
Oracle’s Marketing Cloud adds account-based marketing and boosts AddThis interest targeting
Oracle’s Marketing Cloud is today offering account-based marketing (ABM) lead acquisition, and a deeper integration with topic-based data...

The complicated local path to purchase: 7 marketing tasks to do yourself and 7 to outsource
Today’s consumers have lots of options to find local businesses, and they use them all. There’s no fixed path to purchase — customers...

The need for speed in email marketing
Big data equals slow data Customer data is the fuel that drives effective marketing campaigns. In the world of big data, conventional...

Automated CRM Signpost ups its game with built-in AI agent
The symbol of Signpost’s new Mia Step by step, rules-based marketing platforms are adding predictive technology and other intelligence on...

Email deliverability issues? Here are the 5 questions you should be asking
Email marketing is the most important vehicle for reaching new and existing customers throughout the year. Businesses can utilize email...

4 ways to improve your email marketing production process
Most of the report’s findings (email registration required) serve simply to raise questions about whether a brand should consider...

How to optimize your content for each step of the buyer’s journey
If you’re an experienced marketer, then you probably understand the difference between “marketing” and “selling.” Far too often, business...

The road map to personalization
We hear it all the time: Marketing must be personalized to drive engagement and keep people engaged. True. But what does that really...

Deliver more value to the inbox: 4 dos and don’ts
Email offers the best return on investment when compared with every other digital discipline, with 68 percent of marketers surveyed by...

Retooling mail optimization: how real-time actions put direct mail back into fashion
Before the evolution of digital, direct marketers relied on physical mail as a rewarding channel to drive customer actions, one that they...

We’re reaching the tipping point in mobile commerce
Have you noticed what’s going on with mobile? Mobile revenue is at a record high, as more and more consumers use their smartphones to...

Achieve sweet success with marketing segmentation
No matter how big or small your company or department is, to achieve success in today’s environment, you need to get personal with your...

Gmail Ads: Email marketing without the emails
mrmohock / Shutterstock.com Any advertiser interested in growing their business needs to think about the top of the funnel, and the...

Everything you need to know for successful email A/B testing
A/B testing is a familiar tactic to most marketers, and for good reason. Testing every aspect of your email, from the subject line to the...

Email marketers, meet your new cubicle mate: machine intelligence
machine learning and automation. Litmus (my employer) recently asked more than 1,100 marketers: “Will machine learning, AI, and...

Adobe unveils its next-generation Marketing Cloud
The Adobe Marketing Cloud logo, rendered as 3-D Adobe is unleashing today what it describes as the next-gen version of its Marketing...

5 steps to leverage the power of affiliates in your email marketing
The internet has certainly changed our landscape of communication. It has provided ample opportunity for entrepreneurs to pursue a life...

The inbox laboratory: How email can thrive on empirical experimentation
At first glance, Facebook’s new reaction emoji might look just whimsical or downright silly. It seems like a step too far to ask users to...

3 gears of a successful marketing program: Looking beyond email click rates
After we exchanged some jokes about the passage of time, he said, “Can I make a confession? I feel like we’re off to a slow start. I...
























