Let’s Get Personal: How To Tailor Your Lead Nurturing Strategy

According to MarketingSherpa, 79% of marketing leads never convert into sales. Having an ineffective lead nurturing strategy contributes to this poor performance. Developing and building a relationship with your prospects doesn’t happen overnight, and you can’t expect to get the results you want by taking a cookie-cutter approach. With segmentation and targeted content you’ll discover […]

3 Crucial Components of Successful Demand Generation

Today’s marketers continuously face the challenge of generating enough leads to keep their sales pipeline filled. On top of that, marketers must ensure high quality leads as proving ROI and impacting revenue becomes more important. Given the increasing focus on top-of-funnel lead generation and the fact that marketers are expected to nurture leads as they […]

7 Critical Elements For a Winning Content Marketing Strategy

As a marketer today, you probably are doing some form of content marketing, whether you call it that or not. In formal terms, Content Marketing Institute defines content marketing as “a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly-defined audience – and, ultimately, to […]

How to Remove “No Budget” As a Block to Superior Marketing Performance

This blog was co-authored by Fred Diamond, a top marketing consultant to technology companies and the founder of the Institute for Excellence in Sales. One of the biggest cop-outs in technology marketing is falling back on the excuse of “we don’t have budget for that.” We think that marketers who learn to eliminate that expression […]

How to Make the Most of Digital Customer Loyalty Strategies

The success of pure customer loyalty strategies online depends on your brand, products, customers and execution of the program. Companies should focus on the foundation of customers and digital media to get a handle on the vast number of customer retention strategies. Companies that prioritize the customer experience generate, on average, 60 percent higher profits […]

Earn Your Seat in the C-Suite: 6 Steps to Actionable Marketing Reporting – Part 2

In our last post, we reviewed the first half of our 6 step plan to better reporting by developing a measurement framework. As promised, we’ve put together a comprehensive reporting guide at the end of the post with examples to help you implement this in your organization! To recap, here’s our list of 6 steps: […]

What is Loyalty? A Feeling, Expressing Strong Support for Someone or Something

It’s a term that has redefined the way we do business. More and more organizations are discovering that the key to long term business success isn’t rooted in what you are selling but rather who you are selling to. Developing loyal relationships with customers keeps businesses thriving year after year. Just think about what keeps […]

Want Loyal Customers? Humanize Your Digital Marketing Programs

One of the most significant business metrics you can track is customer loyalty. Digital marketing loyalty programs are a necessary activity to take the pulse of your brand and your customers. Forecasting your future growth is also easier when you know how loyal your customers are. Building brand loyalty through your digital marketing programs has […]