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Customer Journey
A Customer Journey is the path a customer takes through various engagements with a company and its content and services. This is often visualized as a map or other infographic for marketers to be able to see the stages of engagement of a company’s customers. This allows marketers to create ads and content for specific stages in this journey.
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Two Factor Authentication (2FA)
Two Factor Authentication, often abbreviated 2FA, is a security precaution in which users must use two separate methods of confirming their identity before gaining access to areas of a website that contain sensitive or personal information.
Two factor authentication is considered standard practice in many industries that conduct medical, financial or otherwise personal business online.
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Benchmarks
In digital marketing, a benchmark is a specific metric that you compare results to. A benchmark can relate to impressions, clicks, open rate, sales, or many other metrics. An established threshold is then used to determine success or failure of a particular campaign or piece of content. Benchmarks for an email campaign, for example, might be 20% open rate, 2% click through rate, and 0.5% sales rate on a product that the email is highlighting.
The success or failure of the campaign would be measured against these numbers. Ideally, you’re developing benchmarks based on past campaign results in order to create personalized benchmarks for your business that allow you to compare across marketing channels.
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Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL)
Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) are those prospective customers that, through some action related to marketing efforts, are more likely than others to become a customer.
This can be tracked a number of ways, and is often related to users who take a specific action on a website that isn’t a full purchase, but indicates a strong interest in purchasing.
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