Customer Acquisition for Social Enterprise: Optimizing Your Online Marketing Funnel

Dec20
Like most social enterprise marketing strategies, online customer acquisition strategies – and the marketing funnel – ties closely to the setup used by any other for-profit company.

The key difference? Messaging. But that’s not what we’ll be talking about in this post.

Today, let’s take a look at the key elements to the marketing funnel social enterprises should be using to increase customer acquisition, the potential blockages in ineffective funnels, and how to optimize yours.

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Here’s insight from 5,000 marketers on how 2015 will play out

Jan19

Now in it’s second year, the Salesforce State of Marketing report was published last week, providing insight into the industry’s priorities, challenges, and metrics for 2015.

Five thousand marketers participated, giving us anĀ in-depth look at their approach to email, social, and mobile marketing. Here’s a quick look at a few stats and takeaways.

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How nonprofits are segmenting email communications

May26

In conjunction with Nonprofit Marketing Guide, Bloomerang recently surveyed a group of small-to-medium-sized nonprofits ($5 million in revenue or below) in the US and Canada, to see how they may be segmenting their audiences when it comes to email marketing.

Highlighted by Hubspot, the data offers some pretty valuable conclusions that should provide nonprofit marketing teams some insight into how to optimize their current email efforts. Not just if, but how, they should be segmenting their audiences.

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Data showed that 64% of nonprofits are doing some sort of email segmentation.

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Report: Only 8% of brands believe their Marketing team is strong in all digital areas

Nov10

New research by OMI, in partnership with ClickZ and Kelly Staffing, reveals Fortune 500 companies and global agencies face a serious digital marketing skills shortage.

Surveying 747 brands and agencies, the study found a ā€œsubstantial gapā€ between the number of organizations searching for employees with strong digital marketing skills, and the talent available.

While 71 percent of large brand/enterprise organizations believe their digital marketing team is strong in some areas, their employees exhibit mediocrity/weakness in others when importance and strength are analyzed together, with sizable gaps in every area studied.

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