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Data + Insights Uncategorized

Bring Your Own Data: The Steppingstone to a Data-Driven Organization

As marketing continues to become more data-driven, marketers are left to wonder what data is appropriate for the specific marketing tactic they want to execute. Even if they know what data they need, they are at the mercy of IT, technology vendors, or service providers to execute the process before they have access to that […]

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Commerce

4 Building Blocks for Setting Up Adobe Product Recommendations

The Adobe Target Product Recommendations feature harnesses the power of Adobe Sensei to leverage machine learning in order to offer the most relevant products (or content) to your site visitors. While Adobe Sensei may power your Product Recommendations, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to implement them on your website! Read on for […]

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Commerce

5 Considerations for a Successful Adobe Target Product Recommendations Implementation

Are you considering ways to personalize and optimize your website? Adobe Target Product Recommendations can be a powerful tool that allows you to serve relevant products, or other content, to your visitors based on their actions, attributes, and defined business rules. To get the most out of this personalization engine, it is important to spend […]

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CX + Loyalty Strategy

5 Loyalty Program Challenges — and How to Overcome Them

Editor’s note: This post was originally published in November, 2018, and has been updated for comprehensiveness and relevancy pertaining to the importance of customer experience in today’s loyalty program landscape.  – On average, a consumer belongs to 14.8 loyalty programs but is active in only about six or seven, according to The Loyalty Report 2019. Although gaining and retaining […]

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Channel Partner Marketing

Give Your Partners the Power to Own the Local Customer Experience

Editor’s note: Ansira Chief Client Officer Andy Arnold sat down with Facebook U.S. Global Solutions Vice President Michelle Morris recently for a chat at the annual Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Masters of Marketing conference in Orlando, Florida. They discussed the challenges and opportunities faced by brands that rely on partners for local sales. This […]

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Performance Marketing Strategy

Get the Best Results From Your Web Analytics Platform With the 3 P’s

You can use the snazziest, feature-rich web analytics tool on the planet, but if the data behind the scenes isn’t accurate, your reporting results won’t be beneficial to the business. To ensure your data delivers the ultimate business value, revisit three basic principles essential to the strength of your web analytics framework: planning, partnership, and […]

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CX + Loyalty Performance Marketing Strategy

7 Big Takeaways From Big Design 2019

How can brands evolve their user experience (UX) design to be more accessible to all? In what ways can augmented reality (AR) enhance a brand’s mobile experience? Can we overcome cognitive bias in research and design? Why does the quest for speed hurt good design? Ansira team members learned the answers to these and other […]

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Local Marketing Activation Performance Marketing Strategy

5 Last-Minute Ways Retailers Can Boost Holiday Sales

The holiday shopping season is a critical time for most retailers. Although history tells us there’s only a slight lift in retail sales during the fourth quarter, most consumers are focused on gift-giving, and retailers want to capitalize on that interest. In 2018, the retail industry saw its poorest performing December since 2009, and as […]

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CX + Loyalty Strategy

How to Transform Your Loyalty Program

Loyalty programs are proven marketing tactics for encouraging repeat purchases and fostering brand affinity. However, these programs are not without their challenges. Members don’t engage, or they opt out after only a few months. Why? Because the loyalty program doesn’t meet consumers’ heightened expectations for relevant, personalized brand experiences. When loyalty programs work, the payoff […]

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Channel Partner Marketing

22 Best Practices Guaranteed to Improve Your MDF Programs

Editor’s note: In mid-June, we brought together some of our technology clients — Cisco, Sage, Citrix, and Red Hat — to discuss challenges and opportunities associated with market development fund (MDF) programs. We had lively debates and discussions, heard outside perspectives from Forrester and CDW, and shared program best practices. This is the fourth and […]