Industry trends
Knowing what’s hot and what’s not is vital for staying on top of your competition. Marketing is an ever-changing art, but to make your life easier Dotdigital are always keeping an eye on the latest industry trends.
Reporting on everything from new marketing tech to buzzwords, fads, and the impact of the economy on your marketing budgets, Dotdigital is your one-stop-shop for all things marketing.
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Industry trends
3 in 10 podcast listeners discover new brands through voice advertising
Marketers are beginning to realize the growth opportunities of voice
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Automation
Dotdigital named leader in G2’s Marketing Automation Grid
Grid Report for Marketing Automation assesses the voice of real software users.
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Industry trends
13 killer Black Friday marketing hacks
Black Friday is the most significant date in your ecommerce calendar. Consumers are digitally armed and eager for a bargain, but willing to spend. We've sought out every trick in the book to help you smash your seasonal sales.
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Email marketing
9 brilliant Black Friday marketing hacks
Black Friday is the most significant date in your ecommerce calendar. Consumers are digitally armed and eager for a bargain, but willing to spend. We've sought out every trick in the book to help you smash your seasonal sales.
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Industry trends
Getting closer to the action: how to keep sports fans engaged
In the modern J.P. Morgan Media Centre at the historic Lords Cricket Ground, we brought together marketers from across the sport industry to tackle the big questions: how do you keep fans engaged? And how do you turn these engaged fans into opportunities for sponsors?
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Artificial Intelligence
Why use AI-powered product recommendations?
Using bestsellers for recommendations is like turning on lights in an already well-lit room. AI-powered product recommendations can turn on lights in rooms you didn't even know you had.
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Email marketing
Happy Mother’s Day to all the brands out there!
Mother’s Day is one of the warmest and fuzziest days of the year, bringing families together, and giving recognition to loved ones. But what brands have done the best to translate these fuzzy feelings into revenue for their bottom line?
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Industry trends
What’s up with WhatsApp for Business?
WhatsApp for business origins The year is 2013 and, new kid on the block, WhatsApp has recorded over $20 million in revenue. Few would have put money on the fact...
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Customer data
How Amazon Moments affects customer loyalty
Zsuzsa is co-founder and CMO at Antavo, the leading customer loyalty technology partner of Dotdigital, specialized in helping fashion and retail brands in Europe. They provide technology and strategy to...
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Industry trends
7 surprising WhatsApp stats for your business
With over 1 billion more users and counting flocking to the app since 2014, WhatsApp is not a channel your business can afford to miss out on. As the fastest...
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Industry trends
Want to supercharge your CRM? Messaging is the solution
Your CRM can be a complex and expensive beast. But when used correctly, it’s also one of the most powerful tools at your disposal. Leveraging powerful APIs for your CRM...
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Industry trends
Travel and hospitality business messaging is the perfect model. Here’s why
Travel and hospitality messaging strategies are being invested in more than ever in 2019. Here’s why, and why you should take note, no matter the industry.
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Industry trends
The great mistake: losing customers at the decision stage
Don’t let your customers out the funnel at the last minute! Most businesses make this one great mistake and lose customers at the decision stage. Here’s how to avoid it....
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Industry trends
Marketing challenges-My predictions for marketing in 2019
Christmas wind down? Let's start winding up for 2019.
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Industry trends
Improve your application completion rates
The need to improve application completions is a common problem. Whether you are a financial company trying to guide customers through the loan application process or a recruitment agency simply...
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Industry trends
Not just a buzzword: the significance of scalability
There’s no escaping the fact that scalability is a buzzword. And some buzzwords are just that. Noise. But others are so ever-present in our industries that they are hard to...
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Automation
How your post-sale customer journey could be costing you
Why are you making your customers scramble for information on their orders on their post-sale customer journey? Let’s be honest, when you think of your own best customer experiences, they...
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Industry trends
Proactive web chat: providing interruptions
We’ve all been there. Happily browsing in a store when an assistant (normally a Saturday staffer) provides you with not the first of many interruptions from your serene shopping with...
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Customer engagement
Four ways to make web chat work for you
We’re an omnichannel provider. It stands to reason that there aren’t many channels out there that we don’t see serious value for businesses in. But when it comes to web...
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Industry trends
What can you do with RCS?
You’ve heard a lot about Rich Communication Services (RCS). But do you know what it means for your business? Here are some things you’ll be able to achieve with this...
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Industry trends
SMS: the Strongest Messaging System that’s not going anywhere
Whether it’s A2P or P2P, we’re sure you know that a text message, when delivered, is almost certainly (98% in fact) going to be not only opened but actually read...