There are 3 main resources that marketing leaders need to evaluate as they begin the 2015 Adventure in Budgeting. In this article, we will explore the 1st area of focus, “Talent,” to evaluate your current team and identify expertise gaps and performance scope expectations.
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A Look at Personalization Strategies for Local Marketers
Marketers with a localized marketing model face a wealth of challenges: fragmented technologies, brand consistency and audience segmentation top that list. A new video from Gleanster Research dives into the challenges local marketers face and the steps they can take to make a change.
What’s New at the LIMRA Social Media Conference
We were thrilled to be a part of the 2014 LIMRA Social Media Conference, where CEO Tim Storer debuted a brand new feature from our marketing communications platform…
Distribion Named Top Local Marketing Automation Platform by Gleanster Research
Distribion is proud to announce that it has been ranked as the Best in Overall Value and Ease of Deployment by Gleanster Research in the recently released “2014 Local Marketing Automation Gleansight Benchmark Report.” The Gleansight Benchmark Report investigated…
Marketing Automation: Does Size Really Matter?
Regardless of the number of employees, most marketing departments face similar challenges: lack of resources, reach & insight. Read more…
The Power of Digital Marketing
You might think digital marketing is already “mainstream,” but the bulk of marketing budgets still goes toward offline activities such as trade shows, radio, TV, and direct mail. According to a research study conducted in Australia and New Zealand, around 61% of marketing budgets is still spent on offline activities.
Remembering to Support 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….
TMI: Too Much Information
A few weeks ago, we posted a series about predictions in the marketing industry for 2014. The insights came from industry blogs and people calling themselves (or introduced as) experts in the field. Yesterday, I found an interesting flip side to those posts: The results of a comprehensive survey by StrongView of marketing leaders’ actual plans for 2014 (and the accompanying infographic).
Timeliness is Key to Email Marketing
The first is the most obvious way to a more effective email campaign but the most often unstated is timeliness.
What’s Your Thanksgiving Game Plan?
By “game plan,” I don’t mean your strategy to catch all the best football games, even when they’re on at the same time. I don’t mean your kitchen maneuvers to successfully cook a turkey and 10 side dishes with just one oven, and I don’t mean your proven system to avoid talking to your creepy uncle who pops up at Thanksgiving dinner every year (although all of these strategies are necessary – and impressive, I’m sure). Family All Together At Christmas Dinner
The “game plan” I’m talking about is your strategy for marketing during the holidays, since Thanksgiving is the official kickoff. No matter what you’re selling, you’re missing a great chance at your own demographic of merry shoppers if you don’t have a campaign structured around the holiday season.
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.
Multi-Channel, Distributed Marketing Software a Natural Fit in Marketing to Hispanics
Two articles on Adweek’s website provided some intriguing statistics about the US Hispanic market and technology adoption. Adweek noted a Nielsen statistic that 72 percent of US Hispanics have a smartphone and watch more online video than 62 percent of white non-Hispanic Americans. They also noted an eMarketer stat that 72 percent of U.S. Hispanic […]