Working in Marketing Operations requires surgical precision Marketing Operations (Marketing Ops) is on the rise, with many companies turning to a Marketing Ops team to make their company’s marketing efforts more efficient and effective. With roots deep in strategic planning and budgeting and its increasing focus on customer acquisition, this position has quickly becoming a…
What are the options to make use of the one-to-one marketing model to deliver targeted messages It was way back in 1999 that Peppers & Rogers asked: Is your company ready for One to One Marketing? What are the options today for one to one to encourage greater interaction with your online contacts? Has the…
What’s going on in the industry? What new techniques have emerged recently? What insights, tools, tips and tricks is the web design community talking about? Anselm Hannemann is collecting everything that popped up over the last week in his web development reading list so that you don’t miss out on anything. The result is a…
Outlining solutions to your email marketing challenges Email marketers have taken long strides in the never-ending race to keep up to the changes in email marketing described in Tim Watson’s post describing the latest Email trends for 2016. When email design for multiple email clients was a struggle, email renderability on multiple mobile devices was…
A social media policy is crucial if you want to be in full control of your social media interactions One social media gaffe can ruin the reputation of even the strongest brands out there. No marketer wants to face a host of outraged consumers. Social media might be the best thing that ever happened to…
Every morning, designers wake up to happily work on their products, be they digital or physical, with an inner belief that people will want to use their products and will have a blast doing so. Perhaps that is a slight generalization; however, as designers, we tend to have a natural desire for each project we…
SMEs/SMBs with offline businesses models can still utilise digital marketing You would be forgiven for thinking that the days of bricks and mortar stores are numbered due to the rise of Internet shopping and dramatically increased usage of Smartphones to make purchases when on the move. Certainly, online shopping is fast becoming the norm as…
What sets apart those digital marketing strategies that you read about in case studies, from those failing strategies that never see the light of day? Aside from the impact that budgeting and available resources will have on the outcome of any strategy, there are some steadfast rules you can stick to, to give your digital…
4 trends Email marketers need to stay on top of in 2016 and one trend you might decide to let pass you by this year… The heart of (email) marketing is about providing customer-centric experiences. For email this is the mantra of right message, right person, right time. The closer you get to this the…
Digital marketing models can provide useful frameworks for digital audits, planning and strategy. If you are a marketing manager needing to create a digital marketing plan or conduct an audit or review online communications, models provide a helpful flow as to what to include and to ensure nothing is missed. Previously, in 2013, we created…