Imagine you are sitting in a movie theater (or in this case, 2021 Adobe Summit). The lights drop, the green preview screen comes on, and the booming voice of Don LaFontaine comes over the loudspeaker: “In a world where Multi-Channel Marketing scales, Marketo Rules” This year’s Adobe Summit introduced us to such a world. In […]
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[Podcast] What If? So What? Episode 4: What if Every Brand Went Direct to Consumer?
In a world where retail has changed and consumers remain at home, how do brands reimagine the task of getting products to customers? In Episode 4 of the What If? So What? podcast, we interview Jon Bostock, best-selling author, innovator, co-founder and CEO of Truman’s and learn how brands that innovate will win in a […]
[Podcast] What If? So What? Episode 3: What if You Could Do 5 Years of Digital Marketing in 6 Months
The pandemic dramatically accelerated the evolution and maturity of digital marketing. As platforms, approaches, and channels have all shifted seemingly overnight, we have a new normal for changing your marketing strategy more rapidly than ever. In Episode 3 of the What If? So What? podcast, Kim interviews Eric Enge, Principal at Perficient, to learn what […]
What Digital Initiatives Will You Focus on in 2021?
As we ring in 2021 and say goodbye to 2020, it’s time to look forward. There’s no better time to utilize the “new year, new me” mindset and focus on taking your company to the next level and giving your customers a better experience. CIO Review states, “Digital transformation trends have been increased by 5.3 […]
More Than a Brand Steward: The Redefined Role of CMO
There is no doubt that the role of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) has changed significantly in the past decade. Once held up as a maven of creativity and brand, today’s technologies, customers, and pace of business demand CMOs have a wider handle on a variety of skill sets and a much deeper business acumen […]
Why Instagram’s New Shopping Icon Is Changing Ecommerce Forever
Earlier this summer, Instagram started testing a new feature by adding in a shopping icon, replacing the legacy activity feed icon. I have yet to see this feature on my personal Instagram account until this morning. While Instagram has recently released its new “reels” feature, this new step to replace the activity feed with the […]
Quickly Leverage Marketo Engage
Adobe’s Marketo Engage marketing automation tool is powerful in creating a cohesive relationship between marketing and sales and driving sales through your pipeline. Even though you may have purchased Marketo Engage for email marketing, lead generation, or a variety of other reasons, you may be missing out on optimizing the platform to its full potential. […]
Conversational Marketing: Old School Meets New School
Why Is Everyone Talking about Conversational Marketing? Conversational Marketing, a term originally coined by the company Drift, has taken on many forms and definitions over the past few years. If you ask five professional marketers the definition and what ‘makes up’ conversational marketing, you may get five different understandings. Is it a variation of personalization? […]
Combining Online & Offline Data in Automotive – Part Three
In the past two posts I explored the topic of automotive companies merging online and offline data to build better customer profiles and better understand their consumer base. In the first post, I discussed the data landscape in automotive and the overall need to combine online and offline data. In the second post, I focused […]
COVID Checklist: Five Things Hospital Marketers Should Do This Week (March 26, 2020)
COVID-19 is dominating the news cycles, many hospitals have stopped all electives procedures to focus on the first wave response to the coronavirus pandemic. (See the previous post on first wave responses.) While not all patients are impacted by the disease itself, all patients are impacted in some way and the disruption to care is […]
Digital Lifelines, the Weakest Link and True Personalization—Debrief of Digital and COVID-19 (Wk 1)
Tremendous change continues to happen daily as COVID-19 forces all of us into a new reality. As people practice social distancing and are forced to work from home and stores along with other gathering places close, digital channels become a critical connection to the outside world for us as social creatures. Trends are already emerging […]
Combining Online and Offline Data in Automotive – Part One
As technology advances, new ways to gather customer data and new ways to use that data in marketing and customer outreach have emerged. This has created a new need for many companies in various industries. The need to combine offline data with online data in accurate and intelligent ways, allowing the organization to gather more […]