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Inaccurate Business Information Across Google Sites Means Missed Revenue, Study Finds

Inaccurate Business Information Across Google Sites Means Missed Revenue, Study Finds by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, October 4, 2019 Basic digital business information should be easy to manage, but 71% of survey respondents report seeing inaccurate business information when searching for details about a retail store. But retailers are not the only businesses facing … Continue reading Inaccurate Business Information Across Google Sites Means Missed Revenue, Study Finds →

Study Finds CMOs Overlook Search Opportunities To Drive Growth

Content Strategy

Study Finds CMOs Overlook Search Opportunities To Drive Growth by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, Yesterday CMOs spend millions of dollars annually on search marketing and advertising, but some have conflicting views on the perceived value of the media and how it drives the return on investment and growth for their respective companies. eMarketer … Continue reading Study Finds CMOs Overlook Search Opportunities To Drive Growth →

Study indicates drastic improvements to managed inbox optimization

Email Strategy

Return Path’s 2019 Sender Score Benchmark report shows overall improvements in email marketing, despite difficult relationships with ISPs. Jennifer Cannon on August 27, 2019 Email optimization and deliverability are critical to our marketing programs, and a new report [registration required] from Return Path indicates that marketers are starting to pay closer to attention to the … Continue reading Study indicates drastic improvements to managed inbox optimization →

Marketers want more data, analytics, tech for improved personalization [Study]

Marketing and Sales Relationship

According to a report from Merkle, marketers want to invest more in data, analytics and tech to improve customer engagement, and an email address is still the highest priority data to acquire. Jennifer Cannon on August 23, 2019 Delivering personalized communications that drive customer engagement at every touchpoint continues to be a challenge for most … Continue reading Marketers want more data, analytics, tech for improved personalization [Study] →

Don’t call me: Nearly 90% of customers won’t answer the phone anymore [Study]

Marketing Trends

The call isn’t dead, just unsolicited calling. Greg Sterling on August 20, 2019 There’s an ongoing debate about the role of telephone sales and whether they’re effective anymore. Many pundits have long asserted that “cold calling is dead,” but is any form of outcalling or inside sales effective now? Declining success rates. A new survey … Continue reading Don’t call me: Nearly 90% of customers won’t answer the phone anymore [Study] →

Case Study: Launching a Tool on Product Hunt is a Strategy for Success

Case Studies

Barbora Boskova — July 4, 2019 — July 4, 2019 This is such a true statement. If you successfully launch your tool, you can get a high number of visitors to your site. These visitors can become daily users and accelerate your revenue goal. Even in our own team, we didn’t know this at first. … Continue reading Case Study: Launching a Tool on Product Hunt is a Strategy for Success →

Voice Search Study Ties Answers To Top Three Organic Results

Voice Search

Voice Search Study Ties Answers To Top Three Organic Results by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, June 7, 2019 There are several main factors that influence the answers Google Assistant returns from voice search queries. Performance factors range from speed, device, and ranking in search engine queries to page score, trust score, high-quality backlinks, keywords … Continue reading Voice Search Study Ties Answers To Top Three Organic Results →

What Newbies Want: First-Time Buyers Are Swayed By Price, Study Shows

Customer Acquisition

What Newbies Want: First-Time Buyers Are Swayed By Price, Study Shows by Ray Schultz , Columnist, June 5, 2019 The talk about serving people at all touchpoints may be overstated — at least when it comes to first-time customers. The main marketing factor that prompts shoppers to buy from a retailer they have never purchased from before … Continue reading What Newbies Want: First-Time Buyers Are Swayed By Price, Study Shows →

Consumer study finds ‘personalization’ lowest on long list of retailer considerations

Consumer-Centric Marketing

Consumer behavior may not be what you think it is. Greg Sterling on May 31, 2019 A widely accepted idea among retail technology providers is: consumers crave personalization. However, in a new study, Deloitte finds that personalization is last on a relatively long list of factors that consumers consider when choosing a retailer. The … Continue reading Consumer study finds ‘personalization’ lowest on long list of retailer considerations →

Privacy And Security Still Concerns For Virtual Assistant Users, Bing Ads Study Says

Virtual Assistants

Privacy And Security Still Concerns For Virtual Assistant Users, Bing Ads Study Says by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, April 22, 2019 Some 41% of users of virtual assistants still admit to having concerns around trust, privacy and passive listening. Consumers say they will not give up personally identifiable information without a substantial reward, although more than half believe digital … Continue reading Privacy And Security Still Concerns For Virtual Assistant Users, Bing Ads Study Says →