Category: Automation

August 18, 2020

The direct mail channel can be used to break through the digital clutter and create remarkable brand experiences. Beyond swag in a box, tactile marketing automation (TMA) — or automated direct mail — generates strong brand connections with target audiences […]

August 17, 2020

This is the final installment of our three-part series delving into the process for selection and preparation for CRM + marketing automation implementation. Part 1 of 3: How to Choose a Marketing Automation Platform Part 2 of 3: How to […]

August 4, 2020

IAB’s latest report follows years of growth in the programmatic category and comes as the pandemic accelerates consumer digital consumption and changes marketers’ data-related needs in the face of growing regulations and third-party cookie degradation. Programmatic is expected to reach […]

July 27, 2020

This is the second of a three-part series delving into the process for selection and preparation for CRM + marketing automation implementation. In this installment, we delve deeper into the importance of data, the four categories of data, and how […]

July 14, 2020

I recently sat in on a Quick Win Intensive as the MECLABS team went to work evaluating the lead funnels and landing pages of one of our client’s competitors. As a writer, this line on one of the competitor’s landing […]

July 2, 2020

There are many posers in the data and analytics industry. Unfortunately, some of them occupy managerial positions, making critical decisions based on superficial knowledge and limited experiences. I’ve seen companies wasting loads of money and resources on projects with no […]

June 22, 2020

Digital marketing and e-commerce have been playing a key role for many brands during the coronavirus pandemic, allowing them to communicate with and sell to consumers when stores and offices are closed down. E-commerce growth accelerated during the crisis and […]

June 19, 2020

This is the first in a three-part series delving into the process for selection and preparation for CRM + Marketing Automation implementation. Let’s start with the basics and define what marketing automation and CRM is. What is marketing automation and […]

June 16, 2020

As consumers stayed home this spring during the early days of pandemic lockdowns, many people decided to redecorate their homes or bought furniture for home offices and home schools. While retail was hit especially hard during the global health crisis, […]

June 4, 2020

Ascend2’s report points to some of the challenges and opportunities in programmatic advertising at a time when many marketers are cutting back on their budgets and looking to stretch their dollars further amid an economic downturn following months of coronavirus-related […]

May 22, 2020

Investments in marketing technology continue to be a priority for businesses across the board, as they strive to meet increased demands for personalization and a need to collect, authenticate and analyze rapidly increasing amounts of consumer data to improve the […]

April 7, 2020

It’s an incredible statistic that 98% of visitors to your website leave without buying or moving forward in their customer journey. This is in sharp contrast with the experience in physical stores, where shoppers are much more likely to make […]

April 3, 2020

It’s a challenging time to be a marketer. Consumers are distracted, financial futures uncertain and volatility all but a guarantee. It’s a time when self awareness, realism and tact are crucial for success. We need to move fast, but controlled. […]

March 18, 2020

I’m no stranger to writing about disaster preparedness and crisis management. I live in an area where we get hit with a hurricane every few years. And while we’re in uncharted waters here with the COVID-19 Coronavirus, there are some […]

March 9, 2020

AI gets a lot of lip service in the marketing world as an important but new technology, but this latest report from Advertiser Perceptions suggests AI may be more hype than reality for many marketers. Instead, the pioneers for using […]

February 26, 2020

The proliferation of digital channels and devices has made it more difficult for B2B marketers to accurately target prospects with the right messages, on the right devices, at the right times. Prospects are managing more of the buying process themselves, […]

January 29, 2020

The proliferation of digital channels and devices can make it difficult for B2B marketers to accurately target prospects with the right messages, on the right devices, at the right times. Faced with these challenging market dynamics and increasing ROI pressure, […]

January 13, 2020

Across all industries, there is a stark divide between British businesses that have tech in working practice and those that don’t. Our State of Work research has shown that 43% of UK knowledge workers have already automated some of their […]

December 11, 2019

If ever two teams needed to be close enough to share DNA, it’s marketing and technology. Gone are the days when the technology team looked at marketing as the team that does the hoo-ha—slick advertisements, flashy websites, and puts logos […]

December 10, 2019

Facebook wants its advertisers to lean into the augmented reality craze. Following the rollout of a suite of interactive ads this past September, the social giant announced today the addition of its augmented reality engine, Spark AR, to its ad […]