Don’t miss this 33-page guide to the latest developments in consumer-generated content (CGC).
Don’t miss this 33-page guide to the latest developments in consumer-generated content (CGC).
Engage your audience more effectively by harnessing emotional drivers and motivators: careful video storytelling can communicate a powerful message, connecting your customers to your brand. In this article, Jon Mowat examines the science – the chemistry – of storytelling and shares his video marketing formula to help you successfully resonate with your target audience.
Christian Golden discusses why customer reviews are an important part of a marketing strategy and how their potential can be harnessed. His article is based around in-depth research into what buyers of B2B software look for on their purchasing journey – a study which revealed some major trust issues and the increasing need for vendor transparency.
Bill Hess discusses how to place ad content on your site that is welcomed, not blocked. He believes website owners can protect their sites against ad-blockers by taking more care, claiming visitors are annoyed by irrelevant ads, not all ads. So, be aware of the difference, get to know your audience and tailor the ad content accordingly in order to boost your sales.
We all know that engagement is vital, so why are so many marketers rubbish at it? A recent report has found companies are still not sufficiently tailoring their communications to customers throughout the lifecycle and it is surprisingly common for global marketers to send un-personalised emails. In fact, fewer than a third of businesses have a ‘defined’ audience engagement capability for their email campaigns. So, is your customer engagement poor? Check out the report evidence and heed the solutions:
Retailers are facing another wave of disruption triggered by digital technologies. Find out which retailers are leading the way and why, if you haven’t already, you need to start including them in your plans.
If a website takes ages to load and seems confusing to navigate around, the chances are visitors will sigh heavily and go find another website; their potential purchase lost. So, if it is obvious that a poor shopping experience costs online customers, why are so many websites still rubbish? It makes sense to keep visitors to your site happy and especially to ensure they return repeatedly – Yaron Morgenstern shows how valuable it is to create a slick, user-friendly experience.
London Fashion Week is staged twice a year – February and September – and, whether you follow fashion slavishly or not, affects what appears subsequently on the high street. But Shalina Ganatra looks at the event from a different perspective – the view of a marketer, and here discusses the online strategy luxury brands should now adopt to develop their personal shopping offering. She says retailers must get the basics right when gathering customer data to create a better and faster tailored shopping experience.
When it comes to AI and modern marketing the best is yet to come, says Jim Bowes. Forget the cyborg concept, robots could be put to work alongside humans – taking on high-tech tasks such facial recognition, emotional activity measurement and even campaign strategy automation. He says the latest technology will free up creatives and drive hyper-personalisation to improve the conversation with consumers. So what’s not to like?
Researchers have been analysing how easily UK consumers can get in touch with retailers via their preferred channel and they have identified a ‘dutiful dozen’ retailers that are ticking all the boxes. With 81% of consumers taking their business elsewhere if their queries aren’t answered quickly and effectively by a company, it is critical that retailers are offering a great customer experience and as many customer service touchpoints as possible. Chris Robinson explores the evidence.