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Marketing Cloud
Pardot vs. Marketing Cloud: Which Solution is Right for You?
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In one corner, you have Team Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, a B2B platform, and in the other, you have Team Marketing Cloud, a B2C platform. These two often battle it out for the hearts and minds of Salesforce users everywhere. However, we propose a fresh perspective where everyone can emerge as a winner by selecting...
Marketing Cloud
What is Salesforce Marketing Cloud Personalization?
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Today, we experience personalization in many areas of our lives, from customizing furniture fabrics to adding heated seats to a new car. So why shouldn’t your marketing messages also be tailored to customer preferences? Personalization makes us feel acknowledged and understood by treating each customer as a unique individual. It strengthens the customer-company relationship, as...
Marketing Cloud
3 Ways to Leverage Marketing to Mitigate Bank Fraud
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A recent survey by J.D. Power found that one in three U.S. bank customers say they have been victims of financial fraud in the past 12 months. 50% of customers under age 40 experienced fraud during that time, as their increased engagement in electronic transfers made them more likely to trust online requests for payments. ...
Wealth
How to Help Customers Navigate the Great Wealth Transfer
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Every family has a different approach when it comes to talking about money. Sometimes it comes up in conversation at every family gathering. Others know it will lead to arguments over the Thanksgiving turkey and avoid the topic all together. According to a Wells Fargo report, an estimated 26% of adult children would rather deal...
Insurance
How to Improve Customer Experiences in Volatile Markets
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Look up “volatile” in the thesaurus, and you’ll likely see synonyms like unstable, unpredictable, and precarious – all of which are perfect adjectives for the flux of today’s markets. Rising inflation and other financial crises are wreaking havoc on the interest rate environment and impacting the insurance industry. Rates had been at historic lows, but...
Media & Entertainment
3 Strategies to Personalize Subscription Lifecycle Management
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“Your Netflix account is for you and the people you live with—your household.” That’s the message that Netflix shared in May as it cracked down on password sharing. Millions of viewers groaned in response as their days of scrounging off family and friends came to an end. But despite industry doubts, the crackdown paid off,...
Banking
3 Barriers Holding Back Your Bank’s Marketing Growth
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According to a BCG survey of 759 global C-suite executives, nearly three-quarters expect macroeconomic uncertainty to be the key challenge facing their businesses in 2023. The survey’s report cites that “the recent failure of Silicon Valley Bank and others shows how difficult it is for executives to anticipate/predict the future, even in the near-term.” To...
Media & Entertainment
Harnessing the Power of Salesforce Data Cloud for Marketing
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Publishing companies are soon facing the loss of Google Chrome’s third-party cookies support, which will most likely stop by the end of 2024. Without those cookies, it will be harder for publishers to gather user data, sell targeted segments to advertisers, and deliver on personalization. Publishers will have to rely more on their first-party data,...
Media & Entertainment
4 Generative AI Use Cases to Drive Ad Sales
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One of the first instances of AI showing up in the advertising industry was with a Lexus commercial. It was 2018, and Lexus used IBM Watson to create the first commercial entirely scripted by AI. The car company leveraged IBM Watson to analyze 15 years of car and luxury brand campaigns that had won Cannes...
Wealth
4 Ways Wealth Advisors Can Capitalize on Graduation Season
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One of the most traditional graduation gifts is money. And students will need it, considering that over the last 20 years, the average tuition at private schools has increased by nearly 150% and is expected to continue to climb. According to U.S. News, tuition and fees for the 2022-2023 school year cost an average of...