Rethink Marketing Automation: Build Brand Equity, Drive Demand, and Expand Customer Relationships

Demand generation has been the shiny, golden child of marketing for more than a decade. Delivering impressive numbers of leads, conversions and opportunities garners praise and promotions for marketing leaders, while on the other hand, failing to make your numbers can be a career-killer. High risk, high reward, utterly compelling. In the early 1990s Unica introduced the first version of a marketing automation system, to support the shift of marketing toward quantifiable results. Eloqua launched its platform a few years later. The first systems were expensive and perhaps not user friendly; it took almost 15 years before the automation gained significant traction.

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6 Unique Social Media Tactics!

whitePaper | October 1, 2021

These are the “insider” tips you’ve been looking for! Learn 6 easy, unique tactics that social media marketing companies use to help their clients. Adding "Tweetable" Quotes Creating a LinkedIn Group Using Infographics with "Tweetable" Stats Getting Your Employees Involved Tweeting to see a White Paper or eBook

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Marketing mix modeling best practices: Understanding why regional data delivers more accurate results than national data

whitePaper | October 17, 2022

Organizations have been placing increasingly more emphasis on making data-driven marketing decisions in recent years. Especially since the onset of COVID-19, the demand for insights on how to craft the optimal marketing budget allocation plan has risen markedly. Marketers rely on guiding principles like Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) to determine which marketing channels will drive the highest return and optimize marketing budget allocations to maximize business outcomes.

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Engaging Partners in Customer Success

whitePaper | October 5, 2022

Customer satisfaction is the degree to which a customer is happy with your product or service. Solution providers have always cared about creating satisfied customers; they are their customers too (and those customers may be even more valuable to their business than to yours). Solution providers typically sell a bevy of products and services to the same customer. The partner often carries several vendor product lines – possibly hundreds – which they leverage to put together a solution for a customer business need or opportunity. They want the products or, more importantly, the solution to satisfy customer expectations so they can continue to sell them more stuff.

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Using AI to Maximize Marketing ROI: 6 Use Cases

whitePaper | June 2, 2022

AI is rapidly changing the world we live in, and the field of marketing is no exception. Businesses implement artificial intelligence in various ways to increase efficiency, maximize their returns, and produce the best possible experience for their customers. Yet some marketers still prefer more traditional methods and are wary of AI practices. However, they likely don’t realize all the ways they’re already using AI. Autocorrect, GPS, voice-controlled home assistants, Netflix suggestions, recommended purchases on ecommerce sites, and search engines are all examples of AI we use everyday without even realizing it. AI software isn’t just for large, established companies anymore. Startups and businesses of any size can greatly benefit from implementing various AI programs too

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Omni-channel RO

whitePaper | May 24, 2022

Since the dawn of customer service, organizations have sought to understand their customers’ needs in order to make them as happy as possible. IVR menus route calls to various automated capabilities. Website hot links take customers directly to their interest. But how do you know what it is that the customer needs? You can more easily answer that question and proactively address it when you know the customer’s intent. An advanced omni-channel implementation allows you to know customer intent, efficiently and accurately.

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Increase sales with Multi Channel Publishing

whitePaper | February 6, 2023

Companies are in need of the best possible and most efficient use of the various online distribution channels, in order to exceed the competitors in the continuous struggle to gain more customers. As a result, multi-channel publishing has become more and more critical. You need to distribute your content and products through many different channels and across many platforms in order to maximize sales and to extend your customer reach. It can be complex and demanding process without the proper platform, but the benefits will definitely be worth the effort.

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