B2B and B2C Marketing

  • Digital Transformation at Sears Holdings

    Data-driven Personalization Fuels a Member-Centric Strategy

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    Since 2009, Sears Holdings (Sears, K-Mart and related brands) have promoted a rewards program called "Shop Your Way" to turn shoppers into members. The loyalty program is supported by big data analytics and targeted, personalized marketing. At the same time, the retailer has innovated in cross-channel customer experience.
    Jul. 16, 2015
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  • Robocalls: Annoying and Illegal

    Avoid This Customer-Unfriendly Practice Except for Appointment Reminders

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    So, how annoying are those automated marketing calls that interrupt you at dinner time? And they aren’t only annoying, they’re illegal. Still robocalling, as it is called, is proliferating. What can you do about it?
    Nov. 14, 2013
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  • Agilent’s Virtuous Circle of Personalization

    Customer Experience, Content Strategy, and Marketing Automation Create a Machine that Drives Customer Engagement

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    Agilent offers lessons on achieving a highly personalized experience for customers of all stripes at all phases of engagement.
    Aug. 7, 2013
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  • Speakerfile’s Expert Visibility Platform

    A “Speakers’ Bureau in a Box”

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    Speakerfile software platform increases the visibility of subject matter experts and helps marketers capitalize on speaking opportunities as a component of a thought leadership or content marketing strategy.
    Jan. 10, 2013
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  • Adobe Recommendations: Personalizing the Customer Experience

    Harnessing the Power of the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite

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    Adobe Recommendations should be on the short list of marketers in retail ecommerce, B2B ecommerce, media, financial services, high tech, or publishing who seek to personalize their customer experience and drive higher revenues.
    Aug. 16, 2012
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  • Steps to Success for Personalizing Your Customer Experience

    A Roadmap for Personalization

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    See how pioneers in personalization, including Bakers Shoes and Netflix, use personalization to great advantage. Personalization varies among businesses and among customers, but we offer the specific steps you can take to set and accomplish personalization goals that enhance your business and your customer experience.
    Jun. 7, 2012
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  • Facebook’s Timeline: Seductive and Dangerous?

    Applications Integrated into Timeline Track Everything that You and Your Friends Do

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    Facebook’s new Timeline is much more than a new user interface. It’s a seductive forced march designed to lead us all into a marketers’ nirvana in which our activities and life events are tracked.
    Mar. 22, 2012
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  • Unintended Risks of Using Facebook

    Pay Attention to What Information, and Whose Information, You Are Sharing with Whom!

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    Be a good steward of your privacy and the privacy of your friends and family members on Facebook. Learn how applications are mining and analyzing your and your friends’ Facebook behavior and what you should know about those practices.
    Mar. 8, 2012
    Strategies
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  • How Does Google’s Privacy Policy Affect You?

    It’s Time to Pay Attention to How Google Is Tracking Your Online Behavior

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    When Google announced a new unified Privacy Policy to go into effect on March 1, 2012, it caused people to stop and think about how much privacy they’re willing to trade for free search, email, YouTube, and other nifty services.
    Feb. 23, 2012
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  • Recommendation Evaluation Framework, Version 2

    Evaluating Solutions for Personalization and Recommendations

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    Recommendation solutions automate and personalize suggestions. Here are the key criteria you should use for selecting a recommendation solution.
    Sep. 22, 2011
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  • Content Curation Evaluation Framework, Version 3

    What to Consider When Evaluating Content Curation Platforms for Marketing

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    Content curation enables marketers to associate a brand with the best thinking on an issue, monitor competitor activity, facilitate social media engagement, and foster community.
    Sep. 8, 2011
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  • Recommendation Solution Market Recap: 1Q2011

    Mobile, UI, and Algorithm Enhancements Lead the Product News

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    Based on company reported data, we recap product, customer, and company activity for recommender systems providers Adobe, Avail, Baynote, iGoDigital, Locayta, MyBuys, PredictiveIntent, and Strands.
    Aug. 4, 2011
    Technologies
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  • HiveFire's Curata Platform for B2B Content Curation

    Streamlining Multi-Channel Content Curation for B2B Marketers

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    Review of Hivefire's Curata, content curation SaaS platform for B2B marketers against Patricia Seybold Group’s evaluation framework for content curation platforms.
    May. 5, 2011
    Strategies
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  • What Marketing Automation Suppliers Have Learned About Implementation Success, V1

    Survey Results on the Skills, Processes, and Organizational Practices Needed for Success

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    What changes do marketers need to make before implementing a marketing automation system? Our research findings help marketers prioritize the skill, process, and organizational changes they’ll need to make.
    Apr. 21, 2011
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  • LOUD3R Content Curation Platform

    Content Curation for Publishing Moves into Marketing with an Emphasis on Quality Content

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    Marketers developing content curation strategies can capitalize on LOUD3R’s experience in delivering high quality curated content in the publishing industry. Gain insight into LOUD3R’s product offering and how it fits marketers’ needs.
    Apr. 7, 2011
    Strategies
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  • ConnectedN's Content Curation for Social Media Engagement

    Enabling Busy Subject Matter Experts to Deliver Valuable Content to Clients and Prospects

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    Content curation for social media engagement. Product review of ConnectedN, a content curation platform that enables professionals to easily engage in social media conversations by making timely comments on relevant third-party content.
    Mar. 24, 2011
    Technologies
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  • Adobe's Online Marketing Suite

    Adobe Omniture Summit 2011 Showcases Momentum, Tangible Progress Toward Aggressive Vision

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    The Adobe Omniture Summit 2011 marked a major step in evolution of the Adobe Online Marketing Suite.  Gain a perspective on what’s needed and insight into Adobe’s offering.
    Mar. 24, 2011
    Strategies
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  • Side-by-Side Comparison of Six Recommendations Solutions

    Spreadsheet Lays Out Vendor Performance from Avail, Baynote, Certona, Loomia, Omniture, and RichRelevance against Our Detailed Requirements

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    Our side-by-side comparison spreadsheet analyzes six leading recommendations solutions.
    Nov. 11, 2010
    Technologies
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  • Implementation Challenges Limit B2B Marketers' Success with Automation

    The Technology Is Increasingly Essential, Yet Few Are Ready to Transform Their Operations

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    Marketing automation is growing in B2B. The business justification is strong. The vendors are solid and innovative. But a large portion of implementations fail to realize their potential. This article is the first in a series to dis-cover why.
    Jul. 1, 2010
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  • Avail Intelligence Behavioral Merchandising

    Platform Automates Merchandising, Recommendations, Social Search

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    If you are in retail or B2B ecommerce, Avail Behavioral Merchandising should be on your short list. Avail Intelligence’s solution, among the most mature on the market, with unique support for collaborative merchandising and strong client care.
    May. 13, 2010
    Technologies
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