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Advanced Content Marketing Strategies: Optimizing Content Partnerships

In our latest webinar, Advanced Content Marketing From Publishers to Influencers, Erin Killian, VP, Customer & Agency Services at Partnerize shared a presentation on how to optimize content. Afterwards, she was joined by Emily Chan, Head of Affiliate Marketing at Our Place, Natalie Brown, Head of Marketing at Sur La Table and Alexis Caldwell, Head of Brand Development at rewardStyle for a panel discussion. Read the recap below or watch the replay here. SESSION RECAP Content Performance Trends Lead to New Partnership Trends One of the biggest methods for optimizing content performance in 2021 is leveraging partnerships. With content and social media partners

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Marketing Attribution In Support Of A Full-Funnel Strategy

In our latest webinar, Marketing Attribution in Support of a Full-Funnel Strategy, Martin Šimo, Former CMO and Current CDP Principle at Bloomreach presented ways to mature your attribution and prepare for the death of cookies. Afterwards, he was joined by Kelley Sternhagen, VP, eCommerce, Marketing Analytics & Strategy at Cost Plus World Market, Geoff Sanders, CMO at Firstleaf and Houman Akhavan, CMO at CarParts.com for a panel discussion on marketing attribution best practices. Read the recap below and watch the replay here. SESSION RECAP Maturing Your Attribution Level Without Cookies Simo’s presentation focused mainly on the five attribution levels to help us calibrate

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Using Search to Improve Ecommerce and Own the Customer Journey

Owning the customer journey is key to cultivating loyalty and retention, yet it seems to be difficult for brands who are competing with marketplaces and third-party retailers to keep customers on their websites.  In our latest webinar Improving Ecommerce and Owning the Customer Journey, Lee Zucker, Head of CPG and DTC Industries at Yext, presented on the new customer journey shaped by Covid-19. Afterwards, he was joined by Nick Antoniades, Vice President, CRM and Analytics at Ashley Stewart, Vivian Chang, VP Growth at Clorox DTC and Stacey Eddy, Director, eCommerce at KEEN Footwear for a panel discussion. Read the recap below and watch

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Create Meaningful Shopper Experiences With Digital Innovations

Brands are always looking to create meaningful connections with people. But, it can be a complicated endeavor—it requires understanding intent in the moment, personalized navigation, search and recommendations or offers. In our latest webinar What Makes Creating Meaningful Experiences for Your Shoppers So Hard?, Gaetan Gachet, Chief Strategy Officer at Algolia presented on what shoppers are looking for and how to improve their experience using AI. His presentation was followed by a panel with Chris Hardisty, SVP Ecommerce at Clarks, Kristin Smith, SVP Digital at Hanna Andersson and Alex Richardson, Chief Technology and Digital Officer at Frederic Fekkai Brands. Read the full webinar’s

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Consumers Are Open To New Brands: What This Means For The Consumer Landscape And Marketers

Over the last three months, the consumer landscape has changed dramatically as people have taken up new ways to learn, work, entertain themselves, procure essentials and non-essentials, connect with others, and increase wellness while at home. Panic buying behavior that was reactionary has become more subdued as stores innovate to meet today’s climate. Sentiment in the U.S. is mixed, with many consumers unsure of the future and others picking up discretionary spending. The “new normal” is being referred to as the “next normal,” but it’s all becoming more “normal.” Every brand is dealing with a consumer who is in a very new state

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The Attribution Challenge: Why Your Conversion Counts From Ad Platforms Don’t Match Your Analytics

You pull together reports from all your advertising platforms (e.g., Facebook, Google Ads, your DSP, etc.) and add up the conversions, only to find that the total number is triple what you’re seeing in your analytics solution or ecommerce back-end. Sound familiar? Here’s why conversion counts are inflated To better understand why conversion counts are inflated, let’s look at an example user conversion path for “Dave” who is buying a razor from “Ron’s Razors.” 1. Dave conducts a Google Search for men’s razors. 2. He clicks on an ad from Ron’s Razors. 3. Dave is later retargeted by Ron’s Razors via AdRoll. 4.

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How To Increase Conversion Rates On Amazon

We don’t need to lament on the mighty, impenetrable ecommerce force that is Amazon. With 66% of product searches beginning on Amazon and 9 out of 10 customers conducting price checks on Amazon before buying, many retailers and brands are jumping into the Amazon marketplace to reach customers. But, a retailer’s relationship with Amazon and its Amazon customer experience is anything but plug-and-play. In other words, “it’s complicated” and you need to be proactive to increase conversion rates in order to drive sales on the platform. Take Dometic: the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile living products that sells in over 100 countries. In

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How Facebook’s Digital Media Can Connect The Customer Journey

Some would say that we’re going through a  “retail apocalypse.” Others say, “That’s a little dramatic,” and that the only retailers struggling to survive are those failing to engage in forward-thinking ecommerce and marketing innovation. In order to thrive, brands must implement technology and a digital media strategy that results in seamless experiences across channels. Frictionless omnichannel experiences, while perhaps a buzzy phrase from seasons past, still proves a major obstacle—and a major opportunity—for most retailers. At CommerceNext 2019, Conor Ryan (Co-founder and CIO at StitcherAds) and Kevin St. John (Industry Manager at Facebook) outlined how retailers can adopt Facebook’s retail-focused tools to

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Fueling Ecommerce Marketing Growth With A Customer Data Platform

It’s the technology that’s on every direct-to-consumer (DTC) and retail marketer’s mind: the customer data platform (CDP). Vendors make big claims about its ability to revolutionize your marketing. Analysts are more cautious. The reality is, the CDP space is still evolving, and companies are still working out how to make the most of the new tech. But those that have found a place for the platform are seeing some good results. Before you decide if a CDP is right for your company, it’s important to do some groundwork. You need to understand what sets a CDP apart from other martech solutions, how a

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The Comeback Of TV: How Direct To Consumer Brands Can Win Big

With the cost of Facebook and Google advertising continuing to increase, television advertising might just be back in style. Until recently, TV ads may have been perceived as outdated by growth marketing leaders given the limited measurability of the platform. Instead of planning robust TV budgets, growth marketers invested the majority of their ad spend into digital—Facebook and Google, the comfortable ground zero of scalable digital advertising, where brands can reliably target key audiences, measure, analyze and optimize. Unfortunately, that means nearly every direct to consumer brand eventually winds up advertising—and spending increasingly more to achieve efficiency—on Facebook and Google. Many brands struggle

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