get this out of the way: I’m a technology geek and a marketing aficionado. … Continue reading Confessions of a marketing automation addict
Joseph Riddle — May 28, 2017 Follow @josephriddle13— May 28, 2017 Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a digital analyst, with a background in web development and marketing, takes a role heading up web analytics for a Fortune 500 company…and finds himself in the midst of chaos. The business wants to know how their … Continue reading Changing the Business of Relying on Marketing Analytics
B2B marketing automation specialists have become skilled at generating qualified leads from inquiries, but columnist Scott Vaughn believes that to be most effective, they need to expand their view and consider the entire customer life cycle. Scott Vaughan on April 3, 2017 Nearly a decade into the marketing automation (MA) revolution, we’ve developed a … Continue reading The marketing automation generation: Fulfilling the mandate for customer life cycle marketing
Contributor Josh Aberant shares the good, the bad and the ugly of developers’ marketing experiences. Josh Aberant on March 15, 2017 The challenges (and myths) of marketing to developers can feel boundless at times. Indeed, the apparent chasm between marketers and our technical customers can be daunting — and the stereotypes sometimes run both … Continue reading 4 things developers really wish every marketer understood
Jonathan Bright — February 8, 2017 Follow @SoutherlyComms— February 8, 2017 The adoption of marketing automation technology has been rapidly on the rise. MarketsandMarkets forecasts the Global Marketing Automation Software market to grow to $ 5.5 billion in 2019, from $ 3.65 billion in 2014. While automation can help with scalability of many marketing operations, … Continue reading Crushing the Creative, by MS Word and Other Robots
Is marketing automation part of your email strategy? Columnist Scott Heimes explains how to choose the marketing automation tool that’s right for your email program and how to maximize the data it produces. Scott Heimes on January 27, 2017 Marketing automation technology is designed to automate portions of the marketing process and provide data … Continue reading Using marketing automation to create successful email programs in 2017
If consumers are surrounded by smart go-betweens, it’s not yet clear how marketing and advertising will get through. Barry Levine on January 12, 2017 Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, Microsoft’s Cortana. These intelligent agents, and their more limited bot cousins, have taken up positions as new interfaces between customers and marketers. For decades … Continue reading In the age of intelligent agents, how does marketing work?
by Laurie Sullivan, Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, December 23, 2016 Advertisers need to start understanding search and dynamic ad targeting better, especially when it comes to holiday purchases. Cross-device targeting and cross-platform targeting seems like a great idea, but ensure dynamic ads don’t get served to people, or within their network, who bought the products. … Continue reading Dynamic Ad Targeting Becomes Grinch That Stole Christmas
Does your marketing program have all the right ingredients? Columnist Mary Wallace explains why marketing automation is key to sweetening your efforts and engaging leads. Mary Wallace on December 7, 2016 Most of us have baked a cake at one time or another. We’ve put all the ingredients in a large bowl, mixed it … Continue reading Marketing automation is like icing on the cake
Mathilde Augustin — October 28, 2016 — October 28, 2016 What’s the point of automation? Customer Success Managers are people and because of that, they are very good at doing people things. For instance, Customer Success Managers have the opportunity to bring value to their customers thanks to their domain expertise. By being experts in … Continue reading How To Leverage Automation For Customer Success
