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Innovation Unleashed

In this edition of Innovation Unleashed, Listrak CEO Ross Kramer and Alchemy Worx CEO Allan Levy dive deep into the future of cross-channel digital marketing.

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How to Get Your Customers to Do Your Brand Marketing for You (Via Inc.)

Entrepreneurs are obsessed with the chase: They love to throw out goals and then try to run them down. One “shiny object” many entrepreneurs chase is their branding strategy. Companies today are spending big bucks on marketing, advertising, public relations, and more, and for good reason: Valuations and adoptions are seemingly created on the pages of TechCrunch. The problem, however, is that these companies are merely chasing lightning in a bottle.

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Don’t Let Big Data Bury Your Brand (Via Harvard Business Review)

Deep into the second quarter, the chief marketing officer of a restaurant chain arrives at work to find that the CEO has dropped by. In this business, as in many others, “CMO” means chief revenue officer to the CEO, who’s here to talk sales. “There’s only a month left,” he says, “and I need a boost to compensate for what we lost because of the weather. The data analysts over in IT tell me we get the highest response to burger and apps offers. So, time for some coupons?”

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Competing on Customer Journeys (Via Harvard Business Review)

The explosion of digital technologies over the past decade has created “empowered” consumers so expert in their use of tools and information that they can call the shots, hunting down what they want when they want it and getting it delivered to their doorsteps at a rock-bottom price. In response, retailers and service providers have scrambled to develop big data and analytics capabilities in order to understand their customers and wrest back control.

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The Kind of Retargeting You May Not Know About, But You Should: Email Retargeting (Part 1)

Does your brand already have a strong email marketing program? Have you dabbled in some retargeting campaigns and gained some favorable returns? You’ve covered two of the most powerful advertising bases, now it’s time to ensure you’re getting the most out of them both — with email retargeting. With several kinds of email retargeting to choose from, it’s important to choose the right one(s) to ensure your efforts are efficient and results are raised. And there are some great companies out there who can help you maximize and advance your campaigns, which will be covered in more depth via Part 2.

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Study Shows Email Marketing Still Popular and Effective with Millennials (Via Inc.)

In many ways, email is one of the first internet marketing tools. Before everyone could own their own website and before there was social media to help marketers reach a target audience, there was email. Though the usefulness of a particular piece of technology often fades with time, this hasn’t been the case with email marketing. A recent study found that email remains an important force for marketing, even when reaching younger demographics.

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The Kind of Retargeting You May Not Know About, But You Should: Email Retargeting (Part 2)

In 2015, one out of five demand marketers used retargeting campaigns to improve conversion rates (source: regalix). Plenty of brands run plenty of traditional banner and email retargeting campaigns using their own first party data to bring back those cart and search abandoners — and they’ve certainly seen some satisfying incremental sales from those campaigns! (As a refresher, recall we took a look at these basic forms of email retargeting and their overall benefits in Part 1 of this blog.)

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