Direct mail and swag gifting have quickly become a common strategy to help B2B companies increase brand awareness, follow-up with clients and leave lasting impressions.
Alyce, an AI-powered gifting platform, has launched Swag SelectTM, a new solution designed to help marketers personalize gifts to potential clients and keep track of them during delivery, avoiding undelivered packages and no visibility into their impact.
With the new addition to the Alyce platform, customers will be equipped to expand the core value of Alyce across the customer journey, according to the company. Swag Select is designed to streamline gifting by enabling users to:
{loadpostion GIAA} “The current state of the world is fundamentally forcing companies to rethink sales and marketing right now and the entire approach they are taking,” said Greg Segall, CEO of Alyce in a statement. “That includes how companies manage swag, which has been broken for a long time. Swag Select is an extension of the Alyce platform that helps companies create stronger personal bonds with everyone they do business with, while helping businesses save time, money and the environment.”
Alyce found that companies spend an average of $185,000 on swag per year, with no real way of gauging ROI. With Swag SelectTM, every item of swag delivered is tracked to a specific individual, so companies can measure and attribute the influence the selected swag has on a company’s pipeline and customer base.
“As the digital space becomes more saturated than ever before, marketers are looking to break through the clutter while ensuring the highest impact across every program,” said Blake Grubbs, Senior Manager, Product Marketing at Alyce. “Swag Select gives full transparency into the ROI of swag, allowing marketers to measure and report on swag across different use cases, which was never before possible.”
Demand Gen Report has been covering the rapid growth of account-based marketing and key players — from practitioners to solution providers — in the space from the start. Year over year, our benchmark research shows more marketers already practicing or planning to practice ABM in some way. Our 2019 research revealed that half of the respondents (50%) have had their initiatives in place for more than a year, while 25% have been practicing ABM between six and twelve months. Only 6% of respondents said they are not doing ABM yet.
Craftom.io is a gifting and mailing platform that offers hyper-customization services for physical gifts, mailers, and messages using logos, text and photographs.
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Openprise, a digital data management and orchestration platform, has launched a new data management tool: Openprise Agile CDP. The tool is designed to help marketers clean, enrich and unify data across multiple sources into a single customer view in as little as 90 days, according to the company.
More than three-fourths (77%) of B2B sales and marketing professionals believe personalized marketing experiences make for better customer relationships, according to new research from Propeller Insights and sponsored by Folloze, a provider of a personalization platform for B2B marketers. In addition, more than half (55%) of the 205 sales and marketing professionals surveyed said marketing personalization leads to higher sales conversion rates and future growth.
Uberflip, the cloud-based content experience platform (CEP), has partnered with Demandbase, the account-based marketing (ABM) company, to release an app within Uberflip’s CEP designed to allow marketers to personalize content at scale for ABM campaigns.
LinkedIn has launched Conversation Ads, a new marketing tool designed to personalize viewers’ experiences with a messaging-based ad format. Conversation Ads builds on the company’s current Message Ads offering (formerly Sponsored InMail) and features a “choose your own path” experience designed to help marketers create full-funnel campaigns with multiple customized calls-to-action, according to the company.
