As marketers, we can be a picky bunch. In an effort to put our best foot forward, we often use brand guidelines, tone-of-voice documents and documented approval processes. We check and double check our work, asking for everyone to go over a fine-tuned piece of copy.
In an age where a print ad, a brochure or a quarterly...
Published: Oct 23, 2020
Driving webinar registration and attendance is a major struggle for most companies. While webinars are a powerful tool for communicating with customers, prospects, and employees across multiple time zones and geographies, they are only as good as your ability to get people to attend them. Today, there has never been more...
Published: Aug 24, 2020
Copenhagen, Denmarkbased Sitecore offers a suite that includes a WCM backbone integrated with marketing software, analytics, and social media integration, and even a commerce server. One benefit of a suite approach is a more consistent user experience and integrated toolkits such as workflow, testing, and analytics. Sitecore...
Published: Feb 04, 2015
Digital has changed healthcare forever. Health information is now readily available to anyone with an internet connection, with the majority of consumers taking full advantage of this accessibility. Among the internet users responding to a recent survey, 72% reported seeking health information online in the last 12 months.¹...
Published: Feb 18, 2014
It’s been over 35 years since people first started talking about “the paperless office.”1 Surprise—paper still plays a huge role in all aspects of business, for a simple reason: customers still want it. Despite a seismic shift to digital communications, the printed medium is alive and well, even...
Published: May 13, 2014
Amazon, Ebay, Alibaba … be they large or small, general or specialised, the economic position of marketplaces is always secure. Marketplaces are very effective for online retailers: their large amounts of traffic can give great visibility to your products, and therefore increase sales dramatically.
But...
Published: Dec 14, 2016
Record global automotive sales are expected in 2017 after sales accelerated towards the end of 2016. Thanks to economic recovery, competitive finance options and rising earnings, sales have been boosted and we are seeing a rise in customer confidence.
Social media has had a huge, game-changing effect on the automotive...
Published: Oct 03, 2017
Nearly all consumers are familiar with—and often prefer—online shopping. Seventy percent of US Internet users made at least one online purchase during the second quarter of 2011,1 and Forrester projects that US e-retail sales will grow by 10% each year, reaching $279 billion by 2015.2 As online sales grow,...
Published: Aug 04, 2013
44% of iOS users and 91% of Android users opt in to push notifications, making them the #1 external channel for marketers to encourage app engagement and long-term customer retention.
But creating the perfect push campaign isn’t easy.
To understand what today’s mobile users want, our data science...
Published: Mar 31, 2020
Introducing IBM Watson Supply Chain Business Network
Supply Chain Business Network correlates related documents so business users can quickly find related supply chain transactions, and pinpoint issues without involving IT... and natural language search and conversation allows them to get the answers they need fast,...
Published: Aug 22, 2018
Leave administration is one of the most challenging aspects of workforce management and an area that continues to become more complicated as leave regulations—and lawsuits—increase. For employers, having to understand and comply with complex federal regulations, such as the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA),...
Published: May 12, 2013
While there’s no magic bullet when it comes to the success of your online store, top-performing retailers do have something in common: a growing focus on Experience Optimization.
Retailers use Experience Optimization to gather data about shoppers and then use that information to serve up...
Published: May 11, 2016
Digital media has enabled financial services organizations to increase their engagement with customers and move toward providing a more compelling customer experience. According to a global survey by Ernst and Young,¹ 86% of consumers now use online banking, with 60% accessing their banking data via a mobile device....
Published: May 08, 2013
The marketplace environment is very varied, and lets all types of retailers to sell in a particular zone to a particular audience. There are B2B, B2C and C2C marketplaces, where people exchange physical goods, intangible goods, and services. With so many different marketplaces, it is important to distinguish between generalist...
Published: Oct 15, 2016