Posts Tagged ‘digital marketing’

Alex Hooshmand, VP of Oracle’s Product Management in Oracle Marketing Cloud talked about how Advertising Tech (AdTech) and Marketing Tech (MarTech) are slowly converging to deliver a more consistent experience for customers.  Alex was cofounder of BlueKai, which Oracle acquired in 2014. For many years there have been two customer funnels – pre-sales funnel with awareness, […]

“Infinite choice is paralyzing, and exhausting to the human psyche,”  said Barry Schwartz in The Paradox of Choice.  This concept is what drives the need to personalize content and web sites. Craig Macdonald presented this session on personalization at Oracle OpenWorld. Personalization starts with recognition – you have to have customer insight to really recognize […]

Over the last several years, the digital marketing revolution has moved outward from B2C brands into the B2B companies. This wave of change has seen massive changes in retail and the death of numerous brands that were not able to compete in the new digitized landscape. Consumer’s increased expectations are now affecting B2B interactions, and companies […]

In the Dreamforce session I blogged on How Smart Brands Use Digital Marketing, the presenter also highlighted a video from L’OREAL. The presenter highlighted that L’OREAL engages their users with the Makeup Genius mobile app in a truly innovative way. I found that video and have embedded it below for your viewing pleasure.

In the Dreamforce session I blogged on How Smart Brands Use Digital Marketing, the presenter highlighted a video from Room & Board that’s worth sharing. The presenter highlight that Room & Board probably does a better job at this than any other company he’s seen. I found that video and have embedded it below for your […]

Not too long ago I was clearly targeted in an email campaign and banner ads as a 40-something, suburban mom with kids that was preparing for “back-to-school.” I was offered some pretty good deals on sneakers, backpacks and organizational products for my home. Unfortunately, this retailer couldn’t have been more wrong. I am 40-something, single, […]

In a recent IBM blog post, Brittany Haas discusses the key to driving digital transformation – Millennials. And when you think about it, it makes complete sense.  Millennials are the generation that have grown up in a completely digital world who don’t know what a suitcase phone is, a beeper or library card catalogs!  These […]

Marketers by nature are tinkerers, always looking for ways to improve their effectiveness. That statement is supported by the use of numerous metrics, reports, dashboards and scorecards. So it comes as no surprise that we want to push the envelope and ensure that we cover the customer’s entire journey with timely personalized messaging.  So, how […]

  The age of the digital marketer and a new era of marketing is upon us. At the Salesforce Connections conference this week in New York, attendees are getting insider’s access to a wealth of knowledge and best practices using Salesforce from digital marketing leaders at BMW, Honeywell, Panera Bread and Weight Watchers, and as well as a sneak peek at […]

Chris Bevolo, author of “Joe Public Does not Care about your Hospital” and more recently, “Joe Public II: Embracing the new Paradigm” spoke at the Chicago Healthcare Marketing Summit on May 27. He shared why the word Paradigm is the right word to describe the sea change in digital marketing: In 1962, Thomas Kuhn wrote […]

When we talk about Omni-Channel Marketing, we want to integrate marketing automation tools – campaign management, segmentation, etc – with Digital Experience platforms.  IBM has a complete suite of tools in marketing automation, content analytics and digital experience.  In this session at the IBM Digital Experience Conference, Connie Triassi, Angela Caruso and Bryan Daniel talked […]

I recently attended an event in Chicago where Chris Bevolo (Author of “Joe Public II: Embracing the New Paradigm”, Melody Smith Jones (Manager, Connected Health at Perficient) and Jason Rushforth (Oracle Vice President of Industry Solutions) discussed the evolving healthcare marketing landscape. I was pleased to see that these three individuals presented three topics that […]