In a recent survey, 92% of marketing leaders stated that proving the impact of marketing campaigns is a growing priority. Marketers have the marketing automation tools needed and are now looking to get more ROI from the technology to reduce inefficiencies and prove marketing impact. Marketing Automation IQ for Marketo Engage Jump-Start Perficient Digital helps […]
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Alex Harris Checks in with Nasdaq at Opticon19
Director of Conversion Optimization Alex Harris stopped by Opticon19 last week to meet with other conversion rate optimization (CRO) experts in the industry and learn about the latest Optimizely releases. While there, he sat down with Nasdaq’s Laura Moreno for a quick chat about the event, what we do here at Perficient Digital, and the […]
How Auto Dealers Should be Using Third Party Websites
As auto dealers increase their interest, knowledge, and investment in various digital marketing tactics, the discussion on how to best utilize third party auto sites is growing. If you are asking yourself, “what exactly is a third party auto site?”, no worries, let me take my best attempt at defining it. Third party auto sites […]
Changing the Perception of Auto Dealers
A big problem in the automotive industry is distrust of auto dealers. This is an issue that is highly discussed but almost never addressed. 87% of Americans dislike car shopping at dealerships. 61% feel they’re taken advantage of while there (Jazel Automotive). I bet this percentage would be even higher if all of these shoppers […]
Automotive Brands are Digitally Cannibalizing Themselves
Digital marketers, working on behalf of the same brand across all three tiers in the automotive industry, are competing with each other. They are driving up costs for each other and providing inconsistent messaging and pricing to consumers. To give you a specific example, let’s use Paid Search marketing, as this is the marketing channel […]
The Rise in Video Marketing
As reported by eMarketer, video ad spending continued to grow throughout Q2 of 2019. Of all programmatic ad spend, video will account for 49.2% in 2019. If the brands you manage have not already, now is the time to begin video content creation. Especially as consumer viewing habits evolve from traditional media, with the demand […]
Rethinking the Automotive Website
Auto manufacturers need to rethink their entire approach to their websites. The typical content that every OEM displays on their website is getting stale and boring. Yes, you should still have a vehicle details page, and all the shopping tools that go with it, but why not start including different types of content outside of […]
The Auto Industry is Unique, Marketers Should Take Advantage
Digital marketers in the automotive industry need to take advantage of the uniqueness of the industry. There are two specific factors I want to discuss that make the industry so unique. First, the auto industry is required to report industry-wide sales to the government and the public. Second, its transactions are done entirely in-person rather […]
Marketing to Millennials in Automotive
According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the Pew Research Center, millennials are defined as those born between the years of 1981 and 1997. That would make those between the ages of 21 and 38 millennials (up to this point in 2019), for those of you looking around the office wondering […]
Should I Use Global or Local Forms in Marketo Engage
Delivering success with Marketo requires best practice knowledge and expertise for marketing automation teams. This ongoing Marketo Essentials series shares tips and expertise you can put to use in Marketo to do more and perform better. This is a common question Marketo users ask when creating programs inside Marketo Engage. Today I am going to […]
Personalization Drives $34 Million in Revenue for Health Insurer
This is the second post in a four-part series sharing real stories of success in marketing automation. A Fortune 50 health insurer came to us with a simple question. “What if we could deliver highly personalized experiences for thousands of healthcare customers, at scale?” The client had a marketing team of three. They were experiencing […]
Performance Planner Part 1 – Make the Most of Your Google Ads
Google Ads is launching a new tool called the Performance Planner. The goal of this tool is to identify the ideal budgets for your campaigns and drive additional conversions by giving you bid and budget recommendations, which highlight how you could maximize one out of three performance metrics: clicks, conversions or conversion value. In the […]