MarcomCentral and Demand Metric Content Consistency Study Shows Fragmented Content Impairs Revenue; Consistent Content Enhances It
London, Ontario (PRWEB) March 20, 2017 -- MarcomCentral, a leading provider of cloud-based Marketing Asset Management and Variable Data Publishing, and Demand Metric, a research and advisory firm, today announced the publication of new research: “The State and Impact of Content Consistency.” Among the key findings of the study was that almost two-thirds of firms lose business when the sales team doesn’t have the content it needs.
Some of the key findings garnered from the study’s participants include:
• Less than 10 percent report that their brand presentation is very consistent, but almost 90 percent agree that it is important to present their brands consistently in all the places people might encounter them.
• There is almost an even split between content that meets needs well versus very poorly to neutral in buying journey stages.
• The section of the sales/marketing funnel that suffers the most from a lack of quality content is the middle section, where consideration occurs.
• The number of “touchpoints” – encounters that prospects have with marketing and sales content during their buying journeys – averages between five and six. One in five firms in this study report seven or more touchpoints on their customers’ buying journeys.
• Almost 90 percent of study participants report that their sales and marketing content measurably influences revenue.
• Content fragmentation – a lack of consistency in expressing branding and key messages – is a reality for almost one-fourth of study participants. Content’s impact on revenue is diminished when it is fragmented.
• When content is fragmented, only 15 percent of study participants say it meets buyer needs well during the customer journey.
• Over one-fourth of the sales team in this study often or always create content without waiting for marketing to do it, unknowingly contributing to content fragmentation in the process.
• On average, study participants are personalizing about one-fourth of their sales and marketing content.
• Those that are personalizing content find it does a much better job of supporting customers on their buying journeys.
“For most organizations, content plays a crucial role in the revenue cycle,” states Jerry Rackley, chief analyst for Demand Metric. “For content to have the greatest impact, it must consistently convey the brand and its core messages reliably. This study shows the real cost of allowing inconsistent content to creep into the portfolio. The data shows that the business case for investing in the time, resources and systems to ensure that content is consistent is very compelling.”
“The findings from this report should be considered and evaluated by marketing departments everywhere” says Coleman Kane, President and CEO at MarcomCentral. “With a marketing asset management platform like MarcomCentral, issues of fragmentation can be completely eliminated, thus making your sales and marketing teams work better together to generate more customers.”
Jerry Rackley recently recorded a webinar to share and discuss the key findings of this report. To view the on-demand recording, please visit:
https://marcom.com/webinar-how-content-impacts-customer-buying-journey-demandmetric/
A complimentary report is available on MarcomCentral’s website:
https://marcom.com/content-consistency-impact-report/
About MarcomCentral
MarcomCentral, formerly PTI Marketing Technologies®, is a leading provider of cloud-based Marketing Asset Management and Variable Data Publishing. MarcomCentral encompasses three core products, MarcomCentral Enterprise Edition for corporate marketing organizations, MarcomCentral Web to Print Edition for service providers and FusionPro VDP for businesses requiring personalization software. MarcomCentral manages and customizes marketing material across entire organizations enabling brand control and asset distribution with anytime, anywhere access. Fortune 100 companies count on MarcomCentral’s powerful platform to scale their marketing asset development and build their brands worldwide.
To learn more about MarcomCentral, please visit http://www.marcom.com.
About Demand Metric
Demand Metric is a marketing research and advisory firm serving a membership community of over 80,000 marketing professionals and consultants in 75 countries. Offering consulting methodologies, advisory services, and 500+ premium marketing tools and templates, Demand Metric resources and expertise help the marketing community plan more efficiently and effectively, answer the difficult questions about their work with authority and conviction and complete marketing projects more quickly and with greater confidence, boosting the respect of the marketing team and making it easier to justify resources the team needs to succeed.
To learn more about Demand Metric, please visit: http://www.demandmetric.com.
Jerry Rackley, Demand Metric, http://www.demandmetric.com, +1 (405) 213-0050, [email protected]
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