Heike Young
author title content strategy directorAs content strategy director at Salesforce, Heike researches and writes about trends in sales, customer experience, and digital transformation. For two years, she hosted and produced Salesforce's award-winning podcast about digital marketing: the Marketing Cloudcast. Before joining Salesforce, she edited bestselling nonfiction books and managed social strategy and content for B2C brands. Heike's work has been featured in USA Today, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, and more.
Digital transformation is here to stay, and consumers’ shopping habits are a moving target. Here are five digital retail trends to know about before you head off to Shoptalk this year.
Hear from an intrepid producer on what it was like to produce, record, and launch a Salesforce podcast for the first time.
New data from the Shopper-First Retailing report reveals how Millennials and Gen Z, Gen X, and Boomers have distinct shopping preferences. We examined a survey of 6,000 people worldwide to bring you this blueprint to retail and ecommerce success among every generation.
Shopper-First Retailing: New Research from 6,000 Consumers and 1.4 Billion Ecommerce Visits Reveals What Shoppers Actually Want
Salesforce, with research partner Publicis.Sapient, examined retail’s new rules.
As a marketer, have you ever taken a look at your website, your content, or your branding and just thought… something isn’t quite right here? Unfortunately, businesses are often where creative ideas go to die. Even if you have a great idea about how to solve that branding problem or upgrade your
A career in marketing can be fun, creative, rewarding, and smart for the long-term — businesses will always need to market their products, no matter what else changes in consumer behavior or industry trends. As the world quickly transforms and career paths are changing at the speed of light, you
Sometimes a message, campaign, or product takes on a life of its own and becomes a legitimate movement. Think about Dove's Real Beauty campaign (as shown in the image above), TOMS Shoes, or American Express with Small Business Saturday. These messages went beyond marketing to become conversation
For almost two years, I've been fortunate to co-host the Marketing Cloudcast (the marketing podcast from Salesforce) alongside Salesforce's esteemed Director of Digital Marketing Insight, Joel Book. You might know Joel from his excellent presentations at worldwide marketing conferences . . . or
Podcasting has grown immensely in the past few years. According to the latest research, twenty-four percent of Americans have listened to a podcast in the past month. And the art of podcasting has come a long way from two hosts rambling on a subpar mic for an hour; listen to S-Town for evidence. If