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CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Metrics & Measurement
How do you access the analytics you need to measure your online marketing ROI effectively? You need the right tools. This article highlights five tools that provide insights into your marketing results.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Demand Generation
If your salespeople aren't effective presenters, they'll never achieve their full potential—even if they're good at selling. Which is why it's critical to understand and monitor this vital skill. Here's how to measure and evaluate sales presentation skills.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Email
Email marketing experts will urge you to follow the latest and greatest best-practices—from personalizing your content to segmenting to cleaning up your database. All that's well and good if you want to create optimized email campaigns. And who doesn't? But what if your metrics are off?
CONTENT TYPE: Sponsored Webinar | TOPIC: Metrics & Measurement
Tired of measuring every detail of your campaigns and still not having the insights you need? There's a difference between being simply reactive to the data you're collecting versus allowing that data to drive innovative strategy and planning. Sponsored by Kompyte.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Branding
You need to know what's being said online about you, your brand, your competition, your industry, and other topics you're interested in. At first, Google Alerts might seem the most obvious choice, but it's notoriously unreliable.You have options, though, including these 4 alternatives.
When most marketers plan campaigns, they need to answer a few basic questions: Who's the target? Where should we spend our budget? When should the campaign start and stop? But there's a better way to design your strategy—by using data to ask better questions. Sponsored by Alight Analytics.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Strategy
Is your brand relevant to the various audiences—customers, influencers, the media—you want to reach? More specifically, how can you find the untapped opportunities for establishing relevance? How can you identify what they want so you can provide it?
CONTENT TYPE: Infographic | TOPIC: Demand Generation
Every salesperson wants a healthy pipeline, but many don't have a reliable way to take its temperature. Beyond just "healthy" or "dry," what do you need to look at to truly gauge the health of a sales pipeline? These nine important pipeline metrics.
CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Metrics & Measurement
Most marketers say it takes too long to turn data into actionable intelligence, and then too long for that actionable intelligence to be applied to campaigns, according to recent research from the CMO Council.
CONTENT TYPE: Webinar | TOPIC: Metrics & Measurement
Data science is the hottest thing since sliced bread. In fact, LinkedIn has indicated that open job positions for data scientists are up a whopping 11,500% year over year. Yet many marketers feel like data science is an unreachable, mystical discipline shrouded in mystery. Sponsored by InfoUSA.
CONTENT TYPE: Chart | TOPIC: Email
Most brands measure the success of transactional emails by looking at opens, clicks, or the delivery rate, according to recent research from SparkPost.
Companies invest billions in data, analytics, and technology to better target and predict customer behavior. We are collecting more data than we know what to do with, so we think we no longer need qualitative research. Big mistake: We need to go beyond data to truly understand the customer.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Marketing Technology
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.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Customer Experience
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.
CONTENT TYPE: Article | TOPIC: Management
Big Data is taking over. Most of its seemingly obvious payoffs are mirages at best, or quicksand at worst, whereas others hold the potential for high returns. So, what are the keys to Big Data success?
If you're like most marketers, you know your programs are performing well but you may not have all of the data you need to defend and expand your marketing budget. But how do you report your successes in a way that management will "get it?" Sponsored by LeanData.
Shopper behavior is fundamentally different during the holidays. Marketers can't rely on the same data and algorithms that they leverage at other times of the year. If brands don't adjust to holiday shopping behavior, it could cost them big.
Much has been written recently about how consumers should be the "owners of their data." But can marketers perform customer analytics while respecting customers' wishes and following the law? Are we on a collision course, or is there a better way?
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.
CONTENT TYPE: Sponsored Article | TOPIC: Email
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.
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