Attribution
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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.…
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Advertising Technology
AdTech Book: A Free Online Resource to Learn Everything About Advertising Technology
The online advertising ecosystem consists of companies, technology systems, and complex technical processes working together to serve ads to online users across the Internet. Online advertising has many positive aspects. For one, it’s provided content creators with a source of revenue so they can distribute their content for free to online users. It’s also allowed new and existing media and…
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Analytics & Testing
How End-to-End Analytics Helps Businesses
End-to-end analytics is not just beautiful reports and graphics. The ability to track each client’s path, from the first touchpoint to regular purchases, can help businesses reduce the cost of ineffective and overvalued advertising channels, increase ROI, and assess how their online presence affects offline sales. OWOX BI analysts have collected five case studies demonstrating that high-quality analytics helps businesses…
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Analytics & Testing
Full Circle Insights: Funnel Metrics and Attribution for Salesforce
At most companies, marketing and sales don’t operate on a level playing field. B2B sales operations have CRM systems like Salesforce to measure performance, including overall company metrics and the granular details of team and individual performance. Since the CRM system functions as the de facto system of record for revenue in most companies, the sales team has credible data…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
I Believe B2B Social Media Marketing Success is Exaggerated
Let’s start this conversation by saying all of my evidence is anecdotal. I haven’t done any widespread research to prove my instincts; I just continue to have more and more people whispering to me that they don’t use social media to drive results. And they’re not suffering at all; their companies are doing great. “Wait!”, you declare, “They could be…
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Content Marketing
Wooing More Buyers and Reducing Waste Through Intelligent Content
Content marketing’s efficacy has been well documented, yielding 300% more leads at a 62% lower cost than traditional marketing, reports DemandMetric. No wonder sophisticated marketers have shifted their dollars to content, in a big way. The obstacle, however, is that a good chunk of that content (65%, in fact) is hard to find, poorly conceived or unappealing to its target…
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Analytics & Testing
The Myth of Attribution
One of the slides that I discuss in virtually every conversation I have with businesses is one that I call the myth of attribution. In any system of measurement, we prefer boolean and discrete rules of behavior. If this, then that. It’s a problem, though, because that’s not how purchase decisions are made. It doesn’t matter if you’re a consumer…
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Analytics & Testing
The Key Metrics of Analytics for Inbound Marketing
Even the largest corporations struggle with tracking metrics. For over a decade I’ve said that analytics often produces more questions than it does answers as users are segmenting, filtering, and analyzing traffic. Combine that with the fact that more than half of all your analytics traffic could be generated by bots, and you’re really left scratching your head most of…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Be Careful When Comparing Apples to Apple Trees
Good friend Scott Monty shared some data from McKinsey on research providing the following statistic: Email is actually 40X more effective than Facebook or Twitter for acquiring new customers. 40%! Whenever I see a statistic like that, I’m intrigued and have to run to the source to read more. I quickly navigated from Scott’s post back to the McKinsey report,…
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Customer Data Platforms
Micro-Moments and Customer Journeys
The online marketing industry continues to progress in providing technology that enables marketers to predict and deliver roadmaps to help consumers and businesses convert. We’ve made some assumptions up to this point, though. The general theme of personas and sales funnels is much more porous and flexible than we ever imagined. Cisco has provided research that shows that the average…