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California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was effective on January 1st, 2020. It outlines new standards for data collection and the penalty if businesses do not follow these standards. How does this affect marketers? Well, the way marketers use personal information has changed. What is CCPA? As stated by the Marketing Profs, “the law is meant to protect consumers’ personal information as well as increase the transparency of how the personal data of California residents is being used.” What Marketers Need to Do At the highest level Understand how personal data is being used to serve your customers Ensure your team has a clear understand on the law Make sure CCPA responsibilities are delegated within your organization Within the marketing team If you’re providing discounts ...

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Digital Marketing Transformation Buzzwords 2020

Digital Marketing Transformation or DMT is a hot topic as marketing evolves from traditional strategy and tactics, to digital marketing that can be tested, measured, optimized and reported with new tools and technologies. To help understand DMT better, the experts (nerds) at Modern Marketing Partners researched and developed a comprehensive Digital Marketing Transformation Glossary of Terms. Next, we used the Google Algorithm to identify keyword search volume of these terms which leads to the Top 10 Digital Marketing Transformation Buzzwords for 2020, that every marketer and business professional should know and understand. Download the complete Digital Marketing Transformation Glossary of Terms here: https://www.modernmarketingpartners.com/resources/digital-marketing-transformation-glossary-of-terms/ Top 10 Digital Marketing Transformation Buzzwords for 2020 1. HTTPS With 450,000 average monthly searches on Google, HTTPS ranks first on our list of top ...

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Brands looking for new ways too engage customers may find potential in creating branded voice experiences on Amazon’s Alexa, Google Home, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana. You don’t want to miss an opportunity and not enter the voice-enabled world that seems to be evolving every minute. While most marketers will agree that voice-activated smart devices and voice branding are in their infancy, you just can’t deny the explosive growth of this industry over the past couple of years. They have entered the homes of consumers everywhere, with an estimated 64 million U.S. households expected to be equipped with one by end of this year. Voice commands on Alexa are becoming like search on Google. And by 2020 more than half of ...

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Year-end is often a time for reflection on the past year, along with planning for the new year. So why not marketing? How were results measured? What are specific plans for the year ahead? How can you “shake up” your marketing with a focus on results? Your friends at Modern Marketing Partners have some perspective we’d like to share. Intuitively, before you can "shake up" your marketing, you should objectively evaluate and analyze your prior marketing. So how can this process be objective? For starters, there are many tools that can measure online aspects of marketing including Woo website and SEO rankings, along with SEMrush, Similar Web traffic analysis, Google Analytics, and complete social media analytics. Email service providers, paid search ...

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Personalization in marketing means taking customer segmentation to the next level. It requires tailoring your marketing tactics to deliver the most relevant product, service or experience to the right customer segment at the right time, based on your knowledge of that customer and his or her preferences. That’s a tall order today, because customer touchpoints span across multiple channels including web, social, mobile, and physical locations. So while that makes it tough on the front-end to deliver customized content across all those channels, on the backend it means customers are providing companies with a good deal of information about their preferences and intent. Yet getting at the data from the multiple systems it sits on may be the biggest challenge ...

26th of December, 2012
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Many so-called traditional marketing tactics like advertising, trade shows and print literature are huge cost-drivers in the marketing budget. Good news is that many of these often cost-prohibitive tactics can be reduced and replaced with more cost-efficient marketing. This blog will share 5 tips for stretching your marketing investment, while increasing marketing effectiveness and results! In addition, several resources are provided to assist in your quest for marketing nirvana—doing more with less! 5 Tips for Reducing Marketing Expense While Increasing Effectiveness 1) Customer insight: marketing is expensive, mistakes costly. Avoid mistakes with insight into customer segments, needs, decision makers, and more. House all your customer intelligence in a robust database or marketing automation software that can be updated easily and used for downstream marketing. Continually ...

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A very important aspect of marketing planning, whether tactical, project or strategic, is the budgeting of marketing expenditures. Inevitably, marketers must get approval for marketing budgets from executive management. There are 3 types of marketing budgets. Business-to-business brands and corporate America develop budgets based on one of three approaches: 1) a percentage increase (or decrease) over last years budget, 2) task and objective budgeting, or 3) a percentage or (forecasted) sales based on industry or competitive benchmarking. Often budgets are developed using a combination, or hybrid of these approaches. This blog is part of a series on marketing planning and budgeting including Marketing Planning Best Practices, and a Marketing Planning Checklist. In good times, management is inclined to simply increase budgets gradually ...

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Part 3 in our marketing planning series details a marketing planning checklist, a useful tool to identify a broad range of marketing strategies and tactics used in typical marketing plans. Our Marketing Planning Series includes: 1) Marketing Planning Best Practices, 2) Marketing Budgeting Best Practices, and 3) the following Marketing Planning Checklist. Of course, marketing plans come in a number of “shapes and sizes”, from the annual tactical plan, to project or functional plans, to the detailed strategic marketing plan. A given marketing program may range in complexity, budget and requirements. Different markets and products likely require vastly different marketing strategies and tactics. So a Marketing Planning Checklist should allow for a range of marketing scenarios. This checklist is based on ...

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