The document discusses talent trends and predictions for 2015. It predicts that agencies will need to focus on running lean and justifying their value with analytics as pricing pressure increases. Marketing organizations will need hybrid marketers with both strategic and analytical skills who can leverage data and technology. In-demand roles will include data scientists, strategists, and visual designers who can translate data into actionable insights. Digital and social media specialists will need strong strategic and analytical abilities to develop comprehensive digital and content strategies.
Data driven marketing - Khảo sát từ hàng trăm C-level do forbes thực hiện
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EXECUTIVE LEADER: SALES AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Drives revenue and increases sales as enthusiastic company advocate.
Identifies and mentors talent, leading by example and inspiring sales teams.
Captures vertical and horizontal revenue opportunities based on market trends and competitive landscape.
Consults with customers to understand needs and create successful solutions that generate revenue.
Strategically identifies and champions customer-converting tools, contact strategies, and brand messaging.
Collaborates effectively across functions and advises executive leadership.
Jincy Thomas is a learning, development and social impact strategy expert with 14 years of experience. She currently serves as Chief Product Officer at PeoplePro Training and Consultants Pvt Ltd in Bangalore, where she oversees research and development of products and strategies to achieve meaningful social impact. Previously, she has held roles developing training programs at 24/7 Customer and designing social impact strategies for clients such as Shell and Goldman Sachs. She has expertise in areas such as corporate social responsibility, content development, training, and process improvement.
A Guide to Effective Lead Generation - The Journey from List to LeadReshma Nigam
This white paper delineates Markable Solutions’ high impact lead generation techniques to develop marketing qualified leads for an organization’s sales pipeline.
You will learn how to:
1. Define a lead and understand the buying process
2. Build a robust B2B lead generation strategy
3. Use various list-to-lead techniques by Markable Solutions
This document provides an overview of taking a data-driven approach to content marketing. It discusses establishing a content strategy with data at the core, using data to inform content ideation, analyzing distribution channels, optimizing the content experience, and measuring content performance. Specific metrics, tools, and tactics are provided for each stage of content marketing to help understand what is and isn't working and make better decisions based on data. The overall goal is to implement a structured yet agile process informed by analytics at every stage of content creation and distribution.
This document summarizes the services provided by HEED, a company that helps other companies implement science and data into their sales processes. HEED provides strategy and consulting, analytics, digital transformation, and sales training. For strategy, they help clients address sales challenges, restructure processes, and transform their approach. Their analytics services provide insights into sales performance, marketing ROI, and sales forecasting. For digital transformation, they implement CRM systems and sales automation tools. HEED also operates an academy that provides a 6-month sales training curriculum to standardize sales competencies. Case studies provide examples of projects optimizing sales models, building scalable sales organizations, and implementing performance dashboards and forecasting.
The document provides a summary of Barbara Armour's career experience including her roles, responsibilities, and accomplishments. She has over 20 years of experience in marketing, with a focus on product marketing, business intelligence, marketing operations, and demand generation. Her experience spans various industries including retail, consumer packaged goods, wireless, automotive, digital payments, internet service providers, and IoT/telematics. She has a proven track record of delivering revenue growth, improved marketing ROI, and maximizing operations through strategic marketing initiatives.
ENTERPRISE SAAS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TECHNOLOGY SALES LEADERCarl Larson
Sales and marketing subject matter expert with hands-on B2B sales leadership experience at small, medium and large organizations. Consistently successful and notably grows sales revenue, gross profit margins and market share to exceed objectives. Recognized as a champion at building, re-building and transforming best in class sales organization performance, operational process excellence and customer outcomes. Develops new business customers, grows existing customer revenues and introduces new product offerings to penetrate new markets. Recognized for excellence in effective sales prospecting, business-value qualification, executive relationship building, proof of value, win-win contract negotiation and closing sales.
Data driven marketing - Khảo sát từ hàng trăm C-level do forbes thực hiện
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EXECUTIVE LEADER: SALES AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Drives revenue and increases sales as enthusiastic company advocate.
Identifies and mentors talent, leading by example and inspiring sales teams.
Captures vertical and horizontal revenue opportunities based on market trends and competitive landscape.
Consults with customers to understand needs and create successful solutions that generate revenue.
Strategically identifies and champions customer-converting tools, contact strategies, and brand messaging.
Collaborates effectively across functions and advises executive leadership.
Jincy Thomas is a learning, development and social impact strategy expert with 14 years of experience. She currently serves as Chief Product Officer at PeoplePro Training and Consultants Pvt Ltd in Bangalore, where she oversees research and development of products and strategies to achieve meaningful social impact. Previously, she has held roles developing training programs at 24/7 Customer and designing social impact strategies for clients such as Shell and Goldman Sachs. She has expertise in areas such as corporate social responsibility, content development, training, and process improvement.
A Guide to Effective Lead Generation - The Journey from List to LeadReshma Nigam
This white paper delineates Markable Solutions’ high impact lead generation techniques to develop marketing qualified leads for an organization’s sales pipeline.
You will learn how to:
1. Define a lead and understand the buying process
2. Build a robust B2B lead generation strategy
3. Use various list-to-lead techniques by Markable Solutions
This document provides an overview of taking a data-driven approach to content marketing. It discusses establishing a content strategy with data at the core, using data to inform content ideation, analyzing distribution channels, optimizing the content experience, and measuring content performance. Specific metrics, tools, and tactics are provided for each stage of content marketing to help understand what is and isn't working and make better decisions based on data. The overall goal is to implement a structured yet agile process informed by analytics at every stage of content creation and distribution.
This document summarizes the services provided by HEED, a company that helps other companies implement science and data into their sales processes. HEED provides strategy and consulting, analytics, digital transformation, and sales training. For strategy, they help clients address sales challenges, restructure processes, and transform their approach. Their analytics services provide insights into sales performance, marketing ROI, and sales forecasting. For digital transformation, they implement CRM systems and sales automation tools. HEED also operates an academy that provides a 6-month sales training curriculum to standardize sales competencies. Case studies provide examples of projects optimizing sales models, building scalable sales organizations, and implementing performance dashboards and forecasting.
The document provides a summary of Barbara Armour's career experience including her roles, responsibilities, and accomplishments. She has over 20 years of experience in marketing, with a focus on product marketing, business intelligence, marketing operations, and demand generation. Her experience spans various industries including retail, consumer packaged goods, wireless, automotive, digital payments, internet service providers, and IoT/telematics. She has a proven track record of delivering revenue growth, improved marketing ROI, and maximizing operations through strategic marketing initiatives.
ENTERPRISE SAAS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TECHNOLOGY SALES LEADERCarl Larson
Sales and marketing subject matter expert with hands-on B2B sales leadership experience at small, medium and large organizations. Consistently successful and notably grows sales revenue, gross profit margins and market share to exceed objectives. Recognized as a champion at building, re-building and transforming best in class sales organization performance, operational process excellence and customer outcomes. Develops new business customers, grows existing customer revenues and introduces new product offerings to penetrate new markets. Recognized for excellence in effective sales prospecting, business-value qualification, executive relationship building, proof of value, win-win contract negotiation and closing sales.
Gone are the days when marketing chiefs focused solely on the classic 4Ps: Product, Price, Promotions and Place - they now must take an integrated approach to drive company goals.
ENTERPRISE SAAS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TECHNOLOGY SALES LEADERCarl Larson
Carl Larson is an experienced B2B sales leader specializing in enterprise software sales, marketing, customer experience and data analytics. He has over 20 years of experience leading high-performing sales teams and growing revenue at Oracle Corporation. Currently, he works as an independent sales advisor helping companies scale their sales organizations and strategies. He also teaches business courses as an instructor at Loyola University.
9 Essentials to Grow Your Agency and Help Your Clients Succeed - an Act-On eBookSherry Lamoreaux
Marketing automation can help agencies strengthen their value proposition and better meet evolving client needs. By implementing a marketing automation platform, agencies can offer new service tiers and revenue streams to clients while improving campaign effectiveness, efficiencies, and costs. Marketing automation also allows agencies to position their expertise in a high-demand discipline and differentiate themselves in the increasingly competitive industry.
Carl Larson Resume v1 ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES SALES LEADERCarl Larson
Sales, marketing, and customer success subject matter expert with hands-on B2B sales leadership experience at small, medium, and large organizations. Consistently successful and notably grows sales revenue, gross profit margins, and market share to exceed objectives. Recognized as a champion at building, re-building, and transforming best in class sales organization performance, operational process excellence, and customer outcomes. Develops new business customers, grows existing customer revenues, and introduces new product offerings to penetrate new markets. Recognized for excellence in effective sales prospecting, business-value qualification, executive relationship building, proof of value, win-win contract negotiation, and closing sales.
Scaling Account-Based Marketing in the Digital AgeDun & Bradstreet
Despite spending billions of dollars in pursuit of growth, only a select few companies actually achieve it. Rishi Dave, CMO of Dun & Bradstreet, explores the marriage of data, technology and account-based marketing via a “relationship platform” that can be your company’s springboard to growth.
The document provides an overview of strategic marketing and outlines a process for structuring marketing activities to achieve better results. It discusses three key buckets: strategy, tools, and customer acquisition. Strategy involves high-level conceptualization of penetrating the market. Tools are the collateral and processes used for tactical execution. Customer acquisition are the marketing mediums and tactics used to execute strategies. The document recommends first defining strategy before implementing tactics. It aims to provide structure and guidance to help marketers determine the "right things" to be doing.
This document summarizes the services provided by MCG, a marketing firm that specializes in B2B clients. MCG focuses on strategic planning, demand generation, web design, and messaging to help clients build their brands, accelerate sales, and create value. They work with over 50 B2B customers across industries like technology, analytics, and telecommunications.
The document compares four popular digital marketing tactics: LinkedIn Sponsored Content, Google AdWords, LinkedIn Sponsored InMail, and email marketing. It provides key performance indicators such as click-through rates, conversion rates, and costs for each tactic, noting that LinkedIn Sponsored Content has higher conversion rates than Google AdWords. The document also outlines differentiators of each tactic, such as the ability to hyper-target audiences on LinkedIn and reach a wide audience through search on Google. It concludes that email marketing allows for more customization and segmentation than other tactics.
This document discusses how content marketing efforts are maturing from experimental to operational. It recommends defining measurable goals and closing the performance loop, using personas and journey maps to understand audiences, bringing content to life with interactive elements, and applying paid media techniques to promote content. The highest performing content marketers treat audience needs as the top priority and use data to optimize their efforts.
The 10 best enterprise CRM solution providers 2018Merry D'souza
Insights Success has listed “The 10 Best Enterprise CRM Solution Providers, 2018” which are changing the market with their innovative products and service offerings. Featuring as the cover story is Targetbase, which is a part of Diversified Agency Services, a division of Omnicom Group Inc., a leading global marketing and corporate communications company.
Marketing Data Renovators Guide: 10 Steps to Prime Your B2B Database for Anal...Shelly Lucas
This document provides 10 steps to prepare a marketing database for analytics by renovating the data like a fixer-upper home. It begins by separating wants from needs and nailing down a budget. Consulting an expert to finalize a design is recommended before going deep into infrastructure upgrades and checking regulations. The steps also include auditing current data and ordering what's needed, expecting surprises, adding finishing touches, and reappraising the results. The overall message is that data quality renovations require careful planning, expertise, and ongoing maintenance for analytics to provide accurate insights.
The document discusses Selling Simplified Group, Inc. (SSG) which provides B2B demand generation services, tools, and technology. It features SSG on the cover and includes an interview with Michael Whife, CEO, President, and Co-Founder of SSG. In the interview, Whife discusses SSG's solutions, the impact of the pandemic on marketing, the necessity of aligning with analytical tools for B2B connections, the future of marketing/advertising post-pandemic, and his vision for sustaining SSG's competitiveness. The article also provides information on SSG's demand strategy and Whife's advice for entrepreneurs entering the marketing industry.
Top right introduction for partners master 130507Angie Chesin
TopRight is a strategic marketing and consulting firm that was founded in 2006. It provides various marketing services including marketing strategy, analytics, marketing transformation, and enabling marketing technologies. The document discusses TopRight's services, approach, and case studies working with clients such as a communications company, education company, pharmaceutical company, and non-profit organization to improve their marketing, customer experiences, and business results.
Aberdeen Group Report - Sales Intelligence: Preparing for Smarter SellingLexisNexis
Top-performing sales organizations are meeting the challenges of identifying the most likely buyers of their products and services through the deployment of sales intelligence solutions that introduce a wide variety of data streams to their front-line staff. By empowering their sellers with better information about their prospect companies, markets and individuals, these firms are able to maximize their chances of hitting quota, and at the same time create efficiencies within the sales operation environment.
The document summarizes the findings of a survey of 41 startup marketing budgets. On average, startups spend 10% of revenue on marketing, led by search, social, and content marketing. Marketing budgets vary depending on product maturity, with pre-product startups spending less than 10% and later-stage startups varying more widely. B2B and B2C startups spend similarly but focus on different activities - B2C emphasizes paid media while B2B emphasizes earned media. Over half of respondents set aside budget for testing, and those startups were more likely to meet revenue goals. Public relations was the most commonly outsourced marketing function.
Shannon Balliet is a senior marketing and analytics executive with over 15 years of experience in marketing, analytics, and revenue management. She has a proven track record of using data-driven strategies to increase profits and drive positive business outcomes for her clients and previous employers. She is skilled in analytics, segmentation, marketing automation, and leading high-performing teams. Currently she is a Senior Director at Merkle where she develops strategies to grow key accounts and implements data-driven solutions.
The Vanella Group, Inc. was listed along with organizations like Docusign, Avaya, Vantiv, OpenText, and many other well-known tech leaders. The Vanella Group, Inc. has been delivering the highest producing sales development solution in the industry for enterprise tech for 17 years with clients like HP, CA, Hitachi, and many others.
This document discusses optimizing marketing and sales lead management through the use of marketing automation. It identifies common failures in the lead management process, including a lack of lead definition, data issues, poor lead qualification and scoring, ineffective sales handoff, and limited lead nurturing. Marketing automation can help address these failures by streamlining data collection, facilitating data sharing between marketing and sales, enabling lead nurturing, and supporting performance tracking. The document provides an overview of how marketing automation can help align sales and marketing processes to improve lead management.
Carl Larson Resume v2 ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES SALES LEADERCarl Larson
Sales, marketing, and customer success subject matter expert with hands-on B2B sales leadership experience at small, medium, and large organizations. Consistently successful and notably grows sales revenue, gross profit margins, and market share to exceed objectives. Recognized as a champion at building, re-building, and transforming best in class sales organization performance, operational process excellence, and customer outcomes. Develops new business customers, grows existing customer revenues, and introduces new product offerings to penetrate new markets. Recognized for excellence in effective sales prospecting, business-value qualification, executive relationship building, proof of value, win-win contract negotiation, and closing sales.
The Honors Program at Clarion University underwent changes over the summer, including relocating its office to a new location in Becht Hall. This has provided benefits like being in a more central location to better inform prospective students. The program has also seen growth, with one of its largest freshman classes ever of over 60 students. Additionally, there are new student leaders in the program, and the changes are hoped to bring more organization and efficiency to benefit the program for years to come.
Gone are the days when marketing chiefs focused solely on the classic 4Ps: Product, Price, Promotions and Place - they now must take an integrated approach to drive company goals.
ENTERPRISE SAAS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TECHNOLOGY SALES LEADERCarl Larson
Carl Larson is an experienced B2B sales leader specializing in enterprise software sales, marketing, customer experience and data analytics. He has over 20 years of experience leading high-performing sales teams and growing revenue at Oracle Corporation. Currently, he works as an independent sales advisor helping companies scale their sales organizations and strategies. He also teaches business courses as an instructor at Loyola University.
9 Essentials to Grow Your Agency and Help Your Clients Succeed - an Act-On eBookSherry Lamoreaux
Marketing automation can help agencies strengthen their value proposition and better meet evolving client needs. By implementing a marketing automation platform, agencies can offer new service tiers and revenue streams to clients while improving campaign effectiveness, efficiencies, and costs. Marketing automation also allows agencies to position their expertise in a high-demand discipline and differentiate themselves in the increasingly competitive industry.
Carl Larson Resume v1 ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES SALES LEADERCarl Larson
Sales, marketing, and customer success subject matter expert with hands-on B2B sales leadership experience at small, medium, and large organizations. Consistently successful and notably grows sales revenue, gross profit margins, and market share to exceed objectives. Recognized as a champion at building, re-building, and transforming best in class sales organization performance, operational process excellence, and customer outcomes. Develops new business customers, grows existing customer revenues, and introduces new product offerings to penetrate new markets. Recognized for excellence in effective sales prospecting, business-value qualification, executive relationship building, proof of value, win-win contract negotiation, and closing sales.
Scaling Account-Based Marketing in the Digital AgeDun & Bradstreet
Despite spending billions of dollars in pursuit of growth, only a select few companies actually achieve it. Rishi Dave, CMO of Dun & Bradstreet, explores the marriage of data, technology and account-based marketing via a “relationship platform” that can be your company’s springboard to growth.
The document provides an overview of strategic marketing and outlines a process for structuring marketing activities to achieve better results. It discusses three key buckets: strategy, tools, and customer acquisition. Strategy involves high-level conceptualization of penetrating the market. Tools are the collateral and processes used for tactical execution. Customer acquisition are the marketing mediums and tactics used to execute strategies. The document recommends first defining strategy before implementing tactics. It aims to provide structure and guidance to help marketers determine the "right things" to be doing.
This document summarizes the services provided by MCG, a marketing firm that specializes in B2B clients. MCG focuses on strategic planning, demand generation, web design, and messaging to help clients build their brands, accelerate sales, and create value. They work with over 50 B2B customers across industries like technology, analytics, and telecommunications.
The document compares four popular digital marketing tactics: LinkedIn Sponsored Content, Google AdWords, LinkedIn Sponsored InMail, and email marketing. It provides key performance indicators such as click-through rates, conversion rates, and costs for each tactic, noting that LinkedIn Sponsored Content has higher conversion rates than Google AdWords. The document also outlines differentiators of each tactic, such as the ability to hyper-target audiences on LinkedIn and reach a wide audience through search on Google. It concludes that email marketing allows for more customization and segmentation than other tactics.
This document discusses how content marketing efforts are maturing from experimental to operational. It recommends defining measurable goals and closing the performance loop, using personas and journey maps to understand audiences, bringing content to life with interactive elements, and applying paid media techniques to promote content. The highest performing content marketers treat audience needs as the top priority and use data to optimize their efforts.
The 10 best enterprise CRM solution providers 2018Merry D'souza
Insights Success has listed “The 10 Best Enterprise CRM Solution Providers, 2018” which are changing the market with their innovative products and service offerings. Featuring as the cover story is Targetbase, which is a part of Diversified Agency Services, a division of Omnicom Group Inc., a leading global marketing and corporate communications company.
Marketing Data Renovators Guide: 10 Steps to Prime Your B2B Database for Anal...Shelly Lucas
This document provides 10 steps to prepare a marketing database for analytics by renovating the data like a fixer-upper home. It begins by separating wants from needs and nailing down a budget. Consulting an expert to finalize a design is recommended before going deep into infrastructure upgrades and checking regulations. The steps also include auditing current data and ordering what's needed, expecting surprises, adding finishing touches, and reappraising the results. The overall message is that data quality renovations require careful planning, expertise, and ongoing maintenance for analytics to provide accurate insights.
The document discusses Selling Simplified Group, Inc. (SSG) which provides B2B demand generation services, tools, and technology. It features SSG on the cover and includes an interview with Michael Whife, CEO, President, and Co-Founder of SSG. In the interview, Whife discusses SSG's solutions, the impact of the pandemic on marketing, the necessity of aligning with analytical tools for B2B connections, the future of marketing/advertising post-pandemic, and his vision for sustaining SSG's competitiveness. The article also provides information on SSG's demand strategy and Whife's advice for entrepreneurs entering the marketing industry.
Top right introduction for partners master 130507Angie Chesin
TopRight is a strategic marketing and consulting firm that was founded in 2006. It provides various marketing services including marketing strategy, analytics, marketing transformation, and enabling marketing technologies. The document discusses TopRight's services, approach, and case studies working with clients such as a communications company, education company, pharmaceutical company, and non-profit organization to improve their marketing, customer experiences, and business results.
Aberdeen Group Report - Sales Intelligence: Preparing for Smarter SellingLexisNexis
Top-performing sales organizations are meeting the challenges of identifying the most likely buyers of their products and services through the deployment of sales intelligence solutions that introduce a wide variety of data streams to their front-line staff. By empowering their sellers with better information about their prospect companies, markets and individuals, these firms are able to maximize their chances of hitting quota, and at the same time create efficiencies within the sales operation environment.
The document summarizes the findings of a survey of 41 startup marketing budgets. On average, startups spend 10% of revenue on marketing, led by search, social, and content marketing. Marketing budgets vary depending on product maturity, with pre-product startups spending less than 10% and later-stage startups varying more widely. B2B and B2C startups spend similarly but focus on different activities - B2C emphasizes paid media while B2B emphasizes earned media. Over half of respondents set aside budget for testing, and those startups were more likely to meet revenue goals. Public relations was the most commonly outsourced marketing function.
Shannon Balliet is a senior marketing and analytics executive with over 15 years of experience in marketing, analytics, and revenue management. She has a proven track record of using data-driven strategies to increase profits and drive positive business outcomes for her clients and previous employers. She is skilled in analytics, segmentation, marketing automation, and leading high-performing teams. Currently she is a Senior Director at Merkle where she develops strategies to grow key accounts and implements data-driven solutions.
The Vanella Group, Inc. was listed along with organizations like Docusign, Avaya, Vantiv, OpenText, and many other well-known tech leaders. The Vanella Group, Inc. has been delivering the highest producing sales development solution in the industry for enterprise tech for 17 years with clients like HP, CA, Hitachi, and many others.
This document discusses optimizing marketing and sales lead management through the use of marketing automation. It identifies common failures in the lead management process, including a lack of lead definition, data issues, poor lead qualification and scoring, ineffective sales handoff, and limited lead nurturing. Marketing automation can help address these failures by streamlining data collection, facilitating data sharing between marketing and sales, enabling lead nurturing, and supporting performance tracking. The document provides an overview of how marketing automation can help align sales and marketing processes to improve lead management.
Carl Larson Resume v2 ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES SALES LEADERCarl Larson
Sales, marketing, and customer success subject matter expert with hands-on B2B sales leadership experience at small, medium, and large organizations. Consistently successful and notably grows sales revenue, gross profit margins, and market share to exceed objectives. Recognized as a champion at building, re-building, and transforming best in class sales organization performance, operational process excellence, and customer outcomes. Develops new business customers, grows existing customer revenues, and introduces new product offerings to penetrate new markets. Recognized for excellence in effective sales prospecting, business-value qualification, executive relationship building, proof of value, win-win contract negotiation, and closing sales.
The Honors Program at Clarion University underwent changes over the summer, including relocating its office to a new location in Becht Hall. This has provided benefits like being in a more central location to better inform prospective students. The program has also seen growth, with one of its largest freshman classes ever of over 60 students. Additionally, there are new student leaders in the program, and the changes are hoped to bring more organization and efficiency to benefit the program for years to come.
The document summarizes the Honors Program seniors' presentations of their research projects. It discusses the opening ceremony where several speakers welcomed attendees. It then describes some of the student presentations, including one on examining Macbeth from a Celtic perspective and another on pronoun acquisition in transitional kindergarten classrooms. Each presentation session awarded a $500 scholarship to a student selected by faculty and alumni judges.
What i found out when I used Slide share. This presentation is to contribute towards the technologies which I have looked into for my AS Media Studies Course
Tebogo Nkadimeng is a single South African woman born in 1980. She has a driver's license and contact information listed. She completed her education through grade 12 in 2008 and obtained a tertiary qualification from Boston City Campus and Business College from 2011-2012 including courses in Microsoft Office, keyboarding, and office practice. Her work experience was as a receptionist at ELREV Fitness and Wellness from 2013-2014. She provides references from an aunt, friend, training advisor, and another friend.
The document summarizes activities and events of Clarion University's Honors Program, including:
1) The program held a game night event for honors students and their mentors to socialize and relax through playing board games.
2) Upcoming events include a haunted dorm event and a Thanksgiving giving back activity.
3) Two required honors courses, Modes of Discourse I and II, focus on strengthening students' speech and writing skills respectively.
This document describes a study that used MODIS satellite data to monitor ice break-up on the Mackenzie River in Canada from 2001-2013. Key findings include:
1) Ice-off dates along the river ranged from days 115-125 to 145-155, with an average melt duration of 30-40 days.
2) Ice break-up was initially driven by thermal melting near 61-61.8°N and more dynamically driven further north.
3) Years with earlier/later ice break-up correlated with above/below normal air temperatures and precipitation.
4) Ice runs were influenced by river channel morphology like islands and bends.
Twenty-four Clarion University Honors Program seniors presented their final research projects at an event on April 20. The projects covered a wide range of topics from bilingualism to astrophysics to biology. Each presentation was 15 minutes with 5 minutes for questions. It was an academic conference-style event that showcased the diverse research opportunities available to students at Clarion University, despite its small size. The night celebrated the culmination of the students' honors journey and research efforts.
The document discusses three masthead ideas for a school magazine:
1) Uses the school colors red and black with the school name in a modern font. It is simple and directly conveys the school connection.
2) Uses a play on words combining the school name and "Brookers News" in a dramatic font aimed at younger audiences. Certain letters are filled in red to stand out.
3) Uses the fun Comic Sans font giving a friendly, happy feel for students. The letters are outlined in black with red filling for boldness and contrast appealing to a younger audience.
Brian Krueger is a freelance creative content provider based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has over 20 years of experience in graphics, illustration, and creative direction for companies like Rolling Stone Magazine, Time Magazine, and McDonalds. He has taught art at both the K-12 and university levels. Most recently, he was an art teacher at a charter high school in Memphis, Tennessee, where he developed comprehensive visual arts curriculum.
This issue of the Clarion Honors Chronicle features information about research prospects, in addition to usual features, including the Student and Course Spotlights.
This document provides an introduction to a e-book about transforming marketing organizations to be more data-driven. It discusses how data has become king in marketing over content. The e-book contains advice from 8 experts on how to make a marketing organization more data-driven. It begins with determining a data strategy and understanding customer personas. Other pieces of advice include creating a long-term roadmap, understanding attribution, and continuously improving through data. The goal of the e-book is to provide diverse advice and insights from marketing experts on transforming to a data-driven approach.
A forecast of what's shaping the digital era with insight from marketing executives. Interested in learning more? Check out our website at www.Mondo.com.
This document contains an introduction and 6 articles related to the future of data and data specialists in Singapore.
The introduction discusses how data analytics is becoming integral to the media industry. It notes that while agencies have implemented analytics, clients want to understand how it relates to their business issues. The 6 articles then explore topics like how agencies can better sell analytics solutions rather than just products; the need to value data talent and help them build skills; and how agencies can collaborate more effectively.
The document discusses how to build high-performance marketing teams. It finds that most organizations now have integrated marketing teams that combine both digital and traditional functions. Skills are ranked by importance, with core marketing skills like strategy, customer insight, and analytics seen as most important. The skills matrix shows which skills typically sit within marketing versus being outsourced. It concludes that marketing is becoming more specialized, requiring teams to develop expertise in new digital areas while still maintaining integration across channels. Outsourcing certain skills and collaborating with other departments like IT are also discussed as ways to build an effective modern marketing team.
This document provides a marketing plan for a new business called Corporate Services by S&C Limited that will provide various services including company secretarial services, annual filings, tax administration, data entry, legal documentation, bookkeeping, and financial management reports. The target market is large and small businesses. The plan outlines competitive research, pricing details, advertising strategies including a website and social media, and goals of increasing brand awareness, engagement, and generating qualified leads.
NextPointe is a telecommunications company seeking to increase revenue through improved marketing. The document provides an executive summary of NextPointe's background and goals. It then outlines research conducted on the target market, competitors, pricing, and past marketing efforts. The strategy section defines the target audience as "succeeders," sets goals of increasing brand awareness, name recognition, and engagement rates. Objectives include boosting engagement rates through website updates and live chat, and building name recognition through local networking and social media activity.
Sales, Marketing & Service Optimization: Strategies for Accelerating GrowthCognizant
The document discusses strategies for accelerating revenue growth through sales, marketing, and service optimization. It argues that while technology has enabled cost savings, companies must now focus on top-line growth. A holistic approach is needed that considers customer relevance, sales effectiveness, marketing effectiveness, and service effectiveness. Implementing the right digital systems can guide professionals towards behaviors and processes that generate disruptive revenue growth, but companies must first understand their strategic objectives and performance issues. The document provides examples of how optimizing these areas through the right technologies has helped companies increase revenue.
Affiliate Marketing AI Trends in 2022 There are some key trends you need to be aware of, whether you're new or seasoned in the affiliate marketing industry. These trends will help to understand how technology and the Internet are impacting the Affiliate Marketing industry over the next few years.
Revenue Operations Analytics: A Strategic BlueprintKwanzoo Inc
The true value in your KPIs is understanding how they complete the bigger picture of the customer journeys that drive the most impact for your business.
Data-Driven Marketing And Sales Predictions 2014 - Lattice EnginesLattice Engines
Sales and marketing professionals will become more data-driven in 2014 by:
1) Using customer insights and data about buyers' journeys to shorten sales cycles by 20% according to one prediction.
2) Modeling B2B sales and marketing after B2C by providing customers instant, real-time responses and value as consumers now demand from companies.
3) Leveraging data and analytics to develop deeper, role-specific customer understandings and insights to drive targeted conversations.
How digital technology is reshaping marketing organizationsTim Nagels
The document summarizes how digital technology is reshaping marketing organizations. It discusses how new skills, organizational structures, and partnerships are needed to adapt to changing customer expectations and the faster, more data-driven environment. Specifically, it explores how the roles of the CMO and marketing are being redefined and how marketing is extending across the entire business and overlapping with other functions like IT, HR, operations, and sales.
Business analytics has many applications across different business functions and sectors including finance, marketing, HR, customer relationship management, manufacturing, and credit card companies. Some key uses of business analytics include using financial data to determine pricing and advise on investment performance, analyzing customer behavior and demographics to improve marketing strategies, predicting employee retention and attrition rates to inform HR practices, and examining customer transactions to help retail and credit card companies target customers. Marketing analytics specifically helps evaluate the effectiveness of marketing efforts, optimize campaigns, improve customer targeting, and support real-time decision making. While business analytics provides benefits, organizations also face challenges of data integration, selecting appropriate metrics, and ensuring privacy. HR analytics applications include measuring employee performance, informing promotion and salary decisions
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2. Ask most advertising and marketing executives
about one of the pressing questions on their minds
and they’ll probably deliver the same answer:
What talent will we need to remain competitive
in the coming years? It’s a good question, and one
we’ll be answering in detail in Talent Forecast
2015, our first-ever report on the hot talent in
demand for the coming year.
3. We’re often asked to make predictions on key
talent trends across our industry. It’s the reason we
decided to publish this forecast, as a tool to help
organizations like yours hire the transformational
creative professionals you need to fuel the growth
of your business in the year ahead.
Our predictions are based on a combination of metrics and observations. First, we’re using our
internal hiring statistics to analyze various recruitment patterns, client talent requests and client-
candidate matches, then using that data to forecast for the year ahead. We’ve coupled that with
the anecdotal research our Nichers have conducted over the past year, including conversations
with clients, candidates, agency heads, CMOs and others at the forefront of the creative industry.
Our team is constantly asking key questions about who creative leaders are hiring, how they’re
leveraging creative talent and what strategic direction their businesses are taking.
From there we’ve conducted a thorough cross-industry analysis to arrive at the predictions
you’ll find in this report. Use it as a tool to chart your own path for success in an increasingly-
competitive global marketplace, where game-changing marketing talent can provide the
competitive advantage you’ve long been seeking.
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Creative Niche
4. LEADERSHIP
New titles in the C-suite
Chief Brand Officer
Chief Data Officer
Chief Growth Officer
Chief Transformation Officer
Chief Innovation Officer
5. Tomorrow’s leaders will carry many of the
same skills as those of today, but with a twist.
On the agency side, changes are coming thanks
to pricing pressure and the growing number of
competitors. Marketing organizations, on the
other hand, are grappling with the integration
of technology and metrics, while still trying to
attract and retain the very best and brightest
in the industry. Where they share similarities
is in the need to differentiate their products
and services from competitors—and constantly
bolster profitability. Here are the leadership
trends we’re seeing emerge for both agencies
and marketing organizations:
6. AGENCIES ARE BEING FORCED TO
JUSTIFY THE VALUE THEY BRING TO
CLIENTS LIKE NEVER BEFORE.
In turn, this is forcing agencies to become
more flexible and transparent with their fee
structures, while embracing a lean business
model to maintain cost control. Agencies that
have already begun to move in this direction
are slowly re-establishing trust with clients by
providing them with greater control over costs,
timelines and marketing priorities. At the
same time, agencies are beginning to demand
greater transparency from their clients. That’s
because many have been burned when parts of
major projects have been transferred to other,
competing firms, making it nearly impossible
for them to not only stabilize their bottom
line, but also maintain the kind of creative
teams needed to produce transformative work.
Doing so will help boost agencies’ sense of
financial security and promote the improved
fee transparency and focused service levels that
clients are demanding.
We believe the lean approach will effectively
weed out antiquated agencies and raise
everyone’s game. This change is already taking
hold in key markets across the U.S. and Europe.
A STRONGER RELIANCE ON ANALYTICS
Because agencies are being forced to
demonstrate value to clients, many are making
unprecedented investments in analytics. That
data is allowing them to show the return on
investment their work delivers, while possibly
highlighting opportunities to further expand
their service offering. Those agencies that
invest in forming data departments will also
have the ability of build out management-
consulting practices. They can turn these
insights into client-focused solutions that
generate new revenue streams and help
improve profitability—both of which are key
leadership priorities for the coming year.
PRESSURE MOUNTS TO ACQUIRE
NEW CLIENTS
A key focus for agency leaders will be firm-
wide growth and business development. Since
agency-of-record opportunities are dwindling
due to the emerging strength of in-house
creative departments, agencies are shifting their
sales strategies from long-term accounts to
shorter-term projects. Gone are the days when
they relied on large accounts to fuel their sales
pipeline. That’s why we’re seeing a renewed
focus on developing sales teams that can deliver
a constant stream of new client leads. Another
interesting trend: an increasing number of
marketing teams are engaging specialist firms
for project work. They might turn to an agency
for its cool factor, brand awareness or social
media outreach capabilities.
Agencies - A new emphasis on running lean.
As agencies encounter growing competition from
both existing and emerging rivals, they’re also
finding that marketing in major organizations
is bringing creative services—including digital,
social media and even video production—in-
house. Why? It’s largely due to the demand for
transparency.
7. Marketing - Fourth best is no longer good enough.
The era when marketing leaders could expect
long and virtually uninterrupted tenure is over.
Leaders who fail to help their organizations gain
market share or earn top-three category status
should either develop a turnaround plan or start
the countdown to their dismissal. Those who
do reach this goal should be ready to focus on
another major priority: retaining and engaging
their top talent.
USING DATA AS A TOOL OF CHANGE
With the increased collection of data, it’s becoming more important for businesses to turn
that information into actionable tactics that can facilitate meaningful change. Of course, that
requires strong leadership, likely in the form of a Chief Transformation Officer who can use
the data to break down organizational silos make necessary operational shifts.
That brings us back to the relationship between agencies and marketing organizations. We
believe the recent trend of creative services being brought in-house to maintain cost control
will continue. That is, of course, unless agencies become more transparent and offer stronger
data to quantify their successes, or if another tough recession puts pressure on departments to
downsize and eliminate headcount.
8. DATA
What you can expect to pay:
Data Scientist $110,000 - $250,000
Data Architect $125,000 - $250,000
Information Designer $85,000 - $130,000
*based on geographic location and years of experience
9. The challenge for organizations of all sizes is
determining how best to collect, analyze and
interpret that data, then use it to develop a
coherent marketing strategy. It’s the reason
why marketing and data departments are
working closely together to leverage that data
and use it to market to their target audiences
or clientele. Marketers of the future will be part
traditionalists, part data specialists and part
tech specialists—or, at the very least, creative
departments will consist of specialists who
work in these respective fields.
THE DATA CRUNCHERS YOU NEED NOW
To build out your data department, you’ll need
to hire some key people. The first will be the
Data Strategist, a professional who determines
what data your organization needs to collect.
Next, you’ll need a Data Scientist capable of
mining data from multiple sources such as
social media platforms or credit card databases,
then defining clear, actionable patterns. The
scientist will then create an algorithm that
produces simulations which can be used to
optimize marketing strategy. How? By enabling
the market to choose the best possible outcome
using predictions based on those patterns,
all of which can be put to work in honing the
organization’s marketing strategy. The Data
Architect will work closely with the Data
Scientist to design the database that will house
the terabytes of data sources and algorithms to
produce those simulations. After all is said and
done, these results need to be communicated
to the rest of the organization and the most
effective way to do that is through data
visualizations.
Enter the Information or Data Visualization
Designer. They’re the ones who articulate
data and make it understandable for average
marketers and others across the organization
using tools such as infographics or the Java
Script library D3.
The key point is this: if data isn’t a major
component of your strategic marketing
approach, it should be. That means you’ll need
the right professionals to produce, organize and
determine exactly what that information means
for your clients—then use it to produce game-
changing marketing campaigns.
Marketing’s latest revolution is being driven by
data. Advanced analytics tools are providing
marketing, creative, advertising and media
agencies with reams of information they could
once have only dreamed of acquiring. In many
cases they now know what, when, how, where
and even why their target audiences or clientele
are interacting with their content or platforms.
Depending on the organization, this information
is being used to achieve everything from improved
operational efficiencies and risk management
strategies, to improved productivity and more
targeted marketing to consumers.
10. MARKETING
& STRATEGY
+5% (2012 to 2014)
One of the fastest growing marketing
hiring categories is content
development, as organizations
continue to invest in improving
everything from SEO to blogging.
*based on Creative Niche’s internal data
11. The result: marketers are having to work harder
to connect with consumers, and in turn are
working more closely with their media agencies
to develop the tools and strategies to achieve
those goals.
DATA REVOLUTION
TRANSFORMING MARKETING
That’s why marketing is working hard to
bridge gaps in areas such as technology,
finance and sales—to name just a few.
Marketers will increasingly be asked to work
with professionals experienced in mining
and manipulating prescriptive data who can
help drive strategic decisions—as well as find
creative new ways to work with the data itself.
To complicate matters further, the pressure to
justify marketing budgets is greater than ever.
That’s the reason why key metrics have become
a critical tool for analyzing the success of a
marketing campaign, while Data Analysts and
Analytics Specialists are in increasing demand
across organizations. As such, tomorrow’s
marketers will need to understand branding,
analytics, market augmentation, and still be
able to serve their clients. Those data-focused
specialists are driving home a key message:
gaining a comprehensive and complete
understanding of a client’s business model is a
precursor for success in today’s marketplace.
INTRODUCING THE HYBRID MARKETER
Sought-after marketers will also carry the
strategic and analytical skills to help them
improve return-on-investment from their work,
then leverage new technologies, social media
and the web to find innovative new ways to
drive ROI. They’ll be able to develop campaigns
and use advanced data collection techniques to
track their success, manage client relationships
and act quickly to respond to market changes
and plan their next initiative.
That’s why we’re seeing the emergence of
hybrid leadership roles across marketing
organizations and agencies—where IT
managers move to the marketing department
or agency, for example, or vice versa. Of course,
challenges are emerging for organizations
hoping to find top professionals with these
unique qualifications, not to mention
identifying those capable of making the cross-
discipline leap.
These hybrid roles often mean changes to
structure and that can be disruptive. Senior
leadership will need to support individuals in
these positions by giving them the necessary
autonomy to make changes, manage budgets,
eliminate redundancies and hire new people.
It’s critical, therefore, that the vision and plan
for change is communicated effectively to
employees. Securing their support will be the
key to success for most organizations.
In short, the marketers of tomorrow—even
more so than their colleagues from past
generations—will display uncanny professional
flexibility and a passion for life-long learning.
It should come as no surprise that their
knowledge base will be more in-depth and
diverse than at any time in recent memory.
Changes to marketing and strategy requirements
are being driven almost entirely by the revolution
in digital and other communications technology.
While those transformative technological
developments are proving to be largely positive,
the marketplace has changed dramatically.
Consumers and target clients have become far
savvier and less willing to accept the ‘hard sell’
than they may have in decades past. Reaching a
target demographic is far faster due to technology,
but now those targets have far greater control
over the messages they receive and the platforms
on which they receive them.
12. DIGITAL
& SOCIAL
+6%
Increase in hires year-over-year in
the digital and social media space.
*based on Creative Niche’s internal data
13. That said, responsive design is now smart
design, so staying a step ahead of the
latest and greatest digital developments is
more important than ever. That’s why it’s
important to note that nothing on the digital
front is possible without skilled developers.
Their talents will be in high demand for the
foreseeable future. But as new developers
enter the marketplace, those with the most
comprehensive and diverse skill sets will
remain the most highly coveted. One of their
enticing qualities will be an inherent ability
to adapt to that fast-shifting landscape, along
with a constant drive to upgrade their skills.
That might also include a desire to learn design
protocols for wearable device interfaces and
apps. Expect to see a surge in demand for
developers (and even digital content producers)
specializing in creating everything from apps
to interfaces for wearable technologies such as
watches and even Google Glass—if the bulky
digital glasses ever manage to shatter their way
into the mainstream marketplace.
A SPOTLIGHT ON USER EXPERIENCE
Making those devices appealing to a wide
range of consumers will mean improving user
engagement, which is why so many agencies
and large organizations are working to build
their user-experience design departments. In
the past, a visual designer may have created
work that would be adapted across platforms,
but digital projects are now being driven
with a primary focus on user-experience and
interactivity. New roles such as that of the UX
Architect and UX Strategist have emerged,
neither of which were in existence just a
decade ago.
At the same time, your next digital hire just
might be a Digital Analytics Analyst, someone
with expertise in collecting and interpreting
the data you’ll be collecting through all of those
digital devices and platforms. And if predictions
are to be believed, a great deal of that content
will come in video form. Organizations will
produce an increasing amount of video content
to appeal to their time-pressed audience or
clientele, whose preference for watching over
reading is only becoming more pronounced. It’s
why you might soon be posting ads for video or
motion graphics specialists who can make that
content as attractive as possible.
A STRATEGIC SHIFT FOR SOCIAL
MEDIA SPECIALISTS
That brings us to social media, which will
continue to be a huge part of our lives and
an integral consideration for any agency or
marketing department. Tomorrow’s social
media specialists will need to to do more than
simply write and post content. They’ll need
to be able to develop strategy, analyze data,
conduct a quantitative analysis of that data,
then deliver a presentation of key findings to
clients. The ability to work with social listening
tools such as Radian6 and Sprinklr will be
a prerequisite for any social media content
specialist or community manager. Your next
social media hire will be able to combine the
media approach of a traditional agency, but
place it into a hybrid content strategy that
maximizes online and social engagement.
And if they’re not already, there’s a very good
chance these digital professionals will became
an essential part of your organization.
While the digital and social media landscape is
in a constant state of flux, one thing remains
the same: the demand for professionals versed
in mobile app development and responsive
design will continue to grow. The reason is that
brands are more eager than ever to connect
with consumers wherever they may be—which
explains why so many are creating native apps
and mobile responsive websites to engage with
target audiences in their own, unique digital
environments, rather than relying solely on a
traditional desktop-optimized website as their
primary point of digital interaction.
14. DESIGN
What you can expect to pay:
Senior Designer $75,000 - $100,000
UX Designer $70,000 - $110,000
Motion GFX Designer $60,000 - $75,000
*based on geographic location and years of experience
15. Great contemporary design has to engage its
target audience across media platforms. A
designer needs to think about user experience,
engagement and interactivity. It’s not just
about look and feel anymore. They need an
understanding of how to translate material
from being one-dimensional, to being viewed
and understood online across the wide array of
touch points at their disposal. They also need
to understand how various designs interact
with each other—think of how retailers are
rebranding themselves with highly immersive
in-store and online experiences that work
together seamlessly. That’s the reason why
we’re also seeing the integration of augmented
reality in print using apps like Layar, for a
entirely new level of interactivity.
New design skills in demand
That brings us to the recruitment process
for hiring designers—particularly the skills
you’ll want to see on their resumes. A major
assessment point for candidates: Can they
create visual representations of data? Taking
the reams of ‘1s’ and ‘0s’ your organization
collects when conducting market research or
interacting with customers, then translating
that information into actionable information
will require the deft hand of a skilled designer
with one foot each in the creative and data
worlds. Another key question: do they have
expertise in product and industrial design?
As most areas of marketing become less
siloed, designers need to be more flexible than
ever. That means being ready to apply their
skills to virtually any medium—sometimes
at a moment’s notice. Tomorrow’s designers,
in other words, will be purists capable of
delivering on multiple mediums and across
different materials.
But what about soft skills? Beyond recruiting
designers willing to do what it takes to please
their clients—a must-have for any employer in
the creative industry—you’ll hire people who
are capable of backing up the value of their
design choices using field research. Then,
they’ll be able to illustrate how their work
might help solve problems for your company
or its clientele. Design, therefore, is now as
much a strategic consideration as it is an
aesthetic one. As such, your next designer
will be capable of justifying design decisions
to clients. They’ll also be flexible and eager
to adapt to emerging trends and technologies,
while leveraging design processes that are
as much about collaboration and a holistic
approach, as they are about inspiration
and creativity.
Despite the seismic shifts across the design
industry in recent years, branding remains
the basis for great design. As a discipline,
design was once primarily about aesthetics.
If a designer was good at alignment, branding
and typography, they were a success.
Now, it is just the beginning.