Leadspace

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

But the changing demographics of B2B customers, as well as the increasingly digital landscape, have affected how customers buy, where they go to buy, and how brands interact with them when selling. Here are ten of the best strategies for B2B marketing in 2018. This creates a number of unique challenges for brands.

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Martech

APRIL 20, 2023

If a branded ad interrupts the customer’s journey, it doesn’t help the brand, the retailer or, most importantly, the customer. Helping when customers research products Where can brands get involved in the customer journey? At The Home Depot, a supplier approached the retailer about retargeting customers on social media.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

APRIL 21, 2022

Taken together, these updates signal a new era in marketing data analytics that reflects a shift in the way companies can use data to understand and create customer experiences. On the surface, marketing teams still build the various engagements, campaigns, and activations that are part of meaningful customer journeys.

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Televerde

JANUARY 18, 2021

Two things are all but mandatory moving into 2021: artificial intelligence and customer experience initiatives. 84% of customers say that the experience a brand provides is just as important as the product or service itself. Not surprising, 88% of high-performing B2B marketing teams have dedicated customer experience initiatives.

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PureB2B

JUNE 24, 2018

In this post, we’ll briefly cover how big data got to where it is today and analyze the big data trends you should know about in 2018. Conversational AI (chatbots) took off as organizations adapted it to improve customer service. For 2018 and beyond, responsive devices and smarter networks are what the market will be focusing on.

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Martech

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Customer data platform Lytics announced today that it’s offering a new tool that allows users to enhance their advertising campaigns via cloud data warehouses. The tool will let marketers generate customer audiences using a SQL query editor to better connect their campaigns. Snapshot: Customer Data Platforms. Why we care.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Neglecting customer retention to focus on lead generation. Executives and higher-ups finally understand the value of a comprehensive, multi-touchpoint digital marketing strategy. Actually acknowledging dynamic customer/buyer needs. Focus on Dynamic Customer Needs. Shift from lead gen to customer retention.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

During 2018, authors and publishers created some of the most helpful and sophisticated content marketing books. Books published in 2018 tended to have better designed covers and short, punchy titles coupled with longer subtitles that described the benefits to readers. Never Lose a Customer Again. Jay Baer and Daniel Lemin.

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chiefmartech

DECEMBER 14, 2017

This is part 2 of a five-part series, providing an update on the 5 Disruptions to Marketing as we head into 2018. If you haven’t read Part 1: Digital Transformation (2018 Update) yet, you might want to start there. MICROSERVICES & APIS (2018 Update). touchpoints in the API economy). Stay tuned.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Sales Reps. ? Qualified leads. ? Content consumed. ? SQLs by sales touchpoint type (eg., email, call, chat). ? Touchpoints by content (gated and ungated). Registration is free—reserve your seat: Montreal: October 11, 2018 | Toronto : October 18, 2018 | Vancouver: October 23, 2018 | Calgary: October 24, 2018.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 18, 2018

Adestra recently teamed up with Ascend2 to conduct the “2018 Data-Driven Marketing Benchmarks for Success” report to determine how marketers are integrating data-driven solutions into their overall strategies. In addition, marketers now have more tools available to take advantage of data, and newer databases are faster at data retrieval.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 22, 2018

Customer service isn’t what it used to be thanks to social media. According to Sprout’s 2018 Social Index , nearly half of all consumers have taken to social media to raise questions and concerns to brands. Why Twitter Customer Service Matters. — Hot Topic (@HotTopic) August 20, 2018. Think about it.

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LiveRamp

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This year, I saw a group of people from all corners of our industry who were all articulating the same problems and coalescing around the same topics: . Customer-centricity is essential in the age of the hyperconnected customer. If you missed us at Advertising Week 2018, we are continuing the conversation.

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illumin

JANUARY 26, 2024

Privacy is top of mind for advertisers (and AdTech companies) because it is a central concern for their customers – both existing and potential. To meet clients’ needs, marketers must achieve consistency with their core guiding principles and strategy, seeking customer consent for advertising across all touchpoints and media.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

“The consumer doesn’t care that marketing can have separate teams responsible for paid media or email marketing or CRM or stores,” said Tamara Gruzbarg, Head of Customer Insights at ActionIQ. To adjust to this channel-agnostic experience, brands have to double down on their first-party customer data in order to cover all the bases.

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ClickZ

DECEMBER 24, 2020

The vast majority of companies want the contact details of their customers, which – even though intended to personalize offerings – is typically found invasive. Most blockchain solutions can help to level the playing field by eliminating intermediaries and storing customer data safely, returning a degree of power to the user.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 10, 2019

However, the Annual Digital Trends report by Econsultancy and Adobe revealed a surprising truth — marketers actually identified "optimizing the customer experience" as the most exciting business opportunity. Clearly, marketing plays a critical role in defining, communicating, and managing the customer experience. Customer service?

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Televerde

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The buyer’s journey hasn’t changed much, but buyer and customer expectations certainly have. If you want to win leads and build loyalty, you must figure out what buyers and customers want from your experience. 5 Things Customers Want That You May Have Overlooked. The journey is confusing, convoluted, and not linear.

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SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. . The Top 10 B2B Marketing Metrics to Measure in 2018. . It will tell you how many leads were actually closed into paying customers.

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Martech Advisor

JANUARY 29, 2020

As the world of aviation is witnesses an unprecedented digital transformation, managing expectation of digital-savvy customers have never been trickier before. In 2018, the airline industry managed some 4.4 However, most passengers are increasingly facing poor customer service both on the ground and in flight.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Identity resolution platforms enable marketers to “close the loop” of customer marketing, analytics and compliance with a comprehensive holistic view of activity across all of an organization’s customer touchpoints and channels. networked devices per capita, according to the Cisco Annual Internet Report, 2018-2023.

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Martech Advisor

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Tips to support digital wellbeing for customers. From customer emails and social media to website content and chat-based support, a significant portion of marketing communications now happens online. In 2018, Google launched several updates on its Android OS to help users stay aware of their digital consumption habits.

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Content Standard

MAY 10, 2019

With the drive toward omnichannel marketing picking up speed, brands run the risk of adopting a one-size-fits-all mentality to customer journey mapping. The problem here is that even the best brand can’t meet one customer’s every need. Additionally, no two customers will have the same start and end goal.

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

In an ideal world, marketing automation can help you engage with your prospects and customers efficiently and effectively. Poor customer acquisition: Marketers can find themselves sending email after email, with very few responses in return. How Does Marketing Automation Work? Tips for Marketing Automation Implementation.

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chiefmartech

MAY 6, 2020

A digital business will create a ton of custom-built, customer-facing apps — on the web, mobile devices, voice assistants, IoT, etc. — as touchpoints for doing business with customers digitally. And it will surely build orders of magnitude more internal-only custom apps to run their operations and processes backstage.

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Vision Edge Marketing

APRIL 19, 2018

Investment in Marketing Technology (Martech) remains strong based on the Gartner CMO 2017-2018 spend survey which found that Marketing leaders are allocating 22% of their expense budget to martech. Focus on the Customer Before the Technology. The more you know about your customers, the better you can help the organization compete.

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Martech

OCTOBER 18, 2021

He was responding to my growing sense that how vendors or customers refer to solutions is getting more and more blurred. Raab says, reasonably enough, that the job of a CDP is to “combine all customer data into sharable profiles.” Its purpose is to serve as a platform for all voice, chat and digital customer service systems.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 15, 2020

” Chances are you’ve heard of GDPR or perhaps recall EU companies scrambling to become compliant with data and privacy regulations in May 2018. The GDPR (General Data Production Regulation) represents a data protection law implemented by the EU (European Union) in May 2018. The short answer is a resounding “yes.”

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ClickZ

JULY 22, 2020

In this post, we review five tools, each of which help mitigate the data paralysis connected to a specific area of data usage including CRM, lead management, business insights, customer experience, and website traffic/campaign analysis. The tools listed here are examples of the technology that exists to help manage and leverage data.

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ClickZ

MAY 15, 2020

30-second summary: Cheetah Digital, a cross-channel customer engagement solution, was hired by Donatos Pizza to create a loyalty program leveraging their technology, Cheetah Digital. He went on to launch the Stellar Loyalty platform which was acquired by Cheetah Digital in 2018. They began working with Cheetah Digital in 2018. “We

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MAY 9, 2018

Better automation goes hand-in-hand with real-time access to customer data and behaviors, including both digital and nondigital touchpoints. In addition, automation allows marketers to leverage customer engagement opportunities with fast, personalized responses at scale. Identify All Consumer Touchpoints.

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Conversica

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

New AI Assistant Automates Customer Conversations and Account Management, Enabling Customer Success Teams to Focus on Higher-Priority, Higher-Dollar Accounts. FOSTER CITY, Calif - (28 November 2018) FOSTER CITY, Calif. November 27, 2018 — Conversica , Inc., November 27, 2018 — Conversica , Inc.,

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Ledger Bennett

APRIL 1, 2020

This is a breakdown of where the current digital touchpoints lie in the traditional buyer journey vs. the human touchpoints. At a basic level, it’s obvious that where a human touch can be replaced by a digital touchpoint, the process becomes more efficient, less prone to error, and ultimately far more cost effective.

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Ledger Bennett

MARCH 25, 2020

This is a breakdown of where the current digital touchpoints lie in the traditional buyer journey vs. the human touchpoints. At a basic level, it’s obvious that where a human touch can be replaced by a digital touchpoint, the process becomes more efficient, less prone to error, and ultimately far more cost effective.

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Biznology

JANUARY 22, 2019

Perfect for B2B, chatbots serve global customers, around the clock, with fast, accurate and cheap service. Like ABM in 2017, and intent data in 2018. I’m predicting a surge of interest in the power of providing superior customer experiences—not limited to digital, but across all customer touchpoints in B2B.

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SnapApp

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The more effective a brand’s lead gen efforts, the more prospects get converted into paying customers. According to HubSpot, 61 percent of B2B marketers in 2018 list “generating traffic and leads” as their top challenge. With this in mind, we’ll explain how understanding customer questions can help marketers meet this demand.

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Martech Advisor

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The busy holiday shopping season can overwhelm customer service teams, but chatbots and messaging-based customer support provide the antidote, allowing human agents to focus on complex cases while technology handles the simple ones, shares, Linda Crawford is the CEO of Helpshit.

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