Where is AI taking marketing? — Ian Macleod // SALESmanago

Ian Macleod, Chief Marketing Officer at SALESmanago, talks about the future of AI in marketing for eCommerce companies. AI is providing marketers with valuable tools and insights to streamline processes and improve content creation. As AI technology continues to advance, it holds the potential to further transform marketing by enabling even more sophisticated automation, personalization, and data-driven decision-making. Today, Ian discusses where AI is taking marketing.
About the speaker

Ian Macleod

SALESmanago

 - SALESmanago

Ian is the Chief Marketing Officer at SALESmanago

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Show Notes

  • 02:14
    How AI is being used in marketing
    AI technologies like ChatGPT and DALL-E are being integrated with martech products to create engaging content and images. AI enables personalized, creative, and engaging email experiences, and has the ability to elevate traditional channels.
  • 04:44
    Simplifying AI adoption in product design
    As were still in the early stage of generative AI, the key is to make it easy for people to use AI in a creative way, within the product. SALESmanagos solution has a lot of the prompting built into the back end, reducing the users need to create prompts when generating subject lines, etc.
  • 06:52
    Balancing human intelligence and AI efficiency
    The accuracy of generative AIs outputs relies on the prompts being correct. Therefore, the need for human oversight and judgment alongside AI technologies is critical in terms of leveraging AI to increase productivity and efficiency.
  • 09:09
    Leveraging AI for customer intimacy and personalized experiences in eCommerce
    Challenges in eCommerce include customer loyalty, acquisition costs, and obtaining actionable customer insights for personalized and segmented experiences. SALESmanago's AI-powered platform enables marketers to build customer intimacy and personalize their experiences.
  • 11:19
    The future of artificial intelligence in eCommerce and beyond
    AI is set to revolutionize not only eCommerce but also every interaction we have with any business. Once it becomes the norm and socially accepted, AI deployment will become crucial to better understand consumers and provide a personalized customer experience.
  • 13:32
    AIs future in marketing
    We are still in the early stages of understanding AI's capabilities and well likely shift from asking AI for responses to telling it what results we desire. Were likely not too far away from AI accommodating automated campaign execution and personalized on-site experiences.

Quotes

  • "The introduction of AI has freed up email to be that personalized, creative, and engaging platform that we all wanted it to be originally." -Ian Macleod, CMO, SALESmanago

  • "SALESmanago was the first customer engagement platform to deploy ChatGPT and generative AI into marketing automation and email design studio." -Ian Macleod, CMO, SALESmanago

  • "One of the scary things for me is that, in five years' time when I'm trying to hire people, will I see the same CV 100 times because everyone puts their experience into ChatGPT and out pops the perfect CV?" -Ian Macleod, CMO, SALESmanago

  • "There has to be a balance of utilization and combination of human intelligence, human emotion, marketing creativity, with the streamlined efficiency of AI." -Ian Macleod, CMO, SALESmanago

  • "AI will be involved in every decision that we make moving forward. In every interaction we have with any business, there will be some form of a customer experience driven by the AI." -Ian Macleod, CMO, SALESmanago

About the speaker

Ian Macleod

SALESmanago

 - SALESmanago

Ian is the Chief Marketing Officer at SALESmanago

Cupid Score Assessment
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