We often use the expression when consulting with clients, “you’ve purchased a Ferrari but you’re driving it like a Ford.” What do we mean by this? If you’ve got a leading marketing automation platform but still using it at a basic level, well then, you’re just not using it to its full capability. In short, your investment […]
If you’re a marketing automation user as well as a Modern Marketer who schedules or hosts webinars then this is for you. I have been spending quite a bit of time lately with clients who want to take full advantage of Oracle Marketing Cloud Eloqua and the power of marketing automation within their webinars. In short, if you […]
Data management platforms, marketing automation, Modern Marketing, form processing, plenty of wait steps, segmentation and custom data objects. 12 months in with Marketing Cube and these are just a few of the topics that I discuss on a daily basis with my clients, sales partners and co-workers. Half of these I was very new to […]
If you’re anything like me and manage multiple accounts of Instagram and were constantly frustrated with having to log out and sign into seperate accounts each time, then you will happily know that you can finally breathe a sigh of relief! The new Instagram update has addressed this problem (…finally) and now your social media life just […]
Super Bowl 50 is fast approaching and you know what that means… it’s time to get social and develop some exposure, no matter how big or small your brand is. If you don’t know by now, Super Bowl is the most watched sporting event on the planet with a record 120 million viewers tuning in […]
Predicting what will happen in social media is about as hard as predicting what the next viral post will be. However, at least as marketers, we can read and engage with each other and in turn string a few ideas as to the direction we think social media might take. Firstly, in 2015 we saw the rise of […]
So you’re a Modern Marketer who strives to make sure that when uploaded to Twitter, your images are going to look large and bold so as to catch the attention of your audience – only to find upon posting that Twitter cropped them?!?! Well not anymore, Twitter’s latest update means they will no longer be cropping images or […]
We are all on social in some form. Even if you’re not posting, I am sure you are engaging and your Digital Body Language™ is still providing some behavioural data to a digital marketer. The fact is that every comment, like, favourite, retweet can be used in a positive way to guide a digital marketers actions so […]
As the world of social media continues to evolve, so does the Oracle Social Relationship Management Platform. The latest updates include Facebook page tagging, new ways to manage your data, creating alerts for your topics, the ability to move bundles and advances to your search terms when creating topics. In this blog, we will dive […]
There is the very common saying, \”every lead is different\” and this is definitely true but how are we qualifying these leads?! In our previous blog we had a look at the revolution of the social selling funnel and we discussed how Sales are more involved in the initial stages of lead generation than in years past. We […]
What\’s the difference? An email marketer has a list and a single email & they hit that list over & over again. They watch their unsubscribes increase and they deliver poor quality leads to the sales team. A marketer using marketing automation \”engages\” with buyers or donors based on their behaviour & Digital Body Language™ […]
Long gone are the days when the sales and marketing teams are aligned separately in social channels. Sales teams are seemingly more involved in channels such as LinkedIn and Twitter, realising that by working alongside the marketing team, they can actively reach a wider audience and deliver a personal experience to potential customers. Marketing Automation enables […]
You’re perfecting your marketing automation platform. You have managed to understand the ins and outs of sending campaigns, scheduling events and tracking your email click-through rates. You are just missing that other channel – social media.
So you\’ve got someone in charge of your social channels. You\’ve started to see some results. You now want to find new ways to gain leads through social, increase your followers, drive events – you decide it\’s time to implement paid social advertising At Marketing Cube we have decided to do just that. We have a […]
