Jeff Haws

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Webinar Recap: Balancing Privacy And Personalization In Your Emails

Webinar Recap: Balancing Privacy and Personalization in Your Emails

When it comes to email marketing, consumer expectations have never been higher for personalization, or for data privacy. If you think this seems like a paradox, you may be right. The very customer data that enables you to send the types of highly tailored content your customers crave can also make your brand seem creepy if you cross the line for any individual on your list. It can seem like a losing battle, though, for some, to the point that some brands almost give up entirely, sending bulk mailings that don’t stand out in today’s crowded inbox. So what’s the solution?

In our recent webinar, email industry veteran Angela Vega (Senior Marketing Manager, Vrbo) revealed five key guidelines that can help you deliver content your customers will love (and that will lead them to buy) while respecting the security of their data at the same time. Here’s a look at those guidelines and how each can contribute to managing the tricky personalization vs. privacy balance.

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Marketing Lessons Learned In A Time Of Crisis

Marketing Lessons Learned in a Time of Crisis

With COVID-19 temporarily changing the lives of everyone across the world, people are on edge as the crisis unfolds. Unlike so many disasters of the past, this time there isn’t anyone who isn’t impacted.

It’s a sad reality that major events like this happen often — pandemics, hurricanes, earthquakes, violence, terrorism, etc. — and we as marketers can be so involved in our day-to-day operations that we lose sight of the fact that each email we send (even if it’s sent as part of a larger automated program) lands in the inbox of a real person the crisis is impacting. And, even if they’re not directly impacted in some cases, they may be sensitive to certain content. It’s not hard to spot when a brand isn’t showing empathy toward those affected, and that can turn anybody off.

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Why I.T. Teams Love Working With MessageGears

Why I.T. Teams Love Working with MessageGears

When marketers hear that MessageGears’ customer marketing platform can help them send more personalized messaging campaigns by connecting directly to their data, many of them balk. They think about all the times they’ve been shot down by the I.T. team, and they dread the idea of even making that walk over to that side of the office. Getting a customer marketing platform just sounds like it’ll tie them closer to I.T., and neither side of the relationship wants that.

It’s easy to understand why they feel that way: Typical ESPs are remote from the data and cause headaches and data friction between marketing and marketing operations. The solution that MessageGears offers is unique, and it involves re-thinking how a marketing platform and the data and technology teams work together. Once you shift your thinking a bit, though, the fact is that MessageGears is well positioned to do a lot to actually eliminate that relationship friction between Marketing and I.T.

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Webinar Recap: Economic Impact Of A Modern Data Infrastructure

Webinar recap: Economic Impact of a Modern Data Infrastructure

For Super Senders that have considered moving to a modern data infrastructure, the biggest hurdle is often the bottom line for basically every business: cost. No matter how much benefit the Marketing team sees from having better data access, if it can’t be directly tied to revenue and a tangible ROI, it’s liable to be passed over for more pressing needs.

Because we’re believers in the immense power of a modern data infrastructure to revolutionize the way marketers use their data, though, we decided to partner up with MarTech Review and LumenData to do a close examination of the costs and savings associated with this sort of investment in order to develop a research-based ROI model so that companies can go into the decision-making process more confidently because they have better information.

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Why Marketing Cloud ESPs Can’t Connect To Your Data

Why Marketing Cloud ESPs Can’t Connect to Your Data

One of the questions we hear the most often from marketers when we talk about the importance of MessageGears’ direct connection to your database is this: If connecting directly to the database is so essential and transformative, why don’t your competitors do it too? After all, our most common competitors are massive organizations that would seem to have plenty of money and resources available to be able to do pretty much whatever they want. From the outside, it can be hard to understand why they wouldn’t simply copy MessageGears if there was value in doing so.

So, why don’t they? To really answer that question, we need to take a look at the history of email service providers, and why they’re structured the way they are.

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How A Direct Data Connection Can Transform Financial Marketing

How a Direct Data Connection Can Transform Financial Marketing

Every marketer has faced challenges when creating what they hope to be successful, personalized cross-channel messaging campaigns. For those working in highly regulated industries like banks and other financial institutions, those challenges can often seem impossible to overcome, especially when data access is a primary factor.

The many and changing regulations that govern banks apply fully to their marketing departments. And while marketers have been able to work around those regulations to create amazing cross-channel campaigns, many still struggle with getting access to the data they need and using it to send highly personalized marketing and transactional messages.

But banks have a lot going for them when it comes to marketing. Not only do they have a lot of first-party data on their customers, but the right addition to their martech stack could give banks the data connection they seek, while maintaining the highest level of security.

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Webinar Recap: How To Achieve Customer Data Maturity With Enrichment Tools

Webinar Recap: How to Achieve Customer Data Maturity with Enrichment Tools

When it comes to sending sophisticated, personalized messaging campaigns, the quality and depth of your customer data is going to drive everything. If your data is comprehensive and organized in a way that’s accessible to your marketing team when they need it, your cross-channel messaging results will likely reflect the work and resources you put into that. If not, though, the likelihood is high that you’re lagging behind your competition when it comes to delivering campaigns that your customers look forward to seeing in their inboxes and on their phones.

So what if you have a good deal of customer data, but there are gaps that are preventing you from executing the level of strategy that you want? Our recent webinar with AnalyticsIQ looked at how their data asset can help you fill in those critical gaps, allowing you to know your customers better than you ever have in the past. And the better you understand who your customers are, their desires and motivations, the more targeted you can be with the messages you send them.

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Research: The Benefits Are Clear With Modern Data Warehouses

Research: The benefits are clear with modern data warehouses

Our exclusive new research into the enterprise marketing experience with modern data warehouses (MDWs) uncovered lots of interesting information about how those relationships are working from the marketing side. While the general tenor was quite positive, we received a wide variety of responses to our questions, as one would expect.

But the most consistent, resounding response came to our question about benefits to working with an MDW. No matter the size of the organization or their responses to other questions, enterprise marketers overwhelmingly said that they saw the benefits from having their data in an MDW.

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MessageGears’ Top 5 Blog Posts Of 2019

MessageGears’ Top 5 Blog Posts of 2019

Nearly every week this year, we’ve published another blog post, on a variety of topics revolving around the email marketing world. We strive to be authentically helpful, providing content that informs and advises, trying to draw on our collective experience in the industry to help you become a better, more data-driven marketer.

Over the course of the year, some blog posts stood clearly above the rest when it comes to web traffic and popularity. Sometimes, we can see clearly why one stood out to readers, but sometimes it’s harder to tell why one gained more attention than others. So, we thought it’d be interesting to dig into the data and pull out our five most read blog posts from the year that’s soon coming to an end.

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MessageGears announces $12M to eliminate data friction for enterprise marketers

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