More than ever, now is the time, to connect with your target audience and to provide them with educational content and solution-based collateral.
During these unprecedented times it is important for businesses to now review their tactics for reaching their target audiences, it is also important to maintain...
Published: May 15, 2020
The science of customer loyalty isn’t new—marketers were introduced to it more than 20 years ago.1 But the pursuit of loyalty is an ongoing struggle; marketers still grapple with disjointed, and even dysfunctional, toolsets as they attempt to engage each customer in a personal, long-term relationship with a...
Published: Aug 04, 2014
If your CEO tells you that you’re focusing on the wrong metrics, you’re not alone. In a 2011 survey of CEOs by The Fournaise Group, 73 percent of respondents said that marketers lack business credibility because they fail to quantify the success of their campaigns.
Published: May 19, 2014
Your salespeople are spending too much time doing paperwork and not enough time selling. They can’t get the information they need when they’re meeting with customers. Teams don’t collaborate or share best practices. Sales productivity is down and so is quota attainment.
After gathering data from...
Published: Jan 11, 2016
Nearly every enterprise has some form of an intranet, but how many view it as a strategic business tool, investing levels of budget and resources similar to other critical business systems? While traditionally the intranet has been treated as a necessary cost of doing business that should be minimized, today’s intranet...
Published: Feb 09, 2011
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
Industry experts predict that successful businesses will soon become 100% digital for all transactions. Sales teams that leverage digital technology close more deals faster, improve the customer experience, and gain clear competitive advantages.
Sales professionals are most effective when they’re equipped with...
Published: Jul 30, 2019
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
Website optimization has the potential to transform how travel companies do business. But for online travel companies to be able to grow their revenue, they need to keep listening to their audience for insights to help reduce friction and improve conversions.
This eBook reveals how to use optimization to stay...
Published: May 11, 2016
User Generated Content (UGC) is not just another marketing buzz phrase, honest. It’s a very powerful strategy for your marketing team and all you need to do is add content created by engaged customers (such as product reviews, videos and photos) into your marketing campaigns.
UGC has been proven...
Published: Oct 03, 2017
Business technology leaders have unique opportunities and significant challenges in the new era of the customer.
Chief Information Officers, Chief Digital Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are increasingly investing time and resources in delivering enhanced customer experience, and CRM will be a core platform in...
Published: Mar 10, 2016
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
The consumer goods business is rooted in strong consumer bonds that lead to loyalty and repeat purchases. Habitual buying patterns create lifetime customer opportunities. But does your customer experience drive this kind of customer loyalty?
Published: Nov 10, 2012
There is a lot of buzz going on around personalization in the online world, such as how to use it, does it matter, won’t the visitor be suspicious and other factors. In the offline world, personalization is everywhere; if I go shopping for clothes and enter a store I have never visited before, the sales clerk will...
Published: May 12, 2014