For too long those of us in marketing been ignoring our friends in HR, and it’s time we accepted the proven connection between talent and revenue and got on with the job of improving both. I’ve recently explored, for example how some support for internal communications and candidate experience can benefit everyone. Then there’s the deplorable state of […]
Karen Walker might have momentarily wished she’d joined one of the hundreds of startups exhibiting at and attending Collision 2019 this week when she first joined Cisco as its marketing leader. In a keynote speech to other marketers, entrepreneurs and technology professionals at the opening day of Collision on Tuesday, the networking giant’s CMO described the […]
Pimcore has launched a tool designed to solve what its co-CEO suggests is an overlooked challenge in the quest to improve customer experience: bringing product details, digital assets and other information into a common format for use in e-commerce and other areas. The company, which is originally from Austria but has U.S. offices in Houston, […]
E-mail delivery and analytics service SparkPost on Tuesday launched SparkPost Signals, a predictive intelligence tool designed to help marketers better understand how their campaigns will perform. The San Francisco-based firm, whose B2B clients include Adobe, SAS and SiteCore, said SparkPost Signals will offer a “Health Score” their use of e-mail that scales from zero to 100 […]
Facebook and LinkedIn may continue to reign as the top social channels for B2B firms, but a majority of 65 per cent are now also making use of photo-sharing service Instagram, according to a study released late last week. The 2019 Social Media Marketing Industry Report, published by the Social Media Examiner, is based on […]
Redesigning a web site can be a monumental task. There are lots of things that you have to commit to in order to reach the successful completion of such a particular type of project. No wonder so many companies fail with their redesigns. However, you shouldn’t be afraid to do a proper redesign. After all, […]
SAP is planning a deeper integration with LinkedIn along with the ability to use clickstream data to identify engaged contacts as part of an update to its Marketing Cloud later this year. Speaking at a user group session within its SapphireNOW customer event this week, SAP Customer Experience global VP Jackie Palmer said the integration […]
PathFactory is trying to bridge the gap between consumer experiences like Netflix and Amazon by offering tools that let B2B marketers recommend web site content based on visitors’ behaviour, what’s popular and what will help them take the next step in a buying journey. The Toronto-based firm is using this week’s Sirius Decisions Summit in […]
Demandbase on Monday announced what it is calling an ABM Ecosystem, a collection of both existing partners and new partners designed to faciliate common data, shared audiences and integrated workflows across account-based marketing software. Lauching as part of the SiriusDecisions Summit taking place in Austin this week, San Francisco-based Demandbase said its ABM Ecosystem arose […]
Today’s digital natives are bombarded with content and have adapted to filter out the noise. Poor ad targeting has left both consumer and B2B audiences in Canada more skeptical of digital advertising, and most notable of all: about a third of digital advertising campaigns (particularly display and mobile) in Canada don’t work, failing to drive […]
Like any good marketer, Allison Dew kept her closing remarks at Dell Technologies World on Wednesday simple, succinct and unforgettable: “Don’t be a phone ‘ho.” Yes, you read that correctly. Dew, the enterprise tech giant’s CMO, drew huge laughs by echoing her fellow panelist in a conference session — musician and entrepreneur Wil.I.AM — who […]
Ryan Bonnici may have grown his team considerably over the past year and a half, but the name of the company he’s working for has gotten a lot shorter. The CMO of G2, (formerly G2 Crowd) took part in a fireside chat in Toronto late last week as part of the Growth Marketing Conference, where […]
Terminus is promising B2B marketers a way to measure both traditional and ABM programs in a single Account-Based Scorecard and a way to manage account-level targeting of digital ads. The Atlanta-based firm said its Account-Based Scorecard will help marketers avoid creating attribution reports manually or after-the-fact for their campaigns. The expanded capabilities in the platform […]
Toan Dinh knows better than to use his own phone to make the calls. That would be too obvious, and risky. Instead, the CMO for Demand Generation at point-of-sale software maker TouchBistro uses someone else’s device to cold call his competitors — calls in which he walks through a specific list of questions based on […]
The story Don Scheibenreif tells is such a great example of B2B marketing and IT working together it almost sounds like a fable. It was a story about a company whose web site, according to the distinguished research vice-president in the customer experience group at research firm Gartner Inc., had been managed by one of […]
A lot of my work, lately, has focused on helping to rescue sucky internal employee communications programs. The general reasons for the almost perpetual suckiness of internal communications is the abject neglect of most of the programs. This can take the form of budgetary neglect: just because you hired someone to manage it, doesn’t mean […]
Banner ads might be annoying or too easy to ignore on web sites, but Sigstr believes putting them within e-mail messages may hold the key to helping CMOs gain visibility in the marketing funnel, help sales teams hit revenue targets and stand out amid the noise in other channels. Based in Indianapolis., Ind., Sigstr this […]
It may have started life as the dating app created by women, for women, but the appointment of a new vice-president of partnerships suggests Bumble could offer a range of experiences that appeal to its audience’s professional needs. Last month the Austin-based firm said it had hired Michele Tobin, who has worked at gay-focused dating […]
The rising interest in understanding not only the challenges customers face but the technology they’re using in-house has led Forrester to partner with HG Insights to provide continuously updated technographic data to its research services. Based in Santa Barbara, Calif., HG Insights announced the partnership on Tuesday, whereby its data on technology adoption trends across […]
A B2B firm involved in a sexual harassment scandal, a data security breach or other “high stakes” issue is at risk of losing eight out of 10 customers, according to a survey conducted by Hotwire Communications. In its report, High-Stakes Leadership In A Post-B2B World, the New York-based firm makes a statistical connection between the […]
