Marketing Automation: Combining Nurture with Education

Lead Nurturing

What’s your definition of Marketing Automation? Marketing on steroids? That’s pretty much a common phrase to hear! In a nutshell, the sole purpose of any automated marketing program is to attract those that WANT to be attracted. At the end of the day, what do we want to do as a business? Nurture prospects, turn […]

Smarter Lead Scoring

smarter lead scoring

In a recent SiriusDecisions blog post, Laura Cross revealed some startling information regarding the usual set up of lead scoring for most companies getting started with marketing automation. Well, I guess I found it’s startling because it’s not how Right On Interactive sets up our 3D Scoring methodology. To start, she explains how most companies […]

Gamification: Work and Play Do Mix

gamification

Gaming in the workplace and the learning space is a relatively new concept that is making gamification one of THE buzzwords of 2014. If people around the world are spending 3 billion hours a week playing video games, there must be a lure here that is worthy of checking into! Is gamification the latest fad […]

Transforming Voice of Customer Through Social Listening

voice of customer

Have you ever stopped and listened, but didn’t hear anything? Probably unlikely. At the minimum, even if no one is physically speaking, we can hear the little things… our own heartbeat, the sigh of a coworker, the hum of a motor. We hear all day long but, are we really listening to the people around […]

Warming Up to M-learning: Hot Trends for Corporate

what is m-learning

In the 21st century, information is an extremely valuable currency. Corporations are constantly looking to find new ways that they can deliver knowledge to their employees and clients. Mobile learning or M-learning is one of the most popular new trends in corporate learning, and for good reason: mobile learning provides flexibility, a convenient delivery, and appeals […]

Why Visuals Make Your Content Marketing More Effective

We no longer experience the digestion of Internet content the way it was once delivered – back when the Internet solely gave us white backgrounds with paragraphs of Times New Roman text pasted on top. If you aren’t integrating graphics into your social media posts, blogs, or website content, it’s time to fix the flux […]

A Lifecycle Approach to Lead to Revenue Management

Many early adopters of marketing automation were able to drive great results at first, but have since “hit a wall.” Most of the initial gains from utilizing a marketing automation solution came from rooting out inefficiency and waste, and standardizing and scaling a previously manual or cumbersome process. The reality is, however, you can only pick […]

Marketing and Customer Engagement

customer engagement

When I first started working in marketing technology, I engaged with clients via telephone, email, online and face-to-face meetings. That’s how they preferred to communicate with us, so that’s how we made ourselves available to them. Nowadays, customers have the ability to complain about your products and services via Twitter and Facebook. They want to spend less time on […]

Sales and Marketing Alignment, for real

social media and marketing strategy alignment

OK, I’ll admit it. I’ve worked in marketing for nearly 10 years and I’ve never experienced real sales and marketing alignment until now. Sure, I’ve worked with sales leadership, communicated clearly [and often] and even attended sales meetings and training; but, really… we were never working together. I remember conversations with sales leadership saying they […]