Posts Tagged ‘marketing automation’

Our previous post highlighted the challenges healthcare marketers are facing today. In this post we will highlight how Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Marketing can help healthcare marketers manage the basics of email marketing campaigns. How often do you receive an email with inconsistent spacing, fonts, and other formatting issues? Does it inspire you with confidence when […]

Healthcare marketers today have a lot on their plates. From juggling the demands of traditional community outreach and marketing to exploring ways to educate health consumers about the services your organization provides, the landscape can be rugged with no clear path to success. Further complicating matters, consumers today expect you to know them and offer […]

Marketing Automation (MA) is the effort to better manage [online] marketing channels. Mark Polly calls out a 2014 Frost & Sullivan Report to say MA will be a $1.9B industry by 2020. And Marisa Lather explains some ways to get your MA going the right way. Marketing Automation vs CRM The classic “purchase funnel” is a […]

Today at the MarTech West conference in San Jose, Scott Brinker and team unveiled the 2018 MarTech Landscape chart.  Scott has produced The Marketing Technology Landscape chart since 2011.  The chart shows all the companies in the MarTech landscape grouped over many categories, such as Advertising & Promotion, Content & Experience, etc.   While the chart […]

A Sitecore Symposium 2017 speaker today addressed the journey to customer experience success. The following are my notes: The presentation started by imagining a day in 2027: Wake up early Coffee is ready and at the right temperature Looks at his family status His daughter has an increased temperature. Made changes to calendar Food algorithm […]

Caterpillar is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. Connecting with customers in today’s rapidly changing environment is more challenging than ever.  To address these challenges Caterpillar continues to invest in technology platforms that will enable its dealers to sell more machines, […]

I bet you thought, wow is she really going to go into the whole Presidential Race ‘thing’…nope, not touching it!  I’ll touch on another campaign that most marketers stress or think about on occasion.  To Nurture or not to Nurture! If you have a nurture campaign, congrats! If you don’t, why not? When I’m talking […]

Modern Marketing Experience (MME) 2016, what a four-day affair! Insightful, amazing and overwhelming…that would be what MME was this year. So much great content, it really is hard to put into words how great it was. It was described by an Oracle Service Cloud Consultant that when going to the 3rd floor, which was the […]

By now you’re familiar with the term personalization and heard it a time or two if you’re a marketer. This term has been used to describe the 1:1 experience or journey marketers can create to connect and engage with customers on a deeper level. But what exactly is hyper-personalization and how does it differ from just delivering a personalized […]

Starbucks did not invent the coffeehouse. It only appears that way. The 44-year-old retailer and cultural touchstone that turned ordering a latte into a social statement grew fastest between 1987 and 2007, when it averaged two new stores daily. Then the Great Recession hit, people started cutting cappuccinos from their budgets as a first line […]

On Oct. 9, Perficient colleagues Mary Jo Schweitzer, email marketing manager; Elizabeth Dias, senior Salesforce marketing manager; and I gave a presentation at the Salesforce User Group Meeting held at World Wide Technology in St. Louis, Mo. The presentation was framed as a ‘fireside chat’ with Perficient’s Marketing and Demand Generation teams. Our goal was […]

Blake Markham and Mark Knapp of Salesforce held little back during the Pardot Roadmap session at Dreamforce 2015. While leading with the familiar “Safe Harbor” slide, they quickly delved into new features and updates to existing processes that will soon impact Pardot customers. *The following updates were revealed under the Safe Harbor statute and rollout timeline is […]

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, […]

  With the Salesforce acquisition of ExactTarget in 2013, and subsequently Pardot, we have been anticipating exciting growth for Salesforce in the area of marketing automation. In Summer ’15 we’re going to see an exciting new feature released called “Salesforce Engage”. This new feature is an extension of Pardot’s marketing automation solution integrated directly into […]

Today at Salesforce Connections during one of the afternoon breakout sessions, we got a “behind the scenes” look at how Salesforce uses the Marketing Cloud to create 1:1 customer journeys. That got me thinking. Customer engagement strategies continue to evolve as new channels, devices and marketing technologies are introduced to help the most innovative brands understand and […]

  The structure and relationship between traditional B2B marketing and sales has long been separate functions.  Sales feels marketing should deliver the best leads, and more of them.  While marketing has been focused on volume over quality.  It is not a novel concept to talk about marketing and sales evolving into a symbiotic relationship vs […]

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 […]

David Haucke from IBM and Scott Brinker from ION Interactive and chiefmartec.com presented the session “The Future of Engagement: How Smart Marketers Will Win in the Years to Come”. The idea of personalized 1 to 1 mark3ting is being realized by a few organizations.  David and Scott talked about how more organizations could take advantage of […]

We’ve heard a lot about Chief Marketing Officers in the last few years.  With Digital Transformation at the top of many CEOs minds, the CMO role has gained prominence and power.  Of course with that prominence, comes increasing scrutiny.  Matt Langie wrote a story on CMO.com about the pressure CMOs are facing due to the […]

Back in the old days (like 2005!), to find information about a product, people contacted a salesperson, visited a retail location,  or waited for the company to advertise or email information out.  Things have changed dramatically since then.  A recent CMS Report story, What is Visitor to Lead Management, cited the statistic that 74% of […]