Testing

Forrester evaluated 11 leading Web content management (WCM) vendors across 190 external site content management and delivery criteria and found that European vendor SDL Tridion has established clear leadership in enabling organizations to manage and deliver persuasive content customer experiences. SDL Tridion excels in personalization and multisite and multi-language functionality.

The August 2010 report 'Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management' has positioned SDL as a leader in Web Content Management (WCM). See how Web Content Management vendors were rated based on "Completeness of vision" and "Ability to Execute".

According to Forrester, 48% of marketers need help demonstrating ROI on testing. Join Casey Carey, VP of Product and Bob Garcia, Director, Product Marketing and discover how to get ahead of the curve with the business-case answers they provide in this webinar.

This is a must-see webinar if you want to understand the fundamentals of multivariate testing (MVT), segmentation, and content targeting. Join Bob Garcia, Director of Product Marketing Optimize and Frans Keylard, Director of Optimization as they use real-life examples to explain multivariate testing and teach you where and how to start optimizing.

It always surprises me that as eCommerce marketers we give lip service to the importance of testing, buy many of us don't take the time to fine-tune our email programs. If you are able to identify a few elements through testing that resonate with your customers and then employ those insights in your ongoing program, the improvements may be sustainable over time.

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.

With a well-planned testing program, we can measure the return on investment (ROI) on every campaign. Testing helps us prioritize programs and justify budgets, and it provides a road map of possibilities for future campaigns. The ROI Accelerator discusses the following: Why your company should test, what to test for, how and when to test and how to determine ROI.

Setting the tone for your Webinars is crucial, from initial promotion efforts all the way through delivery of content and post event follow-up. How you interact with your prospects will determine whether they advance along the sales cycle or lose interest.

Presenting online is a completely different ballgame from presenting in person. Sure, you don't have to fret about what to wear or if you're going to trip on stage, but you do have to worry about how to engage, interact, involve and understand your audience; all while you cannot even see them!

When new ideas and market opportunities arise, Vodafone New Zealand's goes directly to customers for their feedback. The company has 30,000 New Zealanders on their community panel, Vodafone Voice. With rapid results and actionable insights, the panel is able to provide Vodafone Executives timely answers to make informed decisions that maintain brand relevance for customers. Vodafone relies on the panel to assist in making decisions around which products, services or offerings are worth pursuing.

When times get tough, people re examine old habits and brand loyalties. Consumers are more conscious about spending their hard earned money and their tastes shift dramatically as they cut back. Virgin Mobile USA was able to see exactly how their consumers were changing during the economic downturn by surveying their online community of customers. The panel brings together hundreds of customers to interact with the organization on a variety of issues. The results were so interesting that both Forbes Magazine and the Chicago Tribune wrote an article about the findings.

Kodak's community-which boasts over 2,600 members to date-has been effective in combining quantitative and qualitative research initiatives, resulting in a more comprehensive understanding of consumer behavior, trends, and demand, which the company continues to use to its advantage. In addition to evaluating existing products and marketing initiatives, it has helped to identify new product and marketing opportunities through analysis of how members shop.

Roxy, global designer, producer and distributor of clothing and accessories, needed a way to connect with teenage girls on an ongoing basis to help produce, design and advertise their clothes.  Roxy decided to find style mavens – girls who are the trend setters among their peers – and instead of doing ad-hoc focus groups of 20-30, they created an online community of over 900 girls.

This opinion piece, published by DM News in November 2007, addresses a common but less talked about problem with email marketing – over-mailing to positively effect otherwise mediocre results; which is likely the result of an acquisition email provider using a compiled response file, and guaranteeing high open and click rates in addition to a positive ROI. This article provides insight on what the marketer, broker or agency can do to ensure they are maximizing the ROI from a given campaign, while disincentivizing over-sending behavior.

Why Lead Generation Fails reveals the common six mistakes that cause problems in lead generation marketing and how to turn efforts into powerful customer acquisition channels.

Email marketing is continually evolving with the introduction of new technologies, regulations and consumer behavior. As an email marketer, you're charged with keeping track of these changes and making the appropriate adjustments to maximize the ROI of your email programs.

The downloadable report includes an introduction to the best practices of call tracking and analytics, industry data, and case studies of marketers who have successfully implemented call tracking to boost their sales and marketing ROI.

The social media landscape is littered with band wagon jumpers, self appointed "experts," bold but baseless predictions and, don't forget the endless discussions that say absolutely nothing. Don't you think it's about time to End the Hype.

Being successful today and in the future will require a smarter marketing approach. Advertising clutter is at an all-time high and consumers are overwhelmed with thousands of marketing messages every day. There's more and more online and offline messages competing for our limited attention and most of us cannot deal with the tidal wave of advertising aimed in our direction.

This paper focuses on six myths that surround direct marketing best practices and discusses how you can use specific analytical techniques and tools to beat these myths, increase response rates and boost ROI.

This Silverpop white paper lays out the 16 Deliverability “Must Dos” that will give you measurable improvement in the number of messages delivered correctly to subscribers’ inboxes. You’ll also find an explanation of basic concepts, a resource section and links to more information at the Silverpop Web site and from other deliverability authorities.

I realize everyone is telling you social media marketing is a unicorn, but maybe it's just a horse? Sure, social media marketing differs from the marketing we're used to in that it puts the company and our customers on the same-rather than opposing-teams. But beyond that, isn't social media similar to traditional channels that have come before it?

You've laid the groundwork and attracted the visitors, now conversion is key. As a B2B marketer, you typically have a very limited window to prove your value proposition. Learn eight simple techniques, including progressive profiling, form validation and multivariate testing, that will help you fine tune your landing pages and increase conversion rates.

There are over 435 million searches on Google every day* and buyers are using the internet as the first place to research new products and services. Whether you are a small business owner or a marketing executive at a medium or large organization it is imperative that your company is found on Google. The HubSpot software offers the tools and methodology to help you to create and optimize content so your company website is found online by your prospects when they are looking for your products and services.

In order to get more leads and customers out of a website, companies need to apply inbound marketing best practices and have the tools to make rapid changes easily. Whether it is creating remarkable content, adding customized calls-to-action, or capturing leads on landing pages, learn how small businesses can leverage the HubSpot software and squeeze more conversion from the audience they already have engaged - their website visitors.