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Unica and Alterian Lead Database Marketers to the Digital Promised Land

Customer Experience Matrix

Here are some quick thoughts on two items: Unica ’s acquisition of paid search bid management system MakeMeTop (now mercifully renamed Unica Search) and Alterian ’s recently-released and excellent annual marketing survey. I say “almost” only because Unica seems to intend to link search click-throughs to a traditional marketing database.)

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ExactTarget Survey: Lack of Skills Slows Growth of Digital Marketing

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: a new survey from ExactTarget shows that digital marketing is growing faster than database marketing or mass media, and that agencies have a harder time adding digital capabilities than their clients. What is preventing your company from investing more money in digital marketing?

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New Response Databases - Valuable Resource for B2B Marketers?

ViewPoint

Today we're honored to have guest blogger Ruth Stevens share her thoughts on database marketing. Business marketers are always suspicious of the data they are getting from list and data companies, whether its prospecting lists or data elements purchased for “append,” to fill in gaps. Will my mail be delivered?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. To paraphrase Tina Turner , we don’t need another acronym.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline. Eat 10 sandwiches, get the 11th free.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

Online Marketing Institute

Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. 2010 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Call for Entries OPEN! 2010 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Call for Entries OPEN! ADVERTISEMENT. ); ); ); Home » emedia and Technology. Here, digital audience marketers chime in on the ones they’re using now, and why. Lead Generation. White Papers.