As technology and consumer behaviors continue to evolve, marketers must stay ahead of the curve by leveraging new and innovative channels. In 2025, businesses will have exciting opportunities to reach audiences in more immersive and personalized ways. Here are the top emerging marketing channels set to dominate in 2025. 1. AI-Powered Conversational Marketing With the … Continue reading Emerging Marketing Channels for 2025
The debate over banning TikTok in the United States has been a hot topic of political and social discourse. Advocates of a ban cite national security concerns due to the app’s connection to the Chinese company ByteDance, while opponents argue that such a move would stifle free speech and set a dangerous precedent. Beyond the … Continue reading TikTok Ban Repercussions
When internet and computing technologies first emerged, all interactions were mainly text-based (usernames, messages, email addresses, etc.). Then they became more media-based (livestreams, photos, videos, etc.). The next elevation of user experience and the user interface is 3D. Typically, a 3D version of the Internet and computing is known as the metaverse. Why should businesses … Continue reading Marketing in the Metaverse
Businesses understand the value of the data they collect about customers. Firms can predict sales trends, send out targeted advertising, and improve their products through this data. However, for consumers, data collection is a privacy invasion and a practice that can be abused easily, leading to the suspicion of many businesses. Furthermore, for data collection, … Continue reading Cookies, Privacy & User Data
With the Internet of Things quickly taking over, the concerns of privacy advocates are stronger and more relevant than ever. Many tech companies and startups are developing new products that skirt the gray line between convenience and privacy violations. With the government slow to catch up on these matters it'll be left to consumers to … Continue reading Not In My House
It's just been announced that Yahoo! experienced a data breach that caused more than 1 billion accounts to be compromised. Hopefully everyone knows not to store or transmit sensitive information on 'public' email systems, meaning email providers that give you a 'free' account as they're often the target of hackers. Also your emails are searched … Continue reading Yahoo! Account Breach!
If your Marketing department is not taking advantage of using an optimization testing platform to conduct A/B and multivariate tests, or if you’re using a proprietary system, here are a few reasons to consider utilizing one of the many platforms now available to marketers. 2 Main Reasons for Implementing an Optimization Testing Platform: Allows you … Continue reading Acquiring a New Testing Platform
Chiefmartec.com has updated their annual Marketing Technology Landscape. The new design makes it easier to find companies. It's broken down into the categories of Advertising & Promotion, Content & Experience, Social & Relationships, Commerce & Sales, Data, and Management. If you plan to implement a new marketing platform, be sure to review the updated landscape … Continue reading Marketing Technology Landscape 2016
If you have pranksters for friends, please do not allow them to trick you into manually changing the date on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to 1-1-1970. For some odd reason, there's a bug within Apple's framework that will prevent 64-bit iOS devices from booting up. This means your device will basically become a … Continue reading January 1, 1970
I've often wondered about the seldom used box of business cards that sit in one of my desk drawers, as well as the stack that occupies a small place atop my desk. While they contain useful information, they're often left behind. I've forgotten to carry them when attending important vendor meetings, or when interviewing a … Continue reading Role of the Business Card in the Digital Age
Invest/Maintain/Kill: These are words to live by for any organization. Today, we're starting to learn about the impact of Yahoo's Invest/Maintain/Kill List. While it may initially sound threatening, cold or insensitive, it is a strategy that all organizations should utilize. And use often. As an organization, it's important to constantly evaluate, measure and plan for … Continue reading Invest/Maintain/Kill
Major changes in leadership at Twitter indicates that the company has major challenges with its business model. Trying to stay relevant to its target demographic and competitive with other Social Media platforms is a huge undertaking. Let's just hope for Twitter's sake that its users don't depart as quickly as its top brass. Read more … Continue reading Twitter Departures
You've gotta love T-Mobile's spirit in going after Verizon. It's hilarious and keeps the telecom wars interesting. Good job T-Mobile Marketers! Verizon's Earning Call is Thu, 1/21 at 8:30 AM ET / 5:30 AM PT. Visit Verizon here to listen in and play T-Mobile's Drinking Game.
It feels like only yesterday that we were hard-coding web dev fixes for older Internet Explorer browsers. You know for the users that simply wouldn't upgrade from IE 7, 8 or 9. For some Marketers it was just a tad bit too much traffic to shut off altogether so we continued to Band-Aid fixes. Well … Continue reading No More IE
At this point last year, this is how the full Marketing Technology landscape looked. There were lots of newcomers. If you're working on your organization's Marketing Technology roadmap, be sure to review this invaluable tool. I wonder what 2016 has in store... View and/or download the full image: 2015 Marketing Technology Landscape
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