The growth of the World Wide Web has fundamentally changed marketing. The discipline is now far more complex and the choice in tools, channels and techniques seems to be increasing every day. According to chiefmartec.com (Scott Brinker) the marketing technology landscape went from around a 100 companies in 2011 to 950 companies in January 2014… … Continue reading Data, Design and Analytics: Is This The Future Of Marketing?
Adotas, Wednesday, October 1, 2014 Email delivery services firm Return Path has been awarded a new patent to measure inbox placement and determine whether email marketing messages have landed in an inbox or spam trap. The U.S. Patent #8,719,356 B2 patent allows the company to use multiple data sources to monitor email delivery rates in order to determine … Continue reading Return Path Awarded New Patent to Use Data to Measure Inbox Placement
An enormous shift is occurring in how B2B customers think about engagement and relationships. Customers expect marketers to achieve relevance by providing personalized communications based on their individual preferences, rather than continuing with irrelevant “spray and pray” marketing blasts. It’s this new way of thinking that’s unlocking the true potential of human data. A SHIFT … Continue reading Use Human Data to Provide True B2B Personalization
by Laurie Sullivan, September 30, 2014 Search marketers are shifting from the mindset of asking why they need a content marketing strategy to asking how to implement one — and how to attribute the content to sales of products and services. Here are a few tips to get on track. Insight No. 1: For brands, … Continue reading For Content Marketing, Attribution Means Converting Data Into Actions
When assessing the ROI of a publicity campaign, it’s standard practice to asses about high-level results, such as the number of reads a message has received and the number of times a message social networks: these metrics are good measures of how well a message resonated with the audience. But PR measurement shouldn’t stop there. … Continue reading Measuring the Business Impact of PR: Getting a Handle on Data
Ask anyone in sales operations and they’ll nod in agreement that a high performance revenue machine requires a perfect process. Order of operations matters immensely, and those processes require the highest quality data possible to function at peak performance. Salesforce is a vessel, and a mighty useful one. The purpose of Salesforce is to contain … Continue reading 5 Data Quality Tips for Sales Excellence
Marketers need to begin looking at data differently. I can’t say it loud enough. For many retailers, marketers, and buyers, there is a huge missed opportunity in mobile apps — not with cross-device attribution or location-based tracking and targeting with beacons, but in terms of search data in the app showing unmet demand. This was … Continue reading Search Data In Mobile Apps Shows Unmet Demand
Investments in multiscreen advertising continue to rise, but a study from Jivox suggests that marketers still don’t know how to dig out the deep data required for successful campaigns. Lack of technology and skill as well as high costs contribute to the slowdown. The survey found that investments in multiscreen ads continues to rise. In … Continue reading Jivox Study Identifies Data Challenges For Multiscreen Campaign Investments
Programmatic ad buying began with search engine marketing. Data introduced programmatic audience buying for display, video, television and other media buys. Unlike audience buying, Google AdWords and Bing Ads, described as auction-based systems, allow marketers to bid on keywords, rather than lumping personas into audiences. The campaigns would rise to the top above the fold, … Continue reading Search Marketing Demonstrates How Data Supports Programmatic Premium Branding Campaigns In-House
Customer data forms the beating heart of your database – it’s the lifeblood that keeps your company’s cash flow, well, flowing. As a marketing director, you want that database to grow over time – not only by calling on data providers to expand it, but by growing it organically too. The question is – what are … Continue reading 5 Clever Ways of Capturing Customer Data
