Optimizely helps companies better understand and serve their customers. Every touchpoint with a customer is an opportunity to win that customer’s heart, make them great, and make them better. By experimenting everywhere, businesses have a powerful strategy for reorienting towards their customer as the true north, striving to iterate quickly, make improvements, and deliver customer experiences that are delightful and fuel growth. Optimizely enables you to experiment everywhere—both across the organization and across every interaction you have with a customer. In a company that experiments everywhere, everyone from Marketing to Product Management, Design, Engineering, and the C-Suite can inform their decisions with experiments that engage customers for their reactions.

The General Data Protection Regulation – or GDPR – is a European Union (EU) law that protects the rights of individuals with respect to their data. Adopted as an EU law in April 2016, organizations that hold data about any resident of the EU must be compliant by May 2018. With attention-grabbing fines of €20 million or 4% of global annual turnover, GDPR commands attention at the highest levels. And despite the “legalese” that compliance suggests brands utilize, the brands that balance legal compliance with a human approach will turn GDPR to their advantage. This white paper provides a series of actions you can take to make the most of GDPR to both enhance your customer relationships and mitigate risk.

Among all the trends and buzzwords currently shaking up the marketing industry, one concept is emerging as the one to watch: customer experience (CX). Providing individual customers with the best possible experience is becoming the top priority at the moment, even to the point where experience outshines product quality(!) as the main differentiator. This is confirmed by a recent Gartner1 survey, in which 86 percent of participating companies listed customer experience as the main factor for gaining a competitive advantage, compared with merely 36 percent in 2012.

20% of customers will be responsible for 80% of profit – or so says The Pareto Principle, also known as the “rule of the vital few.” So, while marketers are trying hard to increase market share, they should be equally (or even more) concerned about nurturing the customer relationships they already have. That means finding ways to strengthen bonds with your best customers and figuring out how to turn good customers into better ones. Personalization, truly helpful support, data-driven contextual marketing, re-engagement strategies, gamification… There’s an almost overwhelming number of options out there, each touted as your golden key to an enduring bond with your users. In the pages that follow, you’ll learn about five strategies to drive engagement and retention with actionable tips from Selligent clients – top brands that are at the forefront of creating and sustaining customer loyalty.

Effective Competition Depends on Continuous Delivery of Quality Software In today’s application economy every company is a software company, no matter what industry it is in: • Shipping companies depend on logistics software to efficiently route packages, arrange drivers and automate warehouses. • Retail companies rely on software to manage inventory, engage with customers online and to give in-store associates the tools they need to answer customer questions on the spot. • Marketing firms lean on applications to gather consumer data and parse it, automate communication with prospects and effectively manage advertising campaigns. The examples are endless. The point is that in order to compete today, every business must be able to quickly build and tweak software to adjust to always evolving market demands. Ultimately, business success depends on faster development iterations while still maintaining the high quality of service expected by customers, stakeholders and end users.

It’s More Difficult Than Ever to Deliver a Five-Star Experience. To truly capture customer interest and loyalty, your applications and services have to deliver reliable experiences that delight users, scale to support their changing needs and regularly refresh with new innovations. As a result, you need ways to measure the metrics that really matter, namely: engagement, loyalty and satisfaction. It’s also imperative that you match agility with quality, making application performance a priority goal for everyone—from the business to marketing to IT. Finally, you need to future-proof your business by rapidly adopting the latest technologies and innovations that will meet—and exceed— customers’ expectations.

These days, growth-oriented, ambitious companies increasingly have the opportunity to gain the upper hand in the market because they are taking advantage of digital tools to maintain and even amplify their competitive edge. As prospective customers determine their own purchase journey, emerging enterprises must use digital tools to build personal relationships with them, win their business, and grow that business—and those relationships—over time. The cornerstone of building your digital competitive advantage is an engagement marketing platform—a marketing automation platform that includes all the applications and solutions you need to engage your prospects and customers at the right time, in the right place, and with a relevant and personal message. Download this ebook to learn five ways that you can use an engagement marketing platform to outsmart the competition—even those with a much bigger presence and budget.

This whitepaper discusses the need to target outcomes and focus on building a complete, 360-degree view of your customers -- who they are, where they came from, what they do, and how you can best meet their needs.

Learn about the five gaps that could be costing you time, customers, and profit in this digital e-book. Discover how to close those gaps and transform your people, process, and technology to better serve your customer. You’ll also learn how to: Create a unified view and deliver personalized experiences to your customers across all touchpoints and channels. Provide actionable insights to your sales and marketing team so they can work together more effectively. Bring intelligence to your data and connect it with content and processes, so you can make better, faster decisions. Transform your business by connecting sales and marketing with a shared set of successful business practices.

Account-based strategy is the coordination of highly valuable, personalized experiences across all functions that impact the customer to drive engagement and conversion at a targeted set of accounts. The adoption of account-based strategy has accelerated in the last few years, with a dramatic increase in the number of companies looking to implement this approach. This growth is driving demand to “start now,” particularly in marketing organizations, but account-based cannot be developed by the marketing department alone. The best account-based leaders begin by securing organization-wide commitment to the account-based strategy.

Lifecycle marketing is changing the way companies interact with prospects and customers through the email channel. This white paper explores five common questions and some ideas on how to jumpstart your lifecycle marketing efforts.

Learn how a deep understanding of touchpoints - and the ways they drive customers closer to you (or farther away) - can improve acquisition, retention and loyalty, create better customer experiences, strengthen relationships and boost your bottom line. (Plus 5 steps for leveraging touchpoints to profit from better customer relationships.)

See how the landscape of customer experience is being altered forever, as touchpoints continue to drive shifts in distribution, feedback and marketing channel control. In this whitepaper, you'll learn how making your touchpoints stronger, faster and smarter today will mean increased profits and stronger market positions tomorrow. (Plus 7 specific steps any company can take to improve customer experience today.)

Do you really know whether each of your campaigns are formatted optimally, to drive as many conversions as possible? Or, are you just crossing your fingers and hoping for the best? It is impossible to develop more effective campaigns and grow your customer base if you don’t know which elements of your campaigns are contributing to these efforts and which are working against them. But there’s a way to easily figure this all out, moving away from guessing and towards confidence. The answer is A/B testing. With A/B testing, any company can learn how to optimize their marketing campaigns, better understand their customer base, develop more relevant content, and improve return on investment. A/B testing is an efficient and cost-effective marketing strategy that companies cannot, and should not, live without. Download this ebook to learn all the essentials of A/B testing, including: The definition of A/B testing Why A/B testing is important The A/B testing process A/B testing and marketin

Infrastructure is used by customer and employee service and support centers, inbound and outbound telemarketing services, help desk services, government-operated support centers, and other types of structured communications operations.

Consider the many ways that a customer encounters your brand – organic results on a search engine, display media campaigns, social media links, re-targeting on external sites, etc. One thing is certain – consumer journeys are far from linear. They can occur across multiple platforms, devices and browsers. The problem is that organizations are often constrained to channel-limiting decisions regarding their media investment allocations. Marketing attribution helps you analyze the impact and business value of company-generated marketing interactions to help make the best marketing investment decisions. The challenge is to interpret the massive volumes of customer data that continues to expand day by day.

The digital marketplace presents new challenges for marketers, yet provides the perfect canvas for creating personalized, relevant communications and developing deep relationships with customers based on ongoing interactions. This paper explores what customer “moments of truth” mean, and how understanding those moments of truth along the customer journey enables marketers to deliver the personalized, real-time responses that customers crave. You’ll also learn best practices on how customer experience optimization and digital marketing optimization can help marketers capitalize on moments of truth.

Data is the fuel of all marketing activities. Customers and prospective buyers are savvy, empowered, and carry high expectations for personalization across all interactions. Without the right data—at the right time—as well as the most effective strategies in place to manage our data sources, our communications and offers are dead on arrival. A one-size-fits-all approach to marketing is not a sound tactic—it’s a marketing fruitcake that no one wants to receive. It’s time to get down with data to delight your audience and provide them with the personal experiences they deserve. Read the marketing essentials guide now.

In order to appeal today’s empowered audiences, you have to deliver highly personalised marketing experiences that respond to their needs and behaviour. Read this report for actionable insight into customer-centric marketing.

Is your organization truly meeting the expectations of your customers and delivering a differentiated experience that builds revenue growth and loyalty? Although there is currently a lot of focus on what constitutes the ideal digital experience, few organizations have successfully executed a strategy that takes the entire digital experience equation into consideration. Download this whitepaper now to learn the 5 keys to the digital experience equation and to read case stories on companies who have gotten it right.

Learn the 20 key commerce metrics that you should be tracking to measure and optimize your commerce results. For each metric, you will learn what it means, why you should be tracking it, industry benchmarks. Download the eBook now.

Customer insights professionals face the challenging task of delivering contextually relevant experiences across the customer life cycle. They need to work with their business technology counterparts to integrate enterprise marketing technologies that manage customer data, provide real-time analytics and insights, and automate cross-channel interactions. Here is where Real-Time Interaction Management (RTIM) is critical, according to The Forrester Wave™: Real-Time Interaction Management, Q3 2015 report, which identified the 11 most significant technology providers in this space across 35 criteria. Forrester defines RTIM as “Enterprise marketing technology that delivers contextually relevant experiences, value, and utility at the appropriate moment in the customer life cycle via preferred customer touchpoints,” and identifies Pegasystems as one a leader in this very diversified pack. Download this Forrester Wave report to

Marketing leaders are asking their analytics teams to provide better insights into customers, prospects and journeys, and a more accurate assessment of the impact of marketing tactics. Use this research to find a digital marketing analytics tool to support your needs. This Magic Quadrant is intended for chief marketing of?cers (CMOs), marketing analytics and data science practitioners, and other digital marketing leaders involved in the selection of systems to support marketing analytics requirements.

Discover how data management platforms can enable marketers to tackle growing data challenges, create powerful customer insights, and set up marketing campaigns that will increase revenues and significantly decrease wasted effort.

If you’re wondering whether you should really prioritize email in your marketing—especially when new channels continually emerge—consider this: 91 percent of marketing executives agree that email is their most effective channel.1 Clearly, email isn’t just here to stay, it’s the mainstay. And with the ability to personalize and contextualize messages, upgrade mobile campaigns, and better understand customer needs, email marketing has evolved into a stronger and smarter version of its former self.