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Listen up! How do you choose the right agency for marketing communications?
May 8, 2009
In the past, there was no middle ground between choosing a
full-service marketing agency or a number of niche boutiques to
deal with communications. But is the landscape changing as fims
look towards more integrated marketing?
Read More at
MyCustomer.com
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Merkle, Alterian team up on analytics solution for retail
April 6, 2009
Database marketing agency Merkle has incorporated Alterian's
Integrated Marketing Platform into its portfolio of solutions for
the retail industry.
Read More at DMNews online
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Alterian: making in-roads into the US business software market
March 23, 2009
One UK firm that has a long way to go before it achieves even
Sage’s £2.2bn market cap is Alterian. But this firm, which develops
marketing software, has at least managed to make some in-roads into
the US business software market, where it achieved 19% organic
revenue growth during the first half of its current financial year
– bringing US-derived sales to more than a third of its total
turnover.
Read More at Proactive Investors
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A CMO’s Dual Imperatives – Driving Organizational and Technological Change
March 20, 2009
The challenges faced by the CMO speak to many of the fundamental
strategic problems underlying marketing organizations and marketing
science today and that are linked to a permanent shift in power
from brand-company to customer and to a proliferation of
communication channels and information sources.
Read More at PropellingBrands
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This wake-up call would have major consequences if ignored
March 11, 2009
A recent report by the CMO Council, Calibrate How You Operate,
can be summarized by its bold opening statement: "Marketing is the
most challenged and most complex business unit". The report serves
as a timely and serious wake-up call for both marketers and senior
management to understand that, although the marketplace has changed
beyond all recognition due to Web 2.0 and the explosion in digital
— marketing technology and process have not kept up with the
changes. The consequences of ignoring this wake-up call,
particularly within the context of the current volatility of global
markets, are very serious.
Read More at DMNews online
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Secrets & lies: E-mail Marketing Design
March 12, 2009
It’s a widely recognized industry statistic: About half the time
e-mails don’t render because the recipients have images turned off.
So what’s a marketer to do, then, about e-mail design? Should you
bother with images? Should you go text-only? How much time should
you allocate to e-mail marketing design? To answer these
design-related questions—and to uncover one of the most common
misconceptions—‘EMI’ spoke to Jeannette Kocsis, VP-digital strategy
and media at Harte-Hanks Inc., a marketing service provider, and
Ivan Chalif, director of product marketing for Alterian, a
marketing software platform provider.
Read More at BtoB Online
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The Rise of the Enterprise Marketing Platform
March 6, 2009
Technology is the greatest corporate asset and competitive
weapon the Chief Marketing Officer has today. Marketing technology
selection and implementation will determine the marketing
department’s brand effectivenes andprogram capacity--and ultimately
decide the success or failure of the CMO in every organization,
regardless of product offering or market.
Read More at CRM
Today
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InfoGroup extends agreement with Alterian
March 4, 2009
Database provider and marketer InfoGroup today signed a new and
expanded long-term agreement with integrated marketing provider
Alterian.
Read More at DMNews online
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Building Optimization Into Your Business Culture
February 28, 2009
There has been plenty of hot air blown into the bubble that's
getting ready to burst on Internet marketers again. I watched it
happen the first time. With all the financial chaos crashing around
us now, the last we need is the blind ignorance of the "new
economy" happening again.
Read More at ClickZ
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Building An Optimization Culture
February 27, 2009
With the number of channels a marketer has to manage and monitor
increasing, you’d think technology would be employed to make their
job easier. Not so. It seems marketers are foregoing analytics to
measure their online marketing campaigns
Read More at FutureNow
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