With many businesses pivoting marketing strategies and canceling events due to the current COVID-19 outbreak, maintaining an ABM strategy in the B2B market is becoming increasingly more challenging. Despite the unknowns, keeping the engagement engine running with ABM is still a viable opportunity for businesses looking to build momentum during this difficult time.
Alyce, an AI-powered gifting platform, has launched Swag SelectTM, a new solution designed to help marketers personalize gifts to potential clients and keep track of them during delivery, avoiding undelivered packages and no visibility into their impact.
With the new addition to the Alyce platform, customers will be equipped to expand the core value of Alyce across the customer journey, according to the company. Swag Select is designed to streamline gifting by enabling users to:
{loadpostion GIAA} “The current state of the world is fundamentally forcing companies to rethink sales and marketing right now and the entire approach they are taking,” said Greg Segall, CEO of Alyce in a statement. “That includes how companies manage swag, which has been broken for a long time. Swag Select is an extension of the Alyce platform that helps companies create stronger personal bonds with everyone they do business with, while helping businesses save time, money and the environment.”
Alyce found that companies spend an average of $185,000 on swag per year, with no real way of gauging ROI. With Swag SelectTM, every item of swag delivered is tracked to a specific individual, so companies can measure and attribute the influence the selected swag has on a company’s pipeline and customer base.
“As the digital space becomes more saturated than ever before, marketers are looking to break through the clutter while ensuring the highest impact across every program,” said Blake Grubbs, Senior Manager, Product Marketing at Alyce. “Swag Select gives full transparency into the ROI of swag, allowing marketers to measure and report on swag across different use cases, which was never before possible.”
Craftom.io is a gifting and mailing platform that offers hyper-customization services for physical gifts, mailers, and messages using logos, text and photographs.
More than three-fourths (77%) of B2B sales and marketing professionals believe personalized marketing experiences make for better customer relationships, according to new research from Propeller Insights and sponsored by Folloze, a provider of a personalization platform for B2B marketers. In addition, more than half (55%) of the 205 sales and marketing professionals surveyed said marketing personalization leads to higher sales conversion rates and future growth.
ZoomInfo, a provider of market intelligence solutions, announced new certifications to demonstrate knowledge in Account-Based Marketing (ABM), cold calling, storytelling, sales and marketing alignment, campaign personalization and email marketing, according to the announcement.
With the widespread event occurring nationwide, field marketers are turning their focus to digital content. However, a new report from the CMO Council states that “most marketing organizations lack the necessary capabilities and processes to keep pace with a growing content marketing imperative.”
The addition of artificial intelligence (AI) to the traditional marketing ecosystem can help businesses leverage real-time customer interactions to automate routine tasks and personalize responses to convert more leads. Many tools in the marketing tech stack — including marketing automation, customer relationship management systems and content management platforms — incorporate AI to some degree already, and it is becoming more pervasive.
Real talk: We haven’t strayed very far from our knuckle-dragging days.
I mean, it’s hard to tell — with our smartphones and upright posture — but neurological research has confirmed that our primal functions are just as important, if not more so than our evolved cortex functions.
Evergage, a personalization and customer data platform (CDP), has announced it has been acquired by Salesforce. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
