Archives for Marketing ROI

Insights in MarTech: An interview with Boris Bauer

Romanoff Consultants a provider of marketing automation best practices and strategy invited Boris to participate in their MarTech Braintap Podcast.   Inga: Welcome to the weekly “MarTech Braintap,” weekly insights from Marketo consultants in New York. I’m Inga Romanoff. Robert: And I’m Robert Vo. Inga: All right. And today, we have a special guest. Boris Bauer and I have actually known each other
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The Importance of Experimentation in Optimizing your Campaigns

Think with Google just published a Sprint case history showing the sales bump from the “digital halo.” That’s a marketing term that loosely translates to “everything that happens because of digital engagement doesn’t necessarily happen in the digital world.”  In Sprint’s case, digital sales from an increase in digital spend went up 22%. That’s great. Even better was the “halo”
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Should you advertise with Amazon? Social Media partner with programmatic platforms to power new ways to target advertising

Ad platforms aren’t just for advertising networks anymore.. The social media giants have awoken to the power of their own databases are are partnering with Demand Side Platforms (DSPs) to deliver custom networks to advertisers. Amazon has launched the Amazon Advertising Platform, Facebook Audience Network is booming, and Quora is jumping in. Here’s what you need to know. Back up
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Budgeting for Small Brand Marketers needs Marketing Effectiveness

2015 is coming.  Time for ambitious brands with limited budgets to make really tough choices.  We’ve just won our second award for Marketing Effectiveness, for a project that came in under $350,000.  So we hope you’ll find this helpful: Two things to know about changes in Social Media Be aware that an algorithmic change will drastically reduce your Facebook exposure:  Facebook
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The Millennial Behavior Change and How Education Marketing Must Adapt

As an education marketer, you have more stakeholders with more different needs than any other sector. Prospective students, parents, alumni, faculty and administration pull your messaging in different directions. How do you serve all masters – especially the millennials who have abandoned most traditional channels of communication? Well, there may be a new set of tools that can help you
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Get up to Speed: Marketing Automation

With promises to drive sales conversion through the roof, here comes marketing automation — delivering improved email targeting, real-time triggered messages, customer relationship management integration, and stay-in-touch campaigns. Businesses around the globe are implementing automation with success. Their seeing lower overheads and more customer intimacy. They’re gaining access to useful return-on-marketing-investment (ROMI) metrics, because automation tracks the effectiveness of marketing
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Social Media Trends Full Speed Ahead

Did you know, 2012 is the first year the Super Bowl will be streamed live?  This means the digital and social media integration for this gigantic advertising spectacle will carry a whole new level of weight this year. Check out our list below of Social Media trends heading our way, and make sure your brand is up to speed!  We’ll
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On-line Influence on In-Store Buyers

Before buying, we used to research the “big stuff”, like cars and washing machines.  Now we’re looking for information about absolutely everything– right down to the ingredients in our cereal, what those tiny green dots are in your toothpaste, and what your mice think about your mouse traps.  Everyone is officially researching everything before they buy it.
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Facebook vs. the Splinternet

The challenge upon us now is the Splinternet — Forrester’s term for the fractionalizing of the web due to multiple apps, platforms, and devices.  (More at  http://bit.ly/cvFm2r).
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Twitter Followers Intend to Purchase

Online consumer studies have proven that Twitter followers are more likely to buy and recommend products, as covered in this great Mashable article.  They explain, “84% of followers read tweets posted by the brands they follow, only 23% claim to tweet about the brands they follow.”   We certainly all want as much consumer conversation about our brands as possible,
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