The pandemic changed customer motivation
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The pandemic changed customer motivation. What’s happening now?

ByLiza Colburn

At Persado, we talk a lot about how messages motivate customers to take action. One of the ways they do that is by tapping into a feeling or emotion that fits the context of a campaign. And quite frankly, during this pandemic, we’ve all had a lot of feelings.  By “feelings”—or its more formal equivalent,…

5 Tips for Scaling Marketing AI
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5 Ways to Scale Your Marketing AI

ByLiza Colburn

Business leaders across industries can unlock transformative possibilities with AI. In today’s digital marketing landscape, AI is an essential member of marketing teams, creating hyper-personalized language, unlocking enterprise creativity, and helping teams engage with more consumers than ever before. AI picks up where people leave off, allowing human marketers to do what they do best…

Ally Financial’s CMO Uses AI to Further Innovation
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Ally Financial’s CMO Uses AI to Further Innovation

ByLiza Colburn

For the second episode in our CMOs series, Paul Roetzer sits down with Andrea Brimmer, Chief Marketing and PR Officer of Ally, for a discussion about the role AI in marketing plays at the all-digital financial services organization.  Founded in 2007, Ally is one of the only full-scale digital financial services companies in the United…

Contextual Adaptive Algorithm
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How to deliver personalized content when you don’t know your user

ByLiza Colburn

Business leaders have long viewed personalization as the ultimate way to optimize customer experience. By capturing customer data and mining it for insights into the customer’s interests, organizations can deliver more relevant digital experiences. At least in theory. Practice, however, has revealed that it’s not always easy to identify who is visiting your website and…

customer experience and personal narratives
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How “Narratives” Drive Engagement With Your Message

ByLiza Colburn

Narratives are a key element of every memorable message that audiences receive. Though a single Narrative may anchor a campaign for years, brands can build a wide variety of stories around it to hook audiences and connect with them. For example, iconic brand campaigns like Mastercard’s “Priceless” series ran for two decades with a Narrative…

Unlock the Power of Enterprise Creativity with AI
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Unlock the Power of Enterprise Creativity with AI

ByLiza Colburn

As technology enables organizations to automate tasks and deliver services more efficiently, the ability to be creative is fast becoming a key differentiator in a competitive market. One of the major challenges facing tech leaders in the years ahead will be finding ways to overcome “digital sameness” with uniquely human creativity. Forrester recently conducted research…

How Persado + Adobe Produced 134% Better Campaign Performance
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How Persado + Adobe Produced 134% Better Campaign Performance

ByLiza Colburn

It’s no secret that integrations are one of the biggest factors that influence B2B technology buying decisions. Research by Bain & Company even finds that it ranks in the top five. That’s one of the reasons why Persado has built seamless integrations with some of the most popular marketing technology platforms, and Adobe is one…

How Love is Used in Language & Advertising
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How Love is Used in Language & Advertising

BySheena Vira

We all love love — but do we love it more this year than in years past? Alexandra Mondalek, a reporter for Business of Fashion, tweeted (above) that the word love is being used more than usual this season, and many people seem to agree. “I’ve seen it everywhere”, one person comments. “Gap has been…

Secrets to First-Party Data Strategies
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Disrupting Cookies: Secrets to First-Party Data Strategies

ByLiza Colburn

Cookies are going away. There is no question about that, despite some waffling from Google on their timing and alternative approaches to targeted advertising. Proactive brands aren’t waiting to see what the tech giants come up with as an alternative. Instead, they are ramping up their efforts to engage customers on their terms and capture…

Woman in a red blouse sitting at a table holding her phone in hand and the other hand on her laptop while checking AI integration
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Will GPT-3 move language AI into the business mainstream?

ByEvan Blair

AI has spent years at the top of the list of technologies that executive leaders say will have a significant impact on how they do business. Yet AI — which is more a category than a technology, per se — has yet to live up to its promise in most areas of business. Marketing may…