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Unica and Alterian Lead Database Marketers to the Digital Promised Land

Customer Experience Matrix

Here are some quick thoughts on two items: Unica ’s acquisition of paid search bid management system MakeMeTop (now mercifully renamed Unica Search) and Alterian ’s recently-released and excellent annual marketing survey. 35% of marketers expect to move more than 20% of their direct marketing budget into digital channels next year.

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B2B Marketers Are Buying Customer Data Platforms. Here's Why.

Customer Experience Matrix

And, while I don’t have firm data, my impression is that online-only retailers have been slower to buy CDPs than their multi-channel cousins. Marketers are taking more responsibility for the entire customer life cycle and work more closely with sales, account management, and customer success teams.

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Conversen Simplifies Complex Messages Through Multi-Channel Dynamic Content

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Conversen makes it easy to generate dynamic messages across multiple channels. It's more a supplement than a replacement for conventional campaign management but should save a lot of work for marketers and their agencies. This is both labor-intensive and error-prone. So where’s the catch?

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Expert Interview Series: Mike Moran of Biznology on How to Excel at Digital Marketing for B2B Businesses

Leadspace

Mike Moran is the co-author of the book on Content Marketing and Big Data, Outside-In Marketing. One of the initial reasons you started Bizology is that, traditionally, B2B companies tend to have little marketing experience of any kind. You can see more from Mike Moran at Biznology.com.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. However, for marketers, a social media address is insufficient to manage that channel. Foremost, we need a way to convert with whom we interact in social media into real prospects.

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The Founder Interview Series #32: Mike Lewis and Michael Weber, Click360

Webbiquity

That means both B2B and B2C marketers are challenged to answer the same question: how can I know which marketing tactics are actually driving sales, so I can allocate my marketing budget more effectively? And by extension, which marketing channels make that happen and which don’t. Some B2B clients have that.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

Online Marketing Institute

Curalate allows us to see how the content we pin to our boards is performing, as well as the content people are organically pinning from our sites, and more importantly how viral those actions are, since it’s reported that 80 percent of Pinterest activity comes from repins.” Content recommedations from Evri. Digital Editions.