Survey Summary Reports

Data-Driven Personalization

Delivering a highly personalized experience is the standard most marketers strive for. And when they succeed, the results are impressive. But how are marketers using data-driven personalization to enhance their strategy?

Marketing Automation Integration

Marketing Automation is a powerful tool used to make marketing tasks, processes and campaigns faster and more efficient than ever before. But how are marketers integrating this technology into their overall strategy?

Content Marketing Engagement

The goal of a content marketing strategy is to provide helpful insights that ultimately move a target audience through the decision-making process to a desired action. But what are the strategies and tactics behind creating engaging content that drives...

Visualizing Marketing Data with Dashboards

A marketing data dashboard is a tool used to visualize KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) about the impact of marketing efforts in a way that is immediately understood. But what are the strategies, tactics and trends for visualizing marketing data...

Marketing Technology Utilization

Marketing Technology (MarTech) is the term used for the software and technology-based tools marketers utilize to plan, execute, and measure marketing campaigns.

Organic Search & Social Media

There is no question that social shares linked to quality content on your website or blog will improve organic search rankings as well as traffic. SEO benefits from social media, and vice versa. But what strategies and tactics will...

Strategies, Tactics and Trends for Email Marketing

Email marketing has been constantly developing for more than twenty years, and you can’t expect to generate new leads and acquire new subscribers using obsolete strategies and tactics. But what works, and what doesn’t, in email marketing today?

Marketing Resource Effectiveness

Planning and deploying a marketing strategy will benefit from an objective point of view and skills that may not be available in-house. But how will you choose the right resources to optimize results?

Hyper-Personalization Strategies

Hyper-personalization takes personalized marketing a step further by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and real-time data to deliver more relevant content, product, and service information to each user. But what will hyper-personalization strategies look like in the year ahead?

Marketing Technology Trends

The technology available to marketers is changing rapidly. The technological needs of marketers is also changing, becoming critically important to business success. But what trends will have the most impact on marketing technology (martech) effectiveness?

2019 Digital Marketing Strategies

Prospects and customers are almost always online. And an effective digital marketing strategy provides the plan of action required to engage them. Sounds simple, but what will an effective digital marketing strategy look like in 2019?

Email-Driven Content Marketing

Digital marketers are combining email and content marketing strategies to optimize results. But what does a more effective email-driven content marketing strategy look like?

Generating and Nurturing Leads to Create Demand

Creating demand in a digital world requires a combination of effective strategies to both generate and nurture leads, with the goal of converting them to customers. But how do you combine strategies to create new demand?

Measuring Marketing Attribution

Measuring and attributing the results of marketing efforts to revenue has become a primary goal for many companies. But what strategies and tactics are savvy companies using to measure marketing attribution?

Optimizing Marketing Automation

Marketing automation is “very important” to the overall performance of marketing, according to 94% of the best-in- class marketers participating in a recent Ascend2 survey. But how do you optimize marketing automation to continually increase performance?

Search & Social Advertising Strategy

Integrating the “pull” of paid search with the “push” of social media ads is becoming an increasingly effective method for generating demand. But what does an effective paid search and social advertising strategy look like?

Email Marketing Engagement

Email marketing performance is driven by subscriber engagement. The more engaged a prospect or customer is, the more likely they will help boost a company's revenue. But how do you improve email engagement today?

Marketing Data and Technology Strategy

One of the factors most critical to marketing success is the data used to fuel your systems. The impact of data on marketing technology effectiveness is profound. But what does an effective marketing data and technology strategy look like?

Account-Based Marketing Strategy

Half of marketing influencers consider aligning their initiatives with sales teams a top priority for an ABM strategy in 2018. But what priorities should your ABM strategy include?

2018 Digital Marketing Plans

An effective digital marketing plan contains a series of tactics used to achieve your most important marketing objectives.Sounds simple, but what will an effective digital marketing plan look like in 2018?

Search Engine Optimization Tactics

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is the practice of improving how specific web pages rank in a search engine's unpaid results. But what tactics are companies using to achieve their important SEO objectives?

Marketing Technology ROI

Marketing has become a technology-driven world. But what marketing technology strategies and tactics are producing the most significant return-on-investment?

2017 State of Email Marketing

The email marketing channel continues to dominate the digital marketing landscape in terms of performance. But what strategies and tactics are having the greatest impact on email marketing in 2017?

Lead Generation to Increase Conversions

Generating high-value leads that are ready to convert requires an effective strategy with proven tactics to succeed. But how does an effective lead generation strategy turn more leads into more customers, faster?

Data-Driven Marketing Strategy

Without a clear and concise data-driven marketing strategy, a company lacks the ability to effectively acquire, organize, analyze and translate customer information into actionable insights. But what does an effective data-driven marketing strategy for achieving those objectives look like?

Content Marketing and Distribution Report

You have invested valuable time and resources into creating compelling content, but your strategy isn't complete without a plan to distribute it. How are companies achieving their most important content marketing objectives?

Landing Page Optimization Trends

Converting more web visitors to leads and customers is a key measure of success for landing page optimization. But how are marketers optimizing landing page traffic to improve conversion rates?

Email List Growth Trends

Email is consistently one of the highest converting marketing channels available. But what strategies and tactics are marketers using to increase the number of those receiving their email?

Marketing Data Quality Trends Survey Summary Report

Quality marketing data enables the targeting of customers you want with the information they want. But how do marketers plan to improve their data quality in the year ahead?

Social Media Marketing Trends

Creating compelling content for social media marketing purposes is not only the most effective tactic used, it is also the most difficult tactic to execute. What types of content are marketers using and how are they using them to...