Digital Magazine for Content Marketing Professionals Launches in Europe

Chief content officer A new magazine focused on content marketing by the Content Marketing Institute is now available in Europe. Chief Content Officer is the world’s first magazine devoted to the fast-growing, evolving field of content marketing.

It is written by, for, and about the most innovative, influential global content marketers. and of course marketers that embrace content and content marketing for their lead nurturing or integrated email and other interactive marketing strategies.

Content marketing is an emerging discipline of creating and distributing relevant content to the right audience at the right time—with the objective of driving profitable customer action.  It focuses on creating educational and engaging content that is geared towards consumer needs, and it requires marketing professionals to start thinking like publishers.

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ExactTarget Launches Real-Time A/B Testing at MarketingSherpa’s Email Summit 2011

ExactTarget has launched a feature it’s calling “Real-Time A/B Testing”. The solution is described as something which will improve email marketing performance in real time based on customer reactions.

The company took the wraps off the new service at MarketingSherpa’s Email Summit 2011 in Las Vegas. The tool boasts an intuitive interface within the ExactTarget application to create and monitor dynamic test emails in real time and choose the best performing email to send.

“Marketers can now take the guess work out of determining which email is performing by seeing which one is getting more customer clicks in real time,” said Susan Marshall, senior director of product marketing at ExactTarget. “Unlike other email testing tools that lack real-time automation, this new feature helps ensure that marketers are delivering the most relevant email message to their customers.”

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