
Voice search and data: The two trends that will shape online marketing in 2017
Alexander Supertramp / Shutterstock.com With the explosion of technology in the digital space, customer expectations and website...

The marketing automation generation: Fulfilling the mandate for customer life cycle marketing
Nearly a decade into the marketing automation (MA) revolution, we’ve developed a crop of B2B marketing professionals who have built...

Reaching users wherever they are
Picture it: Boston, 2017. You’re sitting in the crowded airport waiting for your flight, trying to kill some time before your flight to...

Marketing automation struggles to reach its full potential
Marketing automation is on the rise. The reason? Marketing automation vendors are promising accelerated revenue and improved ROI (return...

The new marketing mindset
I’ve said before that robots are the gatekeepers to your customers. And by “robots,” I really mean “software.” Consider this: Algorithms...

Adaptive marketing: The key to winning in the Engagement Economy
Marketers must be, by nature, adaptive. Our practice today looks much different from the way it did five years ago, and it will look even...

How AI will shape the future of search
There is no doubt the search industry has evolved. Just one look at how search engine results pages are currently laid out shows how...

A new language called WebAssembly is opening the door to the next generation of browsers
A still frame from a moving, generated landscape inside a browser using WASM If you think of the online world as browser experiences...

What is demand generation marketing?
The role of demand generation marketing is evolving along with technology, enabling B2B marketers to get better at filling the pipeline...

Adobe launches a super-cloud to manage customer experience
Adobe is gathering its clouds and making more. This week, the company unpacked a truckload of announcements at the Adobe Summit digital...

5-year trends in artificially intelligent marketing
Artificial intelligence has been making headlines over the last 12 months in domains like health care, finance, face recognition and...

Report: Bad bots are swarming virtually every website and login page
You know that any report on bad bots is not going to be optimistic when it starts with a comparison to Pearl Harbor. In fact, the fourth...

Salesforce opens its Einstein AI layer to all customers
First announced last fall, the Einstein AI layer has been in use by select Salesforce customers like Air France, US Bank and others....

Chatbots: Hype or the real deal?
Last December, Starbucks announced “My Starbucks Barista,” a virtual barista for its mobile app that enables customers to place orders...

Here’s how & why CDPs differ from CRMs & DMPs
Even if you don’t have one, you might have heard about Customer Data Platforms (CDPs). It’s a “marketer-managed system that creates a...

From algorithms to advertising: 7 steps to introducing AI to marketing
Artificial intelligence — once the rarefied domain of big-name, ambitious projects like Google’s self-driving car or IBM’s Watson — is...

The new customer marketing lifecycle in the Engagement Economy
In my last post, I expanded on the concept of the “Engagement Economy,” today’s world where everything and everyone is connected. This...

A better way to build martech software
In this e-book, Indusa explores a better way to build martech. Martech companies are their own unique creatures. While they do need to...

Making emotional connections in a digital era
From Audi’s “Drive Progress” campaign to Kia’s “Hero’s Journey” commercial, companies that can master emotional connections in a digital...
























