The 2020 holiday season is here and a new Google-commissioned Ipsos survey has found that nearly three quarters of U.S. shoppers plan on doing more online shopping than the 2019 holiday season. 

What this means for marketers is that being found online, whether through social media channels or through Google My Business (GMB) listings will be incredibly important. Speaking of location, location-based offers are expected to have increased value as traveling far and wide for the best holiday gifts will not be en vogue for the obvious reasons. 

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The digital transformation that has been accelerated by the COVID outbreak has affected all parts of the martech stack, from platforms to apps. While the volume of email marketing campaigns has increased, not much attention has been paid to how email marketing itself has had to change.

Shifts in buying patterns caused an even greater need for email marketing campaigns to implement personalization of content, said Erinne Mejia, Product Manager for Acoustic, at MarTech Conference. Find out what else Mejia and her colleague, Acoustic Chief Innovation Catalyst Melissa Tatoris, said about email marketing strategy in this new world, including tips for data hygiene to maintain maximum agility with campaigns.

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It may be a hard truth for us best-intentioned marketers to swallow, but two-thirds of customers believe that marketers do not care about their needs.

That’s according to a survey of 5,000 individuals by Pega. And when you look at what marketers face, it is easy to see how that kind of sentiment takes root.

“Think about the scale of your business,” said Andrew LeClair, senior product marketing manager at Pegasystems. “You’re trying to manage literally billions of interactions, with millions of customers, across hundreds and hundreds of programs, on dozens and dozens of channels — and that’s a lot of complexity. And unfortunately, that complexity leaves us exposed. There’s not a lot of chances for us to get it right, but there’s a ton of opportunities for things to go wrong, and it only takes one poor experience and the customer is out the door.”

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Digital intelligence company SimilarWeb has rolled out additions to its digital marketing and research intelligence tools to enhance digital strategy and execution efficiency. 

Just last year SimiliarWeb added marketing intelligence tools to optimize customer acquisition and research tools to monitor digital market share and trends. Now they have announced product updates for both tools to generate more in-depth customer insights. 

SimilarWeb’s intelligence resources are not only for consumer acquisition strategies but also allows users to mitigate emerging threats. 

Why we care. Top-line intelligence tools are not enough in a digital transformation where consumers’ needs and actions are changing by the second. Ongoing updates address the need to keep pace and an appearance to be in lockstep with the evolving consumer, the consumer profile of nine months ago might as well be nine years ago at this point.

“This [COVID] situation has made it that scale and operations efficiency have to be built and engineered into businesses. It has to be part of your overall solution. These internal processes and development of operations allows marketers to place their energy with customers.” Scot Gillespie, General Manager, Arc Publishing.