Zoho Corporation announced Zoho Marketing Plus, a new unified platform that brings together marketing activities across campaign ideation, creation, execution, management, and measurement, providing stakeholders across the entire marketing organization with a single, shared view of critical information for improved collaboration and results.
The new marketing platform increases the effectiveness of digital marketing strategies by giving marketing leaders a deeper understanding of customer preferences and behaviors so they can deliver dynamic, high-value customer experiences that drive brand affinity and customer happiness.
“Our previous marketing solution required time-consuming and costly customization and engineering support to provide experiences for our customers that didn’t scale or produce meaningful insights,” said Sundeep MV, Chief Marketing Officer for Techademy. “We embraced Zoho Marketing Plus, integrated Zoho CRM, and now we have a full-stack, unified sales, and marketing solution wherein every relevant stakeholder in the organization is armed with the data and tools to increase engagement and drive customer experience. Our evangelism, marketing, pre-sales, and sales teams collaborate within a single dashboard on the platform, which houses all of the content and data we use to derive actionable insights and grow the business.”
CMOs require their teams to leverage technology solutions that capture customer insights in ways that add value both to the business and customers. The platform synchronizes engagement data through automation and business intelligence to help marketing teams better understand customers, make more informed decisions, and ultimately drive better results, growth, and revenue.
“Consumers and digital marketing continue to evolve at warp speed, and marketers struggle to keep up. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to properly manage multiple campaigns, channels, customer profiles, data, and ROI,” said Mani Vembu, Chief Operating Officer at Zoho. “The complexity of data and personalization at scale only raises pressure on marketers and CMOs to deliver effective campaigns and revenue. Zoho Marketing Plus maximizes productivity and teamwork by eliminating redundancies and confusion arising from multiple siloed solutions, allowing marketers to stay nimble and collaborative amid evolving customer needs. When marketers aren’t bogged down by operations, they can deliver creative campaigns that promote meaningful relationships between the brand and customers.”
The unified platform empowers marketing teams to build continuous and consistent experiences for end customers and deliver more personalized journeys through:
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- Improved Collaboration Across Campaigns – Marketing teams will be able to connect and collaborate on various projects in tandem and with ease, enabling users to create, manage, execute, and monitor individual activities across different stakeholders and accurately track the progress of each task and brand asset. The platform delivers a strong creative suite that empowers teams to develop and improve marketing assets through comments, with the ability to maintain version control with flexible sharing capabilities for both internal and external stakeholders.
- Streamlined Management of Marketing Projects – Brand Studio eliminates the need for siloed solutions by serving as the centralized workplace where marketing campaigns can be created and managed. Users strengthen the brand from a single, unified platform where they can oversee all marketing strategies and progress. For example, capabilities like Brand Assets, powered by Zoho Workdrive, help digital marketers better manage documents and assets, serving as the repository for all project support materials.
- Unified Digital Brand Asset Creation and Repository – Documents, presentations, sheets, videos, and other files can be kept in a single shared space, making assets easy to locate, reuse, or share. Machine-learning-powered search capabilities streamline team efforts, quickly and accurately locating the correct file.
- Strong Marketing Automation Capabilities – Customer insights are surfaced through AI-powered data analysis, which activates marketers to design the best journeys that customers respond to. The platform properly tracks customers’ engagement and response data, giving marketing teams insights to improve their journeys over time. This clear and granular understanding of customer behaviors allows marketers to collaborate with customers like never before, ultimately delivering experiences that speak to their unique wants and needs.
- Omnichannel Engagement – Customers regularly bounce between channels and devices, yet marketing teams can be ill-equipped to adapt to this rapid movement. Zoho enables marketing teams to access and manage all channels, driving better connections with customers and brand engagement. Email campaigns, social media, customer surveys, webinars, events, and more can all be created and managed from one single interface within the platform.
- Supported Integrations – Zoho’s new marketing platform supports strong integrations with third-party solutions, making it easy to share data and insights. For example, sales teams can connect insights from Zoho CRM to existing systems like Salesforce, Microsoft, HubSpot, and more to help measure how much marketing spend is converting to sales. Other key integrations across finance, commerce, and event management strengthen the connections between apps that marketers already have in their arsenal. Platform integrations include Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, YouTube, and Survey Monkey; on the finance side it integrates with QuickBooks, Xero, and Stripe; on the commerce front, it integrates with WooCommerce and Shopify; and on the events front, it integrates with Eventbrite. Integrations can be accessed via Zoho Marketplace from the Campaigns and Analytics sections of the platform.
- Accurate and Real-Time Measurement – Real-time data aggregation and analytics deliver business intelligence that helps marketing teams and leaders determine true marketing ROI. Integrations further support a more accurate view of customer impact, ROI, and revenue growth projections.
“Zoho’s marketing platform goes a long way towards consolidating the fragmented technology stack marketers use to create and optimize customer experiences. Instead of a myriad of point solutions, marketers are increasingly looking for integrated applications that work smoothly in concert to help them execute campaigns and measure results,” said Keith Dawson, Vice President & Research Director at Ventana Research. “Zoho’s platform simplifies the stack while also connecting marketing tools to the breadth of the expansive Zoho suite, a significant benefit for marketers and their peers building innovative experiences.”
The unified platform includes a vast array of integrated capabilities aimed at helping digital marketers achieve greater results through simplified processes, tighter collaboration, shared assets, and consistent data. Zoho Marketing Plus combines the capabilities of multiple Zoho applications, including Campaigns, Social, webinars, Analytics, Marketing Automation , Workdrive, PageSense, Survey, and Backstage. This newest iteration of Marketing Plus will continue to evolve through tighter integrations with existing Zoho tools such as Cliq and new apps, including LandingPage, a no-code page builder that enables marketers to create high-converting websites landing pages in minutes without needing a developer-level skillset.
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