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Carri Bugbee

What are the job responsibilities of marketing technology management? - Chief Marketing... - 0 views

  • One of the first things that jumps out from the year-over-year data is the consistency of the top five responsibilities. From martech staff and managers up to more senior directors and VPs, these are the core functions that these roles deliver to the organization: Research and recommend new marketing technology products. Operate marketing technology products as an administrator. Train and support marketing staff on using marketing technology products. Integrate marketing technology products with each other. Monitor data quality within marketing technology products.
  • It is disappointing that, for the second year in a row, performing data privacy and compliance reviews and performing security reviews both remained at the bottom of the list of martech responsibilities — and even dropped a few percentage points.
  • enior roles are much more likely — 37% to 42% more likely — to: Pay for marketing technology products from a budget, partially or fully (71%) Negotiate business terms for purchasing marketing technology products (68%) Approve or veto purchase of marketing technology products (68%)
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  • The majority of senior martech leaders also own these responsibilities: Architect the overall marketing stack of all marketing technology products (69%) Monitor the performance and other SLAs of marketing technology products (56%) Integrate marketing technology products with non-marketing systems (58%) Perform technical reviews of marketing technology products (56%) Identify and sundown outdated or unused marketing technology products (59%) Identify and consolidate multiple instances of same or similar marketing technology products (56%)
  • Now every marketer is an app developer — even if they don’t know it. Marketers are tailoring marketing technology for their specific workflows and customer experiences, but they’re not explicitly doing “software development” with programming languages like Python or Javascript.
Carri Bugbee

How to Send Better Product Update Emails - 0 views

  • Product update emails are one example where content and product teams must harmonize for a successful outcome
  • Product updates should be written for your true fans. That’s not to say that others won’t find them interesting, but information about a product isn’t a lead-gen tool or a sales tactic – it’s fuel for an already burning fire.
Carri Bugbee

Facebook Beefs Up Custom Audiences, Introduces Multi-Product Ads - AllFacebook - 0 views

  • Multi-product ads enable businesses to showcase three products within a single ad unit, on desktop or mobile. Each product highlighted will have its own image, description, and click target.
  • Beginning today, multi-product ads are available to advertisers around the world via the Facebook ads application-programming interface. We’ll work to incorporate multi-product ads into our other ads interfaces later this year.
  • A new feature in Ads Manager and Power Editor allows businesses to easily build certain kinds of audiences — i.e., people who haven’t visited your website in a while, or people who have visited certain pages of your site.
Carri Bugbee

Target tests Pinterest-driven site to pin down mcommerce sales - Web site development -... - 0 views

  • Target is leveraging Pinterest with a new microsite that merchandises products with the combination of top-pinned items and best reviews on Target.com.
  • The products are set up vertically to mimic the same experience of a mobile news feed on a social media site. Clicking on a product shows consumers the number of reviews the product has received on Target.com and its average rating out of five stars.
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The crazy truth: Google+ can thrive alongside Facebook | Internet & Media - CNET News - 0 views

  • But the fascination with Google+ as a would-be Facebook killer obscures the larger story about what Google+ offers.
  • Google+ is really two things. One is a destination for connecting with friends and subjects that interest them. When the press writes about Google+, it's usually in this context. But Google+ plays a second role, as a product that improves other products. Google tends to talk about this in abstract terms -- it's "a social spine;" it's a "fabric;" it "weaves" Google products together. Let's try to be a little more concrete about what Google+ is doing besides giving people a Facebook alternative.
  • Google+ is a single sign-on system. Until the social network launched in June 2011, users of various Google services used different identities for each.
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  • Google+ is a data mine. The unified login means Google can start tracking users' interests and behavior around the Web.
Carri Bugbee

The (Lack Of) Clarity In Facebook's New 20 Percent Text Rule - 1 views

  • The rule does NOT apply to standard images you upload to your page, but only images you promote in the newsfeed Thumbnail images for videos or links that you promote in the newsfeed as ads are subject to the 20% rule As of this week, announced in a tiny update on Facebook’s Developer Blog, the rule applies to application icons (which includes timeline tab images too) ***UPDATE***: Facebook reps have indicated that the text rule does NOT apply to the thumbnail icons, but they still recommend using images with little to no text.
  • Product shots (i.e. real life photos of a product) do not count against the rule. This means name tags, stop signs, text on the actual product, etc. – that’s all good to go and does not count towards your 20% text allotment “Tune-in” images for TV shows or movies have leeway as the title of the show/feature, the tune-in info, and the names of the actors and actresses involved do NOT count towards the 20%
Carri Bugbee

Whose answers do shoppers want - brands' or consumers' - online and in stores? - Bazaar... - 0 views

  • Seeking questions ask for product-specific use cases, and look for facts rather than opinions. “Does this hotel offer free wifi?”
  • Our study found that most questions asked in automotive (81%), travel (79%), and consumer electronics (79%) were seeking questions.
  • Samsung reps answer shopper questions on retailer sites under the moniker “Mr. Samsung,” and find that questions reveal large gaps in product information: 91% of the content they provide in answers is not already on the site.
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  • products with answers from official brand reps get 100% more questions than others – suggesting that, upon seeing that the brand is engaged, shoppers are more likely to ask questions (when they may’ve otherwise left the site to look elsewhere).
  • After a consumer answers a question or submits a review, never leave them at a dead end; once someone contributes, they’re more likely to contribute again. Take them to a thank you page that includes a few more related, unanswered questions.
Carri Bugbee

The strength of 'weak signals' | McKinsey & Company - 0 views

  • Arising primarily from social media, they represent snippets—not streams—of information and can help companies to figure out what customers want and to spot looming industry and market disruptions before competitors do. Sometimes, companies notice them during data-analytics number-crunching exercises.
  • potting weak signals is more likely when companies can marshal dispersed networks of people who have a deep understanding of the business and act as listening posts
  • Nordstrom, for example, took an early interest in the possibilities of Pinterest, the digital-scrapbooking site where users “pin” images they like on virtual boards and share them with a larger community. Displayed on Pinterest, the retailer’s products generate significant interest: the company currently has more than four million followers on the site.
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  • Nordstrom began rolling out the test more broadly to capitalize on the site’s appeal to customers as the “world’s largest ‘wish list,’” in the words of one executive.2 2.See Rachel Brown, “Nordstrom touts merchandise with Pinterest,” Women’s Wear Daily, July 2, 2013, wwd.com. The retailer continues to look for more ways to match other customer interactions on Pinterest with its products.
  • listening for weak signals isn’t enough—companies must channel what’s been learned to the appropriate part of the organization so the findings can influence product development and other operational activities.
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    dispersed networks of people who have a deep understanding of the business and act as listening posts.
Carri Bugbee

How to Manage a Social Media Crisis Without Losing Your Mind - 0 views

  • snag your free template to put together a complete crisis communication strategy. Use this post as a guide to complete it.
  • Create a Social Media Crisis Scale Convince and Convert devised a great solution to this problem. They built a customer response flowchart that matches the severity of an issue, to the right course of action.
  • Crisis Level 1: Isolated customer complaints and questions. Crisis Level 2: Angry customers, broken links, posts directing to the wrong page, factual inaccuracies, major misspellings on social posts. Crisis Level 3: High volume of angry customers, service outages, lack of product availability. Crisis Level 4: Product recalls, defective services or products, widespread negative press coverage, layoffs. Crisis Level 5: Lawsuits, serious accidents resulting in injury, illegal employee conduct.
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  • Terms You Should Monitor What should you track with these tools? Consider the following: Mentions of your brand name. Mentions of your CEO or important executives. Competitive brand mentions. Relevant industry terms. Key influencers.
  • Keep an eye on your brand mentions. Check in periodically and use email alerts to stay on top of discussions as they happen. Use your crisis scale to assess problems. Then, respond accordingly.
  • To determine how many negative messages constitutes a crisis, Hootsuite recommends setting crisis thresholds.
  • Using your crisis scale, establish who is responsible for managing the response at each level. It might look something like this:
  • Your employees likely all have their own social media accounts. When disaster strikes, they may not know what they can (and can’t) say about the issue publically. So, it’s important to make sure they don’t go rogue or leak information you don’t want to be released. This could make a bad situation worse. Get in front of this with a documented response plan.
  • Craft Emergency Response Messaging Templates When a mistake happens, you may not have time to issue a detailed response right away. However, you’ll need to say something to acknowledge you’re aware of the issue before things get out of hand.
Carri Bugbee

FTC Issued Warnings to 45 Celebrities Over Unclear Instagram Posts - WWD - 0 views

  • Last month the FTC issued warnings to celebrities who plugged products on their Instagram accounts without clearly identifying their relationships with brands. The letters were meant to “educate” the celebrities on how to post without violating the organization’s disclosure guidelines.
  • The FTC said it sent out similar letters to each influencer to “call attention” to the post in question. Each letter reads: “The FTC’s Endorsement Guides state that if there is a ‘material connection’ between the endorser and the marketer of a product — in other words, a connection that might affect the weight or credibility that consumers give the endorsement — that connection should be clearly and conspicuously disclosed, unless the connection is already clear from the context of the communication containing the endorsement. Material connections could consist of a business or family relationship, monetary payment, or the provision of free products to the endorser.”
  • The FTC cited cases in which disclosures appeared in captions at the bottom of a post, and were only found if consumers clicked on the “more” button to reveal the full text. Multiple hashtags, tags and links also were frowned upon, as they obscure the disclosure.
Carri Bugbee

Small Business Owners Spend Just 3 Percent of Their Ad Dollars Online | Adweek - 0 views

  • 550 businesses with less than 100 employees in the U.S. and found that only 3 percent of their total advertising dollars flowed online, compared to as much as 16 percent for big companies.
  • most of these business do not have a professional marketing person whose job is to drive marketing," Rose said. "It's pretty hard for them to winnow their way through the 20 to 40 unsolicited requests they get a month to use digital marketing product A versus digital marketing product B."
Carri Bugbee

Majority of Technology Marketers Plan Budget Increases for 2012 | IDG Knowledge Hub - 0 views

  • As might be expected in a difficult economy, lead generation topped all digital budget categories with almost 27% followed by display/banner at just under 20% and search at almost 19%.   As to what is driving digital media investments in 2012, audience composition, ROI and measurement capabilities, audience reach, and data targeting were selected by more than three-quarters of the respondents.By a wide margin, click through rate is the most important factor in campaign success with cost-per-engagement and interaction rate almost equal in importance.
  • Content marketing, which includes white papers, case studies, videos, custom websites, video and white papers, is among tech marketers’ top five spending priorities for 2012.  Led by collateral at 71%, followed by webcasts/virtual events at 61%, videos at 59%, research at 55%, and articles/features at 54%, marketers are investing in a wide variety of content marketing or custom programs.  Agencies are much mo
  • s for social media, YouTube and Facebook lead all platforms with LinkedIn, Google+ and Twitter not as popular. Among BtoB respondents, 53% found social extremely/very valuable for finding relevant technology content on the Web, which is double the 2010 figure.  Not surprisingly, 18- to 34-year-olds are most active with social media.  According to all users in the IDG survey, 60% rely most on tech sites, 46% peers or colleagues, and 43% independent tech journalists/bloggers.
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  • Approximately two-thirds of the marketers indicate they will outsource one or more projects involving content creation, creative development, ad unit creation and online production/services.
  • Event spending will rise sharply as 70% of respondents plan on increases for 2012 with a significant shift to small/local roundtable programs and virtual events.
  • An amazing 95% of the respondents watch tech videos and three-quarters of them share or post video.  What respondents look for in video varies from one region to another with in-depth product reviews and how-to videos being of most interest.  Most people said they watch on their computers with the majority of viewings after business hours and on weekends.
Carri Bugbee

Facebook Is a Fundamentally Broken Product That Is Collapsing Under Its Own Weight | En... - 0 views

  • the exponential growth of sharing may not, actually, be helping Facebook. And with the explosion of dedicated mobile sharing apps, the industry may be evolving in ways that Zuckerberg never foresaw.
  • Facebook is now trying to cram so much "sharing" through a single service that it is overwhelming many of its core users.
  • Facebook knows it has a problem. It planned a major redesign that gave users more control over the News Feed. But it was scrapped when the first batch of users showed low engagement with the new design. 
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  • News Feed has turned into a black hole and collapsed under its own weight."
  • Facebook can come up with algorithms to surface the best material, but Evans says it's just "a hack." The deeper problem is that the "underlying product is broken."
Carri Bugbee

More Than Half of US Consumers Don't Want to Friend a Brand Online - CMO Today - WSJ - 0 views

  • 40% of Internet users across the world don’t see any point in “friending” a brand online. In the U.S. and the U.K., that figure rises to 55% and 63%, respectively. In emerging markets, consumers were more open to it.
  • there’s evidence that they want to engage with a brand online so long as they get something out of it. For example, the majority of shoppers in the study said they are open to receiving an ad or promotion from a brand on their mobile device that’s tied to their location.
  • half of respondents in the study said they are interested in brands sharing other users’ brand or product experiences with them and 42% said they want brands to help them make better product choices.
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  • ore than half of consumers want to interact with brands to solve service issues and 37% want brands to respond to their comments and feedback, whether positive or negative.
Carri Bugbee

Get Ready: Commercial Viral Videos to Take Up Even More of Your Time - eMarketer - 0 views

  • social media-driven campaigns would see the most growth in commercial production in 2014,
  • it makes sense that the commercial production space is shifting its efforts to viral video. Out of the US smartphone users surveyed, 44% said they watched viral videos on their phones, the second most popular digital video type they viewed regularly; 43% of computer users and 37% of tablet users also reported watching viral clips on those devices.
  • The top hurdle to managing rights and royalties for commercials was the need for a system to track them, cited by 32% of respondents. A close 30% were concerned about others using an asset despite not having the rights to it
Carri Bugbee

Instagram will ask you to buy the things you photograph (except cats) - 0 views

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    Instagram said it will soon break out the mounds of data gleaned from tracking how people spend their time on the app - plus parent company Facebook's massive firepower in this area - to pick products and services that Instagram's algorithms think you might particularly enjoy. (Although we're pretty sure you cannot buy a favorite subject of Instagram photos: cats).
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Applying Agile Methodology To Marketing Can Pay Dividends: Survey - 0 views

  • In today’s fast-paced, multichannel world, marketers no longer have the luxury to spend months crafting large projects; they must innovate and produce on the fly and respond immediately to market disruptions. In their new report, the researchers explain, “Agile for Marketing (A4M) drives long-term marketing strategies with short-term, customer-focused iterative projects that improve responsiveness and relevance. It allows for faster creative, more testing, smarter improvements and better results.”
  • 63% of marketing leaders indicate agility as a high priority, but only 40% rate themselves as agile.
  • The CMOs we spoke with needed a solution that would help them orient marketing activities around the constant change in the marketplace—a solution that allows them to be more dynamic and flexible in their operations, more productive, and more collaborative and integrated in their work product.
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  • Where confusion or inconsistency sets in is around Agile, the methodology, and the use of it in marketing. Agile helps reinforce a culture of agility by providing structure that drives marketers to be iterative, flexible, customer-centered, and focused on priorities of high-value. Many CMOs are unfamiliar with the Agile Methodology used in software development and its application to marketing. We are seeing adoption grow, but it’s still a new concept in marketing.
  • As CMOs become more and more responsible for growth, they have an unprecedented need for speed and flexibility.
  • Marketers who wait to deliver a big splash are not taking advantage of real-time ways to infuse market feedback into the development process.
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