Eyetracking research shows us that visitors evaluate a web page in a fraction of a second and will often click within a few seconds. So, in many senses, success in digital marketing is down to how well you craft your digital communications to engage the visitor on your site and third-party sites. So how do you approach engaging your online customers, is there any research to back up your approach and who is doing this well? In the first of my E-marketing Excellence interviews, I interviewed Richard Sedley, then Director of the Customer Engagement Unit at design agency, cScape.

The imperative of customer engagement

Q1. [Dave Chaffey] The customer engagement concept isn"€™t new. Why is there an increased focus on it today both in the US and in Europe? [Richard Sedley] The increased importance of customer engagement is a result of a number of things dovetailing together including: Media fragmentation, at least in the short term, has…