Personalization
Articles Tagged personalization:
- Email Marketing & Automation
What is B2B Account-Based Marketing (ABM)?
How does your sales team really feel about your marketing? Whenever B2B marketers are asked that question, the responses are universal. Marketers feel like they’re bending over backward to deliver a large volume of leads, and Sales just plain isn’t feeling the love. The exchange goes something like this. Marketing: We delivered 1,238 Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs) this quarter, 27%…
- Analytics & Testing
How Are You Doing Compared to 400 Other Marketers?
We’ve been having some incredible meetings with an enterprise company recently. They have all the challenges you can think of – a small team, enterprise structure, franchises, ecommerce… the works. Over time, they’ve evolved with their small team to a hodge-podge of technology that’s becoming more and more difficult to manage. Our job is to map out their strategy and…
- Marketing Books
The Big Switch: Your Mind Are Belong To Us
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been starting and stopping a few books—one of them being The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr. Today, I finally finished it. Carr does an excellent job drawing parallels between the rise of America’s electrical power grid and the emergence of cloud computing. While I appreciate Carr’s insight into cloud computing and how software development…
- 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…
- 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…
- Content Marketing
How We Consume Content From Brands
In today’s fast-paced digital world, brands need to be more strategic than ever when it comes to engaging with their audiences. With a wide range of platforms and channels to choose from, understanding consumer preferences can make all the difference. In this article, we delve into the findings of this Zmags infographic designed by my firm that sheds light on…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
