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The more consumers interact with media, the more marketers know about their habits, and the less time they need to plan and guess actions. Mix Optimization Takes Over Planning, a new Forrester Research, Inc. report, shows why it’s important for marketers to transition to a marketing optimization platform and provides key steps that will help enable the transition.

New customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many businesses, but it can be costly. Comprehensive lead management strategies have been developed to maximize lead value and bring order and efficiency to the top of the marketing funnel. Such strategies emphasize quality, precision, and the increased probability of conversion. When well-executed, lead management strategies can produce significant savings, reduce time spent in the funnel, and bring sales and marketing into closer concert.

Your website can be your best source for more, and better, leads. Learn 7 proven lead generation tactics you can use to make the most of your website’s potential. See also the surprising results of a real-world landing page testing scenario.

It’s all about the leads. It’s true. B2B marketers spend their day focused on generating enough of them to fill their sales funnel. But that’s not always an easy task. So how do today’s marketers fill the funnel? They use content marketing. Learn essential ways to use content to generate top-of-funnel leads.

Attribution models assign credit to some or all of the touchpoints that contribute to a conversion—such as impressions, clicks, web searches, and website visits. Download this attribution guide today and we’ll outline some of the most common models used to measure display advertising and get to the bottom of how they may work for you.

Introducing BloomReach Compass, a tool that understands your site's content and identifies opportunities to maximize revenue. Surface and prioritize opportunities out of your billions of datapoints from content details, user behavior, and business performance.

As advertising continues to evolve, we continue to provide the latest insights and trends. The Adobe Advertising Benchmark 2014 report gives you the information you need to identify better opportunities to make the most of your advertising efforts.

Download the new Adobe Digital Index report to see how your online marketing practices compare to the best-of-the-best websites across five industries, including retail, media and entertainment, travel and hospitality, financial services, and high tech. You’ll see critical metrics on everything from mobile trends to conversion rates—so you can develop new strategies for success in 2014.

During the busy holiday season, it takes exceptional marketing to stand out from the crowd. Make a statement with social integrations that place your customer at the heart of your campaign. It’s a timeless look. During the 2013 holiday season, luxury watch retailer Tourneau increased watch sales 57% by helping fans find the perfect gift with their omni-channel #TourneauKnows campaign. Just as in fashion, your brand should seek campaign inspiration further afield. Take a cue from tech sector giant, Cisco, who breathed new life into the banner ad by creating socially powered ad units. It was an arresting experience that aligned with readers of The Huffington Post, where the ads were displayed. If you are seeking new, innovative ways to capture your audience’s attention this holiday season—look no further—we’ve curated the top five social experiences for the holidays to inspire your efforts.

During the busy holiday season, it takes exceptional marketing to stand out from the crowd. Make a statement with social integrations that place your customer at the heart of your campaign. It’s a timeless look. During the 2013 holiday season, luxury watch retailer Tourneau increased watch sales 57% by helping fans find the perfect gift with their omni-channel #TourneauKnows campaign. Just as in fashion, your brand should seek campaign inspiration further afield. Take a cue from tech sector giant, Cisco, who breathed new life into the banner ad by creating socially powered ad units. It was an arresting experience that aligned with readers of The Huffington Post, where the ads were displayed. If you are seeking new, innovative ways to capture your audience’s attention this holiday season—look no further—we’ve curated the top five social experiences for the holidays to inspire your efforts.

Oreo and the Super Bowl. Snickers and Luis Suarez' World Cup bite. By now you have probably read about brands winning big with real-time marketing (RTM) during major events. But real time happens every day, and any brand can succeed with RTM. Learn more about this social marketing strategy and how your brand can incorporate it into your playbook.

Oreo and the Super Bowl. Snickers and Luis Suarez' World Cup bite. By now you have probably read about brands winning big with real-time marketing (RTM) during major events. But real time happens every day, and any brand can succeed with RTM. Learn more about this social marketing strategy and how your brand can incorporate it into your playbook. Download to learn more!

Here at Spredfast, we were as caught up in the World Cup as the rest of the planet. As much as we enjoyed watching the strategy on the field, we were also really excited about the social strategies implemented during the tournament by savvy brands and media properties.

This eBook describes, in detail, the methods and systems required to generate sales ready B2B leads by using several different types of digital marketing.

This whitepaper aims to help marketers understand how to use Google My Business Locations with an overview of the offering and a list of key things to know as you adjust to this new tool.

In this paper – which is based on a webinar hosted by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and sponsored by SAS – we will take a look at how these technological advancements can enable you to become more predictive and prescriptive in your digital and integrated marketing efforts.

As a business with a content marketing strategy, it’s crucial to understand your target audience and the types of content they want to consume. Whether you’ve been creating content for years or are just getting started, it’s important to take a step back and think about where your content will be most effective, and how that plays a role in your brand development or sales pipeline. Download the B2B Personas Guide from Oracle to help determine the right audience for your content.

The right message, in the right place, at the right time, to the right audience. Content marketing doesn’t have to be painful. Want to know more about ending the chaos of your organization’s content creation, management and measurement? Download this report now!

Measure your content marketing effectiveness and value by following these five steps, brought to you by the Oracle Marketing Cloud.

You’re committed to a content marketing program and you’ve been given a budget. No matter how big or small the amount, you’ll want to maximize the mileage of every dollar spent. One smart way to do that is by repurposing content. Read how in this report.

Read this report by Forrester Research, Inc. for a better understanding of customer life-cycle marketing systems, a look at the landscape of CLCMS technology providers, and key recommendations for CMOs to prepare for and adopt these new but necessary tools. Fragmentation of the customer journey, due to the growth of digital channels, platforms and content, has forced marketing to be more relevant and responsive. In this paper, Forrester calls on CMOs to adopt the customer life-cycle as a guiding framework and deploy “customer life-cycle marketing systems” (CLCMS). Learn more by downloading the report.

In the Local SEO biz, we spend a lot of time dealing with duplicate business listings. Duplicate records of your business appearing throughout the Local Search ecosystem are bad news for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is they could be costing your business a lot of time and money. As an industry, it, behooves us to collectively solve this issue. So let’s give it a shot.

It is important to understand how to select an online community platform that best addresses your organization’s business needs and feature requirements. This guide is designed to help your organization gain a better understanding of these issues and select the online community platform best suited to your needs.

Content Marketing is white hot right now. Ensure your team has the highly engaging, highly relevant content it needs to meet your current customers and prospects' needs. Stay focused with this how-to-guide on creating an editorial calendar.

This white paper, brought to you by Opentopic, will help both experienced and non-experienced marketers understand what content marketing is, how to approach the content creation and curation mix as well as illustrate how great content marketing doesn't have to be complicated or expensive.