“Oh my goodness! Social media is blowing up today!” How many times have you giddily shared a similar statement to the one above? Whether it’s your personal accounts or the company accounts that you manage, social media engagement in the form of favorites, shares, likes, and retweets can be very exciting and gratifying. However, unless these […]
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There are hundreds upon hundreds of companies in the marketing technology landscape (see for yourself). Of the many categories, marketing automation is expected to be a 1.9 billion dollar industry by 2020. However, some of you may still be asking if it’s truly worthwhile to invest in an email marketing automation tool. On the other hand, perhaps you […]
It’s October 31st and you know what that means… it’s All Hallows’ Eve or as we most commonly refer to it, Halloween. This personal favorite holiday of mine has evolved over time into the community-based event characterized by trick-or-treating that we’ve all come to know and love. However, it is believed to have originated with the ancient […]
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 […]
Practically a year ago, Forrester analyst Cory Munchbach wrote a break-up letter on behalf of all chief marketing officers to the “marketing funnel.” Cory broke it to the funnel hard as lifecycle marketing presents a bigger and better opportunity for CMOs to improve marketing efforts. In the letter, she addresses why the funnel is no […]