The Benefits of Experimental Design in Marketing vs. A/B Testing
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The Benefits of Experimental Design in Marketing vs. A/B Testing

ByEvan Blair

I. Don’t. Know. Those may be the scariest three words in marketing. No one wants to admit to their boss that they aren’t sure whether a campaign will perform with a particular customer segment on a given channel. Yet even the most experienced marketers can’t know for sure if a campaign will perform. Customer needs…

AI in Marketing: Benefits, Use Cases, and Examples
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AI in Marketing: Benefits, Use Cases, and Examples

ByLiza Colburn

This post was published on June 16, 2022 and updated on July 6, 2023  Warm, personable, convincing — those adjectives may not be the first that come to mind when you think of artificial intelligence or AI. But, AI and human collaboration can outperform human intuition alone in creating and selecting digital content that connects…

diverse group of marketing professionals reviewing documents in a conference room
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How AI Turns CMOs Into Digital Transformation Trendsetters

ByEvan Blair

CMOs are uniquely positioned to lead the charge and usher in an exciting new era of AI in digital marketing. That is, if they are open to adapting not only alongside, but also ahead of new martech capabilities. In this webinar, AI for CMOs: The Real World Playbook for Digital Transformation, author and Marketing AI…

generating natural language
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Natural Language Generation: Use Cases and Business Impact

ByLiza Colburn

Personalization has been heralded as the key to success for businesses in every industry. Studies show that organizations outperforming their competition attribute 40% of the additional revenue to their personalization efforts.  But delivering personalized messaging at scale across channels is hard to do using only human creative talent. To address the challenge, companies are turning to…

How to Achieve Hyper Personalization at an Enterprise Level
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How to Achieve Hyper Personalization at an Enterprise Level

ByLiza Colburn

  Marketing and product teams have heralded personalization as a game-changing capability for their brands for close to a decade. After all, most consumers are more likely to engage with a company that sends them information they actually want. Hyper personalization has the potential to drive brand loyalty, increase customer engagement, and make shopping experiences…

What Is Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)?
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What Is Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)?

ByLiza Colburn

Marketers play a foundational role in bringing customers to the business. Yet we have long struggled to communicate our impact to data-driven stakeholders in the C-suite, including the CFO and the CEO. Digital channels are helping to change that by providing data about engagement with our content. Click through rates, impressions, and other metrics help…

How to Achieve Hyper Personalization at an Enterprise Level
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How CMOs Can Introduce AI Marketing Tools to Their Team

ByLiza Colburn

AI is the newest MVP of modern marketing teams. IBM’s 2021 CEO Study revealed that 82% of CEOs who outperformed their peers were champions of AI technologies. McKinsey projects that AI has the potential to create $1.4 to $2.6 trillion of value in marketing and sales across world businesses. But there’s a big gap between…

How Personal Narratives Improve Customer Engagement
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How Personal Narratives Improve Customer Engagement

ByLiza Colburn

Personal Narratives are the stories that motivate and engage customers. They are a key insight informing Persado’s AI language knowledgebase and provide a necessary input for Persado’s Language Profiles – one of our methods for personalizing communications to high-priority customer groups.  From Nike’s Just Do It, to Apple’s Think Different and Volkswagen’s There’s Room for…

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Having Trouble Testing Web Content? Persado Web Standalone Can Help

ByLiza Colburn

In an ideal world, every company would be able to experiment with different approaches to content, and measure which types resonate with customers. Isn’t that what we were promised with the advent of the Internet – that digital platforms would allow us to know what is performing and why? Reality is messier. Rules around the…

marketing AI
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How CMOs Can Innovate with Marketing AI Today

ByLiza Colburn

The CMO of 2022 is in trouble. Largely viewed by the C-suite as lacking tech savvy, CMOs are losing their seat at the leadership table.  CMOs were ranked second-to-last among the C-suite for their tech knowledge, and CEOs identified CIOs and CTOs as twice as likely to play a crucial role over the next two…