Consumer Experience Research Study: The End Of Aimless Marketing

Poorly-targeted and irrelevant marketing materials are driving consumers away from their favourite brands. In research conducted with more than 2,000 consumers, we’ve found that only 6% of them believe the product and service offers they receive are clearly relevant to them. That’s despite over 60% demanding the offers sent from their favoured brands be tailored to them and their interests.

While the research indicates a failure of brands to deliver on that promise of marketing, which says, “we will send the right information to the right person at the right time,” it also demonstrates the market opportunity for businesses that put personalisation at the heart of their strategy and ensure tailored content is consistently provided to consumers. What’s essential in cultivating strong customer loyalty is building trust and an understanding of what matters to the individual. Technology can help bridge the gap between what marketers are able to do and the level at which they need their customer engagement to be.

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What Dangers Are Lurking in Your Tech Stack?

The Costs, Inefficiencies, and Risks Hiding in the Shadows of Your Tech Stack.

For Marketers, Technology has Become the Purpose, not the Means. We Need to Reverse That.

Many of us say we have tech stacks, but instead, we have become consumed by them. We have moved away from a focus on the human elements of marketing – the strategy, the content, and the creative elements – to instead tend to the machines: the tools, the platforms, the software, the widgets.

But relying on too much technology can be inefficient, expensive, and introduce immense organizational risk.

In this whitepaper, we’ll discuss:

  • What tech stacks are, how they came to be, and why you should be cautious
  • The downside of a giant tech stack
  • What Shadow IT is and how it relates to your tech stack
  • What marketers can do to align business goals with their technology

Download the whitepaper now to learn how to avoid the common mistakes today’s marketing leaders make when it comes to technology.

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5 Marketing Predictions for the Next 5 Years

Stay ahead of these upcoming trends with this whitepaper.

In this whitepaper, we’ll explore how:

  • First ­party data will emerge as the single most valuable asset.
  • Customers will demand full control of their personal data.
  • Location data will become the most accurate indicator of not just where, but who we as customers are.
  • Companies will emerge to broker data that will teach machines algorithms.
  • Augmented reality will become a common way to interact, especially while shopping.

Download the whitepaper to find out which digital marketing trends we believe will take hold over the next 5 years.

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The Omnichannel Marketer’s Holiday Domination Guide

As the season of holiday sales creeps closer, so does the expectation for marketers to deliver a foolproof strategy for increasing sales and customer retention through personalized 1:1 campaigns. Don’t panic. We know the challenges you face in trying to provide personalized experiences – and we want to help.

This guide will identify those challenges and translate them into an effective strategy that will engage customers and win their holiday business

We’ll look at:

  • When to start planning for the 2018 holidays.
  • Results and insights from holidays past.
  • Leveraging technology to deliver 1:1 personalization.
  • Establishing a personalized, consistent brand experience.

Download the guide now to learn more about revolutionizing your role and dominating the holiday season.

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3 Quick and Easy Fixes to Increase Site Performance

Recommendations to Discuss with Your Development Team and Technology Partners.

When buying products online, shoppers have to put their trust into eCommerce stores. They have to trust that their information won't be stolen, that the order will go through and that it will be shipped on-time, to the correct location. When a site is slow, not only does it frustrate online shoppers, it takes away the legitimacy of the site and their trust in it.

Poor site performance can cost you sales, revenue, customers, and even a high ranking on search engines.

Download the guide to learn how you and your development team can boost site performance.

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Delivering the Ultimate Omnichannel Retail Experience

Omnichannel isn’t about making a quicker, cheaper sale with fewer human touchpoints: it’s about creating a system which lets you to nurture your customers at every step of their buyer’s journey.

This Whitepaper from Magento and Premier Technology Partner dotmailer describes how well connected ecommerce and marketing teams and systems are crucial for a true omnichannel approach. Download the paper to discover:

  • Why automated marketing messages, sent in real time, are the most effective way to communicate throughout the purchase journey
  • Web and email personalization tips for omnichannel merchants
  • Why an email address is your unique identifier
  • Three tried and tested marketing methods to drive customers to your site and stores
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How to Increase Your Average Order Value

In many commerce markets, acquiring new customers is difficult and expensive, it can often require a significant investment in demand generation marketing and advertising.

Increasing your AOV is one of the most effective and cost efficient ways to increase revenue and cash flow (a sign of any healthy business). Whereas increasing site traffic usually involves researching and executing complex marketing plans to attract new customers, increasing your AOV could be as simple as installing a plugin for your shopping cart.

Optimizing your site for higher AOV can also help you strengthen your business against unforeseen dips in traffic. You may get less traffic overall but see higher revenues due to increased AOV and more targeted marketing practices. Regardless of why your visitor numbers, your business will be in a better position with an optimized AOV.

So how can you get your customers to buy more items and spend more money with each purchase? This guide outlines five strategies you can enable with little or no extra investment.

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How to Reach International Markets

International retail sales are expected to increase by 5.5% to $28.3 trillion by 2018.

Launching an international site can take up valuable time and resources, and missteps can be costly. From web page layout, to word definitions and cultural preferences, countries have widely varying practices and unique online user behaviors. How efficiently you manage changes in culture, language, customs, currency, tax, and laws can make the difference between success and failure.

POWER YOUR BUSINESS TO EXPAND RAPIDLY INTO FOREIGN MARKETS:

  • Think Local and Flexible to Act Global
  • Communicate in Other Cultures
  • Design a Flexible and Scalable Global Process
  • Efficiently Manage Multiple International Sites
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Cryptocurrency Mining Malware | Trends & Threat Predictions

In this comprehensive eBook, we describe how hackers and cryptocurrencies are impacting website security. As cryptocurrencies gain market capitalization, many cybercriminals are looking for opportunities to monetize on the growing popularity. Sucuri researchers have identified a variety of malware campaigns devised to infect websites and hijack valuable resources to mine cryptocurrencies. This content is intended to educate and bring awareness to the threat of cryptomining malware. Topics include cryptocurrencies, cryptominers, types of related malware infections, trends and threat predictions for 2018, and information on how administrators can mitigate the risk of a infection and protect their websites.

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5 Essential Approaches to Securing Your WordPress Site

WordPress is the web’s most popular Content Management System, powering a full quarter of indexed sites. It’s been embraced by millions of casual bloggers for its ease of use and user-friendly interface, and its maturity, stability, and extensibility. Popularity, though, comes at a cost — WordPress’s universal appeal makes it an incredibly high-profile target. Download our guide to find the most essential steps in securing your WordPress site!

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Competing With Amazon: 6 ECommerce Performance Metrics You Need to Know

As the giants of ECommerce claim larger market shares each day, online retailers often struggle to compete. Understanding the strength of companies like Amazon, and the metrics associated with their success can give online retailers the advantage that they need to level the playing field more than ever before. Whether your store uses a website, a mobile app, or a combination to reach its audience, understanding the core metrics of performance are of paramount importance. Download our presentation to learn how.

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Why Outsourcing Managed Web Services is Better for Your Business

Digital marketing and web design are increasingly competitive fields. New businesses open their virtual doors each day, amidst ever-increasing demand for sites offering engaging content and positive user experience.

These client demands combined with rapidly evolving technology increase the workload of firms struggling to stay current to ensure the needs and requirements of new and old clients alike can be met.

Download this whitepaper to learn how your business can benefit from outsourcing your managed web services:

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5 Tips to Improve Your Website and Increase Sales

Retail e-commerce will reach $2.050 trillion this year - up 22.7% from 2015. That double digit growth will continue through 2019, reaching $3.578 trillion. That’s steady growth your business should be capitalizing on — but what if your business’ growth is limited by the performance of your website? Without the proper foundation and monitoring, a website can quickly become the reason consumers are clicking away. To ensure continued growth for your e-commerce business and avoid lost sales, your website needs to be optimized for speed, protected against downtime and traffic surges, and fully secured.

Use the following tips to talk to your IT department about how your website is performing.

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Lifecycler Infographic

Lifecycler is intended for customers who are interested in establishing an online B2C presence that is tied directly back to their PostBooks or xTuple system.

Get this infographic to discover who LifeCycler provides seamless integration of the world's leading eCommerce platform, Shopify, with xTuple and PostBooks.

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Lifecycler Webstore

We all had a webstore online built in wordpress and hosted on GoDaddy. And it was the loneliest webstore in the known universe. It was also a royal pain to build and maintain. It took a long time to build and soon fell into disrepair owing, in part, to the complexity of maintaining it.

We knew that we wanted to maintain a presence online but also wanted to spend minimum resources to implement and maintain it. We are much like the other thousands of PostBooks/xTuple users across the globe. Most of them should want and need to have a webstore, as well.

So, based on our own experience and this observation, instead of spending our resources to rebuild our own website, we invested our time and effort in building Lifecycler – a tool that makes a webstore easy to create, populate and deploy for xTuple/PostBooks users.

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