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The Missing Component of Social Marketing? You.

Social media is a marketing tactic. As such it requires forethought, strategy, metrics and integration. 

New Year, New Focus: 2013

“Should old acquaintance be forgot/and never brought to mind?” The author of “Auld Lang Syne” (commonly played after watching the ball drop of New Year’s Eve) clearly wasn’t a marketer. 

‘Tis the Season When Metrics Matter

The holiday season is the most lucrative time of year for many retailers. The fourth quarter is when many brands boast high in-store and online traffic and strong sales. 

The Retail Data Challenge

Know your customers. This is Marketing 101. In the retail space, identifying customers based on transactions is critical. But retailers often don’t have the processes in place to follow-up or leverage all of their information. 

Why It’s Time For Marketers To Pull the ‘Trigger’

This week’s post is contributed by Epsilon’s Analytic Consultant, Jennifer Wiese.

This week Epsilon and the Email Institute released the Q3 2012 Email Trends and Benchmarks report, which analyzed billions of emails and email addresses to identify industry-wide and category-specific trends. 

 

Calling All Marketers: Consumer Channel Preferences Matter

Our annual consumer channel preference study looks to explore how consumers want to be reached and which channels resonate the most. This year we delved deeper into mobile vs. non-mobile consumers and the findings may surprise you.

Need a Data Scientists? Be Prepared For Fierce Competition

While the task of analyzing data is not new, modern big data solutions like Cassandra, Hadoop and Riak are still relatively unfamiliar to many IT professionals. As a result, the job category, "Data Scientist" has begun to appear and be defined in the marketplace. 

Giving Thanks: 10 Ways to Show Customer Appreciation

How often do you thank your customers? This time of year many of us reflect and give thanks. Likewise, brands should demonstrate their appreciation of customers today and all year long. 

Fall’s Finest: Introducing the Fall 2012 Email Gallery Look Book

This week Epsilon’s Email Institute released the Fall 2012 Email Gallery Look Book, which features 20 brands handpicked by our email marketing experts that showcase the best in email marketing design, copy and strategy. 

What Loyalty Marketers Can Learn From Moneyball

I recently attended Loyalty World 2012 in Las Vegas. Now in its third year, Loyalty World continues to gain traction and produce in-depth and innovative conversations around the state of loyalty marketing.