Accidentally running over a toddler, falling into a fountain, and getting kicked over by a drunk guy – Knightscope’s robots have experienced some tough days on the job. The incidents, all taking place in 2016, are some of the early growing pains of autonomous robots entering into more real-world environments. For decades, increasing autonomy has […]
With organic search traffic becoming increasingly difficult to count on due, in part, to the rise of zero-click search results, paid search ads are currently the best way that businesses can expect to receive targeted search traffic from Google. But creating an effective B2B pay-per-click campaign on Google can be challenging due to several factors […]
Consulting firm Accenture this week will begin trying to reach chief marketing officers through their earbuds with a podcast series, called Marketing Disrupted, that explores the challenges they face in harnessing digital technologies. All seven episodes of the Marketing Disrupted podcast are already available and feature a range of marketing leaders beginning with former Kodak CMO […]
Longtime observers of the marketing and sales technology space suggested acquisitions such as Salesforce’s $15.3 billion purchase of Tableau marks an increased emphasis on literally illustrating the actions brands need to take if they want to accomplish their objectives. San Francisco-based Salesforce announced on Monday it would acquire Tableau, best known as a provider of […]
For all the enterprise product announcements being made, Dell Technologies World holds little of the drama you’d find on Dawson’s Creek, The Affair or Fringe, but if a good story unfolds, Joshua Jackson is ready to provide the technology and services to bring it to life. The actor and co-founder/chairman of Liquid Media Group was […]
B2B e-commerce is changing at a rapid pace. A report from Forrester suggests that the US B2B e-commerce industry will hit $1.8 trillion by 2023. Besides, there would be a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10% for B2B eCommerce over the next five years. Another report from Frost and Sullivan presents a different scenario. […]
Thirty per cent of corporate customers now start their e-commerce purchases on sites owned by consumer giants Amazon and Google rather than the 22 per cent who turn first to independent supplier portals, according to research that will be released Wednesday by Avionos. The Chicago-based digital commerce marketing firm’s 2019 report, titled Positioning B2B Commerce […]
Michele Romanow knew she had to do something to help entrepreneurs better market themselves — and keep control over the companies they create — when she first saw the wooden iPhone cases. As a judge on CBC’s Dragon’s Den — a sort of Canadian alternative to the U.S. hit show Shark Tank — Romanow regularly […]
B2B CMOs may occasionally have challenges wrangling the staff on their marketing teams, but that’s nothing compared to the way a firm called Oribi has portrayed the various social media channels used to communicate with customers. Based in San Francisco, Oribi offers a dashboard-like tool that is designed to track content from a company blog […]
As basketball fans tune in for some intense competition during the 2019 NCAA Tournament, Google is using the commercial breaks to show how its Google Cloud infrastructure is running data analytics applications to help developers better understand the game and even predict what might happen. Produced by its creative agency Eleven Inc., the 30-second TV […]
Chief revenue officers may have all the career experience they need to hire a sales manager, but judging the skills of a software developer may be a bit of a stretch. Of course, most CROs probably don’t oversee teams of programmers today, but the increasingly data-driven nature of sales means they could be pulled into […]
While the overwhelming majority of B2B sales professionals have high hopes for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to help them do their jobs, less than half have actually started to implement such tools, according to the results of a recent survey released by InsideSales. Based on a set of questions fielded to more […]
While the vast majority of marketers realize that poor landing page speed could affect whether or not a customer purchases something, they are more focused on things like A/B testing content and refining ad targeting, according to a study from Unbounce released Tuesday. Based on a survey of close to 400 marketers who spanned industries […]
Most B2B TV commercials tend to focus on the amazing things customers are doing with the advertiser’s product, but a recent spot from Smartsheet puts the spotlight on the holdouts instead. In “Work Different,” the SaaS-based provider of project management and collaboration tools boasts that 96 per cent of the Fortune 500 use its product. […]
OpenText on Wednesday will introduce an enhancement pack to version 16 of its enterprise information management system dubbed EP5, along with new applications for departments like HR and legal while also announcing a partnership to offer its technology as managed services through Google Cloud. Waterloo, Ont.-based OpenText said EP5 will bring richer user interfaces, deeper integration […]
HubSpot’s annual marketing conference wrapped up on Friday. With over 23,000 attendees, 300 sessions and half a dozen keynote and spotlight addresses (from Deepak Chopra to Alex Rodriguez), this year’s INBOUND 2018 event was bigger than ever. While Hubspot doesn’t name an official theme for each year’s event, it becomes clear over the course of […]
It’s not easy finding B2B prospects, much less those you know are interested in your product or service. There’s shows, but so much of the research is now begun online. There’s cold calling, but millennial don’t use the phone to talk.. Everyone is on their mobile devices, but how do you connect with them? Think about how […]
Even though they work in B2B firms, 78 per cent of procurement managers begin looking for product searches on Amazon or Google rather than a vendor’s own site, and most are disappointed by what they find, according to a new report from Avionos. Avionos, a digital marketing firm based in Chicago, surveyed 160 U.S. B2B […]
When she joined software giant SAP as its marketing leader about nine months ago, Alicia Tillman did something she said most CMOs don’t often to: look backwards instead of forwards. Speaking at the company’s annual user conference, Sapphire Now, Tillman said she wanted to figure out her strategy by looking at the original purpose behind […]
Your website has been hit by a Google penalty and now no one can find you. Bad news, right? Fortunately, there are some actions you can take to reverse the damages done. There are three steps you need to take: Identify the Penalty: What did you violate in Google’s ToS? Learn How to Fix It: […]
