Locally targeted ad spending by US national brands will grow to $68.9 billion in 2018, according to BIA/Kelsey’s US Local Media Forecast. Local marketing growth is being driven by several important trends, including consumers’ increasing preference for online local information — particularly through social media — and their use of mobile devices to shop locally. […]
Two major trends in email must not be ignored: interactive email and automation. For certain messages, an old-fashioned email with a plain-text, well-written letter and a call-to-action at the bottom just might do the trick. But unless you want to take the risk of branding your entire online presence as “retro,” to be competitive, you
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A few months ago, we made our powerful marketing automation features free for all MailChimp users. If you run your own business, automation allows you to have an ongoing conversation with your customers, giving you more time to complete other tasks on your to-do list. It’s like having a second brain for your business that
Most B2B marketers are already using or plan to use some form of marketing automation technology, according to recent research from Act-On and Econsultancy. The report was based on data from a survey conducted in April and May 2017 among 355 in-house B2B marketers from around the world. Some 53% of respondents say their B2B
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No matter what size organization you work for, you have decisions to make – or at least discuss – prior to jumping into the evaluation of marketing automation providers. Don’t rely on the vendors to become the experts in your business processes, people, systems, and data. You must get your house in order first. Once
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Chart of the Day: Looking to increase sales? Abandon Cart programs could be just what you need The opportunities Marketing Automation provides your business is immense. I’ve always found that it is more difficult to decide which sequences to launch first as there are so many. I went back and counted the number of automation’s ideas,
Email marketing is a growing trend used by many businesses in the eCommerce world. In 2013, it accounted for more than 7 percent of all eCommerce transactions – leaving social media, banner ads and affiliate marketing strategies in the dust! Check out these results from a Custora study called E-Commerce Customer Acquisition Snapshot. Source Despite the
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Automation helps companies save time, scale faster and reduce the damage caused by human error in their customer acquisition pipelines. Approximately 84 percent of businesses that invest in marketing automation are seeing results that they classify as successful, according to research from Ascend2 (PDF). Thanks to automation, businesses can swiftly eliminate inefficient back-and-forth and tedious tasks
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Human attention spans are embarrassingly bad. I’d have to be lucky to get just 5% of people to read this entire post. Most probably won’t get past the intro, so I’ll get to the point: In this age of infinite distraction, brands that can keep their customers engaged with the product are bound for long-term
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