May 23, 2013
But let's turn that frown upside down. Yes, marketing is hard, but there's also more opportunity for customer engagement now than ever, right?
March 15, 2013
Adding social and content to loyalty programs can up the ante by driving advocacy, engagement, and reach.
October 31, 2012
Most marketers aren't collaborating with sales, and the effects can have a rather scary impact on the bottom line.
October 09, 2012
It's all about visual content. We all know that—but why don't we put it into practice?
October 02, 2012
In the marketing world, everyone wants to talk metrics ("actionable data" is to the marketing world what "organic" is to grocery stores). Ultimately, it's content that's going to drive results, either positively or negatively.
September 20, 2012
When it comes to social marketing, "likes" are little more than empty calories.
September 01, 2012
When it comes to planning their approach to data-focused demand generation, many B2B marketers are at a loss as to how to proceed.
August 29, 2012
Social media's ever-increasing popularity as a business tool is no surprise—but businesses have yet to use social to its full potential.
July 01, 2012
Producing quality online video content is quickly becoming a top priority for marketers.
July 01, 2012
Indiana University was looking for a way to enhance and increase the effectiveness of its prospective student outreach, so it turned to Compendium.
June 08, 2012
Across the digital world marketers are learning the same lesson: Advertising, and more significantly the marketing funnel as we've known it, is becoming an ineffective tool for influencing how consumers move to purchase.
May 01, 2012
When the year-end wrap-ups come in, 2012 is sure to be labeled the year of the story.
April 01, 2012
To get at the heart of some of the challenges facing marketers when it comes to defining the best strategies and programs to drive marketing success, Direct Marketing News convened a select group of senior marketers in a closed-door roundtable discussion sponsored by Marketo.
March 13, 2012
Twitter's acquisition of micro-blogging site Posterous is being touted by industry analysts as a move toward enhancing the ability to share rich content, such as videos and photographs, and a move away from a platform based solely on hum-drum 140-word status updates.
AOL launches Pictela Enterprise ad publishing platform
February 01, 2012
Healthcare reform and signs of economic recovery have insurance marketers retooling their direct marketing efforts to drive relevant messaging to consumers and prospects.
January 01, 2012
Our expert columnists this month offer practical advice regarding the most effective ways to use social media to foster greater loyalty among customers, including strategies around providing meaningful content for maximum engagement; how to use data collected to improve targeting in a way that is integrated with other marketing efforts; and how to measure and track social marketing efforts.
To absolve advertisers of underperforming click-through rates, Reuters writer Felix Salmon writes that online ads should function as bite-sized content aggregators.
For those wanting to know how to make a turkey burger or a high colonic at a luxury spa sound like Shakespeare — or at least like something out of feckless fabulist James Frey's fiction factory — see Groupon's editor-in-chief Aaron With.
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What's in our mailbox this month: fitness postcards from Retro Fitness, American Woman Fitness Centers, Union's United Taekwondo Academy, and Bally Total Fitness. (We're totally pumped.)
Social data can improve a brand's bottom line and customer relationships. Just ask brands Infiniti and Diamond Nexus.
Here are three must-have data sets that every marketer should include in his or her email strategy.
