I recently gave up my iPhone for an Android phone. My biggest reason? Screen size. Filling out online forms and reading blogs or articles that were not formatted for mobile users is extremely difficult on any phone, but my hope is a larger screen will help with that. Obviously, I’m not the only one browsing […]
Category Archives: Customer Lifecycle Marketing
Content marketing is a popular topic these days. Everyone is looking for advice and best practices to implement in an effort to drive revenue. Is email marketing still the path to follow or do you mix it up with direct mail pieces? What about webinars, social media, blogs, ebooks, whitepapers and infographics? Salesforce Marketing Cloud […]
As I mentioned in a previous post, the Internet has forever changed the way in which we share our experience with a brand or company. Likewise, it’s changed how organizations are able to collect feedback from customers, analyze it and gain valuable insights. The social conversation between brands and their customers is now just as […]
Last time on this blog I talked about acquiring, converting and nurturing customers. Today, I’d like to focus on one aspect of this process: Conversion. Now, I understand everybody would like to wave a magic wand and watch users convert to buyers across the digital marketing spectrum. If such a method existed, all of us […]
My first paying job was in retail at a local mall, long before the existence of social media. If someone had something positive or negative to say about their experience in the store, they had to call a toll-free number or come into the store and talk to the manager face-to-face. It didn’t happen often, and […]
No doubt you’ve already heard the day everyone in online advertising and marketing has been fearing has arrived. Google has cut off all keyword data. It’s no more. Google now provides encrypted searches using HTTPS (secure search) and keyword data will no longer be shared with website owners. Secure search eliminates the ability for organizations […]
You’ve seen and studied the diagrams. Maybe you paid to hear subject matter experts talk about it. You’ve certainly experienced it for yourself. Every once in awhile it’s a trendy phrase, but it’s never really gone away or come back. It’s always there but marketers don’t always focus on it. I’m talking about the customer […]
The world of marketing is in a state of continuous churn. Changes in customer behavior bring forth new paradigms by the day, rendering previous ones obsolete. It is not enough that a marketer simply adapts to change. They have to embrace change as a routine, and more often than not, implement change in real-time. The net […]
Recently I received an email from Pandora, the Internet radio provider, that really caught my attention. In the email, Pandora offered a look back at my “musical journey” and reminded me, “it all started with The Smiths Radio.” Instantly, I was reminded of my first Pandora station, why I chose The Smiths to kick off […]
Growing up, I remember going shopping with my dad to a locally owned men’s clothing store off of our town’s main street. I enjoyed our visits to the shop as the owner and his son knew my family by name, always offered us iced tea or coffee (depending on the season) and from time to […]