B2B Marketing, Digital Media and Marketing Strategy
If online advertising isn’t a meaningful part of your B2B marketing program, you may have dismissed the recent uproar caused by Firefox’s decision to block third party cookies.
However, it doesn’t just impact online advertisers. Many B2B marketers will be impacted as well.
One of the biggest casualties will be your campaign microsites. [Read more...]
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You wouldn’t jump in your car to go from the living room to the kitchen or pull out the chainsaw to cut a stick of butter.
Just because it is a more more powerful solution doesn’t mean it is necessary or advisable.
Marketing automation is quickly becoming like the self-driving car for B2B marketing. Led by Eloqua (now part of Oracle) and Marketo (with a very successful IPO last week), today marketing automation companies are collectively worth billions. [Read more...]
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Data is reinventing the online advertising market. Today, algorithmic media buying is one of the fastest growing areas in online advertising and without data, it wouldn’t even exist.
This isn’t just a consumer advertising trend, increasingly B2B advertising is being driven by data as well.
However, the problem with online data is it is inherently dirty. Collected from registration forms, browsing behavior or appended offline data sources, collecting online data is an imperfect process at best.
So what is the smart way to use dirty data to improve your advertising? Glad you asked.
Here are three steps that will guide both media and creative. [Read more...]
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What would a jet engine say if it was on a social network?
The CMO of GE talked about this in a video earlier this year at Dreamforce. Wow, what a question. To think, soon your refrigerator, car and, yes, jet engines may be part of your social network.
But as devices join you on Facebook, Twitter or other social platforms, are they really becoming social? [Read more...]
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Marketers have invested in marketing automation, content and, in many cases, creating complex business rules to determine what content and message to deliver when.
This represents a significant investment but, for many companies, the application has been limited to emails and landing pages.
The real value is in the rules and logic used to deliver the right message at the right time. The next evolution in marketing automation will be extending the application of these rules across the full spectrum of digital and addressable marketing channels. [Read more...]
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You go to Macys.com and you see baby clothes prominently featured on the homepage. You sign up for the newsletter that promises daily special deals on baby clothes and toys. It is a no-brainer, your first child is on the way.
Macy’s newsletter arrives in your inbox promptly at 5:55 AM every morning, just as you sit down with coffee and fire up your email. On Fridays, it arrives at 6:30 AM. You always sleep in a little on Friday.
On Saturday, you walk into your local furniture for the nursery. On Monday, you notice a crib in the sidebar of your Macy’s email.
Across town, your friend receives an email from Macy’s at 8:25 AM. Well timed, it arrives as she sits down in the office to check personal email before the real work day begins. [Read more...]
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I am a digital and B2B marketer with a background in analytics and online media. Based in Portland, Oregon, I run the media group at Babcock & Jenkins.
Views expressed are my own.
