A guide to how email marketing platforms help brands succeed
All email platform providers send emails, but their technologies – both software and hardware – and approaches for doing so can differ.
Pamela Parker is Research Director at Third Door Media's Content Studio, where she produces MarTech Intelligence Reports and other in-depth content for digital marketers in conjunction with Search Engine Land and MarTech. Prior to taking on this role at TDM, she served as Content Manager, Senior Editor and Executive Features Editor. Parker is a well-respected authority on digital marketing, having reported and written on the subject since its beginning. She's a former managing editor of ClickZ and has also worked on the business side helping independent publishers monetize their sites at Federated Media Publishing. Parker earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
24 questions to ask identity resolution vendors during a demo
Identity resolution allows marketers to more accurately target and personalize brand messages to create better customer experiences.
Does your organization need an identity resolution platform?
While identity management platforms can help marketers, ask these important questions first before starting the buying process.
Identity resolution buyer’s guide
What is an identity resolution platform?
Let's dive into the main capabilities and leading benefits of identity resolution platforms.
Digital experience platforms buyer’s guide
13 questions to ask digital experience platform vendors during the demo
If you’re not able to deliver the kind of speed and user experience you require to any or all of your channels, a DXP might solve these problems for you.
Digital experience platforms buyer’s guide
Does your marketing team need a digital experience platform (DXP)?
While the allure of these exciting content management platforms is strong, start by assessing business needs, staff capabilities, management support and financial resources before jumping in.
Digital experience platforms buyer’s guide
What is a digital experience platform or DXP and is it the future of content management?
DXPs help marketers to deliver coherent, customized and compelling user experiences to more devices and platforms than ever before.
Digital asset management (DAM)
What is digital asset management and how can it help you?
Digital asset management can play a vital role in your marketing organization, unifying online and offline marketing channels and leading to more efficient marketing resource allocation.
20 questions to ask digital asset management platform vendors during the demo
Licensing an enterprise digital asset management platform can be a significant investment, here is a list of questions to help with the decision.
Digital asset management (DAM)
Does your organization need a digital asset management platform?
While DAM platforms can help marketers deliver consistent experiences, there are questions of process, training and budget to answer before beginning the buying process.
Conversion optimization platform buyer's guide
Questions to ask about conversion optimization platforms
Have these questions ready for vendors, internal stakeholders and technology customers.
Conversion optimization platform buyer's guide
Does your company need a conversion optimization platform?
Organizations should assess business needs, staff capabilities and financial resources when considering whether to adopt this new technology.
Conversion optimization platform buyer's guide
What is a conversion optimization platform?
Here’s why marketers are using this new technology to improve experience and boost ROI.
37 questions to ask call analytics vendors during the demo
If a call analytics platform makes sense for your business, these questions will help make sure you get the right one,:
Does your organization need a call analytics platform?
Though call analytics platforms offer a host of benefits, it's important to look at internal processes, training needs, pricing and more before making the purchase.
What is call analytics software and how is AI giving marketers more power to measure inbound call data?
The ability to track calls is a core use case of call analytics technology. However, advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are driving more sophisticated applications.
Customer data platform (CDP) buyer's guide
20 questions to ask customer data platform vendors during the demo
You want to learn how easy a platform is to use and whether the vendor seems to understand your business and your marketing needs.
Customer data platform (CDP) buyer's guide
Does your organization need a customer data platform?
To answer this you must assess your organization’s business needs, staff capabilities, management support and financial resources.
Customer data platform (CDP) buyer's guide
What is a CDP and how does it give marketers the coveted ‘single view’ of their customers?
Customer data platforms give marketers control over data collection, segmentation and orchestration through out-of-the-box integrations that rarely require IT or developer involvement.
Marketing automation buyer’s guide
15 questions to ask marketing automation vendors
Once you've decided you need a marketing automation solution or an upgrade to your existing solution you need to arm yourself with questions put to vendors.
Marketing automation buyer’s guide
Does your organization need a marketing automation platform?
The benefits of using a B2B MAP start with the potential for personalizing the buyer experience — but they don't end there.
Marketing automation buyer’s guide
What is marketing automation and how can it help B2B marketers?
Marketing automation platforms offer some common core capabilities, but vendors are looking to differentiate their offerings with a range of more advanced features.
30 questions to ask a digital events platform vendor
What you should be asking the DEP vendor can depend on your business use case.
Digital event platform buyer’s guide
How to decide if you need a digital events platform
A guide to determining whether a digital events platform can help your organization.
What is a digital events platform and how can it help you?
Digital events platforms let marketers and organizers to plan, deliver and measure the results of digital events either live or on-demand.
What is account-based marketing or ABM and why are B2B marketers so bullish on it?
Interest in ABM strategies is surging as technologies to target key accounts improve and relevant data becomes more accessible.
Customer journey orchestration buyer’s guide
Using customer journey orchestration to engage existing customers during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic raised the stakes on customer journey orchestration, especially for later-stage customer success and loyalty.
Marketing performance management buyer's guide
20 questions to ask MPM system vendors
What you need to know when assessing MPM vendors.
Marketing performance management buyer's guide
How to decide if you should get a marketing performance management platform
Implementing an MPM platform has implications for every aspect of your marketing operations and business.
Customer journey orchestration buyer’s guide
Questions to ask vendors before buying a customer journey orchestration solution
Important steps to take and questions to ask when narrowing the CJO field.
Marketing performance management buyer's guide
What is marketing performance management and how can it help you?
MPM's help marketers allocate future spend and bring it in line with business goals.
Customer journey orchestration buyer’s guide
How to decide if you’re ready for a customer journey orchestration solution
Once you understand the benefits of customer journey orchestration you can begin asking the right questions.
Customer journey orchestration
What is customer journey orchestration and how does it work?
Here are the goals and core capabilities of customer journey orchestration solutions.
Account-based marketing (ABM) buyer’s guide
How to decide if you’re ready for an ABM solution
Everyone in B2B marketing is talking about ABM, but not every business is ready for an ABM tool. Find out if your business is.
Account-based marketing (ABM) buyer’s guide
What is account-based marketing today and how has the space evolved?
Account-based marketing is evolving rapidly. Here are seven of the top developments in the space.
Does your marketing team need an SEO platform?
Before you purchase these essential tools, make sure your organization has the resources, and the right mindset, to practice search engine optimization effectively.
What do SEO platforms do and how do they help marketers get found on search engines?
Using an SEO platform can increase efficiency and productivity while reducing the time and errors involved in managing organic search campaigns.
20 questions to ask during an email marketing platform demo
Don't forget to ask vendors about project methodologies, reporting, and support before moving on to the negotiations and purchasing stages.
How to decide if you need an enterprise email marketing platform
Here are some questions to ask to determine if your organization can benefit from this software adoption.
What is identity resolution and how are platforms adapting to privacy changes?
Our guide to Identity resolution, management and related privacy issues including compliance, third-party integrations and the benefits of an identity management platform.