With the Internet of Things rapidly becoming integrated into how we live our life, it stands to reason that it will have a significant impact on digital marketing. As it is, there are already twice as many "things" connected on the Internet than people, and is predicted to inflate to 50 billion...
While it seems all brands are using Twitter as part of their social outreach strategy, few seem to be accessing Twitter’s analytical side or, in some cases, using Twitter Advertising at all. It’s actually quite easy to set up and once configured a lot of great data will be available. So here’s how...
What is a buyer persona? Personas for marketing Why are buyer personas important to B2B marketing? Many marketing teams ignore the small planning tasks for creating B2B marketing campaigns. One of those often-ignored steps is the creation of buyer personas. Although missing this step may not be...
The need for a well thought out, multi-channel Customer Engagement is more important now than at any time in our marketing history. Why? Because there have never been so many channels in which it's the customer that dictates the conversation, not the brand. Gone are the days when a 30 second...
The best applications and websites are the ones users truly enjoy using. But ensuring users do so takes continual testing, refinement and more testing. Here are some tips to make the testing process as thorough as possible. Embrace Paper Testing - Once you’ve defined which tasks should be tested,...
WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? Presently, marketing teams & analytical groups have focused on aggregated data such as views, visitors, and time spent on site to help drive their initiatives. Although these variables are important at a high level, a more in depth look and research into key performance...
When designing a marketing plan, defining your target user profiles is key. An audience can be comprised of unique and definable segments based on their online behavior. One example of a tool for audience segmentation analysis is Forrester's Social Technographics data that classifies consumers into...
Alerts are essentially a reverse search engine retrieval process. A web user creates an alert focusing on a keyword or keyphrase, and as the web crawler finds instances of that keyword, a notification is sent. Most alert systems only create a notification if the finding is new or matches a preset...
As an analyst spends time with data for a particular website, new and more complex insights will "jump out." If you care about web performance, spend time with the data to better understand potential trends and opportunities. Web performance insights can be vital for website owners, managers or a...
Both B2B and B2C marketing can benefit from audience segmentation for analytics reporting. Market segmentation is exactly the opposite mentality from mass marketing. In mass marketing, an agency would send the same email or message to a large group, and segmentation allows for targeting smaller...