Drift Tricia Gellman

Drift CMO Tricia Gellman discusses her new role, key priorities and the future of conversational marketing

When they first told her she was going to be reassigned to the marketing department, Tricia Gellman went home and cried. It may seem like a surprising reaction for someone who has helped lead demand generation and brand-building for firms like Salesforce and Adobe, but Gellman, who was appointed CMO of Drift last week, started […]

Verint Foresee VOC

Verint CMO offers vision for the ‘voice of the customer’ market following Foresee acquisition

The acquisition of Foresee will allow Verint to extend its capabilities in offering voice of the customer (VOC) technology from its traditional foothold in areas like contact centres to a wide range of digital channels, according to its CMO. Melville, NY-based Verint announced its decision to acquire Foresee, based in Ann Arbor, Mich, on Monday. […]

HubSpot Sam Hirbod

HubSpot’s inbound agency strategist points out some of the biggest (and most common) CX failures

A friend of Sam Hirbod, the principal inbound agency strategist at HubSpot, was waiting on hold with his online bank — for 20 minutes. This is a long time to leave anyone in limbo, especially in 2018, and in the course of that time, Hirbod friend’s started conducting searches on Google for a banks with […]

Morneau Shepell chatbot

Morneau Shepell is educating its chatbot to improve how AI can address mental health in business

HR services firm Morneau Shepell is trying to tackle some of the biggest challenges affecting the mental health of business professionals by improving the artificial intelligence capabilities of a chatbot it introduced earlier this year. Speaking at the IBM Innovate conference in Toronto on Thursday, Morneau Shepell CIO Michael Lin said the chatbot, dubbed Ava, […]

SaaS

Sales and marketing tools dominate the $1.02B being invested in ‘SaaS North’

The needs of senior executives in marketing and sales roles are driving investments of more than $1.02 billion in software-as-a-service startups across Canada, according to a study conducted by B2B accelerator L-Spark. “State of SaaS 2017” will be formally presented as part of SaaS North, the second annual event of its kind organized by L-Spark […]

Zoom.ai

Zoom.ai wants to start a conversation about chatbots and AI in the enterprise

If human language is the new user interface and messaging the predominant medium, businesses should start thinking about making better use of artificial intelligence and chatbot technologies, according to Zoom.ai. Speaking at the 2017 Data Marketing Toronto event earlier this week, Zoom.ai vice-president of business development Amanda Parker said the rise of Facebook Messenger, Kik […]

ecommerce

How to Remain Competitive in eCommerce in 2018

2017 has proven to be a year of glittering advancements in the eCommerce scene. There is a direct correlation between these advancements and the needs of the predominant target markets of Gen X’ers and beyond. Being the driving force of the information age, coupled with their inherent need for instant gratification, AI, machine-learning, mobile, and […]

martech

MarTech: How Technology Will Revolutionize Marketing

Sean Stanleigh, Managing Editor, Globe Edge Content Studio, was cut off for time at BigData Toronto, but still delivered a ton of information in 30 minutes. Let’s start with a definition. MarTech is blending data with content delivery. In a global survey of 3500 marketers, Salesforce found: 51% are using some level of AI 59% […]