- Live Together, Suffer Alone: Understanding the Cross-Channel Mix (and Why Yours May Not Be Working) by Keith Kochberg
Today's marketers are challenged to implement multiple techniques—from search to affiliate to media advertising and more—to achieve different results. Each channel has its own set of rules, its own potential results, even its own manager (whether outsourced or in-house) to ...
- Five Essential Strategies for Measuring Marketing Effectiveness by Ram Krishnamurthy, Brad Ewald
To drive response and determine the appropriate marketing mix in this new digital paradigm, marketers must adopt a fresh approach to understand how to influence prospects and customers. By doing so, marketers can maximize marketing spend and generate stronger return ...
- Six Smart Tactics for Dealing With the Economic Downturn
by Michael BarrThis is no time for business as usual. To keep the customer and win the sale, a marketer has to outsmart the competition. But how do you motivate your customers to spend their marginal purchasing dollars on your product instead ...
- Data-Driven Campaigns: Five Ways to Leverage the Customer Data You Have to Drive Conversions and Sales by Morgan Witt
As marketers, we are all looking to reach "nirvana": targeting the right person with the right message at the right time. It's the clear path to driving conversion rates that exceed expectations.
The days of blasting promotion messages to all are ...
- Deliver a One-Two Punch: Tap the Synergy Between Email and Social Media by Ross Kramer
There are many similarities between social-media marketing and email; but they are two distinct marketing channels, and they should be used separately to enhance or magnify, not just promote, each other.
Think of it this way: Social media is for awareness; ...
- Reading Your Buyers' Digital Body Language: A How-To Guide by Steve Woods
Today's buyer is in control. This transition means that our sales teams are no longer required as a conduit of information. Industry websites, vendor sites, blogs, social media, and search all make the required information readily available and, by doing ...
- Pushing One-to-One Marketing Beyond Email by R.J. Talyor
You get it. Email needs to be relevant, timely, and personalized, and it has to arrive in the inbox—not the spam folder. When an email renders, it should load images perfectly, guide the eye through stunning, effective design that drives ...
- Extending and Enhancing Closed-Loop Marketing via the Mobile Channel by Stephan Dietrich
While mobile marketing can be invasive on its own, integration with the larger marketing campaign mix and proper tracking of customer response can ensure that customers are drawn in, rather than turned off, by mobile messages.
The mobile medium has achieved ...
- Five Ways to Optimize Luxury Online Sales Channels by Suzanne Hader
Considering the stakes, it's no surprise that the online sales channel is becoming increasingly important to the bottom line of top-shelf brands as consumers of luxury products and services continue to demonstrate their willingness to spend as much through commerce-enabled ...
- Partnership Brand Marketing—It's About Distribution Channels by Gregory Pollack
Today many companies and brands are engaging in "Partnership Marketing," "Marketing Alliances," "Strategic Partnerships," and even "Partnership Brand Marketing" programs. But often they boil down to just promotions, perhaps maybe even on a larger scale.
But the true success of partnership ...
- How to Scale: Solution-Selling With Your Channels by Dylan Charles
Changes in the way customers buy technology are stressing existing vendor channel and partner organizations, processes, and capabilities.
As a result, companies need to rethink the ways they allocate their channel marketing resources and how they use marketing infrastructure to ...
- How Multichannel Marketing Is a Lot Like the County Fair by Kevin Hillstrom
Today's multichannel catalog/online environment is a lot like the summer county fair. In fact, there are some surprisingly apt comparisons.
- Why You Should Elevate Partnership Brand Marketing to the Strategic Level by Gregory Pollack
The power of partnership brand marketing brings two companies and brands together—each with its own brand equity and its own distribution channel strength. Whether teaming a car manufacturer with a theme park to capture the family segment, pairing ketchup with ...
- From the CEO's Desk: Prepping RSS for Prime Time by Matt Blumberg
There has been a flurry of RSS activity in the last two years, including countless startups that are hitting the new technology from every angle. These companies are doing everything they can to get RSS ready for prime time.
Unfortunately, ...
- SWOT Team: Looking Under the Newsletter's Hood by Hank Stroll
This week: What approaches or steps do newsletter publishers need to follow to ensure the newsletter makes it all the way to recipients' inboxes? Join the conversation!
Also this week, read your answers to the previous dilemma: How can a business ...
- CAN-SPAM: A Headache for Channel Marketers by Mark Littrell
The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 has not solved the spam issue, but it has put a lot of hurdles in front of legitimate email marketers.
- Are Marketers Chasing Rainbows? by Michael Perla
Are marketers chasing rainbows in setting impossible objectives around sustained growth, brand differentiation, persuasive advertising, profit maximization and knowledge management?
- Exploring the Territory Known as No Brand's Land by Tim Riesterer
Increasingly, a company’s branding success depends less on what they sell, and more on how they sell it.
In a highly competitive market, with near parity products and barely discernible branding campaigns, sales channel effectiveness is the new key to ...
- Reinvigorating Channel Marketing by Bill Hansen
How do we develop channel marketing practices that might put some life back into the by-the-numbers effort characteristic of so many campaigns?
- Strategizing Your Next Move in the Global Game by Karin Schaff-Glazier
All types and sizes of companies are finding that a global approach to their business is imperative if they plan to keep their competitive edge and secure their future survival.