social media marketing

With widespread use of mobile devices and social media, today's consumers are connected and empowered like never before. This white paper explores the challenges that face retail chief marketing officers (CMOs) and their divisions.

Your brand has fans, friends and followers. So what?

This report offers recommendations for achieving greater return on investment (ROI) from customer analytics processes.

Read this white paper to learn how marketers are using IBM technology to learn about their customers’ attitudes, preferences and buying habits from what they say on social media and through a range of interactions that can be measured and analyzed.

This white paper examines the role social media can play in presenting a more strategic view of customer data.

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.

Erik Qualman of Socialnomics offers a four-phase strategy to help organizations deliver greater insight and value from their efforts in social media.

Social media is more than friends and likes, tweets and followers, pins and mentions. According to the Q4 2013 Adobe Digital Index Social Intelligence Report, it’s time for marketers to take social advertising seriously. With higher click-through rates and lower prices, the pressure is on to bring social into your overall media mix. Adobe can help manage, forecast, and optimize all your ads.

In this paper, we introduce the essential components of online opinion monitoring. By incorporating them into your analysis, you can take full advantage of the opportunities that social media offers to you. Opinion monitoring will help you to develop informed advertising and marketing strategies that promote your brand’s market success.

Social Marketing encompasses a slew of activity that takes place in social networks and online communities. The mashup of all this activity is a way for your brand to build better customer relationships, increase awareness of your brand and ultimately drive sales.

Online communities help customers connect with their peers and your brand in a more meaningful and measurable way than is possible with social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

How to evaluate vendor technology and services to make your organization stronger

B2B demand generation has almost completely re-invented itself over the last decade. The collision of inbound, content marketing, lead nurturing, marketing automation, analytics, email, search, social media and native advertising has transformed the discipline from a dark art to an increasingly data-driven science. But there’s a problem. When it comes to helping to land and expand these major deals, today’s marketing teams are seriously handicapped. The Clear & Complete Guide to Account Based Marketing (ABM) is your guide to solving this problem. It will take you, step-by-step, through this fast-emerging discipline, showing you how to align your sales and marketing team around a strategy that’s optimized for the biggest, most important deals.

B2B demand generation has almost completely re-invented itself over the last decade. The collision of inbound, content marketing, lead nurturing, marketing automation, analytics, email, search, social media and native advertising has transformed the discipline from a dark art to an increasingly data-driven science. But there’s a problem When it comes to helping to land and expand these major deals, today’s marketing teams are seriously handicapped. The Clear & Complete Guide to Account Based Marketing (ABM) is your guide to solving this problem. It will take you, step-by-step, through this fast-emerging discipline, showing you how to align your sales and marketing team around a strategy that’s optimized for the biggest, most important deals.

Download 10 Key Online Marketing Trends for 2010 to reveal what is shaping online marketing today.

Download 7 Secrets to Automate Analytics for Growth to ensure your online interaction data is driving revenue.

Good marketers are going where their customers are - that means social media. According to a recent Unica global survey of marketers, 47% of respondents say they currently use social media marketing tactics; in North America, that number jumps to 58%. Yet, for all the rush, many marketers are wondering, "where's the gold?" Download the white paper, "From Social Media Hype to Social Media Marketing" and learn how to build a stronger customer relationship."

B2B purchasing in a Web 2.0 world has transformed into an interactive process driven by the customer, not the vendor. Learn how using clickstream data to target buyers' motivations allows marketers to trigger automated processes to drive better leads for sales.

It has been well documented that just having a Facebook page or sending the occasional tweet are not enough to have a significant, sustainable impact on business results. The good news is that there are multiple ways to take advantage of the social media space, and one of the most effective places to start is actually from your own website.

A comprehensive user management platform provides the essential tools for improving acquisition, creating engagement and building intelligence. Use this guide when evaluating prospective vendors to select the right user management platform partner.

Do you make customers register an account in order to leave comments on your site, access information or make a purchase? You could be driving them away. Download the research report and discover the preferred alternative for 77% of consumers.

Want to learn how your brand can use social media contests to drive awareness and engagement on each of the major social networks?

For the majority of small businesses around the country, the world of marketing looks very different from big brands and retailers. With limited budgets, resources and staff to execute their marketing visions, it can oftentimes be daunting and confusing for local/ small businesses to tackle their social media marketing, let alone convert engagement with their content on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter into local store sales. Download this research report to learn how Facebook advertising converts digital ‘hunters’ into in-store buyers.

A lot has changed in the 10 years since Facebook first launched. No longer are social networking sites just a place where people can stay in touch with friends. Now, 30 percent of people use Facebook as their primary source of news. While Facebook is still the number one social network, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Pinterest are all growing at steady rates and millions of users are accessing these sites from the palm of their hand with smartphones and other mobile devices. Download this whitepaper to learn how you can leverage social networking to quickly reach users and entire online communities to boost your business.

To stay ahead of the competition in this constantly changing environment, you need to understand which marketing tools work best for your business. Today, companies are employing integrated marketing to help target, engage, and convert new and existing customers. Download this whitepaper to learn ‘how’ and ‘why’ you need these top five digital marketing services for your local business.