Tag Archives: Content marketing

Content Marketing: Delivering Interesting, Custom Content

balance your content

Content marketing is a popular topic these days. Everyone is looking for advice and best practices to implement in an effort to drive revenue. Is email marketing still the path to follow or do you mix it up with direct mail pieces? What about webinars, social media, blogs, ebooks, whitepapers and infographics? Salesforce Marketing Cloud […]

Authentic marketing through storytelling

As consumers we want to connect with brands we believe to be real, engaging and honest. Everyone wants what I like to refer to as the “Norm Affect.” There’s something special about walking into your favorite coffee shop, boutique or restaurant and the staff knows your name. I discussed in another recent blog post the […]

Google says goodbye to keywords

No doubt you’ve already heard the day everyone in online advertising and marketing has been fearing has arrived. Google has cut off all keyword data. It’s no more. Google now provides encrypted searches using HTTPS (secure search) and keyword data will no longer be shared with website owners. Secure search eliminates the ability for organizations […]

Marketing throughout the Customer Journey

Customer Service Journey

You’ve seen and studied the diagrams. Maybe you paid to hear subject matter experts talk about it. You’ve certainly experienced it for yourself. Every once in awhile it’s a trendy phrase, but it’s never really gone away or come back. It’s always there but marketers don’t always focus on it. I’m talking about the customer […]

5 Ways to Set Up Dynamic Content Using Marketing Automation

Audience relevance is the most important element of content success, followed by engaging and compelling storytelling that triggers a specific response. In a recent survey, over 30% of B2B marketers claim that their biggest concern with content marketing is that it’s not reaching the most appropriate audience. Dynamic content coupled with marketing automation allows you […]

Pandora celebrates the customer journey

Recently I received an email from Pandora, the Internet radio provider, that really caught my attention. In the email, Pandora offered a look back at my “musical journey” and reminded me, “it all started with The Smiths Radio.” Instantly, I was reminded of my first Pandora station, why I chose The Smiths to kick off […]

Changes to Gmail and the impact on email marketing

If you are a Gmail user, you may have noticed a new tab format rolled out earlier this summer. The new format separates received emails into categories and allows the user to see new emails at a glance within each category. This better allows the user to read their emails at their convenience. In the […]

The Key Challenges of Marketing Automation

Marketing automation is imperative in a sophisticated infrastructure, as it frees the marketer from being bogged down with routine tasks while improving accuracy. A recent study by B2B online: “Marketing Automation: Best Practices for the Management of B2B Digital Marketing Campaigns” reveals that 46% of marketers are already adopting marketing automation in some way, and […]

We are the ROI of marketing automation

Move over Big Data. Marketing automation is the new buzzword with marketers. “Marketing Automation: Best Practices for the Management of B2B Digital Marketing Campaigns” confirms the obvious when it discloses that 46% of all B2B marketers have already adopted marketing automation solutions in some form or another, and another 20% are actively evaluating marketing automation […]

Aligning Marketing Automation with Content Marketing Strategy

With big data analytics and “hyper-customization” becoming indispensable to generate leads and engage with prospects effectively, marketing automation has become an integral part of the marketing landscape. B2B estimates 46% of marketers have adopted some form of marketing automation, with 62% of them being strong adopters. By 2014, the tribe of strong adopters will grow substantially […]