Marketing Reporting Automation for Agencies and Brands
PR is more than crisis control. It’s about storytelling, specifically, telling the right story at the right time. And thanks to powerful marketing intelligence tools you have the ability to analyze large sets of data that actually make it easier to do just that.
Yet many PR professionals are hesitant about embracing data as a part of their toolkit. “Data can’t drive headlines,” or “Data kills creativity,” can often be heard from PR pros. Continue reading “What Does Data Have To Do With PR?”
If you have grown to love data then there is nothing like being able to visualize how great a campaign is performing for a client because of all the marketing data that is now available. But there is no way you can learn to love the collection, organization, and then the creation of charts and reports that come with it. The reporting grind is draining your entire team. Continue reading “The 5 Benefits Of Automating Your Agency’s Reporting”
A client has an initiative, an agency builds a campaign to promote that initiative, the campaign runs and if all goes well the process is repeated… That is how agency and client relations used to work. Continue reading “How Agencies Can Become Their Clients’ Partner”
This is part 2 of our 2 part blog series, Creating An Analytics Culture. In part 1 (you can read it here) we identified the real problem with creating an analytics culture within your marketing teamexcellent you don’t have the right marketing technology in place.
In your organization, how long does it typically take an analyst to answer a data-centric question? Three days? A week? More than tough? If you are using a method that does not allow you to receive timely, flexible and accurate analytics, then it may be normal for it to take that long or longer. However, this is not helping your team or helping to drive an analytics culture within your team.
Continue reading “Creating An Analytics Culture: The Benefits”
As we have seen marketing evolve, we have also watched it become very complex. The combination and addition of channels, platforms, and new technologies have created a deluge of data that actually makes it harder for someone to get a clear picture of their marketing performance. Continue reading “Creating An Analytics Culture: The Problem”
For many marketers, the shares their piece of content receives on social is the lifeline to their marketing efforts, development, and budgets but it turns out you can’t actually see much of what is being shared.
A report released by RadiumOne shows that nearly 82% of sharing is done through dark social.
Through dark social? I didn’t know there was a dark side…
Dark social is dominating how people share, is an increasingly vital source to explain referral traffic and is significant in understanding how what people share publicly differs from what they are sharing privately. When marketers understand dark social it can help brands know their customers, personalize their marketing messages and ensure customers are receiving relevant content- dark social has proven too valuable to ignore anymore. Continue reading “Shining The Light On Dark Social”
The words data and marketing practically go together like peanut butter and jelly. Data is central to the marketing world and in many ways, has altered it. From how brands choose leadership, marketing channels, campaigns, technology and close sales-data influences just about everything.
However, data is still a challenge for marketers. Now with so much information available it can almost be paralyzing, making you feel like you don’t know where to start, let alone what to do with it. According to published research from the DMA, only one-third of marketers felt they had a good grasp of dealing with data.
There is no silver bullet for content marketing but there are a lot of things you could be doing wrong:
Just to name a few…
According to The Content Institutes 2016 study, 86% of marketers are now using content marketing but only 30% believe they are effective at it and the crazy part is 76% say they will produce even more content in 2016 vs 2015!
When you make the investment into monitoring and analyzing your marketing channels, you take the guesswork out of your marketing returns and have the opportunity to dig in and see how things are actually performing. Continue reading “The Benefits Of Monitoring & Analyzing Your Marketing Channels”
According to The Content Wrangler, personalization is the process of targeting content to individuals based on one or more of the following: who they are; where they are; when, why, and how they access content; and what device they use to access it.
Marketers have learned a lot about the personalization process over the past several years and so have consumers. Consumers have been exposed to different experiences of personalization through various mediums (that item you looked at online following you to a Facebook ad) that produce different quality of results- it seems like they too now understand the value that personalization can deliver. Continue reading “Let’s Get Personal: A Digital Marketing Experience”
