VentureBeat (VB) Insight, the leading research firm dedicated to marketing and mobile technology, today announced the complete findings of its “Email Personalization Report,” offering insight into the current pitfalls of email personalization tactics and strategies for increasing the maturity of these efforts. While email is still customers’ preferred channel when it comes to communication from […]
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Does Email at Work Create Resentment? [Infographic]
As written for Social Media Today Of all the communication methods in the workplace, 43 percent say email is the one most likely to create resentment between senders and receivers —this according to a new survey from CPP, “The People Development People,” and publishers of the Myers-Briggs® personality assessment. In a popular article I wrote last year, the company examined which […]
An ExactTarget Case Study: Volvo’s Integrated CRM and Email Marketing Success
As written for Technorati It’s not uncommon to hear the argument, “B2B sales are done in person.” That same sentiment is often paired with “social is for B2C,” or “email is B2C.” But, at this week’s Connections 2012 Conference in Indiana, another story is being told by an unlikely source: Volvo Construction Equipment. I’m talking excavators, pipelayers, and […]
5 Cool Ways to Use the Modern GIF
As published on Business2Community GIFs. I was using them a lot in ’06 on my MySpace, but hadn’t thought about it much since. As it turns out, the image format turns 25 year old right about now, and the “grown up” GIF is enjoying a resurgence of popularity. The medium’s new notoriety is partly the […]
Digital Marketing Gets a Boost With Big Data
Article first published as Digital Marketing Gets a Boost With Big Data on Technorati. Co-authored by Dave Scott In case you haven’t heard, Big Data is now going mainstream, moving from the supercomputing environment to enterprise IT applications. For digital marketers and advertisers in particular, the benefits of bringing Big Data mainstream are unmistakable: They now have […]
Email + Social = Internet Marketing Success
As published in Social Media Today Email Marketing Is email marketing dead? I’ve written about this two years ago and it keeps coming back. Certainly, mumblings around the social media circuit like to evoke the sentiment and I expect we’ll here more about it at San Francisco’s ad:tech this week. I’m sure there’s a track […]
Interview with Marketfish CEO, Dave Scott
Article first written for, and published as ad:tech San Francisco: Exclusive Interview with Marketfish CEO, Dave Scott on Technorati. Email Marketing Marketfish is an online market place for permission-based marketing files. Think eBay, for email marketing. Boasting a half a million records covering 80% of all Americans, the company is a goldmine for both B2B and B2C […]