The Effective Marketer

article thumbnail

Measuring Marketing Effectiveness

The Effective Marketer

Email marketing, marketing automation, web analytics, CRM, and the myriad of software now permeating marketing organizations gives us more data than we can process in a timely fashion. Understanding Marketing Analytics. ” – CMO.com. .” ” – CMO.com. And it is spot on.

article thumbnail

Choosing an Email Marketing Software « The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer

Titled “Managing the Vendor Selection Process”, it talked about my experience in selecting a new email marketing software for my company. The process we went through is not necessarily the best or the only way to do it, but it certainly helped put some metrics in place that we could use to evaluate each vendor.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Content Marketing Starts With Your Brand

The Effective Marketer

Branding used to be a high-level exercise bigger companies went through as part of their strategic marketing processes. Analytical vs. Impulsive. You get an agency, brainstorm cute pictures, logos, and tag lines, come up with the visual guidelines, and move on. Funny vs. Taciturn. Outspoken vs. Introverted. Wordy vs. Concise.

article thumbnail

When Inbound Marketing Goes Wrong

The Effective Marketer

That’s where lead nurturing comes in — you need to invest in the process of building relationships with qualified prospects, with the goal of earning their business when they are ready to buy. Delivers sophisticated reporting and analytics. Creates new landing pages easily. Shorten sales cycle. Automates repetitive tasks.

article thumbnail

The Challenges in Adoption of Marketing Technology « The Effective.

The Effective Marketer

53% of Customer Intelligence professionals (those who own the customer data and are responsible for customer analytics) consider themselves as technology leaders while 47% said they were technology followers. Marketers as Technologists According to Forrester’s research, data driven marketers are divided about technology investments.

article thumbnail

Marketing Content That Sells

The Effective Marketer

Time the content for the right stage in the buying cycle / lead nurturing process – this is the most difficult, because it requires you to really know your customers and prospects What has been your main challenge with content marketing?

article thumbnail

Deconstructing an Email Marketing Campaign

The Effective Marketer

So in order to help those thinking about how to start their own email marketing programs, and also for those interested in looking at the whole process in more detail to see what else can be done to improve results, let’s take a moment to deconstruct a typical email marketing campaign. Leveraging Email Analytics. HTML vs. Text.