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6 Tools for Personalizing Marketing in the Digital Era

6 Tools for Personalizing Marketing in the Digital Era | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it

In an age of automated everything, is it possible to put a personal touch to your marketing? Of course--even though customers are used to sites like Amazon and Pandora where they can get everything they need easily without ever talking to a person. Fortunately, businesses evolve right along with consumer demands. As the head of a marketing department, it's your job to research and adopt the right technology to make your company as effective as possible. Marketing automation isn't going anywhere, but that doesn't mean your entire marketing approach has to be robotic.

No matter what, customers want to feel like they matter, like they're heard, and like there's a real person on the other end of that transaction. Recently, Help Scout, which is also a really cool customer service tool, released a report on the "personalization" of marketing. It reveals that 70 percent of final purchases are dictated by how a person feels they're being treated as a customer....

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Great sales tools to help you sell on social media more effectively.

Jeff Domansky's curator insight, March 24, 2015 10:04 PM

Great sales tools to help accelerate your social selling.

Joseph Palumbo, MBA,'s curator insight, March 25, 2015 7:39 PM

I agree with the basic premise of this article. The more high tech tech we become the more high touch we must be. Customers remember 10% of what you told them 20% what you showed them and 70% of how you made them feel. Customers are emotional and irrational, is your sales approach matching their needs?

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A Sad Story About a Poorly Designed Sales Contest

A Sad Story About a Poorly Designed Sales Contest | Top Social Media Tools | Scoop.it
Early in my career, I remember our CEO calling the entire sales team into the conference room. There were about 30 of us. With tremendous enthusiasm he announced a new SPIFF program with … drumroll … a prize of $20,000! To win, each rep needed to achieve the following:

Q3 bookings of $275,000 or more
Q4 bookings of $275,000 or more
Sell 25 of any Product
Sell 10 of Product A
Sell 4 of Product B in Q3
Sell 4 of Product B in Q4


Now, even for the highest earners, a $20k bonus was nothing to laugh at. So you can imagine the excitement that rose up from the room. Everyone left determined to conquer the challenge -- exactly what our CEO wanted. But what happened next probably wasn’t what he anticipated...

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Excellent lesson and sales solution.

Jeff Domansky's curator insight, September 19, 2014 8:57 PM

Excellent lesson and sales solution.