Martech

AUGUST 27, 2024

Two new generative AI features in Merchant Center Next provide quick summaries of product performance and custom reports based on specific data queries. This should make it easier for customers to find products nearby. Automated in-store availability. New campaign goals.

Customer Acquisition 124

Customer Acquisition Retail Shoppers Advertising 124

Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 28, 2010

It’s that time of year for creating your marketing plan. If you are looking for a more formal approach, check out The Marketing Leadership Council which offers a marketing planning tool called MarkPlan and recently held a series of workshops on marketing planning.

Marketing Plan 81

Marketing Plan Telemarketing Inbound Marketing Customer loyalty 81

Hubspot Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2023

Do you take a good, hard look at your team's marketing strategy every year? Without an annual marketing plan, things can get messy — and it's nearly impossible to put a number on the budget you'll need to secure for the projects, hiring, and outsourcing you'll encounter over the course of a year if you don't have a plan.

Marketing Plan 98

Marketing Plan Social Media Marketing Marketers Marketing 98

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Prioritizing your customers’ needs and feedback can drive your social strategies, ensuring your marketing efforts resonate with your audience. Setting clear business objectives for your social media efforts helps integrate social media into your broader marketing plan, driving meaningful business outcomes.

Transform 78

Transform Social Media Marketing Whitepaper Marketers 78

Martech

APRIL 2, 2025

Dig deeper: 5 ways to transition from tactical to strategic marketing Defining your target audience A critical part of the audit is clearly defining your target audience or customer persona(s). Potential customers don’t appreciate a “bait and switch” and can you blame them?

CRM 71

CRM Thought Leadership Finance Shipping 71

Martech

AUGUST 1, 2024

This week, Experian announced a solution for retail media networks (RMNs) to improve the ability to identify customers within its network, help advertisers reach these customers and measure a campaign’s impact. Dig deeper: Marketers plan to up RMN spend RMN solution. Why we care. RMNs saw 16.3% growth in the U.S.

Retail 110

Retail Shoppers Advertisers Advertising 110

Rock Content

MAY 8, 2016

According to the Content Marketing Institute , 77% of B2C companies and 70% of B2B companies surveyed say that they are creating more content than they did just a year ago. However, producing more content is only productive when you have a solid plan in place. Understand your audience. Step 2: Develop Buyer Personas.

Marketing Plan 75

Marketing Plan Content Marketing B2C Whitepaper 75

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

There are no two ways about it: your customers want personalized content from all your channels, including web and email. Providing personalized content can create a better customer experience, and it also builds trust. In fact, more than half of marketers that have AI use it for content personalization.*

Transform 174

Transform CRM B2C CMO 174

Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2022

To help you answer that and other burning questions, we surveyed 1,200+ global B2B and B2C marketers on their goals, challenges, and strategies. Our Biggest Finding: Agile, Data-Driven Marketers Will Win 2023. Not far behind are SEO, mobile messaging, influencer marketing, and selling products directly in social apps.

Global Marketing 145

Global Marketing Marketing Strategy Gen Z B2C 145

Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

When it comes down to it, it’s you who likely has to manage market research, competitor analysis, advertising, public relations, and sales materials, to name a few. As well as keeping your existing customers, one of your primary focuses is bringing in new clients. Start with a Plan. Retain customers. Engage readers.

Customer 106

Customer CMO B2C Thought Leadership 106

Sprout Social

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Beyond Meats posts more closely resemble a stream of consciousness than a thorough marketing plan. The play: Whether you sell clothing or technology, are B2B or B2C, your end consumers are people. Instead, focus on the day-to-day needs of your customers.

Gen Z 85

Gen Z Branding Retail Education 85

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 10, 2015

What businesses can do with marketing automation software is track customer behavior and interactions across channels to better understand who they are and what they want. But, treating email as something outside of a holistic marketing plan leads to incredible inconsistencies and missed opportunities.

Marketing Automation Platform 134

Marketing Automation Platform Thought Leadership B2C User-Generated 134

Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 26, 2021

Marketing is a balancing act and when you’re trying to increase qualified leads, it should never be a guessing game. To develop a truly successful marketing budget, you first have to look back at marketing plans from years past. Step 2: Determine Your 2021 Marketing Goals. What’s not working?

Thought Leadership 145

Thought Leadership PR Traditional Marketing B2C 145

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

There are a myriad of reasons why customers abandon their carts, from sticker shock about shipping rates to lack of trust in your data privacy policies. Whatever the reasons are behind this astronomical number, the fact remains that marketers need to address this unavoidable issue. Nearly 3 out of 4 online shopping carts are abandoned.

Shoppers 174

Shoppers B2C eCommerce Thought Leadership 174

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 17, 2010

This is a unifying principle for both marketing and sales teams and should act as the starting point for all of our discussions. In B2B marketing organizations, the single most important way to keep customers is to build satisfaction and loyalty. So, how do we build customer satisfaction and loyalty? One that is engaged.

Customer loyalty 86

Customer loyalty Customer Telemarketing Inbound Marketing 86

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 17, 2010

This is a unifying principle for both marketing and sales teams and should act as the starting point for all of our discussions. In B2B marketing organizations, the single most important way to keep customers is to build satisfaction and loyalty. So, how do we build customer satisfaction and loyalty? One that is engaged.

Customer loyalty 82

Customer loyalty Customer Telemarketing Inbound Marketing 82

Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 8, 2024

Table of Contents General Ecommerce Statistics Social Media Ecommerce Statistics Ecommerce Growth Statistics Consumer Behavior and Demographics Ecommerce Statistics B2B Ecommerce Statistics B2C Ecommerce Statistics Mobile Ecommerce Statistics General Ecommerce Statistics The average number of products bought per online order is 4.95.

eCommerce 121

eCommerce Gen Z B2C Shoppers 121

Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 5, 2024

Buckle up, leave your preconceived notions about B2B marketing at the entrance, and let’s get into the nitty-gritty. B2B Marketing Strategy Stats 66% of B2B leaders and 62% of B2C leaders say their companies have leveraged AI tools, while only 57% of sales leaders responded positively to the same question.

B2C 138

B2C SEO Transform Marketers 138

Martech

APRIL 5, 2022

Identifying channels and touchpoints that refer the highest quality leads or the most valuable customers. Predicting/planning marketing and/or advertising spend based on past performance. Having a holistic understanding of the offline and online customer buying journey and weighting journey interactions appropriately.

Customer 106

Customer CMO Customer Journey Non-Profit 106

Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 3, 2025

We didnt fully understand how customers found and engaged with our product. B2B SaaS marketing builds strategies that drive brand awareness, user acquisition, and customer retention for cloud-based software products. Your goal is to show potential customers how your product solves their business challenges.

Customer Acquisition 60

Customer Acquisition User-Generated Customer loyalty Marketers 60

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 14, 2021

They’re typically offered during the initial phases of the customer journey, when buyers are researching their problem and checking out potential solutions. If one of your blog posts gives tips for creating an effective marketing plan, your lead magnet could be a downloadable marketing plan template.

Whitepaper 145

Whitepaper Thought Leadership Marketing Plan Education 145

Neil Patel

JANUARY 27, 2021

Businesses that use content marketing have conversion rates 6x higher on average than those who do not. Roughly 24% of marketers plan to increase their spending on content marketing in both B2B and B2C. 60% of marketers say content marketing is very important or extremely important to their overall strategy.

Content Marketing 143

Content Marketing B2C Marketers Marketing 143

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 23, 2015

In fact, a new report released by Marketo and The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), has shown that Asia Pacific (APAC) marketers are already pretty savvy. Compared to the rest of the world, marketers in this region are more likely to be involved in product management, customer retention, cross-selling and upselling.

Promotion 130

Promotion Thought Leadership Customer Acquisition B2C 130

Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 12, 2018

Of the 30 organizations, 19 were B2B and 11 were B2C or B2B2C. (I I worked with two nonprofits that target consumers, so I put them into the B2C group.). Almost half of the respondents said they were “doing digital marketing” without a defined strategy. It will increase the value of existing customers. Click To Tweet.

Digital Marketing 112

Digital Marketing Marketing Strategy Content Marketing PR 112

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 19, 2011

Blogging should be one of the first thing every marketer considers when starting their marketing plan, when distributing budgets, or when assessing their results. Because customers want it, because it’s cheaper than other marketing tactics and because it works. Make every effort to understand your customers.

Inbound Marketing 102

Inbound Marketing Whitepaper Marketing Mix B2C 102

Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP. It’s no longer optional.

B2C 107

B2C Telemarketing Customer loyalty Marketing Mix 107

Scoop.it!

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Content marketing plays an essential role for both B2C and B2-B businesses. The best way to develop a successful B2B content marketing strategy is to understand precisely which business you cater to, where they’re coming from, and how you can continuously deliver on their expectations and business needs.

Content Marketing 111

Content Marketing Whitepaper eBook B2C 111

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

B2B magazine publisher Bob Felsenthal kicked off the event with some interesting stats from a recent survey; 76 percent of marketers plan to increase their online spending and how the top areas of spending are website development, email marketing, and social. The barriers between B2B and B2C are going away.

B2C 99

B2C Whitepaper Thought Leadership Global Marketing 99

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 5, 2010

B2B Marketers cannot ignore this channel and need to continue advocating for our brands and with our senior executives to get more involved, become more visible and to engage with customers in this channel. Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

Telemarketing 102

Telemarketing B2C Customer loyalty Inbound Marketing 102

Martech

MARCH 25, 2025

Looking ahead, marketers plan to further integrate AI for data analysis and insights, personalization, and automated marketing tasks. It was cited by nearly 30% of respondents, followed closely by increasing marketing efficiency. Customer experience is also a consideration, particularly for larger organizations.

Marketing Plan 77

Marketing Plan Management Place Marketers 77

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

To be able to look into the future and where things are going for B2B marketers, it is good to look in the past and where they came from in order to learn and grow your marketing plans going forward. Sales Centric: The initial breakthrough on the path to modern marketing was Gutenberg’s printing press.

B2C 121

B2C Marketers Marketing Advertising 121

Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The proof is in the numbers: 91% of B2B marketers and 86% of B2C marketers use content marketing. 78% of CMOs consider custom content the future of marketing, and 90% of consumers find customized content helpful. Developing a solid content marketing plan involves: Knowing your target audience.

Content Marketing 145

Content Marketing eBook Marketers Marketing 145

Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2010

To help out my fellow B2B marketers, here is a list of 7 common mistakes that B2B marketers make when jumping feet first into social media marketing. Using social media as a direct response vehicle - The reason for much of the success from B2C marketers is that the majority of their products are impulse purchases (i.e.

Social Media Marketing 81

Social Media Marketing B2C Telemarketing Whitepaper 81

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Since the audio marketing world has never had so much momentum, it’s something marketing teams should consider adding to their marketing strategy either this year or next. If your marketing plan already includes audio marketing, consider improving the quality of the product you’re putting out to increase its value.

Marketers 137

Marketers Marketing B2C Price 137

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 12, 2011

To me the real answer lies within our company culture, marketing perspective and customer frame of mind. The Hottest Topics in B2B Marketing. What’s hot in B2B Marketing? And it is for this reason that some say the differences between B2C and B2B marketing has disappeared completely. What do you think?

Direct Mail 105

Direct Mail Inbound Marketing B2C Entertainment 105

Neil Patel

AUGUST 25, 2020

Some excel at specific advertising types, while others specialize in creating excellent customer experiences across every platform. At NPDigital , we leverage our first-party data and search partners to create multi-channel campaigns designed to meet potential customers wherever they hang out online. Not all PPC agencies are equal.

B2C 133

B2C eCommerce Communications Digital Marketing 133

Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

91% of B2B marketers utilize content marketing to reach customers. Additionally, the 2018 B2C content marketing stats from the CMI reveal that 86% of B2C marketers believe content marketing to be a key strategy. Content Marketing Institute ). Content Marketing Institute.

Digital Marketing 134

Digital Marketing Marketing Strategy B2C Marketers 134