Product recommendations are a proven way for marketers to drive sales, boosting the revenue potential of every shopping experience and increasing customer engagement overall. However, most current recommendations tools have not kept up with the level of personalisation that customers have come to expect, and they often fall short of the precision that marketing teams need to create meaningful business impact. It may be time to reevaluate whether your solution is doing all it can to meet the needs of your customers and your team.

Can chatbots provide a great customer experience? Watch how top brands automate social customer service practices. You'll learn how to enhance agent workflows and use AI to better connect with the people you care about most.

Research shows that today’s in-store purchases tend to begin and end online. Even ready-tobuy consumers research online for nearby stores, go in-store to buy, and often leave a review about their experience. In turn, those reviews influence the purchasing decisions of your future customers. This makes it crucial for businesses to have a voice in those conversations, monitoring and responding to reviews and comments.

Did you know that for 88% of shoppers, the first step to a local purchase is often an online search? If you want customers to find you, you must have a consistent, rich and engaging online brand that is equally optimized for both desktop and mobile SEO, and that contains long tail keywords for voice search assistants like Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and Google Voice. Be sure to claim and regularly maintain your listings for every widely used portal and social site, and create a separate locator page for every single location—so that you show up at the top of all local searches.

Product recommendations are a proven way for marketers to drive sales, boosting the revenue potential of every shopping experience and increasing customer engagement overall. However, most current recommendations tools have not kept up with the level of personalization that customers have come to expect, and they often fall short of the precision that marketing teams need to create meaningful business impact. It may be time to reevaluate whether your solution is doing all it can to meet the needs of your customers and your team.

More and more financial institutions are partnering with fintechs and leveraging Application Program Interfaces (APIs) to attract new prospects and to delight current consumers through unprecedented Customer Experience (CX). APIs offer a bridge between systems while paving a digital path to a connected financial ecosystem. The institutions that are able to drive this digital transformation successfully, do not think of these capabilities as additional channels and services. Rather, these institutions understand that they must move from a vision of banking as a physical network of branches and ATMs, to a digital platform, comprising core capabilities such as account servicing and the provision of financial products that can be accessed wherever, and whenever, customers wish. Join this webinar and learn how these institutions are building a digital banking platform with APIs. Presented by: Angie Campos, Industry Marketing for FS&I, MuleSoft Michel Vaja, Head of UK Payments Practice, C

With the rise of consumer demands for highly personalized products and services comes the necessity of creating a unified brand experience. Research shows that a cross-channel marketing strategy delivers 3X more effective campaigns and 23X higher rates of customer satisfaction. In Iterable’s Cross-Channel Engagement Benchmark Report, we demonstrate that brands continue to prioritize email above mobile, web and direct mail messaging. We surveyed 200+ Iterable customers (49% Enterprise & 51% Mid-Market) to learn which channels and campaigns had the most success in 2018. To find out the results, download a copy of our hot-off-the-press — 2018 Cross-Channel Engagement Benchmark Report. The Top Takeaways: • The status quo when it comes to B2C marketing outreach • How marketers are engaging customers throughout the lifecycle • Expert commentary from our partners and customers

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.

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 know your people as well as you know your customers? Your people’s expectations and the way they work are changing. Employees are more diverse, mobile and technologically savvy than ever before. HR processes are changing from focusing on transactions to knowing and engaging people. Just as sales and marketing teams use data to develop actionable and informed insights about their customers, you need to do the same in HR to know your people. Everything from attracting and keeping the best talent to creating better workplace experiences and increasing employee engagement and productivity, depends on smarter decisions. These in turn rely on more actionable insights. These are only possible through accurate HR data and analytics. They are vital to address the people challenges you face, so you can make smarter decisions. Discover in this guide how to improve visibility of your workforce with data-driven and actionable insights. Ultimately, it will help you know your people better and

adsquare offers brands insights into customer behaviors and footfall to underpin digital marketing campaigns. Using a detailed brief of the audience the brand wishes to reach, adsquare gathers data from a range of mobile, online and offline sources. This rich data gives a brand a stronger opportunity to create relevant campaigns for their audiences. It is critical to adsquare’s success that its data sources are reliable. As the world’s leading location platform in 2018 (Source: Ovum and Counterpoint Research annual indexes) HERE is building and sharing real-time location intelligence with adsquare which reveals patterns to show how and why customers make transactions in specific places.

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.

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.