2015
Martech Zone articles tagged 2015:
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Ecommerce and Retail
What is Omni-Channel? How is it Impacting Retail this Holiday Season?
Six years ago, the biggest challenge of online marketing was the ability to integrate, align, and then control messaging throughout each channel. As new channels emerged and increased in popularity, marketers added more batches and more blasts to their production schedule. The result (which is still common), was an overwhelming pile of advertisements and sales messages shoved down every prospect’s…
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Advertising Technology
What is Predictive Marketing?
The foundational principals of database marketing are that you can analyze and score a set of prospects based on their similarity to your actual customers. It’s not a new premise; we’ve been utilizing data for a few decades now to do this. However, the process was grueling. We used extract, transformation and load (ETL) tools to pull data from multiple…
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Content Marketing
Effective Small Business Content Marketing to Consumers
A whopping 70 percent of customers prefer to get information about a company from content rather than through advertising. 77 percent of small businesses are investing in content marketing methodologies to convert online visitors into customers. The bottom line is this: Clicks from Shared Content are five times more likely to result in a purchase! Outside of the expense of…
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Ecommerce and Retail
Mobile Experience and Its Impact on Trends
Smartphone ownership isn’t just on the rise, for many individuals it’s their entire means of connecting to the Internet. That connectivity is an opportunity for e-commerce sites and retail outlets, but only if your visitor’s mobile experience is superior to your competitors. Around the world, more and more people are making the jump to smartphone ownership. Learn how this move…
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Marketing Infographics
The Future of Mobile
Every few days, my daughter and I get in an argument over who has the charging cord. I covet my cord and she tends to leave her cord in her car. If our phones are both down to single digit charge percentages… watch out! Our phones have become part of our person. It’s our connective tissue to our friends, our…