Martech

JANUARY 12, 2024

The market is changing so fast that we can’t assume that what worked in the past years or months will work again this year or this quarter. This mindset requires a deeper analysis of how marketing initiatives contribute to broader goals such as revenue growth, customer lifetime value and engagement and market penetration.

Efficiency 125

Efficiency Ideal Customer Profiles B2B Marketing Planning 125

Martech

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A June analysis of the first 600 MarTechBot prompts revealed users chiefly derived value from generative/creative tasks, while also using MarTechBot to help them unravel a variety of marketing dilemmas. If you want to access the full set of customized personas or the image generator , those are all available as well. Click to expand.

Marketing AI 99

Marketing AI Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services Planning 99

Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 3, 2007

Here’s a fine mess: I was all set to review a paper titled “Marketing-Mix Modeling the Right Way”, partly because I found the title annoyingly arrogant and partly because I have doubts regarding the methodology it describes. Problem is, I now have marketing mix modeling on my mind.

Marketing Mix 120

Marketing Mix Marketing Management Advertising Agencies Allocation 120

Webbiquity

JULY 23, 2019

If you haven’t looked into video creation for your business yet, this is the right time to make video a core element in your content marketing mix. Over 90% of marketers create video clips with assets they already have. If you have decided to include video content in your marketing strategy, keep going and creating more of them.

Video Marketing 246

Video Marketing Business Work Management Marketing Management 246

Valasys

JANUARY 19, 2024

They also engage and transform depending on the customer experience. From understanding the nuances of human conversation to predicting consumer preferences, this piece uncovers the power of chatbots in marketing. There is a surplus of private information from customers. This can be a world where chatbots don’t merely respond.

Marketing AI 40

Marketing AI Conversion Resource Management Planning 40

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Create Content that Addresses Your Customer Journey. Acquire Digital Marketing and Technology Competencies. Have a Formal Marketing Plan. In a significant and encouraging shift from the data released in our B2B Marketing Mix Report , more B2B teams are using formal plans to guide their branding and marketing.

Resource Management 360

Resource Management Demand Generation Agencies CMS Development Work Management 360

ANNUITAS

MARCH 19, 2020

Whether it’s trade shows, local events or more intimate sales dinners, in-person interactions are a much relied-upon component of every company’s demand marketing mix. Here are our top four recommendations to (re)focus demand marketing through this current crisis and beyond: 1. Re-Examine Email Deliverability.

Top of Funnel 232

Top of Funnel Planning Demand Elasticity 232

DAGMAR Marketing

APRIL 5, 2024

Meridian Meridian: Free In March 2024, Google announced the release of Meridian, an open-source marketing mix model (MMM) designed to help users navigate critical measurement challenges. A marketing mix model calculates the overall effectiveness of marketing campaigns and helps you unlock optimum budget allocation.

Budget Programs 52

Budget Programs Google Tools Marketing Analytics Tools 52

Trade Press Services

MARCH 4, 2024

Content serves as the primary vehicle for educating, engaging, and guiding potential customers at each stage of their journey to make a purchase. The type and the timing of content delivery matters, especially when marketers leverage it to move a prospect through the sales process.

Top of Funnel 80

Top of Funnel Trends B2B Thought Leadership Buyer Personas 80

Blue Flame Thinking

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Direct Organic search Paid search ads Paid social ads Referral Social Email Other Creating audience segments to build custom reports using user demographic and channel data can produce additional insights into your web presence. What Do Website Visitors Do When They Visit?

Traffic 96

Traffic Analysis Marketing Websites Allocation 96

B2B Marketing Directions

DECEMBER 3, 2023

For the past several years, marketers have been increasingly focused on measuring the performance of their activities and programs, and many marketing leaders now use performance data to allocate budgets and make marketing mix decisions. Overall, this has been a positive development. What you measure is what you'll get.

Allocation 70

Allocation Budget Programs Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 70

Biznology

JULY 7, 2020

The pandemic has taken away one of B2B marketing’s steadiest, most reliable sources of lead generation and customer engagement, on a global basis. It’s not easy to replace a marketing channel that represents on average 20% of our marketing mix—with many marketers devoting as much as 60% of their budgets to events.

B2B Marketing 166

B2B Marketing Marketing & Strategy Webinar Metrics Marketing Strategy 166

Binary Demand

APRIL 8, 2024

Empowering precision : Market segmentation emerges as your ace in the hole. You gain precision in identifying, targeting, and engaging with your customers by dissecting your market into distinct segments. At times, these buyers consist of existing customers, referred to as customer segmentation.

Segmentation 52

Segmentation B2B Marketing Customer Satisfaction B2B 52

NuSpark Consulting

MAY 4, 2023

The goal is to remind them of your products or services, encourage them to return to your website, and ultimately convert them into customers. Here are some of the key retargeting strategies in marketing: Website retargeting: Show ads to users who have visited your website but didn’t convert or take the desired action.

Webinar Metrics 130

Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Bundling Ad Exchange 130

Litmus

APRIL 9, 2020

Like many CMOs, I’ve spent the past few weeks navigating through our new normal and what these changes mean for Litmus, our customers, and the email marketing community. That includes how to strike the right tone with our marketing programs, while also helping out brands when and where we can through education and sharing.

Email Marketing 91

Email Marketing Marketing Budget Budget Programs Leads 91

Scoop.it

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

That forces them to adopt cost-effective marketing strategies that can generate significant returns. That’s why email marketing is a perfect fit for them. Email marketing helps companies communicate their message effectively and build relationships with their customers. It can drive sales at a low cost as well.

Small Business Marketing 93

Small Business Marketing Email Marketing Business Paid Search Agency 93

Tomorrow People

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Positioning is an essential element of product marketing – yet it’s also one of the most challenging to get right. Overall, positioning helps companies, SaaS or otherwise, stand out in the eyes of potential customers. This is especially important when there are many alternatives on the market.

Positioning 177

Positioning Product Tips Segmentation 177

sagefrog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After all, selecting the right vendors can be the difference between employees and customers having a positive or negative experience at the facility. Facilities services businesses must cater to each customer’s distinctive needs. You must prove your value before your would-be customer signs on the dotted line.

Work Management 62

Work Management Marketing Management Planning Marketing Plans 62

Vision Edge Marketing

MARCH 15, 2018

In his well-regarded December 2003 HBR article, “The One Number You Need to Grow,” Fred Reichheld once suggested that the value of any one customer resides both in what that person buys and what they are prepared to tell others. What your customers tell others about you can influence your revenues and profits.

Ideal Customer Profiles 153

Ideal Customer Profiles Customer Satisfaction Profiling Sales Cycle 153

sagefrog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The key to thriving is a multifaceted marketing strategy that aligns with your brand’s core values and resonates with your target audience. In Sagefrog’s 2024 B2B Marketing Mix Report , we found that B2B marketers’ top objectives for the year ahead are brand awareness, lead generation, client retention, and sales support.

Ideal Customer Profiles 52

Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Content Webinar Metrics Marketing Strategy 52

Full Circle Insights

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Full Circle Insights’ customers can now benefit from new capabilities in Lead and Contact reporting. The Full Circle app and data are housed on customers’ Salesforce servers, and data is delivered using a design that ensures funnel metrics benefit from high-grade security and platform maintenance. SAN MATEO, Calif. , Feb.

Full Circle Insights 97

Full Circle Insights Enterprise Management Marketing Management Multi-Touch Attribution 97

B2B Marketing Directions

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Earlier this month, Michael Brenner published a great post at the Marketing Insider Group blog describing how to create compelling customer case studies. Michael Brenner described several ways to improve the quality of customer case studies, and I agree with most everything he wrote.

Case Studies 98

Case Studies Case Study Studies B2B Sales 98

B2B Marketing Directions

JUNE 18, 2023

A growing number of companies are conducting or sponsoring surveys and featuring survey results prominently in their marketing programs. The proliferation of surveys and survey reports has been driven by the growing importance of thought leadership in the B2B marketing mix.

Customer Surveys 52

Customer Surveys B2B Thought Leadership Sample Thought Leadership 52

Hubspot

APRIL 14, 2021

The way you can get this information is through strategic marketing. In this post, we’ll define strategic marketing and explain the different phases of the process that will help you effectively market your business, attract customers, and drive revenue. Strategic marketing is a full circle process.

Planning 100

Planning Work Management Marketing Management Marketing & Strategy 100

Brightedge

JANUARY 10, 2020

Use these points to elevate the understanding and position of SEO in the marketing mix. People use search engines to create a list of candidates for the product or service and use them again to collect opinions and reviews that help them make decisions. Channel Share. Search and Social.

SEO 116

SEO Paid Search Agency Word of Mouth Marketing Mix 116

ClickZ

JUNE 5, 2020

Social media posts, mentions, reviews can all contribute to the overall sentiment analysis. Instead of looking at different tools in silos, you are able to build a holistic overview of the customer experience. What’s important is to introduce AI to our marketing stack as the solution to several of our current problems.

Marketing AI 132

Marketing AI Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 132

Litmus

OCTOBER 19, 2020

With the next Litmus Live Day on October 20th, we’ll give you ideas on using what you know from your customers, leveraging your budget strategically, and reviewing key facets of your email program to help you create solid deliverability goals. Best of all, it’s free! Email audits, inside and outside of the inbox.

Budget Programs 65

Budget Programs Effectiveness Tips Deliverability 65

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 5, 2018

For example, one customer may review information on your website, read a reminder email, talk to your sales team, then work with your sales team to begin evaluating what you have to offer. Buyer journey velocity can help you detect where bottlenecks exist within your sales and marketing process.

Top of Funnel 134

Top of Funnel Buyer's Journey Conversion Peer-to-peer 134

Vision Edge Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The purpose of a business is to create a customer, declared Peter Drucker. How do you create a customer? You provide something – a service, a product, a solution – (referred to as the Product in the Marketing Mix) they need AND want. Focus on solving customer problems and making a difference.

Ad Building 178

Ad Building Work Management Business Marketing Management 178

Vision Edge Marketing

MARCH 15, 2018

In his December 2003 HBR article, “The One Number You Need to Grow,” Fred Reichheld once suggested that the value of any one customer resides both in what that person buys and what they are prepared to tell others. What your customers tell others about you can influence your revenues and profits. Create an ideal. Start small.

Ideal Customer Profiles 109

Ideal Customer Profiles Customer Satisfaction Profiling Sales Cycle 109

B2B Digital Marketer

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Brandon, with his unique background transitioning from operating health clubs to leading a marketing firm, shares his expert perspective on the shift from B2C to B2B marketing and the critical role of data in understanding consumer behavior and driving successful marketing strategies.

Allocation 52

Allocation Planning B2B Marketing Marketing Budget Creation 52

B2B Marketing Directions

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Unified methods: a theory of everything" At present, there are two main methods for measuring the effectiveness of marketing and advertising programs. Marketing mix modeling has been around for decades, and multi-touch attribution has now been used for several years.

Multi-Touch Attribution 98

Multi-Touch Attribution Advertising Agencies Forrester Paid Search Agency 98

Vision Edge Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Your approach will impact the decisions regarding which touches and channels affect customer behavior and deserve investment. The leadership team expects Marketing to understand which channels, touches and content have the greatest impact on generating conversations, consideration and ultimately consumption.

Marketing Attribution 153

Marketing Attribution Multi-Touch Attribution Multi-Channel Allocation 153

Vision Edge Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2019

With so much of today’s data related to customer and market behavior, Marketing organizations are in an excellent position to lead the charge for creating a data-to-insights culture. Organizations that reflect this culture will be better positioned to leverage data to maximize its efforts and optimize Marketing investments.

Paid Search Agency 185

Paid Search Agency Work Management Lead Ranking Marketing Management 185

B2B Marketing Directions

JULY 29, 2023

In a recent article for martech.org , Christopher Penn wrote, "Everything in marketing is measurable, from top to bottom, from brand to customer satisfaction to purchase - you can measure 100% of marketing." He argued that when people say some aspect of marketing can't be measured, they mean that, ".

Marketing AI 52

Marketing AI Multi-Touch Attribution Budget Programs Multi-Channel 52

DivvyHQ

AUGUST 6, 2020

To be a brand of the people, user-generated content should be part of your content marketing mix. It can drive true connections, turn customers into advocates, and trigger more conversions than any other tactic. But how can you inspire customers to create content for you? Start here.

User-Generated Content 113

User-Generated Content Generation Content Marketing Planning 113

Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

If you're a regular reader here, you saw my reviews of Claritix ( last week ) and BrightFunnel ( in December). Last week caught up with Jeff Winsper of Black Ink , which I'll hopefully review before too long. Does the vendor provide marketing mix models? I’ve seen a lot of attribution vendors recently.

Marketing Attribution 120

Marketing Attribution Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 120