4 Tips for B-to-B Personalization

| Mary Ann Kleinfelter

For a long time, b-to-b marketers were leery of the success consumer marketers were having with personalized offers. Were business customers really going to be more likely to buy an expensive and technical product when addressed by their individual names? As usual, the answer turns out to be: It depends. Here’s why you have to test.

Quad/Graphics to Close Arkansas Facility

| Jim Tierney

Printer Quad/Graphics announced plans to cease production at its Jonesboro, AR facility in the fourth quarter of this year as it continues to consolidate work onto its most efficient and competitive manufacturing platforms. Here’s why the 600,000-sq.-ft. Jonesboro plant, which prints catalogs and magazines, employs about 600 workers, will close.

Why Merchants Need to Take a Look at Pinterest

| Blair Lyon

According to Shareaholic, Pinterest drives more referral traffic than Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube combined. Given the power of Pinterest to drive website traffic, it is critical for brands to consider a strategy for using Pinterest. Here are some tips to get started.

A 4 Step Approach to an Improved SEO Ranking

| Daryl Logullo

Depending on your business model, a conversion might be an opt-in, a form completion, a lead inquiry, a customer sale or something else. And whether you optimize for 200 keywords or 20,000, the end result in driving traffic organically from Google is to get people engaged early and have them convert. Here’s how to know if that’s the right approach to improve your SEO ranking.

Continuing the Customer Conversation In-Store and Online

| Jim Davidson

With consumers practically attached to mobile devices and beginning to accept marketing messages on Facebook and Twitter, marketing efforts are less about driving to a specific channel and more about having a promotional presence in all of them and keeping the person engaged throughout the customer lifecycle. The reasons for disengaging from a purchase decision are nearly infinite, and the means to disengage are just a few taps away on a smartphone. Here’s how you can continue the customer experience between the store and the ecommerce site.

Planning a Tablet Commerce Strategy

| MCM staff

When you formulate your tablet strategy, you really need to think of a tablet as an integral part of your multichannel marketing strategy. Below are the six key strategic considerations when planning a tablet strategy for your cross-channel campaigns.