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  • You can't carry on launching marketing campaigns, creating content, and paying your team just because you think marketing efforts are affecting your sales in some positive way. You need data that tells you what's working and what isn't. Marketing analytics tools to the rescue.

  • Marketing is not about bombarding customers with messages and hoping they'll purchase a product; it's about gathering data and listening to what they want. Here are four ways to use data to deliver the end-to-end experience customers are craving.

  • In three weeks, on January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), goes into effect. As a result, for the first time, US businesses will be subject to a far stricter set of privacy regulations in-country.

  • Launching a new product can be a lot like throwing a dart at a map—while the map is in another room, the power is out, and you're fresh from the optometrist and your pupils are dilated... But you don't have to launch products—or even campaigns—with guesswork. Here's what to do instead.

  • We know that serious social media influencers can create an "unfair advantage" for you because they are trusted and their audiences listen to them daily. The big question for marketers isn't whether influencers create value for brands. It's what that value is—or, more specifically, how do we measure it.

  • Brands have near-universal visibility into email opens and clicks, and excellent visibility into bounces. But those metrics lack the depth and granularity needed to truly understand what's driving your successes and failures. We need these three KPIs instead.

  • For most marketing teams, the top success metric is leads. But as marketers and sales team members alike will tell you, not all leads are created equal. How can you pass along only the best, most-qualified leads to Sales? Here's what you need to know.

  • Email senders with higher-than-average open rates are especially likely to rely on delivery optimization, A/B-testing, and reactivation campaigns, according to recent research from Validity and Demand Metric.

  • Learn how to become a data-driven organization from Linda Schumacher, senior director of analytics and data strategy at CX company Qualified Digital.

  • ROAS is a flawed metric. Here's how to figure out the true success of your marketing campaigns with ROMI.

  • A healthy marketing budget can be powerful fuel for brand expansion and sales growth. But when sales improve, most marketers need to prove that their activity was the driver. Marketers must tie their tactics directly to sales outcomes in a way that's as simple and believable as possible.

  • Often, marketers stop short of asking the really important questions about SEO. We focus on things like keyword rankings and backlinks—not how those impact overall marketing or business goals. Obviously, measurement is important; but there is no one-size-fits-all approach to determining what metrics matter. So... what's to be done?

  • An accurate customer journey map can help optimize your marketing strategy, create smarter campaign objectives, and better attribute conversions. See how to create and refine a customer journey map.

  • How can you understand which marketing channels or activities are influencing buyer behavior, including conversions? By implementing a marketing attribution process. Here are some tips on getting started, along with ideas for developing your attribution strategy for continued growth.

  • These days, finding data about consumer behavior is so easy, our instinct is to pile up a mountain of it so we get a better view of customer preferences, behaviors, and experiences. That sky-high view empowers us to see a vast landscape, but it leaves us blind to what actually shapes behavior: consumer feelings.

  • Done right, email marketing delivers results that outperform just about any other channel's. Done wrong, you leave money on the table with every send. So what are the roadblocks that stand in the way of optimizing email ROI?

  • Marketers are investing heavily in display ad campaigns to drive brand awareness as well as sales. But ROI hinges on being able to personalize ads to the consumer, showing them the right ad at the right time. Check out this infographic for ways to do that.

  • It's easy for us marketers to assume our jobs are not to deal with inbound phone calls. Our awesome marketing gets prospects on the phone, the reps make the sales, we call it a day. Not so fast!

  • "Artificial intelligence": you've heard the term, you know it's a trend, you know you're "supposed" to be using it... But if you were asked to explain in a few short sentences what it means for marketers, could you do it? If not, then you've found the right article.

  • "Event intelligence" is the latest buzzword in the meeting and event industry, and there are a lot of questions surrounding it, such as how exactly it helps planners and marketers, what technologies come into play, and even what event intelligence is. This article sheds some light.