A new report reveals that only a third of marketers understand what successful content marketing looks like. Here we explore the reasons why and look at how marketers can prove – and improve – their content marketing ROI.
Take the guesswork out of your email campaigns and lose the silly mistakes that are costing you money – these straightforward email marketing tips and tactics show you what you should be doing …and what you shouldn’t! Rae Steinbach shines a spotlight on an effective and more lucrative use of the channel.
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.
Take a look at your business and your data and draw up a list of your marketing strategy pros and cons, says Sonal Patil. Data-driven marketing and how you use it – strategically and actually – is vital to your business’s growth. She says, if used effectively, a data-driven marketing strategy can create a big advantage in the marketplace. But if you ignore your data, or use it badly, you can significantly harm your relationship with your customers.
Natalia Selby tells how to assess whether your marketing is really working well for your business; she describes three simple strategies for checking and calculating campaign performance to ensure best use of budget and highest eventual ROI.
Should performance-based marketing agencies replace traditional agency models and what impact might this have on the industry? Agencies have usually been paid no matter the success or failure of their campaign. But Inbal Lavi argues that this should now shift to a results-based process, claiming that this will lead to better aligned interests between brand, marketer and creative agency, higher margins and a higher ROI.
The modern CMO must shine in an ever-changing and increasingly challenging workplace, in a role that is in a constant state of flux. Essentially, it’s because of Big Data – customer expectations and technological innovation are combining to pile the pressure on marketers to showcase skills that were never required of them just a few years ago. How do they feel and how do they cope? Jamie Matthews shares some expertise and some survival tips:
Social media has been one of the defining elements of our new generation. There’s no denying its power: we’ve seen nearly every aspect of our lives altered, from something as simple as staying connected to old friends, to affecting election results. But marketers remain unclear how to prove the business worth of social – and how to track social media ROI. Here’s how to dig into the data and keep tabs on it all . . .