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By the end of the decade, there will be 33 billion devices connected to the Internet, or roughly four connected devices for every living person.
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“Wrong number,” says a familiar voice. Lost my wallet, found my desires. Sounded much better in my head. I should have brought a GPS. What do these sentences have in common? They’re all six words long. And they all tell a story.
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This is the final installment in my series on the primary obstacles preventing companies from delivering exceptional customer experiences, and how to overcome them. Part 1 examined how organizational silos and differing KPIs lead to disconnected and irrelevant digital strategies. Part 2 outlined the skills that marketers need to seamlessly
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How can one company -- let alone one person -- do it all? And how should aspiring digital marketers focus their education and training to become competitive in the (near) future? Before we get overwhelmed by everything today’s marketer must be, let’s start with what he or she is not.
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Digital customer experience is the new differentiator among similar brands and products. The quality of your mobile and online interactions can determine whether a visitor abandons your site for a competitor, switches to a mobile site or app, or gives up altogether. Research shows this is very costly for businesses
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It's a New Year -- the perfect time to take one more long, analytical look back at 2013 -- through a sampling of 25 of the most popular CMSWire stories of the year. We have selected some of the best of the best stories, based on reader interest.
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Customer experience management has never been more comprehensive or sophisticated. And that's a good thing because customers have never been more demanding, connected or empowered — realities that became exceptionally clear this year.
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Are you a marketer learning to juggle the many balls that comprise a digital marketing strategy? Adobe's Loni Kao Stark has a few tips you should consider.
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Most of us fight the daily whack-a-mole war on email and try to split our time judiciously between multiple devices and infinite amounts of digital content. There is no shortage of it. The result? Scarcity of attention.
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“Mobile is sexy, multi-channel is not,” I recently declared in a discussion with an analyst. That pretty much sums up the general relationship most brands have with the two "M’s” of marketing: mobile and multi-channel. Mobile is the friend with whom everyone wants to have fun.
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Managing the customer journey is challenging for even the most seasoned marketer. Here Loni Kao Stark shares some of her insights into getting and staying on track.
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There is much written on the virtues and triumphs of mapping customer journeys, but little about what can go awry. Customer journeys are beacons that focus teams across an organization around the common goal of helping people become successful and happy.
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What do you trust more: advice from a friend or advertising? According to a worldwide survey by Nielsen Company in 2012, virtually all consumers (92%) trust word-of-mouth and recommendations from people in their social networks above all forms of advertising and marketing.
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While 2012 was a memorable year for Web content management, 2013 will prove to be the year WCM makes its greatest impact, becoming the bedrock of the digital entity of any public institution, business or brand powerhouse. At least the ones that will remain relevant in the 21st century.
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