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Best practice Data Protection Europe GDPR Global Legal & Compliance Strategy and Management UK

The Golden Quarter & GDPR – opportunities for marketers

golden quarter & GDPR

The Black Friday/Cyber Monday period is the starting pistol that signals that start of ‘the golden quarter’, when most retailers lock in their profits for the year. It’s also a time when having a good customer database – along with reaching the right consumer with the right offer at the right time – is critically lucrative for brands. However, the looming prospect of GDPR is set to make the gathering and use of customer data more complex. So what should marketers be doing now to ensure their golden quarter & GDPR plans go platinum in 2018?

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Best practice Data Governance & Security Europe GDPR Legal & Compliance Strategy and Management UK

Focus on the merits of GDPR – rebuilding consumer trust

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For most marketers, 2018 will be a milestone year – the year when their data comes under scrutiny by both regulators and consumers themselves, who are increasingly aware of the value of their personal details and concerned about how they are used. Is your company ready to comply with the changing GDPR? Are your data policies in order? Marketers need to focus on the merits of GDPR and how it will rebuild consumer trust. Here’s what you should be aware of and why you should be preparing now, before the new regulation becomes law in May 2018.

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The power of influence: 5 big changes to consumer reviews in 2017

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Testimonials, opinions, social proof – call them what you will, but consumer reviews are on the up when it comes to what influences a business’s potential customers. Whether fake or fair, people are reading and acting on these online reviews. Here’s a careful look at the latest trends and how consumer trust is measuring up:

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Influencer Marketing 2.0 and the rise of your ‘people channel’

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The rise of Influencer Marketing 2.0. At the recent Wave 2017 conference, thought-leaders like Brian Solis laid out why we must move to a new model for influence and advocacy and how to make the most out of your ‘people channel’. We summarise the main talking points and look at what best practice influencer marketing should look like in 2018.

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Black Friday fever and Cyber Monday mania! Will your holiday marketing strategy pass muster?

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, or rather Christmas shopping and the retail frenzy of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Originating in the States immediately after Thanksgiving (which is on the third Thursday of November), it’s become a regular shopping event across the world, with brands knocking down prices to thwart competitors, and sharp-elbowed customers grabbing those deals fast. Sleep and you weep: in the past, some High Street shops have found they should’ve drafted in more staff and, online, surging traffic has caused some unprepared e-retail sites to wobble and crash; unforgivable errors that many customers don’t forget. How ready is your business and how stable your holiday marketing strategy?

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Event marketing & the world’s biggest online shopfest: China Singles’ Day

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It takes place after Halloween and just before Black Friday/Cyber Monday; this major event marketing opportunity has taken off in China, with e-retailers battling to provide the best discount deals for the world’s largest audience – China Singles’ Day, 11/11, is a vast e-shopfest . . . here’s how it works:

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Basket case – driving e-commerce from bland boredom to brand stardom

online spend , Buying online

How do brands driving e-commerce sales entice browsers and get their products ‘off the shelf’, given the vast array of competition and the mundane way many products are displayed in the sterile online shop environment? Behavioural science is the key for brands facing that problem, says Andrew Watts, and marketers and their brands should master that science in order to win sales. Here’s how it works:

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Global Insight Strategy and Management

The customer-engaging marketer: how to make the CX shine for your CFO

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Increasingly, marketers are multi-tasking across many fields – for example, taking on social listening and data analysis in order to improve the customer experience and thus achieve the best possible ROI. But how can this morphed customer-engaging marketer engage the chief financial officer? Learn to speak his or her language, says Sean Farrington – demonstrate the bottom line impact of a great customer experience. Follow these tips:

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Five big artificial intelligence ideas for marketing

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Marketing has come a long way since the scattergun approach. Customer-centricity has driven the need for polished personalisation and technology is empowering ‘laser-guided marketing’. Doron Youngerwood discusses this concept and offers some artificial intelligence ideas and tips to guide marketing ‘artists’ into becoming marketing ‘scientists’.

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Put​ ​context​ ​at​ ​the​ ​heart​ ​of​ ​social​ ​media​ ​sentiment​ ​analysis

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Customers post good and bad opinions of products and services – and they also share witty and sarcastic opinions. All of which have been notoriously difficult for brands to measure. Sentiment​ ​analysis​ ​in​ ​the​ ​social​ ​listening​ ​world​ ​has​ ​not​ ​enjoyed​ ​the​ ​best​ ​of​ ​reputations as a ​lack​ ​of​ ​any​ ​advanced​ ​technology​ ​has​ ​meant​ ​that​ ​accurate​ ​results​ have​ ​depended​ ​on a​ ​process​ ​of​ ​repetitive,​ ​tedious​ ​and​ ​time​-consuming​ ​manual​ ​tagging​ ​of​ ​documents.​ ​As​ ​a result,​ ​many​ ​brands​ ​tend​ ​to​ ​sideline​ ​sentiment​ ​indicators​ ​in​ ​their​ ​reporting.​ ​Now​ ​all​ ​that is​ ​set​ ​to​ ​change, says Richard Sunley. Machines have been learning how to fathom irony . . .

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