3 Online Marketing Trends You Need to Know for Success in 2016

It’s a new year. And as new years often are, it’s brimming with the excitement of new plans, new hopes, and the possibility of making your business dreams a reality. But a new year also ushers in a touch of trepidation to go with all that excitement. The online marketing landscape changes so fast it…

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The Future of Personalization

If you haven’t been thinking about the future of personalization, you should. The CMO Council released a fascinating study, looking at how marketers are viewing/using personalization and what that means for all of us down the road. The study, done in partnership with Pegasystems, is entitled “Predicting Routes to Revenue, and found that nearly half of…

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Are You an Old School Customer Marketer?

“Broadcast the message and they will come!” “Segment my broadcast and I will have better response.” Both of these time-honored methods of reaching our customers have worked for as long as there was print and radio/TV to get the message out. And both have become increasingly obsolete as new channels of reach have evolved, allowing…

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How to Survive When Digital Marketing Loses Its Luster

Is digital marketing losing its luster? Digital marketing channels are getting so saturated that marketers are re-examining traditional marketing. Say what? There’s no such thing as the perfect channel that will provide a solid return on investment (ROI) forever. With the ubiquitous emphasis on digital marketing these past few years, people have put a lot of money…

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How to Use Mass-Customization to Broaden Reach and Boost Bottom Line

While we know that “one size fits all” is seldom—if ever—true, we know that in sales the more people who are good fits for our products and services, the more profitable we’ll be. This fundamental truth has created what we call “mass-customization” and it’s a strategy that everyone from retailers on Etsy to huge manufacturing…

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Nostalgia Marketing: What Is It?

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Lately, I’ve noticed a marketing trend that isn’t necessarily a new phenomena, but seems to be gaining some steam. As a person who was born and grew up in the ‘90s, I constantly reminisce about the glory days of my youth
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Is It Your Sales Process?

Most organizations I work with have a sales process. But when I look at it, it’s not THEIR sales process. Sure it’s a sales process, but it’s not theirs.
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