Integrating BI and MI for Big Data Decision Making
Business intelligence focuses on internal data. It's the information that companies have stored in data warehouses including financial, pricing and customer information. It's used to look for clues about effectiveness, efficiency and productivity and how it can...
Publishing in the Cloud: Tips for Publishers on Making the Transition
WORKFLOW IN THE CLOUDIn addition to using the cloud for storage and servers, there are a host of cloud-based applications that provide the opportunity to take many of the most common workflow components of publishing off the desktop and put them into the cloud. Adobe...
5 Tips to Bring the Art of Storytelling Back to B2B Marketing
People are natural storytellers. For centuries, storytelling was the primary way that cultures around the world preserved their traditions and kept their customs alive. Over the last few years, B2B marketers have strayed from one of the most natural, easy ways to...
Advice from VCs: Digital Content Investors Tell Us What They Look For
Looking Beyond Advertising RevenuesIn terms of revenue models that VCs find compelling, advertising continues to play an outsize role. "The predominant model is, and will continue to be, advertising," says Lee. "There's still an opportunity to build an...
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden: A Case of Lions, Tigers, and Bears
The Problem In-DepthA little over two years ago, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden realized that the buying habits and profile of the typical visitor to its zoo was changing. "We were looking at some interesting business trends in our attendance patterns and...
Three Tips to Optimize CDN Performance
Content Delivery Networks, or CDNs, greatly improve end-user performance (download speeds) when compared to origin servers, due to the geographic proximity of their far-flung infrastructure. Recent performance data shows that images load more than 60% faster from a...
Quiet Content: The Secret Ingredient in The Great British Bake Off
By now you’ve likely heard about the revelation that is burnout. The topic of burnout has been around for a while but recently resurfaced after a BuzzFeed article dubbed millennials the burnout generation, which caused an uproar from new burnout believers.But if...
Using Content-Driven Commerce to Improve the Customer Experience
Improving the customer experience is something that almost every marketer is focused on. While many of the headlines are about how Amazon has changed the way we experience the B2C world, the B2B world has taken notice and is taking action to improve the customer...
Focusing on Your Customer Experience Is Great for Business
According to Elon Musk, “If you are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” But many organizational cultures still fear failure, so it creates a vicious cycle. Do you dare to fail or even admit failure? Do you take step-change risks or take a series...
A9.com Buys SnapTell
A9.com, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, has purchased SnapTell, a startup that offers users a way to search for product information from their mobile phones. Its free iPhone and Android apps let lets users take a photo of the cover of any CD, DVD, book, or video game, and...
What is Content Security?
Content Security means different things to different organizations. For enterprises, it's often about confidentiality and legal concerns. For the media and publishers, it's about making sure content - or intellectual property - isn't stolen or illegally...
Hexaware Acquires Mobiquity Inc.
Hexaware Technologies Ltd, one of India's fastest growing IT Consulting firms, announced the acquisition of Mobiquity Inc for a total consideration of ~ $182 million. Mobiquity creates awesome digital products for some of the most well-known brands in the world, such...
A Guide to Digital Experience Management for Nonprofit Organizations
Digital experience management (DXM) connotes the coming together of strategy, technology, and process to provide the True North of highly satisfying digital interactions to customers. This fundamental notion of DXM remains relevant across industries, including...
Why the Sky is Far From Falling in the Ad Tech Industry
As quickly as a smartphone screen refreshes, ad tech has opened the door for brands to reach any digital touchpoint, across any channel, device, and format. In just a few decades, advertisers have evolved from courting only a few hundred newspapers, magazines, and...
Reaping the Benefits of Tighter Media/Creative Collaboration
Media planning and buying were once considered two separate functions. Planners would develop the strategies and the overall campaign direction, and buyers made the inventory purchases and optimized the campaign once performance data was compiled.Then over time,...
Machine Learning in Your Marketing Mix
Marketers can be excused if they are facing cognitive dissonance about artificial intelligence (AI). They may be struggling to implement foundational marketing/technology tools, but they are expected to be ready for new AI applications that are way more complex.AI can...
How to Reverse Engineer the Customer Experience
Digital channels have transformed the customer experience battlefront. The terrain has changed and it’s more challenging than ever, as the battle for customer experiences is a 24/7 job. Today’s consumers expect access to information and services whenever...
How to Integrate Content and Commerce
Today’s consumers expect to be able to buy what they want, when they want, and where they want. They value retailers that demonstrate an understanding of their needs and that create personalized offers tailored to their preferences without crossing the line into...
Tools You’ll Use: Jeff Campagna, Creative Director, Compass Cultura
The right tools are an integral part of getting any job done. In the world of digital content tools are plentiful, so finding the right one for you can be tricky. That's why we ask the experts what tools they use to get their jobs done.What are your three favorite...
What is Customer Communications Management?
Customer communications management—or CCM—is a term that has been making its way into marketing and customer relations circles and conversations lately. But, is it something new, or just a repositioning of the same, classic approach to communication...