No Debate: A Need to Innovate & Differentiate
One of the themes at this year’s Life Insurance Conference is product innovation and differentiation in a low interest rate environment. In any industry, there’s a need to innovate and differentiate. Brands that fail to do this risk a loss of relevance in the marketplace; more importantly, they risk negative consequences on the income statement. With life insurance, product offerings tend to be moderately complex. It’s not a product category like racquetballs or chicken wings. However, the relative complexity of the category allows for life insurance brands to create and market products that can broaden the marketplace and establish points Read More
The Rise of Distributed Marketing Platforms
Tim Storer, President & CEO of Distribion, a leading provider of multi-channel distributed marketing software solutions, recently provided his thoughts as to why marketers now consider implementing a distributed marketing platform a critical strategic initiative: Related Articles: The Rise of Distributed Marketing Infographic Distributed Marketing Platforms a Competitive Advantage According to Gleanster Research Distributed Marketing Platform: Organizations now at a huge disadvantage without one Distributed Marketing Management: A Big Focus Among Top Performers Transcript: [Tim Storer] I feel that the topic of Distributed Marketing is increasing in popularity mainly because all organizations today have a huge content distribution problem. With Read More
Distribion, Inc. Unveils New Social Media Marketing Automation Bundle During the LIMRA 2012 Social Media Conference
This week in Boston, MA, LIMRA held its Social Media Conference where members from Distribion, Inc. presented their never before seen Social Media Marketing Automation Bundle. During the meeting, they also showcased their proprietary Quick Start Program. Distribion is a strategic partner to the LIMRA organization offering large enterprises under the insurance and financial services umbrella a new way to reach customers through their distributed marketing automation platform—a software that allows corporate marketers and local sales the ability to access branded, compliant-controlled sales collateral, and then leverage and distribute campaigns over multiple channels at once, such as email, direct mail, Read More
Who Owns Your LinkedIn Contacts?
Who owns your LinkedIn profile? (Hint: it might not be you.) That was the headline on a post on this blog back in June, 2011 — and the answer we arrived at with help from a number of legal and compliance experts was, “It depends.” That leads us to a related question: who owns LinkedIn contacts — an employer or the employee? A court in England has issued an order that requires an employee who resigned to start his own consulting business to turn over all of his LinkedIn contacts to his former employer – along with receipts and contracts proving that Read More
Friday News Round-Up: Size Doesn’t Matter in Marketing, Facebook Takes on Telcos
Here’s this week’s round-up of “must read” news stories for marketers. What makes these stories stand out? They offer key information or lessons that multi-channel distributed marketing organizations should take to heart. Facebook Launches SMS Service – This week, Facebook launched Facebook Messenger, a free app that lets users access Facebook messages from their phone without installing Facebook Mobile. It’s the first time Facebook has unbundled one service from the rest of its services, and the media reaction has been mixed at best. Some love it, because it simplifies the process of checking for messages without waiting while your friends photos attempt to load Read More
Why, Who, What, Where, When: Social Media’s 5W’s
On Wednesday, the editor of this blog (Deb McAlister-Holland), will be moderating a webcast that features Christie Campbell of Socialware, and Steve Selby of LIMRA. It’s the second in a series of monthly webinars sponsored by the three organizations. Details and registration information is available here. Anyone who’s studied journalism or business is likely to look at the headline of this blog post and say, “Look! The 5W’s are out of order.” Except that they’re not. The traditional order (who, what, where, when, why) that helps journalists, writers, copyeditors and marketers plan and tell a compelling story don’t happen in Read More
Friday News Round-Up: Banning PhotoShop Abuse, Panic Buying and More Visibility for Paid Tweets
Here’s this week’s round-up of news stories marketers shouldn’t miss because they offer key information or lessons that multi-channel distributed marketing organizations should take to heart. World News Affects Consumer Behavior Quickly: Two stories from the world of insurance point up how rapidly things can change for marketers. One story looks at changes in the way Americans buy life insurance – and the other points out that the looming default on the U.S. debt has customers of financial planners concerned about the default’s impact on their own investments. The lesson for marketers: Keeping a close eye on your own industry is Read More
Drawing the Line Online: Recorded Webinar & Presentation
This morning’s webinar with Distribion, Socialware, and LIMRA went beautifully! If you missed it, you can download the presentation here, and view the recorded webinar here. There were so many questions that panelists Chad Bockius, Edgar Rodriguez, and Stephen Selby didn’t get to all of them, so the organizers are preparing a downloadable Q&A for those that weren’t answered during the webcast. A link will be posted here as soon as that is available. Registration is now available for the next webinar in the 5-part series the three organizations are sponsoring. Reaching Your Audience Effectively: The 5W’s of Digital & Read More
Last Call: Register Now for Tomorrow’s Webinar on Social Media Compliance
Drawing the Line Online: Personal vs. Professional Speech is shaping up to be the hottest webinar of the summer with practical advice and clear explanations that will help anyone who works in a regulated industry harness the growing power of social media — without regulatory compliance headaches. The session starts tomorrow, Thursday – July 14, 2011 – at 11 a.m. Central Daylight Time. Registration is free, but space is limited and we’re rapidly approaching our cut-off. Reserve your space now by clicking here. Who should attend: Marketing, compliance, HR, legal, and PR executives in Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Hospitality or Casino Read More
7 Best Practices for Mobile Email
According to both Forrester and Gartner, about 76% of U.S. workers have access to email on mobile devices today, and globally, it’s approximately 60% of all full-time employees. Forrester projects universal email access on mobile devices by 2014. Most marketers already know how to design good-looking, well-written HTML email messages that get results. But how do you make certain that your messages look just as good on a smart phone as they do on a laptop or desktop? The first step is to rethink your email templates with the goal of making them just as effective when the message renders on Read More
