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Turning Customer Insight into Customer Value
This blog is part of Chief Outsiders’ New Growth Imperative series, designed to help CEOs and leadership teams engage executive decision-makers at targeted strategic accounts by turning deep insights into compelling customer value.
Harnessing AI and Digital Marketing: A Competitive Edge for Healthcare and Life Sciences – Part Two
Thu, Sep 19, 2024 — Our last blog discussed how artificial intelligence can be a competitive difference-maker for companies in the healthcare and life sciences industries. As we continue the conversation, we will highlight the importance of AI in the social media marketing landscape, especially how AI is re-imagining traditional content creation and audience targeting strategies.
Harnessing AI and Digital Marketing: A Competitive Edge for Healthcare and Life Sciences – Part One
Wed, Sep 11, 2024 — In today’s dynamic business landscape, the healthcare, life sciences, and health tech sectors are undergoing rapid transformation driven by digital innovation. Social media and digital marketing have emerged as indispensable tools, enabling organizations to enhance efficiency, drive competitiveness, and engage with stakeholders in unprecedented ways. However, balancing innovation with strict adherence to regulatory compliance is crucial. As an industry expert with deep experience guiding companies through digital evolution, I see tremendous opportunities for leveraging these tools to gain a strategic edge.
AI Marketing Trends Every CEO Should Know
Tue, Jul 16, 2024 — As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the marketing landscape, companies can deploy smarter, faster, and more efficient marketing strategies. With AI tools and capabilities evolving at a breakneck pace, staying on top of the latest trends is crucial for CEOs looking to gain a competitive edge. Based on HubSpot's AI Trends for Marketers report, here are the top AI trends shaping the future of marketing for companies of all sizes and stages.
2024 Marketing Crystal Ball: Navigating Trends and Turbulence in the Digital Horizon
Tue, Jan 23, 2024 — Though the “Rise of the Machines” is well underway, there are trends other than Artificial Intelligence (AI) that are at the top of our minds at the start of 2024. The year ahead is fraught with challenges both analog and digital, from a pivotal presidential election to economic uncertainty. But it is the aforementioned digital revolution that has humans racing to determine how they can integrate AI into their marketing and business models.
Is ChatGPT Going to Change Search Marketing?
Tue, Mar 21, 2023 — Microsoft’s recent announcement on adding ChatGPT AI Technology to Bing must be sending warning signals to Google on the future of search marketing. With the integration of ChatGPT in Bing, the search engine will be able to provide results in a natural language – more conversational than a list of links that is today’s norm.
Successful Digital Marketing Implementation - Tactics in Search of a Strategy
Thu, Jun 11, 2020 — Part One: How to Prevent Digital Marketing Tactics from Killing Strategic Objectives Are you experiencing the following issues with digital marketing tactics? Are you frustrated with digital marketing initiatives and have a hard time seeing adequate ROI? Is the company's marketing strategy getting lost in translation when it comes to digital tactics? Do you feel stuck between your marketing strategy and your digital marketing agency? Is it hard to understand why digital marketing tasks aren’t getting done correctly or in a timely manner? Are you struggling to get your website to both look attractive to your target market and drive results? Does your website need work, but things move at a snail’s pace? Does your digital agency promise the world and then struggle with the most basic tasks? Is there a lack of reporting and regular meetings to review progress and results? If you have run into these or similar issues, join the club. Digital marketing initiatives sound great in early team meetings and brainstorming, but can often become a nightmare during the implementation of tactics.
2019 Top Internet Trends and How They Impact Your Business
Tue, Jun 25, 2019 — For at least the past decade, developments in digital marketing – and technology in general – have served to disrupt virtually every industry. Whether you manufacture a product or deliver a service, your business undoubtedly has been roiled by digital developments, and their impact on the expectations – and buying behavior – of your customer base. Keeping apace with forthcoming developments can help any business better prepare for what’s to come – altering practices to successfully navigate this digital-first world.
The Digital Crystal Ball: Three Ways to Use Predictive Analytics at Your Company
Fri, May 17, 2019 — The crystal ball—oft spoken of in folkloric terms, but never available when you need it—has entered the realm of the possible. In our switched-on world, where digital interaction is present virtually every moment of an individual’s life, we as marketers now have the tools to peer into the future—using data, and not crystalline, to gaze forward at where our business is going. Predictive analytics—the process of using new and historical data to foresee the result, activity, behavior, and trends of our consumer base—is the key that is making successful businesses, well, successful. Enterprises primed for growth in today’s hyper-competitive marketplace are using predictive analytics to gain a deep understanding of the customer base to maximize revenue, efficacy of marketing budgets, and, of course, profits.
Maximizing your Digital Marketing Channel Mix
Wed, Apr 17, 2019 — “Going digital” with your marketing mix has never been more essential. Most advertisers continue to increase their digital marketing spend in 2019 as billions of consumers are using online social media as a jumping off point into purchase decisions. With more money flowing into digital marketing, the digital channel mix continues to grow in complexity. Though search marketing, display advertising, social media, and mobile remain the mainstays of a digital advertising footprint, each has its role in supporting a particular business objective. When integrated properly, they maximize how we attract consumers, and turn visits into revenue. But before you leap into the digital marketing fray, it’s critical to understand your enterprise’s goals and objectives: Are you seeking to simply educate the public about an innovative offer (market education)? Do you want a target audience to gain greater awareness of your offering as a viable alternative (Brand Awareness)? Are you simply looking for more people to buy your product (raw traffic)? Or, do you want to motivate your current consumers to buy more of your product (higher net per sales)?