Industry trends
Knowing what’s hot and what’s not is vital for staying on top of your competition. Marketing is an ever-changing art, but to make your life easier Dotdigital are always keeping an eye on the latest industry trends.
Reporting on everything from new marketing tech to buzzwords, fads, and the impact of the economy on your marketing budgets, Dotdigital is your one-stop-shop for all things marketing.
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Industry trends
What’s up with WhatsApp for Business?
WhatsApp for business origins The year is 2013 and, new kid on the block, WhatsApp has recorded over $20 million in revenue. Few would have put money on the fact...
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Customer data
How Amazon Moments affects customer loyalty
Zsuzsa is co-founder and CMO at Antavo, the leading customer loyalty technology partner of Dotdigital, specialized in helping fashion and retail brands in Europe. They provide technology and strategy to...
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Industry trends
7 surprising WhatsApp stats for your business
With over 1 billion more users and counting flocking to the app since 2014, WhatsApp is not a channel your business can afford to miss out on. As the fastest...
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Industry trends
Want to supercharge your CRM? Messaging is the solution
Your CRM can be a complex and expensive beast. But when used correctly, it’s also one of the most powerful tools at your disposal. Leveraging powerful APIs for your CRM...
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Industry trends
Travel and hospitality business messaging is the perfect model. Here’s why
Travel and hospitality messaging strategies are being invested in more than ever in 2019. Here’s why, and why you should take note, no matter the industry.
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Industry trends
The great mistake: losing customers at the decision stage
Don’t let your customers out the funnel at the last minute! Most businesses make this one great mistake and lose customers at the decision stage. Here’s how to avoid it....
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Industry trends
Marketing challenges-My predictions for marketing in 2019
Christmas wind down? Let's start winding up for 2019.
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Industry trends
Improve your application completion rates
The need to improve application completions is a common problem. Whether you are a financial company trying to guide customers through the loan application process or a recruitment agency simply...
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Industry trends
Not just a buzzword: the significance of scalability
There’s no escaping the fact that scalability is a buzzword. And some buzzwords are just that. Noise. But others are so ever-present in our industries that they are hard to...
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Automation
How your post-sale customer journey could be costing you
Why are you making your customers scramble for information on their orders on their post-sale customer journey? Let’s be honest, when you think of your own best customer experiences, they...
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Industry trends
Proactive web chat: providing interruptions
We’ve all been there. Happily browsing in a store when an assistant (normally a Saturday staffer) provides you with not the first of many interruptions from your serene shopping with...
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Customer engagement
Four ways to make web chat work for you
We’re an omnichannel provider. It stands to reason that there aren’t many channels out there that we don’t see serious value for businesses in. But when it comes to web...
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Industry trends
What can you do with RCS?
You’ve heard a lot about Rich Communication Services (RCS). But do you know what it means for your business? Here are some things you’ll be able to achieve with this...
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Industry trends
SMS: the Strongest Messaging System that’s not going anywhere
Whether it’s A2P or P2P, we’re sure you know that a text message, when delivered, is almost certainly (98% in fact) going to be not only opened but actually read...
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Industry trends
How to benefit from Amazon’s values
Carl Hartmann, the Co-Founder & CEO of Temando (a counterpart Magento Premier Technology Partner), shares his thoughts on the learnings online retailers can take from giant Amazon.
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Industry trends
What Brexit means for email marketers
So today is finally the day. The day that 46.5 million eligible voters decide whether the UK will remain part of the European Union. We should know whether we are in or out by the time we arrive at our desks tomorrow morning. One thing is certain, regardless of which way it goes our relationship with the rest of Europe will change from tomorrow. What will not change however, is how as marketers we approach email marketing.
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Industry trends
13 principles for your multichannel strategy
We recently produced a strategy guide which helps you build and implement a customer-centric, multichannel marketing approach that can be deployed cost-effectively and produce a powerful return on investment practically from the go.