9 Reasons QR Codes are Bad for Your Brand
The tale of the QR code is a sordid story. The QR (Quick Response) code was originally the trademark name for a two-dimensional barcode system. It was invented in 1994 by Denso Wave, a Toyota...
View ArticleThe Social-Shake-Up: A New Breed of Marketer is Coming
Gartner is predicting that by 2015, 25% of organizations will have a Chief Digital Officer (CDO) and further estimated that 20% of existing chief information officers (CIOs) have already taken on some...
View ArticleWhy CMO’s Need To Be More Involved in Ecommerce
If the $42.3 billion spent online this past holiday season has taught retailers anything, it’s that capturing customers—and their dollars—online is crucial. But online is a big place. And mobile,...
View ArticleCan CMOs Master The Customer Experience For Hispanic Shoppers?
As more and more marketers are discovering, it’s impossible to think about any digital or e-commerce strategy without acknowledging the critical importance of the overall Hispanic population on...
View Article3 Secrets To Having A Two-Way Conversation With Your Brand’s Customers Online
No matter where you look, brands are all trying to crack the code of having a two-way conversation with their customers wherever they are – be it in-store, online, on a smartphone, on a tablet or on...
View Article5 Ways CMOs Can Master Their Online Customer Experience
As mobile devices continue their gains in popularity and usage worldwide, more consumers are interacting with brands at various stages of the buying life cycle—from browsing, researching and comparing...
View Article4 Lessons from Responsive Design for CMOs
Responsive design brings a variety of benefits – both for brand marketers and the consumers interacting with content across multiple devices. According to data from a December 2012 study conducted by...
View ArticleCMOs Win When High-Value Customers Are Treated Personally Online
With constant access to a growing list of channels and devices, today’s connected customers are no longer satisfied with vanilla, one-size-fits-all experiences and offers. To stand out in the...
View ArticleThe Missing Link Between Media and Marketing
It’s apparent that there’s a missing vital component in the quest to modernize marketing. Today’s marketing organizations are aggressively modernizing, automating and adding more digitally centered...
View ArticleThe State of Digital Marketing 2015
With mid-year coming up and summertime upon us, many marketers are taking stock of the first half of the year and re-checking their Digital Marketing plans to finish out 2015 strong. So I’d like to...
View ArticleInterview with Dave Chaffey of Smart Insights
This week I had the pleasure of reading a new report from Smart Insights on the State of Digital Marketing 2015 and decided to dig in a bit further with an interview. For those of you who aren’t...
View ArticleThe Return of the “Marketing Mix”
Fashions change. This cliché doesn’t apply just to hemlines and jeans, but to business as well. Anyone who claims that business is all about logic and data needs to get a reality-check; Marketers...
View ArticleDigital Transformation is not just for Large Enterprises
Marketing Darwinism caught up with Kathy Visser-May, CMO of Acumatica, the world’s fastest growing Cloud ERP company. Kathy is a celebrated Marketer with experience traversing technology giants like...
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