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Can Old Database Marketers Learn Digital Tricks?

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Database marketing and digital marketing are more different than it seems. It’s self-evident that digital marketing (mostly on the Internet, but also mobile, in-game, and eventually interactive TV) is a major change from both traditional mass media and more recent database marketing (mail, email, telemarketing, CRM).

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Three barriers to B2B data-driven marketing

Biznology

Database marketing, also known as data-driven marketing, is being used across the B2B go-to-market process today—but it’s very likely called something different. It may be “predictive analytics,” “CRM,” “Big Data,” or a zillion other buzzwords. With his clients, Ken never says “marketing database.”

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In Defense of Unsolicited Email

The Point

I’ll even agree that any type of “spray and pray” advertising – the type that makes no attempt to target the right audience, deliver relevant content, or offer information of value, should be frowned upon if not outlawed completely. This is the only way that email is going to survive as a useful tool for any of us.”.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Decision Software has remained a small company while Aprimo is most successful in B2B marketing resource management. Alterian and SmartFocus are also still independent, but are sold as services via marketing agencies (Alterian) or directly (SmartFocus). The obvious candidates are CRM vendors.

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

Convince & Convert

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. Tagging contacts in your CRM system requires nothing more sophisticated than one or two multi-select lists on your contact record.

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Lead Gen: A proposed replacement for BANT

markempa

For example, if that field contains the name of a company, we suspect it’s some kind of advertisement or triggered email. If the call is from my agency, then X, or if it’s from overseas, then Y, and so on. A good database marketing strategy and solid CRM implementation is critical. The “from” field might be a clue.

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Social Pros 27 – Jeremiah Owyang and Rebecca Lieb

Convince & Convert

Also our good friends at Infusionsoft , email and CRM folks that we use for all of our email stuff at Convince & Convert and at Social Pros. Our friends at Janrain , all kinds of interesting social signing and social media database marketing. Eric : You guys are the Biggie and Tupac of market analysis.