Category: Numbers
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Marketing’s compelling new metric: Share of Search (SOS)
Read more: Marketing’s compelling new metric: Share of Search (SOS)Share of Search is marketing’s decisive new metric. Its fans say it should replace Share of Voice, which has long been a primary tool for setting budgets and predicting growth.…
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Marketing must earn its Board Room credibility
Read more: Marketing must earn its Board Room credibilityMarketing has long been a lightweight player in too many old-school Boardrooms, dominated by people with finance and legal backgrounds. As it is not regarded as mission critical, Marketing’s Opex…
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From campaigns, to journeys, to commerce
Artificial Intelligence, Attitude, Change, CRM integration & utilisation, Data, Digital marketing, Engagement, Experience, Lead management, Marketing automation, Marketing ROl, Numbers, Sales alignment, Transformation, Trust, ValueRead more: From campaigns, to journeys, to commerceTraditional IT (Information Technology) is over. Today’s conventional IT organisations spend far too much time in conflict with “the business”. Risk adverse, legacy IT bureaucrats and their legacy systems are…
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A differentiated, superior customer experience does pay dividends
Attitude, Change, Collaboration, Customer experience, Experience, Marketing ROl, Numbers, Trust, ValueRead more: A differentiated, superior customer experience does pay dividendsLaunched six years ago, Watermark Consulting’s annual Customer Experience ROI Study illustrates why, according to the firm’s founder Jon Picoult, “every company _ public or private, large or small _…
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2015’s top 50 marketing slides
Read more: 2015’s top 50 marketing slidesGood summary of the state of marketing in 50 slides from marketing management software company Percolate: Here are my takeaways: Adults use their smart phones more than all other devices…
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Measuring marketing’s performance
Change, Collaboration, CRM integration & utilisation, Customer experience, Data, Engagement, Experience, Marketing ROl, Numbers, Transformation, Trust, ValueRead more: Measuring marketing’s performanceMarketing Magazine’s industry advisory board chairman and Deakin University senior lecturer Michael Valos recently asked two good questions for an opinion piece he is researching. Here are my answers: Q1…
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Analytics: “skills managers must have”
Read more: Analytics: “skills managers must have”Analytical skills are not technical skills, they’re thinking skills that every competent manager should master, according to an excellent Kellogg Insight interview with the university’s marketing faculty director Professor Florian…
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Most of us are consistently missing the online lead follow-up window
Attitude, Change, Collaboration, CRM integration & utilisation, Customer experience, Data, Digital marketing, Lead management, Marketing automation, Marketing ROl, Numbers, Transformation, ValueRead more: Most of us are consistently missing the online lead follow-up windowMore than a decade after the Internet hit prime time and stayed there, marketing and sales organisations are consistently missing the boat when it comes to web-to-lead response times. A…
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Get visual in real time with your marketing dashboards
Change, Collaboration, CRM integration & utilisation, Data, Engagement, Marketing ROl, Numbers, Transformation, ValueRead more: Get visual in real time with your marketing dashboardsAre you building and supporting concise, real-time, visual dashboards to better enable stakeholders to understand and respond to Marketing’s contribution? If you don’t have a marketing dashboard environment then perhaps…
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An inconvenient truth: our marketing data doesn’t count in the C-Suite
Read more: An inconvenient truth: our marketing data doesn’t count in the C-SuiteSenior executives do not regard marketing results as important when making key decisions, according to a recent Forrester Research report, Marketing Measurement needs an MBA. According to the marketers surveyed…