All native and ‘transitioning’ media companies are focusing heavily on content to save existing businesses, or building new business models, or both. Television broadcasters, wary of the growing cord-cutting, are spending large sums on premium content. In 2017, the top four media companies spent more than USD 34 billion on original and acquired non-sports programming. Pure-play OTT providers have, on the other hand, bet big on content to shore up on subscribers. Netflix alone spent more than USD 6 billion on content last year, while spend was USD 7 billion for Amazon and Hulu combined. Transitioning media companies, such as telecom and technology companies that are moving towards being a media company, are also allocating sizable funds for content in their quest to explore supplementary businesses, by boosting customer engagement on their platforms. Apple and Facebook have started creating their own original content, and spend is only going to expand further.
Customers expect you to make it easy to move through their site. According to Gartner, more than 82% of online shoppers prefer a more comprehensive web experience suite, as opposed to a stand-alone single-channel or point-based product.
The content of this ebook focuses on the tangible results of effective customer engagement, along with 3 key components companies need to make it happen.
Published By: Marketo
Published Date: Feb 11, 2019
Lead generation has become an important strategy for modern marketers, as they strive to create demand and get their messages heard by increasingly sophisticated, multi-channel buyers. In today’s complex world, marketers should use lead generation to build brand awareness, nurture prospects and customers, qualify leads, and ultimately generate measurable revenue.
In this comprehensive, 160 page guide, we cover topics ranging from content marketing and website SEO to telesales and content syndication — all through the lens of lead generation. Packed full of checklists, charts, and thought leadership from the leading experts in marketing today, TheDefinitive Guide to Lead Generation will teach you how to collect information from prospects across every channel, and deliver the highest quality leads to your sales team.
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You’ll learn how to:
Define a lead and understand his or her buying journey
Build a robust lead generation strategy t
Published By: Sitecore
Published Date: Jul 08, 2009
This whitepaper discusses the need to target outcomes and focus on building a complete, 360-degree view of your customers -- who they are, where they came from, what they do, and how you can best meet their needs.
Published By: Cisco EMEA
Published Date: May 15, 2018
Your employees, customers, and partners need the ability to connect and collaborate, at any time, from any location—across time zones or simply across the conference table.
And those workplaces are expanding faster than ever, powered by mobile and cloud usage that makes virtual meetings essential. With scalable and secure voice, video, and content sharing, real-time collaboration can happen anywhere. Staying connected can lead to improved productivity and faster decision-making, as well as better customer service. But only if the technology offers a seamless experience and is intuitive enough to drive user adoption. While the need for better meetings is universal, not all conferencing tools are the same.
Choosing the wrong tool could actually decrease productivity by wasting valuable meeting time troubleshooting the technology, or by providing a negative experience that will deter users from embracing it. This is especially true in situations where poor meeting quality could impact
more people than ever before. Whether it's your employees, partners or customers, all your people use enterprise content. And that means content management is becoming increasingly top-of-mind — but companies find it difficult to get it right. In this newsletter, Gartner shares how cloud content management helps you build your content management strategy from the bottom up, enabling you to:
o Improve company-wide collaboration and become more customer-centric
o Scale your business and reduce cost
o Provide security and stability for your entire organization
• Download the full Gartner newsletter, Reshaping ECM: New Opportunities in the Cloud. You'll learn about the emerging requirements of top ECM vendors, as well as discover real-world use cases of Cloud Content Management.
Published By: Commvault
Published Date: Jul 06, 2016
Email is the backbone of today’s corporate business processes. It lives as the primary communication vehicle internally between employees and externally with customers, vendors, partners and investors. It is arguably today’s most pervasive and critical business application within which is stored the most valuable business content. To protect this vital information while working to eliminate risk, lower management costs and improve business insight, companies require a comprehensive email archiving solution. This solution should not only work to effectively retain email information in a searchable repository, the best email archiving solutions also provide a smarter approach to collecting, retaining and accessing data so that it can deliver true business value.
Business buyers are more demanding than ever. They expect organizations to meet their precise needs through the life-cycle of interactions with B2B brands. This means providing today’s business buyers with consumer like-experiences that allow them to do their job better and easier, and making the complex simple. Download this white paper from Aberdeen Group to learn the five best practices to get B2B e-commerce right and how to achieve best-in-class performance in customer retention, revenue growth, and operational efficiency.
Is your organization truly meeting the expectations of your customers and delivering a differentiated experience that builds revenue growth and loyalty? Although there is currently a lot of focus on what constitutes the ideal digital experience, few organizations have successfully executed a strategy that takes the entire digital experience equation into consideration. Download this whitepaper now to learn the 5 keys to the digital experience equation and to read case stories on companies who have gotten it right.
Learn the 20 key commerce metrics that you should be tracking to measure and optimize your commerce results. For each metric, you will learn what it means, why you should be tracking it, industry benchmarks. Download the eBook now.
The experience is your product.
In a world of infinite choices, customer experience is the last true differentiator. The optimal shopping experience happens when the right content is
presented to a customer at precisely the right time, no matter where they choose to engage. Read 'The Path of Experience' to learn the critical
capabilities needed to drive seamless commerce experiences that keep customers coming back for more.
Read the guide to learn:
– The role of dynamic merchandising in engaging customers
– Steps to create compelling customer experiences using audience segmentation and personalization
– Ways to scale customer experiences to create powerful connections, no matter the device or channel
Published By: Infosys
Published Date: May 30, 2018
Customers today are far more concerned about the contents and origin of a product than ever before. in such a scenario, granting them easy access to product information, via digital initiatives such as SmartLabel™, goes a long way in strengthening customer trust in a brand. But it also means expending several man-hours of effort processing unstructured data, with the possibility of human error.
Intelligent automation can help save effort and time, with virtually error-free results. A consumer products conglomerate wanted a smart solution to implement SmartLabel™ compliance. See how Infosys helped and the five key takeaways from the project.
Can your business afford to lose $9,000 per minute?
According to the Ponemon Institute $9,000 is the average cost of an unplanned outage. In some cases the costs are much higher. The catalogue of cloud outages over recent years is well publicized and reads like a “who’s who” of the technology industry. It seems no one is immune.
But when it comes to delivering digital content, downtime isn’t the only concern. Today a poor user experience can be just as damaging as an outage. According to Limelight research, 78% of people will stop watching an online video after it buffers three times, and the majority of people will not wait more than 5 seconds for a website to load.
Organizations looking to deliver great digital experiences for their customers often choose to deliver that content using Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). Using multiple CDNs to deliver these digital content experiences promises even greater levels of availability and performance. But it brings with it a host of questi
Published By: Zendesk Ltd
Published Date: Sep 11, 2018
Customers have caught on that support interactions are getting better. When they reach out, they’ve come to expect an instant response that says “we’re here for you”. When they want information, it’s expected to be accurate, up-to-date, and easily accessible. Essentially, they come to expect efficiency during support interactions.
As a result, businesses are becoming more cognizant of their self- service offerings. Customers want to be left feeling empowered; it’s even better when they can do so on their own. Self-service saves time for agents, cuts down on organizational costs, and leaves the customer with a positive outlook of a brand.
This eBook delves into how AI can enhance your customer self-service offerings with automatically-generated knowledge bases, content cues for your service agents, and chatbots.
Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone.
This eBook will give you insight into:
Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data
Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices
Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations
Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone.
This eBook will give you insight into:
Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data
Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices
Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations
Web Content Management is becoming the focal point for companies who wish to deliver a truly seamless multichannel customer experience. The strategic importance of WCM is increasingly referenced in analysts' reports such as Forrester, which stress the importance for companies to move beyond using a CMS as a means to simply manage content and strategically utilise it to create digital experiences.
With that said, it is concerning that just 38% of this survey's respondents agree that their CMS facilitates a 'brand enhancing digital presence.' Download this report to learn more.
One of the key objectives of Adobe’s current advertising campaign is to explode the myth that ‘managing websites is hell’. We believe that in this day and age, the idea that website management is a nightmare should be a thing of the past.
Marketers’ social media successes have added to their burdens. Many now have dozens of social pages to manage, thousands of customer comments to monitor, and hundreds of colleagues who want (or need) to participate. Social relationship platform vendors off er tools that help marketers efficiently and responsibly expand their social capabilities.
Think targeting ticks customers off? Actually, it’s quite the opposite. Studies show that 41% of consumers would consider ending a brand relationship because of irrelevant messaging.1 That’s why targeted and personalized content is more important now than ever before.
Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone.
This eBook will give you insight into:
Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data
Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices
Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations