Event marketing has emerged as an effective strategy for strengthening customer relations, generating goodwill and building a trustworthy brand image. For this reason, it becomes imperative to measure event marketing performance as it plays a major role in determining...
6 hot tips for creating an engaging website for your new business
Starting a new business is always a daunting challenge. There are so many steps and stages required to ensure that the process goes smoothly and that you attract customers along the way. One of the most important steps is building an attractive website that appeals to...
B2B marketers keeping pace with B2C in customer data deployment
New research from the Customer Data Platform Institute finds that business marketers are catching up with consumer marketers in Customer Data Platform deployments. The firm’s new survey found that 41 percent of companies selling to consumers are in the process of...
GDPR turns one—and awareness of data use is shockingly low
Eye-opening new research from mobile journey marketing firm Ogury, which conducted a survey of over 287,570 global consumers, examines attitudes towards mobile marketing, advertising and data. Coinciding with the first anniversary of GDPR, the survey findings reveal...
Five key gaps limiting visual merchandising confidence
How prepared are retailers to increase agility and support localization in their visual merchandising and space planning? New research from visual merchandising software firm One Door reveals important gaps in how merchandising strategies are communicated, executed...
Why visuals make for such effective website content
Nearly a quarter of small businesses (23 percent) say visuals were the most effective content on their websites in 2018, according to a new survey from portfolio website Visual Objects. This was tied with company information, which another 23 percent said that was the...
Are companies playing it too safe with marketing campaigns?
While companies may think they’re pushing the envelope when developing new advertising and marketing campaigns, their creative teams could very well hold a different view. In fact, most of them would likely disagree. More than half of advertising and marketing...
Millennials “flex” their favorite brands, shaping U.S. and UK trends
As the retail industry continues its evolve-or-perish journey, Millennials, who are gaining a reputation for being “category killers” across various industries, are starting to wear their hearts on their sleeves—according to new research from retail tech group First...
How measurement leaders exceed goals, grow revenue, & gain market share
Plenty of companies measure marketing and comms activities—but all too often, their measurement does not lead to useful actions, get shared broadly among teams, or inform strategic business decisions. The savviest organizations have raised their game in the discipline...
Measuring results—key performance metrics for personalized content
Consumers are harder to engage with today than ever before. Marketers should not be designing their personalization strategies as a series of one-off tactics, but rather as part of a cohesive experience that enhances each individual’s journey. New research from...
As adoption rises, companies race to unlock applications of blockchain
While blockchain implementation continues to increase across financial services, its transformational importance is starting to gain momentum across multiple sectors, including technology, life sciences, media, telecommunications and government, according to the newly...
How email marketing can rescue your website’s SEO ranking
The full ramifications of Google’s March 2019 algorithm update are not yet known. The purpose of the update was to refine user search queries to provide more accurate results for those queries, yet many websites reportedly suffered a drop in SEO ranking. But according...












