Tag Archives: Marketing Automation

Personalization: The Human Touch Behind the Customer Journey

Email Personalization

In the last couple of years, the concept of ‘content fatigue’ has taken on an important meaning for marketers – all marketers: from the most seasoned, to the juniors. According to MarketingProfs, there are more than 2 million blog posts published on a daily basis. What does this mean for us? It means that buyers […]

CRM and Marketing Automation Working Together

CRM and marketing automation

Are your CRM and marketing automation solutions working in concert to deliver greater business results? In this article, you will discover five ways to enhance sales and marketing effectiveness with CRM/Marketing Automation integration. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is critical to effective management of a sales funnel and forecast in business-to-business (B2B) companies. CRM systems track and […]

The Personalization Data You Should Be Collecting

Personalization Data

The golden rule of sending emails is relevancy. In a “me, me, me!” society, sending emails that are relevant to your recipient is top priority. However, there’s a lot more that goes on behind the scenes for every personalized, targeted email send. Personalization in your emails is only going to ever be as specific or […]

Indy 500: 3 Content Marketing Lessons

Content Marketing

Other than Cinco de Mayo, Memorial Day, and the end of the school year, the month of May might not mean a whole lot to most people. However, for the City of Indianapolis and avid sports enthusiasts like myself, May means one thing: the Indianapolis 500. Each year on the Sunday before Memorial Day, 33 […]

6 Lifecycle Marketing Emails You Should Send

6 Lifecycle Marketing Emails You Should Send

As a self-identified picky eater, I’m especially prone to order mishaps at restaurants. Just the other week, I tried out a new pizza joint with raving reviews. However, after waiting over 40 minutes for my custom pizza, the order was wrong, and I was less than raving about it. When timing and content (or pizza) […]

Mini Marathon of a CRM Purchase: A CLM Perspective

CLM Perspective

This past weekend I made the questionable life decision to pay a sum of money to punish myself over the course of 13.1 miles at the Indianapolis Mini Marathon. If you have ever run a mini marathon or an even further distance, you understand that it is quite literally a marathon and not a sprint. […]

Desk Decorations and Data Driven Marketing

Desk Decorations and Data Driven Marketing

There are many topics that I could have written on this week. The Indiana primary election, Game of Thrones, the NFL draft, my upcoming mini marathon, May the Fourth, the Indiana Pacers playoff collapse, etc. However, I have decided to focus my blog this week on a desk decoration that I have mere inches from […]

Become a Data-Driven Donkey Kong

Become a Data-Driven Donkey Kong

Whether you would like to admit it or not, the most powerful throwback Nintendo character was Donkey Kong. He knew how to crush his opponents, jump over obstacles and demonstrate his mega strength.  A common obstacle for most marketers is defeating data-driven marketing practices.  So how can we gain the ability to become a data-driven […]

Grandma Versus Twitter. Marketing Automation versus Customer Lifecycle Marketing.

Grandma Versus Twitter. Marketing Automation versus Customer Lifecycle Marketing.

Your Grandma versus Twitter. Marketing automation versus Customer Lifecycle Marketing. There is a gap in understanding with your grandmother and social media, and I believe the same exists in the world of marketing technology. I have found that most people that I speak with are unsure of the differences (if they can identify any) between […]

How Marketing Automation Improves Customer Retention

How Marketing Automation can improve customer retention

If you do a Google search for “lead management software,” chances are you’ll find results with ties to marketing automation. It’s no secret many growing organizations move to a marketing automation platform due to the overwhelming volume of inquiries, or leads, they receive on a daily basis. However, can marketing automation do more than manage leads […]