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7 Steps to Becoming a Data-Driven Marketer

You need to connect with your customers to build a CX strategy that enhances your relationship with them. You need to connect your martech stack and data sources in order to create a seamless digital experience.

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The Pivotal Role of Integration in Digital Transformation

Integration is a theme that not only marks the need for tech tools to work together, but also for previously siloed departments to join forces. In a data-driven world, where customer experience (CX) determines whether a business wins or loses, organizations can’t afford for marketing, sales, operations, and customer care, etc. to go about business as usual.

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3 Marketing Strategies That Deliver – Part Two – Data-Driven Marketing

Implementing a data-driven marketing strategy is a pursuit with endless benefits. Most marketers who are harnessing the power of their data have connected all of the data sources across their organization such as platforms, systems and software, in an effort to pool their inside information and put it to better use.

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3 Marketing Strategies That Deliver – Part One – ABM

Account Based Marketing (ABM) is arguably the most-hyped marketing strategy, but it’s not without reason. Advances in martech have made sending hyper-personalized marketing pieces to a curated collection of ideal customers a scalable endeavor.

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6 Steps to Add Account Based Marketing to Your 2019 Marketing Strategy

Researchers maintain the reason ABM is critical to everyone’s plan of attack is because it delivers big on three critical marketing KPIs: reputation, relationships and revenue. Obviously, ABM is a good thing, but exactly how and where do you begin? You take steps, and we’ve got six you can easily put into motion this year so that your company can reap the rewards of adding ABM to its marketing strategy.

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6 Reasons Why Every B2B Marketer Should Be Using SMS Today

SMS messages are one of the most efficient and cost-effective tools available to B2B marketers today. However, current research shows that less than half (48 percent) of all businesses have incorporated SMS into their marketing strategy. If you’ve been thinking about getting SMS for Eloqua or SMS for Marketo, now is the time. Below, we’ve gathered six reasons why this underutilized tool is your best bet for slaying this year’s marketing and sales goals.

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5 Steps to Increasing Engagement With Cross-Channel Marketing

Your customers expect to connect with your business through their favorite channels, from email, social media, text messages (SMS/MMS) and push (RSS), to voicemail, direct mail and live calls. Cross-channel marketing helps you create a seamless customer experience by integrating your campaigns across all channels. This gives customers the freedom to switch between channels, and yet experience your brand as a whole.

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