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Brands have never been so fragile. The way we find, consume, and share information has changed dramatically in the past 10 years. Traditional customers have been replaced by a more demanding, less loyal breed of customer, and the explosion of channels makes attracting and retaining this new consumer even harder. Digitally savvy buyers are more likely to base their purchasing decisions on relevant customer experiences than on a logo. Even as these device-hopping consumers’ behaviors and preferences change at a dizzying pace, there's still an expectation for a consistent, meaningful experience — but if it's not optimal their perception of value drops and they disengage. So how can brands serve and delight smart customers across different channels and devices? Marketers must move beyond insights based on consumer demographics, transactional behavior, browsing habits, and intent.

B2C marketers need CMOs and top Customer Insights leadership to guide their teams in driving customer-obsessed strategies. While most think they are, given regular interaction with customers, in reality, most marketing leaders still prioritize internal rubrics over solving actual customer problems. In this Resonate Webinar, featuring guest, Shar VanBoskirk, VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, you’ll learn how to transform your marketing team into creators of post-digital brand experiences and leaders of enterprise-wide customer obsession. Key takeaways will include: - Why Marketing today is failing - How emphasis on customer understanding, brand strategy, and brand experience will turn Marketing into the leader in customer strategies for the entire firm - What Marketing Leadership must do in order to enact, and maintain this shift

Salesfusion is transforming how mid-market businesses engage audiences and measure marketing success. Our marketing automation platform is purpose-built for mid-sized companies. It is designed to include all of the features you need in a single platform that is both broad and deep in capability. We obsessed about the platform design to ensure it is easy to use with drag and drop interfaces for email, landing page, and form builders, and Salesfusion is the only marketing automation platform to include a comprehensive Business Intelligence module.

The General Data Protection Regulation – or GDPR – is a European Union (EU) law that protects the rights of individuals with respect to their data. Adopted as an EU law in April 2016, organizations that hold data about any resident of the EU must be compliant by May 2018. With attention-grabbing fines of €20 million or 4% of global annual turnover, GDPR commands attention at the highest levels. And despite the “legalese” that compliance suggests brands utilize, the brands that balance legal compliance with a human approach will turn GDPR to their advantage. This white paper provides a series of actions you can take to make the most of GDPR to both enhance your customer relationships and mitigate risk.

Among all the trends and buzzwords currently shaking up the marketing industry, one concept is emerging as the one to watch: customer experience (CX). Providing individual customers with the best possible experience is becoming the top priority at the moment, even to the point where experience outshines product quality(!) as the main differentiator. This is confirmed by a recent Gartner1 survey, in which 86 percent of participating companies listed customer experience as the main factor for gaining a competitive advantage, compared with merely 36 percent in 2012.

20% of customers will be responsible for 80% of profit – or so says The Pareto Principle, also known as the “rule of the vital few.” So, while marketers are trying hard to increase market share, they should be equally (or even more) concerned about nurturing the customer relationships they already have. That means finding ways to strengthen bonds with your best customers and figuring out how to turn good customers into better ones. Personalization, truly helpful support, data-driven contextual marketing, re-engagement strategies, gamification… There’s an almost overwhelming number of options out there, each touted as your golden key to an enduring bond with your users. In the pages that follow, you’ll learn about five strategies to drive engagement and retention with actionable tips from Selligent clients – top brands that are at the forefront of creating and sustaining customer loyalty.

Learn how core corporate processes can help your company meet financial objectives and mitigate risk in troubled economic times.

Adobe sits at the nexus of content, media, and marketing. Adobe provides an EMSS offering spanning marketing, advertising, analytics, and content management capabilities. Of the vendors included this study, Adobe maintains the highest degree of overall strategic focus on marketing and consumer engagement. Adobe is investing heavily in its platform’s core services to unify data, content, and shared functionality across products. Adobe stands out for its digital intelligence, content handling, and aggressive rollout of AI features. Reference clients praise Adobe for their application usability and account management.

It isn’t always easy to keep pace with today’s high volume of data, especially when it’s coming at you from a diverse number of sources. Tracking these analytics can place a strain on IT, who must provide the requested information to C-suite and analysts. Unless this process can happen quickly, the insights grow stale. Download your complimentary ebook now to see how Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift makes it easy for technical and business users alike to participate and own the entire data and analysis process. With Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift, everyone from CTOs to marketing analysts can generate valuable business intelligence by automating data and analytics orchestrations.

Email marketing is always changing. Download the “Email Intelligence Report” to tap into the latest data trends and analytics to optimize your email campaigns and ROI.

Discover how the right Mobile Relationship Management (MRM) strategies and technologies can propel your brand to the front of the field. Winning in mobile means delivering real value to your customer's lives, and adding to that value as you learn from your customers over time. That’s where MRM fits in. Learn 10 things you can start doing now to harness the power of 3 billion mobile devices worldwide to create even stronger connections between your customers and your brand.

Effective marketing starts with understanding the buyer, but also understanding your competitors. It's important to see where your competitors are succeeding, and where they're failing. Download this guide to help you stay up to speed with what your competitors are doing while staying on track for your own business strategy.

How a contact center deploys and manages eServices - non-voice interaction channels such as email, chat, SMS and social media - is the key to offering electronic services that attract modern tech-savvy customers. Learn about eServices best practices from Sheila McGee-Smith, founder of McGee-Smith Analytics, and Tim Passios, Director of Solutions Marketing at Interactive Intelligence, and how three diverse companies successfully utilize eServices to their advantage.

Read how in this first installment of a three-part series from two industry experts: Michele Rowan, president, At Home Customer Contacts, and Tim Passios, senior director of Solutions Marketing at Interactive Intelligence.

Improving annual revenue through organic growth is increasingly a top goal for organizations. This Aberdeen research shows that despite economic pressures, best-in-class companies, including Webtrends customers, are able to demonstrate clear value from their marketing campaigns.

How forward thinking marketing organizations deliver competitive differentiators.

See what CI professionals are saying about their technology strategies and challenges: focusing on improving the customer experience, data and measurement challenges, plans for outsourcing online technologies, and current technology use and plans for future adoption.

View this demo to find out how IBM SPSS® solutions for predictive customer analytics can deliver deep customer insights that help you tune your marketing efforts-effectively and efficiently attracting new customers, nurturing customer relationships and retaining ideal customers. Watch how IBM SPSS software uses existing customer information to help you do the following: Identify your best customers for targeted marketing programs with customer segmentation, cluster and profiling techniques; confidently predict which customers will respond to your offers with powerful predictive models; get more out of every customer interaction by delivering real-time, predictive intelligence to front-line decision makers; and enrich and deepen your customer insight with social media analytics.

In this new white paper by Peppers & Rogers Group and IBM, readers will learn how to harness customer insight from myriad interactions to profitably grow revenue, increase loyalty, and go from good to exceptional.

With Adobe Analytics and Adobe Audience Manager—both part of Adobe Marketing Cloud—media companies can overcome today’s audience intelligence challenges. Adobe Analytics is an industry-leading solution for applying real time analytics and detailed segmentation across all of your marketing channels. A unified platform and customer ID unlock powerful customer intelligence and help you discover and retain high-value audiences. Make forward-looking decisions with its predictive intelligence capabilities, and find out which of your marketing efforts are paying off with its attribution functionality.

Why are the majority of all sales leads (as many as 80 percent!) never followed up? Download this e-book and discover a 10-step process for transforming your current lead management process from a challenge into a competitive advantage.

More than ever, marketers are being held accountable for demonstrating how marketing investments directly translate into sales. That’s why Modern Marketing is fueled by intelligent data analytics and reporting. Implementing the proper analytics systems can help you make critical decisions regarding which parts of your marketing efforts are working or not, and provide the reporting tools necessary to justify those decisions by connecting them directly with pipeline and revenue. By implementing systems for reporting and intelligence, you can better understand the impact that sales and marketing efforts are having on overall business. You then can refine strategies and develop repeatable processes for success.

Learn about the five gaps that could be costing you time, customers, and profit in this digital e-book. Discover how to close those gaps and transform your people, process, and technology to better serve your customer. You’ll also learn how to: Create a unified view and deliver personalized experiences to your customers across all touchpoints and channels. Provide actionable insights to your sales and marketing team so they can work together more effectively. Bring intelligence to your data and connect it with content and processes, so you can make better, faster decisions. Transform your business by connecting sales and marketing with a shared set of successful business practices.

A Beginner's Guide to Marketing Data Analytics Marketing Data is big & highly fragmented Big data is messy. It’s scattered across platforms, it’s diverse, and in its raw form, it’s practically unusable. We know, it’s a painful truth. The fact of the matter is that having a lot of data doesn’t necessarily mean that you have the answers to your most pressing questions. Looking for the most relevant bits in your pile of big data is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But don't you worry - we are here to help. This handy e-book will give you a short overview what quality matters, why data is so important and what you need to pay attention to. Best thing is: getting this ebook is super easy. Just fill out the form to the right and voilá - your download is ready. Enjoy this read!

In this whitepaper, we take a closer look at some of the biggest challenges facing e-commerce businesses, namely understanding your data in general and, more precisely, your customer acquisition costs (CAC). It's full of inspiration, useful tips and actionable insights for you to step up your marketing game. In order to reap the fruits from your data seeds, you have to make sure you tackle these five challenges full-frontal: Knowing what data to capture Understanding customer behaviour Finding your technology solution Ensuring analysis is impartial Optimising website content - especially for your offline users