Content is still king. Inbound marketing requires quality content to drive traffic, visibility and leads. Content needs to exist for each stage of the buying process. So, when asked “Does web content have an ROI?” illustrate the return on investment with these metrics demonstrating conversion and...
Digital marketing spending trends in the US and globally offer valuable insight into the industry today. One encouraging finding is Forrester Research’s forecast that digital marketing spending will continue to rise through 2019. The research firm forecast an increase from 57.29 billion US dollars...
Even before the great earbud controversy of 2016, Apple was facing steep competition for global mobile market share. This article’s collection of iOS mobile market stats are telling about the 1 billion active mobile users of Apple. Apple Market Share Apple’s share of the global smartphone OS market...
Do lead lists work? Not if you measure success by leads generated, sales conversions, or the prospects' positive experience. Lead lists don't help build relationships. Here are some other ways buying leads can harm your business. Buying Leads Harm Your Business By — Bruising your reputation...
More businesses today are embracing IT as a service (ITaaS) and cloud environments, says a new McKinsey & Company report. “In the next three years, enterprises will make a fundamental shift from building IT to consuming IT,” forecasts the consultancy’s ITaas Cloud and Enterprise Cloud...
The 20% of your customer base that are loyal customers drive an additional 80% of business. — Gartner With all the attention paid to lead generation and sales nurturing, it is easy to lose sight of customer retention. The B2B marketer can’t afford to overlook the importance of fostering brand...
The information technology sector has an important cascading effect on the global economy. Generating revenue and employing workers at a relatively high median wage, the IT sector also helps other sectors “improve productivity, operate more efficiently and innovate faster,” per CompTIA. Not to...
There are more donors and donor dollars out there. The Association of Fundraising Professionals reported a 2% gain in net donors from 2014 - 2015 and 5.3% gain in dollars donated in the same period. Nevertheless, those same professionals may be wondering: “Is online fundraising effective?” Online...
It’s easy to tout Key Performance Indicator (KPI) analysis to prove you’re getting the job done. Yet smart marketers in nonprofit marketing know that the more important gauge of success is KPIs directly related to sustainability. Accurate and precise data is a key advantage of digital marketing...
The global cognitive computing market is expected to reach $12.5 billion in 2019, up from 2.5 billion in 2014, at a CAGR of 38%. — Research and Markets Cognitive computing is another way of describing machine learning, an area of computer science which sees machines recognizing patterns and...