How does a marketing leader help transform an engineering-focused company into a product and marketing-driven firm to accelerate growth?
In my experience many of these are dangerous marketing-driven venues where any educational component is minimal and has been corrupted by behind-the-scenes financial arrangements.
And while there are plenty of studies for and against the value of social media in B2B marketing in general and manufacturing specifically, it is unequivocal that how customers choose to learn is changing quickly for even the most marketing-driven companies.
While the relocation has undoubtedly damaged the big-spending and marketing-driven IPL financially, as no atmosphere can match a local Indian one, South Africa has not done badly - with the event seemingly inspiring the next generation of Graeme Smiths, Herschelle Gibbs and Makhaya Ntinis.
To get going: If you have a marketing-driven social media plan, that's a start. (If not, see Time's person of the year award for 2010.) Now layer in content that attracts potential candidates--company news, color commentary from employees, video of the work environment and of course job information.
The big global firms certainly have invested in departments focused on brand-building and consumer engagement via the primary social channels (mostly prodded by their forward-thinking, marketing and measurement-driven clients at CPG companies).
During her time in marketing, she collaborated with IT departments in developing data-driven marketing strategies, and implementing sophisticated customer relationship marketing (CRM) and business intelligence systems.
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Who has the time, and what is the benefit, of planning in a world of continuous change, demand-driven marketing, and intense pressure for instantaneous responses?
The latest digitally-driven marketing meme caught fire among the early adopter crowd late this Summer and is a hot topic of conversation at the New York ad fest this week.
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Data-driven marketing is certainly on the lips of all marketers these days, and her views and lessons and challenges, she says, apply to all companies, whether they sell shoes or business services.
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Its iTune Music Store and the iPod digital music player are important strategic products for the company, as it has been touting digital media as part of a new lifestyle-driven marketing image.
They need to use data-driven marketing insights to empower employees, so then these employees can elevate the customer experience and treat shoppers the way they want to be treated: as individuals with unique buying behaviors and preferences.
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The inextricable shift to digital marketing channels by both consumers and marketers will continue to drive the need for data-driven, personalized marketing platforms like Neolane.
International Speedway Corporation (ISC) has proven how data-driven integrated marketing management (IMM) can increase ROI by improving performance across multiple business functions.
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Marketing is still largely projection-driven business.
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This is very numbers-driven approach to marketing, Sinha says.
They say that for too long, Chrysler has allowed its marketing decisions to be driven by manufacturing concerns--how many vehicles can a factory churn out to maximize efficiency?
Powered by customer-driven brands and data-driven insights, CMOs can now combine the art and science of marketing into better performance and greater accountability than ever before.
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Unfortunately, the data-driven nature of the web and marketing exacerbates the pressure for metrics.
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Maniacally measure the effectiveness of a content-driven digital strategy and fine-tune against marketing objectives.
Beyond industry verticals or business models, the larger import is the future evolution of all marketing towards more campaign automation, more engagement, and more algorithmically-driven customer dialogue.
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Through content marketing it is going to draw more and more corporations into value-driven content creation and distribution, so it will disrupt the work-life of people who have to write in the public domain for the first time.
Marketing is in a unique position to bring a longer term, market-driven perspective to the planning table.
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This marketing model is fundamentally better suited for today than the traditional purely product-driven USP models of the past.
Marketing is uniquely positioned to help the organization bring a longer term, market-driven perspective to the planning table to complement near-term needs.
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Domo is a data-driven company, so it would make sense that data drives its marketing too.
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Recently, I had the chance to visit about missionary versus mercenary leadership with the senior executive of another mission-driven company in our region, Burke Alder, vice president of marketing for Lendio.
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