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Marketing Cloud
Salesforce Announces Marketing Cloud Growth to Empower SMBs
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This week, Salesforce announced Marketing Cloud Growth, a new edition of Marketing Cloud aimed at small and medium B2B companies to drive growth efficiently with CRM, AI, and data. It is the first iteration of Marketing Cloud built on the Einstein 1 platform, enabling marketers to reach customers faster with trusted data and AI. “Marketers...
Healthcare
Personalization in Healthcare: Patient Experience Use Cases
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Patient experiences play a pivotal role in healthcare, as they have a profound impact on patient engagement, satisfaction, and loyalty. In today’s digital age, patients expect interactions with healthcare providers to be tailored to their unique needs and preferences, and personalized experiences are crucial to building trust, improving outcomes, and driving patient satisfaction. Marketing Cloud...
Banking
Business Banking Marketing Strategies to Enhance Experiences
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A bank’s relationship manager (RM) plays a pivotal role in helping its business customers reach their financial goals. However, according to interviews that McKinsey conducted with executives at more than 15 banks, a majority of their relationship managers are acquiring less than five new clients a year. Many said they struggle with customer acquisition, and...
Marketing Cloud
6 Steps to a Successful Marketing Cloud Personalization Implementation
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According to 2,500 global marketing decision-makers surveyed in the Salesforce Marketing Intelligence Report, the top desired improvement they want in the customer experience over the next year is more personalized content and offers. They realize the benefits that personalization brings, like more engagement and loyalty to their company, by using Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Marketing Cloud...
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...
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
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...