How smart can computers get? Most of us already have smartphones we use for a thousand small tasks that used to take a lot longer to accomplish: check out library books, find the cheapest gas station by your office, Google an authoritative-sounding statistic to use in the heat of an argument. One day we’ll just leave it to the iPhone to cut the grass, babysit the kids, and serve the perfect martini. (What will I do with my weekends then?)
Distributed Marketing Software.
Supporting Your Sales Reps: A Marketer’s Dilemma
Sales and marketing should go together like peanut butter and jelly. Unfortunately, many organizations experience friction between these two areas, especially when it comes to meeting goals and hitting sales numbers. Sales tends to blame marketing for lack of sales support and successful advertising campaigns, while marketing becomes frustrated with sales for not using approved advertising […]
Why Marketing Automation Should Be a Part of Your 2014 Marketing Budget
If you are looking to make your marketing spends more efficient and effective in 2014, it is critical to have a multi-channel marketing automation technology solution. Marketing management must build a case for having this solution by understanding the CEO or CFO’s perspective, and position it in language that will have the most impact for them. A smart technology vendor should be happy to help marketing management make a case by showing how the solution has made a difference for existing customers and how they will leverage this experience to make a positive impact on the bottom line.
LIMRA Selects Distribion Multi-Channel Distributed Marketing Platform
Distribion is proud to announce that LIMRA has chosen our multi-channel, automated marketing platform to support its marketing efforts throughout its organization. LIMRA, a global research, consulting and professional development organization, is the trusted source of industry knowledge, helping more than 850 insurance and financial services companies in 73 countries increase their marketing and distribution effectiveness. The fact that a company of LIMRA’s stature chose to use Distribion’s platform to support marketing efforts throughout the organization speaks volumes to the capabilities of the Distribion platform.
Distribion Makes List of the Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Dallas-Fort Worth for the 2nd Straight Year
For the second consecutive year, The Metroplex Technology Business Council (MTBC) named Distribion as one of the 35 fastest growing technology companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Bridging the Advertising Trust Gap, Part 2
In March, I wrote about the advertising trust gap and how companies can work to bridge it. More data has come up this week indicating a significant gap in the way that consumers perceive advertising vs. the way businesses think that consumers perceive advertising. Survey data from Nielsen indicates that businesses believe that 43% consumers […]
The Challenge of Consistency in a MultiChannel Environment
One of the biggest stories to come out of the marketing/brand management world in the past week was the decision made by retailer Men’s Wearhouse to drop company founder & advertising spokesman George Zimmer from their marketing communications. Zimmer’s identity is closely tied to the Men’s Wearhouse brand. It will take a while for that […]
FINRA’s Social Media Sweep & Distributed Marketing
News this week emerged that FINRA will be closely examining social media profiles of certain financial advisors. When stories like this come out, it is a great reminder of the nature of a highly regulated industries like financial services and insurance. Thoughts of brand compliance permeate an organization more deeply during times likes these, but […]
The Role of Distributed Marketing in Building Brand Awareness
CMO.com recently featured an article about why CMO’s are not good at selling the concept of brand awareness. On the surface, this seems almost incomprehensible to me, as it is a basic fundamental truth of marketing that brand awareness is the first step to inducing purchase. However, this notion makes sense in the context of […]
Strengthening a Hotel Brand Through Distributed Marketing
Software Advice, a free resource for hotel management systems, recently featured an article about what hotel brands can do to get more bookings directly rather than getting bookings from online travel agencies. With online travel agencies, hotels have to pay commissions for each booking that the agency brings in. This idea would seem like a […]
How Does Social Media Buzz Impact Sales?
This is a hot button issue amongst marketers today. AdAge reported in March that Coca-Cola announced that it found no statistically significant short term impact on sales based on social media buzz. Eventually, Wendy Clark, a senior marketer from Coca-Cola, wrote a follow up piece to the AdAge story about how important social media is […]
Multichannel, Distributed Marketing Automation Still Growing
Last Fall, one of Distribion’s big marketing pieces was an infographic simply named The Rise of Distributed Marketing. 8 months later, news coming out of the multichannel marketing automation sector is still positive. Recently, Gartner released data indicating that marketing automation software will achieve 11% growth this year. Various other statistics have indicated extended periods […]