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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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7 Steps to Leveraging Data to Measure Success – Part Two

In Part Two, we conclude our series, 7 Steps to Leveraging Data to Measure Success, with the final four steps you can take to ensure your data and methodologies are delivering the information and insights you need in order to better understand and share the measurable results your marketing efforts are producing.

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7 Steps to Leveraging Data to Measure Success – Part One

One of the most critical elements of cultivating a marketing operations department that is strategically aligned for success is an ongoing commitment to track the performance of campaigns, people, processes and technology. Those companies that consistently outperform their competitors are the ones who set goals, monitor performance, measure success and course-correct according to what their data reveals.

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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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5 Issues Threatening Your ABM Success — Part Two

Successful ABM requires marketers to manage a variety of variables with the speed, flexibility and precision coordination of an Olympic gymnast. In addition to accurately leveraging high-quality data in order to identify and target ideal customers, ABM requires marketers to create a well-coordinated series of personalized campaigns across multiple channels.

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5 Issues Threatening Your ABM Success — Part One

Every B2B marketer knows account-based marketing (ABM) is a smart strategy for acquiring and keeping customers. By identifying and focusing efforts on the most qualified prospects, both marketing and sales save time and money in their efforts. Moreover, the results of those efforts are often richly rewarded.

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5 Ways to Amp Your Data-Driven Marketing Campaigns

Most marketing goals are tied to a company’s overall business objectives and include annual expectations such as increase sales, expand to new markets, and reduce churn. All of these goals are easy to measure, but that doesn’t mean they are easy to achieve.

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