Any marketer worth their weight in leads knows the benefits of personalization—and yet, a surprisingly large number of companies have not fully embraced this strategic tactic.
Typically, senior marketing professionals see personalization as a double-edged sword. On one hand, there’s no...
Published: Sep 16, 2019
Building a sales team and compensating every member of the team properly requires careful planning and thoughtful design, and in order to ensure that you are providing the right incentives to ensure you help your company achieve growth and success, you need to think strategically about the design process of your sales...
Published: Oct 29, 2015
Organizations like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are turning to experimentation to relentlessly pursue high-performing digital products, campaigns, and experiences. Whether you’re completely new to experimentation or you’re looking to upgrade your current capability, this eBook is designed to help you understand...
Published: Jan 08, 2018
Your customers have a strong opinion of what makes a company customer-centric.
Customer service organizations must build on a foundation of operational efficiencies in order to deliver the great customer experiences that differentiate a brand. Leveraging tools for process automation and analytics, organizations gain...
Published: Jul 26, 2017
Today, most organizations have a customer experience strategy (96%), but recent Avanade research shows that only 14% are ahead of their customers’ expectations. This means that 86% feel that they are behind the curve, the competition — and most importantly — their customers’ expectations.
The...
Published: Oct 05, 2017
The vast increase in dark data—all of the unstructured data from the Internet, social media, voice and information from connected devices—is overwhelming many executives and leaving them completely unprepared for the challenges their businesses face.
The smartest executives focus on making sense of the...
Published: Oct 30, 2017
Marketing leaders will find a host of new vendors in this year's Magic Quadrant for multichannel campaign management. Vendors are focused on integrating machine learning, personalization and ad tech capabilities into big data foundations for deeper customer engagement.
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Published: Oct 30, 2017
What keeps marketing teams from reaching for the stars and succeeding? Common culprits include a lack of time, resources, IT support and management buy-in.
This tip sheet will help you map out a plan to get started on the most important programs for your business and move through the process to achieve your...
Published: Apr 23, 2018
The rise of marketing technology has in some ways shined a light into areas that were previously hard to measure: media effectiveness, engagement with marketing campaigns, and the impact on the bottom line.
But new areas of darkness have been created: growing amounts of siloed and unstructured data that are not harnessed,...
Published: Apr 23, 2018
CRM, Customer Relationship Management, and more particularly the technologies involved in delivering it has caused more confusion than any other technology that has been available in the market for so long. Survey after survey shows that for the majority of companies, the awareness of the technology exists but the confusion...
Published: Feb 01, 2012
Technology enables companies to carry out a vast array of marketing-related tasks more efficiently than ever, conferring significant benefits for CMOs and their organisations in their quest for greater revenues, reduced costs and a vastly improved customer experience.
But while the advantages of technology are undeniable,...
Published: Apr 25, 2018
Field service management teams want to keep costs down, while improving their customer service relationships.
This can be hard for organisations in any industry—often, reducing costs hurts customer relationships—but IoT provides a way for field service organisations to achieve this goal.
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Published: Jan 12, 2018
Dark social is a significant and growing challenge that marketers need to take seriously.
There is a growing body of evidence to show that consumers are increasingly sharing content privately, for example through messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Messenger, rather than on publicly accessible social networks where...
Published: Feb 01, 2018
Utilities leader Nuon (Vattenfall) switched their marketing strategy from channel vision to one-to-one personalization using the Relay42 data management solution. How, why, and did it work?
Discover how Nuon contended with the challenges associated with energy providers, such as churn rate and increasing...
Published: May 15, 2018