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Digital Marketing

Best Practices in Interactive Marketing
A Strategic Approach to Segmentation

How can we get the most out of our online advertising spend? How can we improve the performance of our campaigns? How can we identify our high-value customers? Which messages will resonate with long-term customers? Which offers will turn prospects into customers? The good news: these are questions that can be addressed with technology that exists today. This technology helps you segment your customers, effectively target content and offers, and test your marketing strategy for relevance and effectiveness on an ongoing basis.

Today, it’s done at Internet speed using a set of newly developed best practices, best-of-breed technologies, and automated systems and processes. Doing it well is one of the keys to success in today’s digital marketplace.

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Think Social Influence Marketing in 2008
10 Social Media Trends

Is there any doubt that social media exploded in 2007? The astounding growth of Facebook alone forced everyone – not just marketers, but corporations, investors, academia, and media –
to pay attention to social media as a serious business and cultural phenomenon.

But the bigger question is how will social media change the way we do business in 2008?

In fact, we’re discovering a major shift occurring. The rise of social media is creating a new form of marketing altogether, which we call social influence marketing.

The emergence of social influence marketing is one of 10 major social media developments for 2008 that you need to know about now.

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Digital Marketing

Triggered Messaging 101

Are you contemplating taking on behavioral targeting and optimizing customer touch points through triggered email messaging? Take a step back before tackling this animal. While building messaging programs and triggering these from disparate business events is pretty baseline for ecommerce sites, the sheer magnitude of building these programs can be cumbersome to many. Many email teams struggle to achieve baseline reporting on campaign work, now add a layer of messaging that is customized to a 1:1 interaction, potentially customized with variable content and you have the making of a very difficult program to report and manage over time.

...this is why most companies haven’t evolved past text messaging for opt in messaging, confirmation messages and reminder notices.

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Cool Sites

Ford Global Auto Shows

Sheraton Play
Play in a pillow fight

Breville Concept to Kitchen
Customize your countertop with Breville appliances

Kroger
Right store. Right price.

Samsonite Black Label
Samsonite Black Label by Alexander McQueen

AT&T
Free Yourself.

In the News

The Forrester Wave™: Interactive Marketing Agencies, Q42007

Become a Champion in the Eyes of Your Client

Hybrids Taking Over the Workforce

Will a Free WSJ.com Pay Off?

Now It's Personal

Events

Digital Media Measurement and Pricing Summit
January 22
New York, NY

Avenue A | Razorfish
Technology Summit

January 23 & 24
Austin, TX

Digital Marketing

Mobile's Breakaway Year

This year was about mobile as an integrated channel, from a 360-degree marketing perspective.

... we went from 0 to 60, launching mobile programs that leveraged nearly every possible mobile marketing mechanic...expect that to continue in 2008... But digital marketing's about to get even more interesting. ... If 2007 is the year of the third screen, then 2008 will be the year of the fourth screen.

Digital signage, the fourth screen, is poised to explode. Key outdoor media players are adding digital inventory at a rapid pace. Hundreds of signage networks and aggregators are popping up and trying to establish dominance or carve out niches.

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