Marketers, communicators and client services teams depend on winning RFPs to generate new business, but new research from law firm and professional services-focused experience management platform ikaun asserts that the battle to win them actually redirects marketing...
How a cybersecurity breach impacts online reputation—and how to recover
The aftermath of a cybersecurity breach can be devastating for a business, particularly in terms of its online reputation. The consequences are not just immediate but can reverberate long into the future, impacting customer trust, financial health, legal standing, and...
Tips for leveraging the numerous benefits of internal marketing in the workplace
Marketing is often seen as an outward force: the activity of sending the company message into the world and targeting potential customers with campaigns and strategies. But this is only part of the picture. Successful businesses are increasingly looking to internal...
How heat mapping boosts data visualization: A 2024 guide for marketers
Have you ever been at a meeting when one of your team has presented a report on your website that seems to be nothing but data? An endless stream of figures that you need to really concentrate on to take anything away? Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way of...
Tangential SEO: 5 strategies to discover unique keywords and improve your ranking
SEO is rapidly evolving, and it's critical to stay ahead of the curve to maintain a competitive edge. Traditional SEO centers on optimizing for high-traffic, direct keywords closely tied to your business. However, with the market becoming progressively saturated,...
Marketers’ lead gen and engagement strategies are underperforming, new CMO Council report finds
It’s been debated whether the sales lead is as important as it was in the pre-digital age, and the resulting consensus is that yes, it’s still important, but they need to be higher quality leads to serve a proportional role in the modern age of sales and marketing....
9 steps for developing a complete sales and marketing strategy for small business
Imagine two small businesses. One makes customized wristbands. Their customers love the personalized work and their fair prices. However, this business does not have a marketing and sales strategy. The second business sells premade wristbands at a higher price than...
5 ways PR pros can take advantage of a smartphone-centered world
Fifty-four percent of the global population—around 4.3 billion people—now own a smartphone. The devices allow us to communicate with others, browse the internet, purchase goods and services, play games, read books, listen to music, scroll through social media, and...
New rules from Google and Yahoo could impact delivery of brand emails
Email has long been and remains the decided consumer preference for interacting with brands, but if you look deeper, there are caveats to this truism—new research from business-to-consumer conversation enabling firm Sinch affirms the power of email, but its survey of...
8 paths to prosperity: Increasing sales through strategic lead generation
Lead generation is the act of increasing the number of potential customers that your sales team can nurture. Many companies are concerned about increasing their sales through strategic lead generation strategies, especially with the many challenges the public...
6 SEO tips to boost your marketing strategy
Roll back the clock 10 years, and the Internet wasn’t really a competitive space. Today, though, you’ll find yourself vying with around 24 million other e-commerce businesses around the world, and that’s something that requires a lot of work! The good news is that...
Strategies for creating an effective customer feedback loop in SaaS
How closely do you listen to your customers? Most businesses will tell you they put their customers first, but some manage it much more effectively than others. When it comes to software as a service (SaaS) companies, actively addressing concerns is paramount. The...












