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- Customer Data Platforms
How Entity Resolution Adds Value To Your Marketing Processes
A large number of B2B marketers – almost 27% – admit that insufficient data has cost them 10%, or in some cases, even more in annual revenue losses. This clearly highlights a significant issue faced by most marketers today, and that is: poor data quality. Incomplete, missing, or poor-quality data can have huge impact on the success of your marketing…
- Marketing Infographics
10 Modern Technologies That Are Transforming Digital Marketing
The infographic below utilizes the term disruption but sometimes the word disruption has a negative connotation. I don’t believe digital marketing today is being disrupted by any modern technology, I believe it’s being transformed by it. Marketers who adapt and adopt newer technologies are able to personalize, engage, and connect with their prospects and customers in much more meaningful ways.…
- Marketing Tools
Coggle: Unleashing Creative and Organizational Potential With Mind Mapping
Mind mapping is a visual thinking tool that draws upon the intrinsic workings of the human brain, facilitating the organization, generation, and connection of ideas in a highly intuitive and engaging manner. It is a graphical way to represent concepts and their relationships to each other and to a central idea. At its core, mind mapping is about harnessing creativity,…
- Advertising Technology
Navigating the Minefield of Mobile Ad Fraud: Strategies, Insights, and State of the Industry
Mobile ad fraud is a significant challenge within the advertising industry, undermining the effectiveness and efficiency of mobile campaigns. Understanding the various forms of fraud and implementing strategies to combat them is crucial for advertisers looking to safeguard their investments. In 2021, the estimated mobile ad fraud exposure was $2.1 billion. Appsflyer What Is Mobile Ad Fraud? Fraudsters make money…
- Email Marketing & Automation
Why Marketing and IT Teams Should Share Cybersecurity Responsibilities
The pandemic heightened the need for every department within an organization to pay more attention to cybersecurity. That makes sense, right? The more tech we use in our processes and day-to-day work, the more vulnerable we could be to a breach. However, the adoption of better cybersecurity practices should begin with well-versed marketing teams. Cybersecurity has typically been a concern…
- Content Marketing
How To Combine Posts and Custom Post Types In WordPress Queries and RSS Feed
One of the most amazing features of WordPress is the ability to build Custom Post Types. This flexibility is fantastic… as custom post types can be utilized for a business to organize other types of posts like events, locations, FAQs, portfolio items easily. You can build custom taxonomies, additional metadata fields, and even custom templates to display them. On our…
- Email Marketing & Automation
How To Enable Automatic Google Analytics UTM Tracking in Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Marketing Cloud’s integration with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is a powerful tool that enables you to track and analyze customer journey activities. Marketing Cloud automatically appends tracking data to every link in your emails, SMS messages, and journeys. This comprehensive overview will guide you through the integration, data sampling limitations, configuring web tracking, and the benefits of automatic tracking data.…
- Customer Data Platforms
DESelect: Marketing Data Enablement Solutions for Salesforce AppExchange
It is important for marketers to establish 1:1 journeys with customers at scale, quickly, and efficiently. One of the most used marketing platforms used for this purpose is the Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC). SFMC offers a wide range of possibilities and combines that multifunctionality with unprecedented opportunities for marketers to connect with customers across different stages of their customer journey.…
- Marketing Infographics
How Important Is Your LinkedIn Profile Photo?
Several years ago, I attended an international conference and they had an automated station where you could pose and get a few headshots. The results were stunning… the intelligence behind the camera had you position your head to a target, then the lighting automatically adjusted, and boom… the photos were taken. I felt like a dang supermodel they came out…
- Analytics & Testing
Mobile Marketing Is Back In Vogue – How Can Brands Automate And Scale-up Their Mobile Campaigns?
Everyone accepts the ubiquity of mobile devices. In many markets today – particularly in the developing world – it’s not simply a case of mobile first but mobile only. For marketers, the pandemic accelerated the move to digital at the same time as the ability to target users via third-party cookies is being phased out. This means direct mobile channels…
