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Rogue, fake or honest, genuine? Aiming to restore faith in the customer review

Consumers use reviews, reports and ratings to make informed and accurate purchase choices; retailers use them as customer feedback – to learn to understand their audience better. But can reviews be trusted or are they fakes? A new standard has been introduced, aiming to put trust back into the online customer review. Matt West tells how it will benefit the industry.

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Mobile apps – should you include an app in your marketing campaign?

Come on, get appy! Max Chekalov shows how brands are successfully using mobile apps in their marketing campaigns – and he tells why your business might do well to consider getting an app, to improve the customer experience and boost your sales.

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Leverage marketing automation to build a high performance marketing plan: eBook

In the modern marketer’s world, you need to leverage marketing automation to chart the ever-changing course of the buyer’s journey. With so much access to information, detail and choice, marketers must have a clear plan in place in order to reach their buyers at every stage of their journey. This eBook discusses a marketing strategy that truly focuses on the customer.

The GMA has teamed with Demand Exchange to bring this eBook from Act-On to help you discover:

  • The High Performance Marketing Plan
  • The marketer’s opportunity at each stage of the buyer’s journey
  • The four tenets of effective campaign themes
  • How to map your content to the customer lifecycle stages
  • Key components to a successful marketing technology landscape

 

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Revealed! The 7 secrets of the optimal customer experience are . . .

We live in an era when commercial success depends on a strong customer experience and high customer engagement throughout their user journey.optimal customer experience And the best way to understand why customers engage with your business, why they convert at checkout or even why they leave your site is, simply, to ask them!

Your customers are more than numbers, accounts, carts or cookies – don’t forget that they are people! While technology helps you better understand what they are doing, actually reaching out and creating one-to-one relationships with those people breaks down barriers and delights your customers. So, find out how to deliver the optimal customer experience!

This paper is based on seven years of experience, hundreds of successful implementations and millions of customer interactions. Download it now! Your GMA has partnered with Demand Exchange and Medallia to discover how to:

  • Add context to your analytics and increase conversion.
  • Collect feedback across each touchpoint to understand roadblocks that prevent your sales completion.
  • Use different feedback forms for different interactions.
  • Expedite responses to feedback from your most valuable customers, to keep them engaged and moving towards conversion.
  • Use feedback to boost your social media.
  • Ask the right questions to learn why your customers aren’t checking out.
  • Look for both quick wins and long-term big opportunities.

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Consumer retention – the complete guide to customer loyalty

Consumer retention – the GMA has partnered with Demand Exchange to bring you this latest report from Yieldify.consumer retention

We marketers love and are driven by customer acquisition – the art of acquiring new traffic, new buyers, new social media fans, new email subscribers and so on. Thus, marketing strategies tend to lean towards acquisition rather than retention.

But are we missing a trick? The probability of selling to an existing customer is 60-70%, therefore it does make sense to invest in retention to boost those numbers, the ones that really matter – sales. So how can marketers engage with these customers to boost their loyalty?

Download this guide to glean actionable advice and learn the tactics you need to acquire in order to maximise your customer loyalty strategy. The report also reveals best practice examples from a range of industries.

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The ROBO Economy: how reading reviews impacts offline sales

ROBO economy – the GMA has partnered with Demand Exchange to bring you access to the latest report from Bazaarvoice.

The guide presents details about the phenomenon of ROBO and how it can impact your marketing.

Download the report to discover:

  • What ROBO is
    • How ROBO and ‘reverse showrooming’ trends are changing and what to look out for going forward.
  • Exclusive ROBO stats
    • Drawn from more than two million data points, see the impact of ROBO across 12 key product categories.
  • How to calculate your ROBO multiplier
  • What ROBO means for marketers
    • 3 steps to making the most of ROBO opportunities.

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Jet set for the ideal customer journey: joining up traveller data

How can airlines and airports, together with associated retailers, boost the customer experience and also benefit from sharing traveller data? Strategist Jon Reay examines upgrades, discounts and rewards and the possibility of a single mobile app offering opportunities for co-operating brands at airports. He shows how small improvements to the customer journey through the airport – literally and digitally – could have a significant commercial impact for all.

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Is your B2B website a marketing machine or an anchor?

Don’t get weighed down by poor B2B website design and risk an even worse user experience. Verity Dearsley explains the concept of growth-driven design and how it can engage visitors, lift ROI and propel your business onwards and upwards.

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Ultimate user experience guide: 9 things your website better provide, or you will lose visitors pronto!

There’s been a major shift in how businesses grow, how buyers purchase and how businesses build meaningful conversations and customer relationships. Companies that align their mission, strategies, action plans and tools with the way buyers think, discover and purchase will have a huge competitive advantage, says Todd Hockenberry. So, take a long look – is your website truly your best-ever and most enticing shop window? Here’s how to make sure it is, and that it deals with changes in buyer behaviour in order to stay ahead of the curve. Check out this expert user experience guide.

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Expert ABM: The B2B Marketers Guide To Account-Based Measurement

B2B measurement can be very tricky. With all the data out there today, it can be difficult to measure and report on the right things. That’s why expert ABMwe’re recommending this – an entire eBook, devoted to the topic of measurement. The GMA has partnered with Demand Exchange to bring this report from DemandBase.

In this expert ABM guide, you’ll learn how to:

  • Distinguish between leading and lagging indicators
  • Identify key metrics
  • Evaluate your performance across the entire sales and marketing funnel