It is the age of online. You can sell anything and everything online. So, if you give importance to efficiency, quality and consistency in your branding and marketing campaigns, setting up an online store might be the single solution that will solve multiple problems in your organization. Read more at:
These days drip marketing is an important tactic for modern marketing campaigns and aims to apply a slow-but-steady approach to winning customers through a carefully custom-made series of messages. Though drip marketing is usually applied to email campaigns, it is also applicable to direct mail and phone campaigns as well. It uses timed messages to build interest and willingness to purchase in the recipients of the messages. Read more at: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/insidecrm/drip-marketing-for-crm-78920
Marketing is needed in every business. But, before you start a successful marketing campaign, it is important to get inside the customer's mind. There is an important acronym AIDA in today’s business world which stands for attention, interest, desire and action. This model is like a purchasing pipe that basically identifies the cognitive stages a prospect goes through before making a purchase. If you like to develop a better understanding of how the customer thinks, then you can use AIDA which was first developed by Elias St. Elmo Lewis, an American advertising and sale pioneer. Read more at: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/insidecrm/how-to-market-more-effectively-78331
According to Nielson, today 65% of Americans use social networking sites on a regular basis and 66% of people trust online views of different people across the world. Social networking is generally used to do shopping and browsing about things. This article explores the three things that are used by the sales team for taking marketing decisions. They are: 1. To understand your audience: It helps us to know what is being preferred by the people in the market and what to be produced to increase the sales. Using social media gives us a picture in real time of the audiences you are reaching. 2. To spot Trends within Target Segments: It helps to analyze the market grip and strategies of the competing firms and products. 3. To determine the success of marketing campaigns: The data gathered by the social media and social networking sites can be used to analyze the success and failure rate of any of the marketing campaigns. Read more at: https://www.marketingprofs.com/articles/2017/32108/three-ways-your-marketing-team-needs-to-use-social-insights
Nowadays social influencers are replacing word-of-mouth recommendations as it goes far beyond the typical CRM functionality to add in social network streams, messages and mentions to customer data. It is essential to have detailed information about the influencer. This may include the frequency used hashtags, style of recommending products, brands they promote and company mentions. To make a note of each influencer is the best way to approach the individual and track conversations with them. It is very important to coordinate with the influencer by tracking initial messages, follow-ups and other significant events. It is vital to know whether the influencer is positive, negative or neutral about a topic by analyzing the content for the overall sentiment towards the brand, competitors and products. CRMs must handle the process of influencer targeting in real time as it shows the impact of active marketing campaigns on brand awareness and sentiment. Businesses may also find an influencer among their customers. Connecting social CRM with influencer marketing will definitely prove beneficial for the businesses. To read more follow:- http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/insidecrm/how-to-use-social-crm-for-influencer-marketing-74109
According to a recent research, 96% of B2B marketers say that data is regarded as “important” or “very important” within their marketing team and 90% of senior management feel the same way. A data strategy enables you to achieve business goals and a B2B data strategy provides the foundation for everything involving data, from whom you target through your marketing campaigns, to how you generate leads and increase sales. The data strategy should guide any organization and must have clear results, rather than a list of vague objectives. Suzanne Stock (the founder Directors of Marketscan) writes in her article about some steps that any organization can take to implement B2B data strategy. They are: Have clear-cut aim, Carry out a data audit, and be consistent. Read more at: http://www.business2community.com/b2b-marketing/need-b2b-data-strategy-implement-one-01555070#kCkXyhGwW1laWRRS.97
Segmentation plays an important role in marketing campaigns. Companies should use personalization techniques to connect with their customers. People now use mobile devices and segmenting mobile campaigns are gaining importance nowadays. Companies should also segment based on those people who use the company’s app with those use the mobile version of their website. Nowadays, customers use mobile commerce to buy things on their phones, use social media to buy products and use click and collect services. So, businesses have to keep pace with these changes and make the most impact to reach out to their customers. Read more at: http://digitalmarketingmagazine.co.uk/digital-marketing-lead-generation/why-segmentation-is-the-key-to-a-successful-modern-mobile-marketing-campaign/1638
