What Big Brands Really Think About Big Data

Big Data is Critical to Marketing Effectiveness … But Challenges Remain Recent research by Informatica/D&B/Ascend2 asked 234 marketing professionals how they use big data and what there biggest challenges are. Key Objectives for a Data-Driven Strategy Revolve Around Personalization The drive for personalizing the customer experience by individual market segments is paramount to marketers.  This […]

Clients Love Monologue … Buyers Want Dialogue.

Most Content Marketing is Fairly Mundane Stuff Many brands view their Content Marketing practice as another sales communications channel.  Why not?  The objective is to ‘sell something’ so why not use every buyer touch point to get your point across.  Seems obvious the more sales messages, the more sales.  The classic lower funnel strategy that’s worked […]

It’s Not the Technology You Use … It’s How You Use the Technology That Matters

Achieving Maximum Performance in SMV Marketing Requires Human Intervention at Every Step  “Drowning in data … starving for wisdom”**.   No truer words ever spoken to sum up digital marketing and the advent of big data into the advertising world. Everywhere you look agencies are relying more and more on technology to drive decisions on ad spend. […]

Best Practices: Simple Steps to Improve Email CRM Engagement

For Many Brands CRM Emails Are On Autopilot ➟ Bland, Boring, Monotonous Insight  ⇒  Brands Struggle as Publishers as Content Marketing Grows According to 2014 research from the Content Marketing Institute, issues center around producing engaging content and enough of it, plus a lack of time and budget resources.   Insight  ⇒  Content is Hard […]

Proven Best Practices Drive Social Media Success

Learn How to Create Experiences Instead of Content Insight  ⇒  Social Success is Driven by a Few Key Strategies The success of Social Media  campaigns is driven by close adherence to key best practices that have proven to increase traffic, drive participation and achieve engagement rates 5-10X’s industry benchmarks. Create interactive user experiences that  are […]

Best Practices: Steps to Effective Content Marketing

Learn a Step-by-Step Process to Create Content That Gets Read and Shared Insight  ⇒  There Are Two Phases For Creating Effective Content Set-up Implementation Insight  ⇒  Set-up  ⇒  Proper Set-up is as Critical as Great Implementation Assess marketplace issues  ➟  What are the pain points in the marketplace that  the brand solves Determine key issues […]