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B2C marketing automation: The tools, tactics and prerequisites for success

Martech

B2C marketing deals with consumer purchases, which means B2C marketers are targeting individuals or small groups of people who make purchase decisions. But generally speaking, a couple considering a B2C purchase will have an easier time coming to a decision than a business buying group with varied wants and needs in a B2B setting.

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What B2B marketers must know in the face of a potential recession

Search Engine Land

Whereas, B2C and D2C marketers can feel it more quickly when complete verticals go south. 26% claim that a top investment in the coming years will be video editing software, compared to 14% of their B2C counterparts. B2C will feel it first. Keep a finger on the pulse of B2C industry trends. Test, test, and keep testing.

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Let consumers tell you how they want to be contacted

Martech

In the past, B2B and B2C both had very detailed and granular preference centers, with the hopes of limiting the number of unsubscribes, but that over-complicated the operation.” Cash put the preference center in a strategic context, as part of a data management strategy. Here A/B testing comes into play. he said. “A

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Differentiation Strategy (and the Sea of Sameness)

ConversionXL

Take A/B testing tools. People ask me all the time: “How is this A/B testing tool different from that one?” Byron Sharp and the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute have criticized differentiation, arguing that its role in the B2C setting is less important. It feels safer to choose Optimizely over a smaller A/B testing tool.

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Email Marketing Strategy: Collecting Subscribers, Users & Loyal Customers

ConversionXL

Email generates as much as $42 for every dollar spent , and is a top-three marketing channel for 87% of B2B and 76% of B2C marketers. On a basic level, email marketing tools should let you do the following: Create and segment email lists Send emails A/B test Read analytics reports Personalize content.

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Personalization: How to Build a Revenue Boosting Program from Scratch

ConversionXL

Having worked as a consultant at an A/B testing and personalization software company, I’ve seen many personalization efforts getting stuck in the weeds. There is this big myth out there that says that you don’t need to do as much research for personalization as you would need for A/B testing. Do User Experience Research.

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Optimizing the Free Trial Signup – How Flow Got a 17% Lift [Case Study]

ConversionXL

The strongest conversions have started even before a customer lands on your site, through strategic SEO practices and targeted inbound marketing. As a small team, we had to choose between spending 2-3x as long building these changes into an A/B test or measuring any difference longitudinally (pre and post change).