25% of Fortune 500 B2B Companies Have Adopted Marketing Automation
Automation

25% of Fortune 500 B2B Companies Have Adopted Marketing Automation

12y Mathew Sweezey

25% of Fortune 500 B2B Companies Have Adopted Mark...

What can we learn as marketers from this research? Read More...

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Email Marketing Isn't Dead - You're Probably Just Using It Wrong
Automation

Email Marketing Isn't Dead - You're Probably Just Using It Wrong

12y Jon Miller

Email Marketing Isn't Dead - You're Probably Just ...

Your challenge as a marketer is to understand these savvier consumers and reach them with relevant, engaging content that speaks to them individually ...

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Build an Audience by Creating Content, Not Crap
Automation

Build an Audience by Creating Content, Not Crap

12y Jon Miller

Build an Audience by Creating Content, Not Crap

How do you toe the line of drawing attention to your brand while also delivering meaningful, educational, and enjoyable content? Read More...

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Content Marketing Deserves Display Ad Treatment from Automated Multi-Touch Attribution Systems
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Content Marketing Deserves Display Ad Treatment from Automated Multi-Touch ...

12y Ben Plomion

Content Marketing Deserves Display Ad Treatment fr...

There are still some obstacles to better attribution models, but content marketers will need to demand more from their marketing automation vendors in...

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Comparison Shopping Engines Alive & Well, But the Approach is Failing Marketers
Automation

Comparison Shopping Engines Alive & Well, But the Approach is Failing M...

12y Andre Golsorkhi

Comparison Shopping Engines Alive & Well, But ...

Automation can enable retailers to deliver a new catalog of listings, representing every product that will work on each CSE, in as real-time as the CS...

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To Prove Its Value, Put Big Data to Work Across the Business
Automation

To Prove Its Value, Put Big Data to Work Across the Business

12y Stephanie Miller

To Prove Its Value, Put Big Data to Work Across th...

At the NCDM: Where Marketing Meets Big Data conference last week, many keynote speakers and other session leaders decried big data as too much hype an...

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The Role of CRM in Delighting & Surprising Customers
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The Role of CRM in Delighting & Surprising Customers

12y Ramon Ray

The Role of CRM in Delighting & Surprising Cus...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is so much more than a customer list and knowing a few birthdays and zip codes. Columnist Ramon Ray makes the c...

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5 Lessons in Effective Copywriting for Nurturing Emails from Ogilvy & Bird
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5 Lessons in Effective Copywriting for Nurturing Emails from Ogilvy & Bird

12y Mathew Sweezey

5 Lessons in Effective Copywriting for Nurturing E...

David Ogilvy and Drayton Bird's most popular works came out in print long before digital marketing became a thing, yet they hold valuable lessons for ...

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B2B Marketers: Combat the Cheap Email Effect with Triggered Communications
Automation

B2B Marketers: Combat the Cheap Email Effect with Triggered Communications

12y Kevin Miller

B2B Marketers: Combat the Cheap Email Effect with ...

Thanks in large part to social and the vast array of content that marketers produce today, email is going through a renaissance. Gone are the days whe...

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3-2-1 Nurturing Technique for Lead Generation
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3-2-1 Nurturing Technique for Lead Generation

12y Mathew Sweezey

3-2-1 Nurturing Technique for Lead Generation

It's common for marketers to find themselves struggling for relevance because they don't know the buyer's stage. The 3-2-1 technique is used to help m...

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Prepping for 2014: Perform a Content Audit in 5 Steps
Automation

Prepping for 2014: Perform a Content Audit in 5 Steps

12y Ellen Valentine

Prepping for 2014: Perform a Content Audit in 5 St...

A good content audit will help your sales team get off to a strong start, fuel strong marketing automation campaigns, encourage reuse of some of your ...

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Marketing Automation Sounds the Death Knell for Cold Calling
Automation

Marketing Automation Sounds the Death Knell for Cold Calling

12y Christian Nahas

Marketing Automation Sounds the Death Knell for Co...

Cold calling is not dead. It is hanging on, undead, ready to suck the life out of the caller and precious time from the unsuspecting soul that picks u...

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6 Steps to Boost Holiday Sales per Customer with CRM Software
Automation

6 Steps to Boost Holiday Sales per Customer with CRM Software

12y Ramon Ray

6 Steps to Boost Holiday Sales per Customer with C...

Although a few 2013 holidays have passed, it's not too late to leverage the power of CRM and capture added sales for the rest of the holiday shopping ...

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A Physicist’s Approach to Marketing
Automation

A Physicist’s Approach to Marketing

12y Jon Miller

A Physicist’s Approach to Marketing

While marketing doesn't adhere to a strict set of universal laws like physics, it can and should be a rigorous, left-brained discipline. Marketing at ...

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The New Context Marketing Applications
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The New Context Marketing Applications

12y Rand Schulman

The New Context Marketing Applications

Columnist Rand Schulman shares new insights that in mobile and marketing possibilities, gleaned from his visit to Dreamforce and other recent announce...

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A Gift for Your Marketing Team: Holiday Sales Without Stress
Automation

A Gift for Your Marketing Team: Holiday Sales Without Stress

12y Andre Golsorkhi

A Gift for Your Marketing Team: Holiday Sales With...

Digital marketers have been planning for the holiday season since at least July, but it's not too late to implement marketing automation solutions to ...

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Marketing Industry Takes a Hit When Government Goes Spying
Automation

Marketing Industry Takes a Hit When Government Goes Spying

12y Stephanie Miller

Marketing Industry Takes a Hit When Government Goe...

The trend is clear: since July 2009, global government requests for Google users' information have more than doubled. What is the impact for marketers...

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4 Ways CRM Software Works for Old School (Offline) Marketing
Automation

4 Ways CRM Software Works for Old School (Offline) Marketing

12y Ramon Ray

4 Ways CRM Software Works for Old School (Offline)...

When we think about CRM software, we immediately think of content and digital marketing. However, CRM tools are incredibly beneficial to offline marke...

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3 Things Amazon.com Can Teach Us About Marketing Automation
Automation

3 Things Amazon.com Can Teach Us About Marketing Automation

12y Ramon Ray

3 Things Amazon.com Can Teach Us About Marketing A...

We can learn a lot from Amazon.com about marketing automation. Columnist Ramon Ray explains how Amazon is getting it right and shares tips for markete...

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Own Your Audience: The Other Side of Content Marketing
Automation

Own Your Audience: The Other Side of Content Marketing

12y Mathew Sweezey

Own Your Audience: The Other Side of Content Marke...

In the digital world, there is no distance between you and the customer. In his new book Audience, Jeff Rohrs asks you to think about your audience as...

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Google Encrypted Search Means SEOs Need a Better Toolbox
Automation

Google Encrypted Search Means SEOs Need a Better Toolbox

12y Kevin Miller

Google Encrypted Search Means SEOs Need a Better T...

SEO is undergoing significant change. Here are several sensible and logical things marketers can do today to mitigate the effects of encrypted search ...

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Get Your Marketing Budget Ready for 2014
Automation

Get Your Marketing Budget Ready for 2014

12y Ellen Valentine

Get Your Marketing Budget Ready for 2014

Use this time to evaluate 2013, build a strong case for investments (particularly in technology, skills, data and customer-focused campaigns) and you ...

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Bring Your Attribution Model up to the 21st Century
Automation

Bring Your Attribution Model up to the 21st Century

12y Stephanie Miller

Bring Your Attribution Model up to the 21st Centur...

A holistic attribution model is a very good thing for the industry and a way to strengthen any customer-centric approach. Read More...

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Sell Marketing Spend to Your CEO with Marketing Automation & Aligned Goals
Automation

Sell Marketing Spend to Your CEO with Marketing Automation & Aligned Go...

12y Christian Nahas

Sell Marketing Spend to Your CEO with Marketing Au...

Each step in the full marketing funnel tells a story with a set of data behind it. Become more effective at selling your spend to your CEO with these ...

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The Keys to Understanding The Buyers Journey
Automation

The Keys to Understanding The Buyers Journey

12y Mathew Sweezey

The Keys to Understanding The Buyers Journey

In a follow-up to his article New Research Defines the Buyer's Journey in 3 Steps, ClickZ columnist Mathew Sweezey from Salesforce digs deeper into th...

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How Programmatic Site Retargeting Can Give Marketing Automation a Superboost
Automation

How Programmatic Site Retargeting Can Give Marketing Automation a Superboos...

12y Ben Plomion

How Programmatic Site Retargeting Can Give Marketi...

What is programmatic site retargeting? Chango's Ben Plomion explains how it works and how PSR can complement a marketing automation campaign. Read Mor...

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A New Look at the Value of Data to Marketers and the Economy
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A New Look at the Value of Data to Marketers and the Economy

12y Stephanie Miller

A New Look at the Value of Data to Marketers and t...

New research from the Data-Driven Marketing Institute outlines the scope and flow of data through our data-driven economy. Read More...

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