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Media & Entertainment
Media Catalyst Accelerates Ad Sales Planning and Forecasting
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An issue that we commonly hear is that ad sales organizations often struggle with early-stage sales pipeline recognition and reporting. The creation of a media plan can be a time-consuming process involving multiple teams, and is often put off until the end of a deal cycle. This leads to an underreported or inaccurate sales pipeline...
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...
Provider
Personalization in Healthcare: 6 Keys To Successful Patient Experiences
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Implementing patient experience use cases with Marketing Cloud Personalization requires careful planning, data integration, and consideration of privacy and security. In addition, we recommend a collaborative approach involving marketing, IT, and clinical teams. These teams should work together to define use cases that align with patient-centric objectives and healthcare goals. Let’s look at a few...
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...
Healthcare
How Salesforce Overcomes the Google Analytics HIPAA Hurdle
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In December 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a bulletin that introduced new challenges for marketers in the healthcare industry by shedding light on additional requirements for compliance with the 1996 law concerning third-party trackers. These technologies, such as Google Analytics or Meta Pixel, collect data on how users interact...
Salesforce Platform
12 New Year’s Resolutions for Salesforce Users
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As the new year unfolds, Salesforce users are setting resolutions to propel their skills, amplify efficiency, and elevate their contributions to their organizations. I sat down to think of all the major themes in the past year that customers, prospects, and community members struggled with and asked me how they could be addressed. I also...
Capital Markets
The Impact of AI in Capital Markets and Asset Management
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Everywhere you turn these days, AI and machine learning are top of mind for firms looking to leverage technology to get ahead. While many industries are taking great strides to profit from the AI buzz by applying these technologies to consumer or retail spending, asset managers and capital markets firms are turning their attention to...
Salesforce Platform
7 Salesforce Data Cloud Best Practices
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Let’s pretend we’re a contestant on Jeopardy!, and the answer is: This software company was Data Cloud customer zero, giving it access to 1.2 billion customer records. The question: What is Salesforce? Before becoming the fastest-growing home-grown product in Salesforce history, Data Cloud was used internally to create one unified profile of Salesforce customers from...
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...
Media & Entertainment
How Retail Media Networks Can Capture Advertising Dollars
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Retail media is rapidly growing and GroupM, the world’s biggest media buyer, forecasts that advertising revenue from retail media channels will reach $160 billion by 2027. Retailers such as Walmart, Target, and Amazon are capitalizing on advertiser demand for retail media with their retail media networks. Retail media offers the opportunity for retailers to diversify...