Personalization
Articles Tagged personalization:
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Analytics & Testing
Sailthru: Optimize, Automate and Deliver
We’re entering an interesting age when it comes to big data and personalization. Platforms like Sailthru can personalize the frequency and topic of the messaging you’re sending via mobile or email – and then personalize the content of the site that the user is landing on. I have been writing for a long time that the limitation of modern analytics…
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Email Marketing & Automation
Mass Marketing Versus Personalization
If you’ve been a reader of my work, you know that I’m an opponent of the versus analogy in marketing. It’s often, as in the case of personalization, not a choice of what strategy to use, but when to use each strategy. There’s some irony in the fact that this infographic is mass marketing… but pushes for improved personalization. Both…
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Content Marketing
How to Write Content Where Visitors Determine Your Value
Regardless of price, value is always determined by the customer. And often, that value will rely upon how well the customer leverages your product or service. Many software or a service (SaaS) vendors utilize value-based selling to determine their prices. That is, rather than pricing out a flat monthly rate or a rate based on usage, they work with the…
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Email Marketing & Automation
American Airlines Shows How to Personalize Email Marketing Campaigns Effectively
Personalization is no longer a nice-to-have in email marketing—it’s a necessity. When executed well, it engages your audience, builds loyalty, and drives conversions. Airlines, for example, have an incredible opportunity to leverage the data they collect to create highly personalized email campaigns. Unfortunately, many fall short. American Airlines Take a recent experience I had with American Airlines as an example.…
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Marketing Books
Marketing Observations From The Long Tail
Wired editor Chris Anderson released a book that would redefine how marketers and sales professionals view product strategy in the digital age: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. Two years later, the ideas remain as relevant as ever—if not more so—as companies across industries grapple with the implications of a market no longer…
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Sales and Marketing Training
Never Lose Sight of Who Pays You
Sometimes, we forget that our customers ultimately pay us. Look, I feel bad for my friends and colleagues at GM. But I don’t feel sorry for them. They forgot design, they forgot the customer, they forgot R&D, they forgot they are a car company. Their demise was clearly a choice. Not a symptom of our economy, but a choice made…