Providing customers with personalised content can lift revenue by 15%, according to Harvard Business Review, so why is it that businesses so often settle for producing generic marketing – or, worse, create messages that simply do not translate? Robert Berkeley says they need to do more to localise content if they are to draw in customers and grow their businesses.
The news is full of how artificial intelligence will transform the world around us, but as marketers, how will it impact our industry specifically? Here we explore why one technology in particular holds a lot of promise for data-driven marketing. Because in all that big data we produce, there are countless hidden insights that we’re missing every day — and deep learning is the key to unlocking them.
From product selection and presentation through to search, filtering and promotions, retailers such as ASOS, Missguided and PrettyLittleThing are top of the class when it comes to speaking to Generation Z. As these technologically fluent post-millennials enter the world of work and start to purchase from a wider range of brands, how can retailers tempt them across their virtual front door? Katie Woodhead examines lessons other brands can learn from the online fast fashion fraternity in communicating with the twentysomethings –
the next generation of consumers.
Marketing consultant Robert Howells presents the third and final part of his series of articles looking at data strategy and business goals. He has traced businesses from start-up (and discussed data quality being more valuable than quantity), through SMB (examining analytics and scale) and now looks at more established businesses – mature companies’ data and what they should being doing with it as a tactical asset.
Technology has created a new era for marketers, says Pini Yakuel. But the move from traditional media to the web is not as simple as putting ads online – they must be carefully targeted so as not to bombard and provoke the viewer into deploying ad-blockers and shifting their loyalty elsewhere. Customer data should be carefully individualised and detailed, segmented into specific personas; the art of advertising has morphed into the online marketing science of data analytics.
It’s not just another handle for key account marketing, but a different way of viewing and doing and being effective; actioning your B2B marketing strategy. Read our reasons for deploying an account-based marketing strategy.
For too long, brands have focused on the who and the where of advertising and, along the way, have lost sight of the ‘what’. In today’s AI insight driven world, technology is at the forefront of helping put the right ads in front of the right people at the right time. Rocket Fuel’s Joe Peters looks at how dynamic creative optimisation is helping to end the guesswork.
If you are in the process of setting up a new website, think carefully about the domain name you aim to use. It’s the first thing your potential customer will see and should sum up concisely and accurately what your business is all about; so don’t try to be clever – be clear. These expert tips and an infographic explain how.
Marketers want to know that their investments in digital advertising are protected against fraud and ads appearing on illegal or inappropriate websites. JICWEBS’ chairman Richard Foan explains what steps towards ensuring online brand safety have been taken by the industry.
The arrival of the digital age has flummoxed many marketers – some of whom still call decade-old technology (such as smartphones) new tech. Three-quarters of the web’s sites are inactive, full of graveyard content, and there’s a deluge of data as yet unprocessed. Get with it and pick up the pace, says author Minter Dial; don’t let your business get left behind. Look to the future . . .