Cross Channel

People have more media choices than ever to research the products and services they buy. CMOs are challenged to rationalize their budgets and demonstrate increasing ROI while embracing new media and distinguishing the media consumptions of their customer. Next generation media mix optimization is how winning marketing organizations will allocate their investments to target high-value audience and media options, while delivering accurate attribution, cross channel measurement and tools for high-performance planning.

Online marketing needs to be coordinated and consistent with marketing communication and business objectives. To compete in today's marketplace, marketing professionals need a solution that allows them to react to changing market conditions cost effectively: coordinated marketing communication at a lower cost.

Recent evolution in the mobile applications market now offers enterprises new opportunities for reaching customers in ways never before possible. In the past 18 months, a number of independent market forces have converged to enable goods-and-services providers to market to specific customers, at specific times, at specific locations. Importantly, such targeted messaging draws on a richer-than-ever set of consumer information, including not only detailed demographics from implicit (inferred) and explicit (user-provided) profiles, but also real-time, location-based data.

As an industry, our ability to seize the potential for social media for lead generation is stifled by one thing: an outdated mindset. We still think advertising is advertising and social media is something else. In fact, advertising and social media are the same thing: they're content. The moment we realize that all marketing is content, we can break through the campaign mindset and find new ways to fuel powerful brand interactions-the kind that sell stuff. In this white paper, I'll recommend several ways to transform your Web site into a lead generation machine with an approach White Horse calls distributed content marketing.

SearchIgnite works with a variety of marketers across all online channels including email, display, social media and search, along with creative and website development.

One of the biggest dilemmas for marketers today is how to evolve their marketing mix without breaking the bank on testing or sacrificing the predictable results of their established programs. In this Webinar, White Horse provides an overview of cross-channel modeling methods, weighing the pros and cons of each, and presents new tactics for sharpening marketing channel allocation for stronger, more measureable results.

Are you wasting time with complex and costly online marketing campaigns? Save your sanity with a fully-integrated marketing solution, like Lyris HQ.  This white paper outlines the benefits of an integrated approach, and the specific steps you can take to achieve meaningful insight and results right away. Download the free integrated marketing white paper now.

Multi-channel or cross-channel marketing: which is better? The differences seem subtle on the surface, but the results are vastly different.  Neolane's new white paper, titled, Multi-channel Marketing Hits the Wall,describes the perils of over-reliance on simplistic multi-channel campaigns, explains how to build the foundation for true cross-channel marketing, and includes real-world examples of organizations that made the transition.

Today, many organizations struggle to optimize online and offline marketing campaigns across an ever growing number of new marketing channels. CMOs are increasingly accountable for demonstrating Return on Marketing Investments (ROMI) across channels and initiatives. Despite an abundance of campaign management technologies (enterprise marketing management, lead management, CRM, marketing automation, email marketing and a variety of point solutions) marketing departments still struggle with campaign performance, campaign workflow, and campaign management; particularly across multiple marketing channels.

Enterprise marketing software is widely recognized as a key enabler for improving effectiveness and efficiency of marketing teams. However, for marketers who are already facing intense scrutiny over budgets and campaign effectiveness, few are willing to stick their necks out to recommend implementing a marketing automation system.

This whitepaper is a call-to-action for all marketers to re-assess antiquated outbound marketing techniques. Marketers need to develop dialogues with customers and prospects to deliver relevant, timely, personalized information throughout the customer lifecycle and reinforce consistent messages across inbound and outbound channels.

Packard Bell implements targeted customer loyalty program to strengthen its brand and inspire repeat purchases. With strong roots in the consumer PC industry, Packard Bell has expanded its focus to embrace a successful digital entertainment strategy, manufacturing a range of media products for television and wireless networking. Packard Bell and Neolane were recipients of the 2007 NCDM Database Excellence Award for Multichannel Marketing Achievements.

EMI Music is one of the top global recorded music companies and represents artists spanning all musical tastes and genres including Lily Allen, Coldplay, and Pink Floyd. No longer able to rely on mass marketing to drive in-store sales, EMI Music had to figure out who, exactly, was downloading its artists' music, and how to maximize communications with those consumers to strengthen relationships and drive more revenue.  EMI Music opted for enterprise marketing software from Neolane that would help the company better capture consumer information from multiple sources and integrate its disparate CRM and customer analytics applications.

Learn how DigitalGlobe decreased time-to-market for delivery of personalized, event-triggered campaigns and improved email open rates by 10-15% while reducing bounce-back rates.

There's no reason overseeing and managing a million-plus subscriber email database should be a discombobulated and overbearing task. Start being an effective email marketer by creating a plan, brushing up on your skills, and cleaning house. Implementing these six simple tweaks will go a long way towards maximizing the return, response, and revenue from your email program.

This is the second of a three part CrownPeak White Paper exploring Why Content Marketing Is Online Marketing. In this series we present the new idea that Web content marketing is the central and most important tenet of online marketing. Today, the function of online marketing revolves around the Web which, itself, revolves around content. So as we talk about online marketing/marketers and content marketing/marketers consider them and yourself one and the same. Learn more today!

In the times of increased awareness and integrated communication across channels, it is crucial to understand correlation between the advertising spend and the PR that surrounds your brand. This report sheds new light on the impact of earned and paid media on the effectiveness of paid advertising.

Polaris Research, Inc. is a recognized leader in decomposing historical marketing results to determine ROI across the entire media landscape. Our marketing analytics and insights empower companies to optimize spending levels within and across media channels based on individual elasticity and performance to realize millions of dollars in savings. Learn more today!

According to an Econsultancy survey conducted in association with ExactTarget of more than 1,000 marketers, the shift of marketing budgets from traditional channels to digital channels will continue to rise in 2010.

This quick guide-written by marketing automation expert Ardath Albee details practical strategies and tactics to use in retaining customers.

This report identified how top performing organizations leverage and execute multichannel marketing campaigns. The findings demonstrate how Best-in-Class organizations are leveraging a collaborative cross-channel approach to extract maximum value and marketing efforts.

The latest report by Experian Marketing Services provides critical data and trend information spanning the marketing ecosystem, presenting marketers with a more complete and accurate understanding of the digital consumer. This report has key customer data statistics and tips for digital marketers as well as insight on the multichannel attitudes and behaviors of consumers today.

In this report, results from well over 650 real-life cross-media marketing campaigns across 27 vertical markets are analyzed and compared to industry benchmarks for response rates of static direct mail campaigns, to provide a solid base of actual performance data and information.

ChoiceStream’s “Seven Key Requirements for Personalized Recommendation Services” white paper outlines e-commerce recommendation services and key capabilities that can improve sales revenue and customer engagement.  You’ll also receive a Recommendation Evaluation Scorecard to help you objectively summarize critical core requirements in order to maximize your return on investment.