From the rise of online shopping channels to ad campaigns created for an audience of one, consumer marketing has changed more in the past ten years than it did in the previous 30. Despite that level of change and disruption, if you had put a few typical marketers from the 1980s into a time machine and sent them into the marketing departments of today, they would probably feel right at home. There might be a new IT department and a few other changes, but the job titles, structures, approach to performance...

Digital brings vast opportunities for CMOs to reach consumers anytime, anywhere, on a variety of devices and channels. But continuous evolution and innovation makes digital a fast-moving landscape, creating a plethora of challenges from technological understanding and financial accountability, to tackling hot topic issues such as, ad fraud and brand safety.

The rapid rise of digital has put CMOs on a steep learning curve and some are struggling to keep up...

In an age of digital marketing with social media, marketing automation, email marketing and CRM, marketers often forget that their website remains the most important of their digital assets.

Research by SiriusDecisions shows that both sales and marketing underestimate the importance of the website as a communication channel at key stages of the sales cycle. The research shows that marketers and...

The goal of marketers is to provide customers with an outstanding experience that delights at every touchpoint and exceptional enough to ensure each individual’s journey ends with a purchase. But sometimes, we find that even when marketers think they are putting their best foot forward, some customers never respond.

Are brand marketers missing the mark? Or is their brand’s poor data-keeping practices...

It is widely accepted that superior customer experience (CX) drives revenue growth. Ever since Frederick Reichheld introduced the Net Promoter Score (NPS) in the 2003 Harvard Business Review, marketers’ focus has been seeing how customer experience can be captured. Often by managing the answer to the seminal question “On a scale of zero to 10, with 10 being highest, what’s the likelihood that you would recommend us (our company/brand) to a friend or...

It is no secret that social media marketing is an ever-moving target. Up until recently there was a firm belief that the longer content remained accessible the more impactful it would be. Now, as counterintuitive as it may sound, there is a swing towards short-lived content, which has to do with Instagram’s rise in popularity.

Instagram is increasingly being seen by brands as a dynamic platform from which to share their more informal...

It’s time for brands to shape up or ship out when it comes to ethics with two in five consumers already having walked away from organisations which have violated their personal values, according to a new industry report.

The study from agency Hotwire, which alongside Sapio Research polled more than 6,000 consumers, as well as more than 1300 CMOs and business decision makers, argued that while consumers are willing to start...

Brands are increasingly expected to make a difference to more than the corporate bottom line. Organisations have been so successful at articulating their brand values, that brand leaders now feel the weight of consumer expectation to make a positive difference in the world – environmentally, socially, politically. This expectation is reshaping brand marketing, requiring a new authenticity, new channels, new technologies—and fundamentally, a new attitude to brand risk.

Consumers reward brands with...

In the world of commerce, AI has grown to become a useful and vital tool. One area of business where AI is having the most immediate effect is sales. Traditionally a skillset that relies on human interaction and persuasion, it is being gradually transformed by technology. According to the 2018 State of Sales Report, by Salesforce, UK sales leaders anticipate AI adoption in their industry to grow by 155% by 2020. But how exactly is AI transforming sales?

The martech buying process is often a long and complex one, especially for enterprises with large deployment needs. It’s not a decision taken lightly - and key decision makers will go through huge amounts of research, sit through numerous demos, and run various test drives before making the best possible choice.

This article talks about the factors that business need to consider when choosing between different...