Marketers can be daunted by the overwhelming amount of the technology options available to date. MediaNet’s Julia Amorim details a three-step approach for marketers to evaluate the right martech opportunities to gain competitive advantage.

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ultimate challenge for experience designers is to connect ecosystems, capitalizing on the increased speed of personalized search, choice and transaction that mobile devices allow.

Customer retention can be a small change with major impact. And yet, many CMOs don’t champion retention as a top priority even though it plays a large part in their long term success.

Sam Meensian of USA Business Insurance looks at five tools marketing automation tools that can help you create better content – faster.

Thunder Experience Cloud’s Ka Mo Lau explores common notions of how much ownership we have of our personal data, including a word of caution: “We cannot continue to expect control over data we’re giving away freely.”

How marketers and developers can create, guide and find advantages in mobile gaming communities

Invoca’s Gregg Johnson explores the importance of emotional intelligence when using automation.

What Amazon and Alibaba can teach other retailers about investing in offline retail expansion.

In this Q&A, Antronix's president discusses the evolution to 10G, its challenges and benefits and how this technology platform will be more cost efficient and scalable.

Leighton Interactive’s Travis McGinnis narrows an expansive list of SEO tools down to the three powerhouses most effective for organic search strategy.

AUDIENCEX’s Lauren Hutton explores the process and questions to ask to find the right DSP partner.

Azoya USA’s Franklin Chu looks into the Chinese retail market and offers lessons and tips that US retailers can use, including use of QR codes, social commerce and the role influencers.