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 […]
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Marketing automation is imperative in a sophisticated infrastructure, as it frees the marketer from being bogged down with routine tasks while improving accuracy. A recent study by B2B online: “Marketing Automation: Best Practices for the Management of B2B Digital Marketing Campaigns” reveals that 46% of marketers are already adopting marketing automation in some way, and […]
Move over Big Data. Marketing automation is the new buzzword with marketers. “Marketing Automation: Best Practices for the Management of B2B Digital Marketing Campaigns” confirms the obvious when it discloses that 46% of all B2B marketers have already adopted marketing automation solutions in some form or another, and another 20% are actively evaluating marketing automation […]
In today’s digital world, scoring prospects is no longer a luxury, it’s a necessity. Lead scoring not only provides marketers with valuable information on who is visiting their website and interacting with their brand, but it can dramatically improve sales effectiveness. The premise behind lead scoring is simple: assign a ranking to potential new customers […]
Recently, we shared how dealing with big data can be like getting lost in the woods. It’s tough to see the big picture with so much digital information surrounding you. The first step to surviving the big data wilderness is to understand what it is, now the tough part — admitting you’re lost. As is […]
Ask your sales, marketing and client success teams to define a typical customer for your organization and you’ll receive at least three different answers. As I wrote last week, big data can help build your customer profile (assuming it’s good data) as well as your ideal customer profile as they may not be the same. […]
Today is Right On Interactive’s seventh birthday! We are very excited and have planned a wonderful party with our team to celebrate another milestone in the company’s history. The list of what’s changed in the past seven years is a long one – there’s the widespread adoption of measured marketing, driven by Adwords & Analytics; […]
The changing business landscape will force marketers to focus on promoting customer loyalty. The realization that it is much easier to sell to an existing customer than a new customer is slowly settling in. It costs ten times to convert a new customer than to retain an existing customer. Data over the years suggest that […]
Customer Relationship Management, Customer Scoring
How to Measure Effectiveness of Different Channels in Lead Generation
Today’s hyper-competitive world breathes ROI. Every marketer conducts a thorough analysis of which channel (social media, paid searches, ads, email and others) works best in delivering leads and achieving revenue goals. In reality, this is easier said than done. Even though we admit that social media has become ubiquitous, a recent study conducted by Abode […]
Batch and blast is dying. Many companies, unfortunately, haven’t realized this yet. But as the number of promotional email campaigns sent out by retailers increases, the need for specific, relevant, and triggered content will only increase. “Retailers sent each of their subscribers 177 promotional email campaigns on average last year, up 16 percent from 2010,” […]