DAM Compliance: Using software to minimize compliance hassles
Digital marketing has forever changed the way companies communicate with employees, resellers and partners, prospects, and customers. It’s faster, more personal, and less expensive than ever before. With digital marketing assets, it’s possible for corporate marketing to create the campaign, and allow local marketing teams (franchise owners, field sales, independent agents and resellers, brokers – anyone who sells the company’s products or services) to personalize or customize it with just a few mouse clicks. That flexibility comes with a whole new set of corporate compliance headaches. Luckily, a Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution can streamline the process and enforce brand Read More
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Five Simple Steps to Better Email Marketing Results
Anyone who works in insurance marketing, financial services, or health care knows that the news on email marketing has been mixed in recent months. On one hand, industry experts and news stories report that overall success rates for email marketing are down as more and more young consumers abandon email in favor of social media and mobile communications tools like FaceTime. On the other hand, email marketing remains the most cost effective rapid response tool in the marketer’s arsenal. For most of us, email is still the “killer” app for marketing — the one we use most often to generate bottom Read More
Why TV’s Mad Men Would Fail Today
The hit TV show Mad Men is TV’s look back at the world of traditional marketing. In the 1960’s, a handful of white, male ad agency executives in New York controlled nearly everything the public saw and heard in the media. They showed us glamorous images, and told us what the product was and how it was going to help us – and we responded by buying exactly what they were selling. That was then. Now, anyone foolish enough to try the same approach would fail miserably. There are three key reasons for that. To start with, consumers have choices Read More
Creating an Effective Distributed Marketing Process
In 1898, an insurance salesman named E. St. Elmo Lewis wrote a pioneering marketing textbook called, Financial Selling. In it, he created a tool he called the “AIDA Sales Funnel”. That four step model for customer engagement is still valid today. Back then, Lewis thought that each sales rep would be responsible for all for steps in the sales funnel – including paying for their own advertising to reach potential customers. Today, the traditional “AIDA” marketing model helps to assign appropriate roles, rules, and responsibilities for the four stages of customer engagement. In a distributed marketing model, the AIDA cycle Read More
