Developing a good, relevant and personalised experience has been proven to help marketers with building customer relationships. Research shows that brands sending birthday offers are likely to improve the experience for more than half the 18-21 age group, but for less than a third of the 50+ age group. So who wants personalisation and who doesn’t? Take a look:
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.
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.
Correctly analysing customer data is part of modern marketing strategy. But understanding marketing data and viewing it clearly is not always achievable. Author Steve Wexler explains how to simplify the task.
Social media listening can have a monumental effect on your business – garnering customer insights and improving engagement, building brand loyalty and, thereby, increasing revenue. Learn how and why to do it well:
Ten years on from the first airing of the hit TV series Mad Men, about a ‘golden age’ of advertising – a world of sexism, racism, hard drinking and even harder smoking – Dale Lovell looks at how the ad world changed after Mad Men and why the modern era of technology, appropriate data targeting and creative must coexist in order to maximise today’s advertising campaigns.
Nearly half of online ads served aren’t delivered to the audience that advertisers intended, with campaigns particularly struggling to target women. So what can marketers do to improve targeting and digital campaign accuracy?
Marketing personas characterise target users or potential customers and sum up all their key information – and segmenting a database by personas has been proven to increase uptake. Here’s how to create and leverage this sales and marketing tool for best effect.
ABM is now a key strategy for any company selling to enterprise businesses. Its evolution from Key Account Marketing has been rapid. However, it’s much more than a cosmetic name change, with a new approach to data and account-wide awareness and advocacy now seen as key to success.
This multi-channel approach requires new skills, new technology and new partners if it is to provide real ROI for your business.
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Ranging from which consumers are most likely to purchase to which campaigns are most effective, marketing automation tools with their heads in the cloud keep marketers’ feet firmly on the ground, presenting them with instant information and access to data. But there are giants out there, vying to be the best automation platform. Daniel Wiglas has been personally testing and studying form avidly – as part of his Master’s thesis – and here presents a round-up of his findings: