(Co-author: Bhagat Ransi) According to Emailmonday.com, every second company uses marketing automation. But without the proper link to other customer related systems, the full potential of marketing automation will stay hidden.
(Co-author: Michael Ziegler) Lead scoring is an amazing lead management tool to decide when a lead is potentially ready to make a purchase and then gets moved from marketing to sales. Modern analytics tools can help adjust the variables that define the scoring according to success rates and individual lead behavior.
You are working hard to provide your customers with relevant information. The response rate of your marketing activities is largely positive and the ROI meets the expectations of the management. So, everything’s fine? No, not necessarily. Presumably, you are giving away valuable potential in customer communication. Have you ever thought about the fact that some …
Delphine Arvengas is Principal Consultant with ec4u and part of the Digital Enterprise Consultants team which drives Customer Journey Management within the company. We asked her some questions about this topic.
Alexander Beck is Managing Consultant at ec4u and responsible for data science and predictive analytics with a strong focus on customer analytics. We asked him some questions about this topic.
One of our earlier blog entries already illustrated why German banks stumble in the face of digitization. Their long existing traditional structures and processes don’t really fit into the modern world of the far digitized customer. Quite contrary to the offerings of FinTechs (an expression combining the terms “financial services” and “technology”), for whom an …
When attending a Customer Journey Mapping Workshop recently, I learned a very interesting and revealing lesson: not every touchpoint is equal and not every touchpoint has the same relevance for individual customers. These kind of workshops outline, analyze and in the end try to optimize an exemplary customer journey of a client.
Email marketing remains until today one of the most important media for providing customers with content and getting in touch with them. Striving for optimized email campaigns is omnipresent, and collecting best practices is a constant effort to boost marketing ROI. But when asking ourselves what the email recipient is really interested in, we are …
Today’s blog is about Account Based Marketing, briefly called ABM. For us marketing people there is one primary task and that is: generating leads.
Lead Nurturing is the supreme discipline of modern lead management. That’s why we have released numerous blogs on this topic, focusing on the basic principles: What is lead nurturing? What types of nurture emails are there? What are the goals? Today, we would like to go a little deeper and address the challenges and questions …