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KPI Reporting & Analytics

KPI Reporting & Analytics KPIs are essential for executives to evaluate performance and guide budget allocation. They help you demonstrate your contribution to the bottom line and track campaign attribution. The key is to know that you’re setting the correct goals and that what you measure is an accurate indicator of success. We use AI-driven […]
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Lead Generation vs. Demand Generation: Know the Difference

Lead generation and demand generation may sound like two terms for the same activity. In practice, they can be similar. However, the differences are critical for any marketer to understand.
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Marketing and Privacy: It’s Complicated

Marketing and privacy are functionally two sides of the same coin. Unfortunately, these complementary roles can feel like they’re in conflict. Is it possible for these two departments to work together?
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Marketing Automation Strategy – Measure & Improve

Marketing Automation Strategy – Measure & Improve Home Marketing Automation Strategy – Measure & Improve Marketing Automation Strategy – Measure & Improve So your Marketing Automation Plan is underway. Now what? Your Marketing Automation system is so powerful. It gives you so much insight into how you can improve your marketing strategy. However, you need […]
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Marketing Automation with Intention: Scaling Without Losing the Human Touch

Marketing Automation with Intention helps teams scale automation responsibly by pairing machine efficiency with human judgment, governance, and clear KPIs—so marketing grows faster without sacrificing trust or empathy
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Marketing Smarter: Choosing Between a CDP and Data Warehouse

Choosing between a CDP and a data warehouse is key to building a scalable customer data strategy. This blog explores how composable CDPs, real-time personalization, and business intelligence work together to drive data-driven marketing, seamless marketing activation, and a future-proof customer data architecture that aligns with enterprise growth goals.
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Marketing’s Path to Data Minimization

Customers aren’t always willing to provide personal data, especially if there seems to be no good reason for them to share it. This kind of consumer behavior prompted marketers to adopt a new habit: data minimization.
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Marketo & Salesforce: The Essential Pairing

Anyone who has used Marketo or Salesforce knows that, like peanut butter and jelly, they work best together. That’s why you’ll want to pursue one critical plan: integration.
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Marketo Archiver App

The Marketo archiver app eliminates Marketo’s 24-month retention cap by automatically extracting specified campaign data and staging it in Amazon S3. This ensures uninterrupted access to multi-year insights, simplifies compliance, and integrates seamlessly with your BI platform—empowering teams to analyze decades of historic marketing performance without any manual CSV exports.
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Mastering Data Hygiene: The Foundation of Reliable Marketing Metrics

Every marketer wants clear ROI and measurable impact, but flawed data often undermines these goals. Data hygiene is the critical foundation ensuring your marketing metrics are truly reliable. Without clean data, efforts to refine your MOPS and align with corporate goals are built on shifting sand. It’s the key to confident reporting and strategic growth.
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Maximize Marketing Performance by Tackling Dirty Data

Dirty data can derail even the most well-crafted marketing strategies. By optimizing your database, ensuring compliance, and creating a streamlined contact list, you can drive meaningful engagement. Here’s how 4Thought handles dirty data.
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Maximizing Holiday Marketing: Key Strategies to Drive Revenue This Season

As the holiday season kicks off in full force, marketers have a unique opportunity. Obviously everyone wants to meet their end-of-year goals. But beyond that, holiday marketing offers your team a chance to establish customer relationships that will last long after the new year.