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5 Top Martech Trends to Keep Track Of in 2023

| Meagan White

Martech in 2022 was reflective of the growing emphasis on customer centricity. This year is all about striking a balance between continued optimization of brand equity, a consistent focus on customer experience and a conscious evolution of engagement.

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Reclaiming Retargeting in an Economic Downturn

| Edik Mitelman

With the new privacy era and the slow-but-certain abolishment of persistent identifiers, marketers have to figure out how to drive retargeting conversions. In 2023, the key to retargeting and hitting your KPIs still lies in brands’ first-party, user-level data – but not in the way you think it does.

Understanding Amazon’s SERP Tactics

| Prasanna Dhungel

Marketers must understand Amazon’s tactics across search engine results pages (SERPs). By monitoring Amazon’s Share of Voice (SOV) trends, you can make informed decisions on allocating marketing budget, reducing ad spend in segments where Amazon’s presence is strong and reallocating it in areas where they’re weak.

Customer Data Hygiene: Overcoming Marketing Roadblocks

| Anthony Pauley

Customer data hygiene might conjure up unpleasant images of sitting in a dental chair. In fact, it’s a critical aspect of marketing performance. Achieving a strong ROI begins with data hygiene and intelligent data segmentation. Here are some best practices for small, scrappy businesses in order to take their marketing campaigns to the next level.

Making Loyal Customers Out of Holiday Shoppers

| Sai Koppala

How can you ensure your holiday campaigns don’t just churn out one-time conversions but create loyal customers? By designing a high-quality purchase experience that make shopping easy, rewarding and enjoyable; crafting engaging content; and cultivating an identity-driven connection with gate loyalty offers.

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Setting Up Your CRM Strategy for Success

| Zack Botos

A multichannel approach to messaging allows you to grasp actions that are actually driving the purchaser to make a decision. This helps you determine which tactics, or perhaps a series of tactics, ultimately generated the sale. With all of that in mind, here’s a CRM strategy roadmap that can be tested, optimized and flexed.

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CMO: 3 Ways to Win Budget From Your CFO in a Downturn

| Travis Adlman

In setting your 2023 marketing budget, know your CFO understands the power of leveraging digitization to create business value. In fact, “driving value through tech-based innovation” ranks among CFOs’ top areas of focus, says Deloitte. A CFO shares three things he expects from his CMO partner and needs to make decisions.

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CPG and its New Direction: Emerging vs. Legacy Brands

| Karla Crawford Kerr

The CPG industry is evolving faster than ever. Nearly everything about the category has changed, including the way brands develop and bring products to market. Also, inflation puts pressure on marketing budgets, loyalty is weakening and younger consumers have higher expectations and tend to be skeptical of advertising efforts.

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Best Buy First to Use New Criteo DSP

| Mike O'Brien

Best Buy is the first retailer to leverage a new demand-side platform from Criteo that lets brands and agencies purchase ads across retail media networks in self-serve fashion, while also using retailer’s first-party data to make programmatic buys on the open web as third-party cookies are being sunset.

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Bad Economy? Bad Time to Cut Ad Spend

| Ben Hardt

Ad spend: should you really be thinking of cutting it in a recession (or near one)? Consider the contrarian route. Inflation is over 9% and consumer sentiment is falling for the first time since early 2020. Counterintuitively, these recessionary markers indicate it’s actually the perfect time for ecommerce companies to step up advertising.