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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’ve been talking about this a lot with consulting clients but don’t think I’ve written about it at length in this blog.

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Advanced Analytics and Still More Reasons I Love QlikView

Customer Experience Matrix

I’m at the National Center for Database Marketing Conference this week. One theme I’ve picked up is a greater interest in advanced analytics. My personal theory is that the industry has matured in the sense that there are many more people now who have been doing serious database marketing for ten or fifteen years.

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Interview with Brian Hansford

Onalytica B2B

As my career progressed, I transitioned from sales to marketing and my first big career move happened when I ran a global field marketing program in the US and Europe. I also began working with CRM systems to enable database marketing efforts and lead results analytics.

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Claritix Assembles Marketing Data for Analysis: Maybe That's Enough

Customer Experience Matrix

Most of the work in any marketing analytics project is integrating data from multiple systems. It also uses matches created elsewhere such as lead IDs used to synchronize CRM and marketing automation data or cookie IDs imported from Google Analytics. The matching happens at both the contact and account level.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Sales Tool Investment

SalesIntel

They can help your company remove faulty customer data from their CRM software, replace faulty data with verified data, and even generate new, verified data for their database. . Marketing Automation And ABM. Automated marketing sends marketing materials over email, text, and social media to prospective customers.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

On the other hand, as the consolidation proceeds, small marketing automation companies may get pretty cheap. Finally, we come to Web marketing companies. and Web analytics ( Adobe Omniture , IBM Coremetrics , WebTrends ). These used proprietary, non-SQL database engines.

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Inbound Marketing Alone May Not Be Enough for Industrial Companies

Industrial Marketing Today

Inbound marketing with content has been getting all the attention lately. Consultants and practitioners of “pull” marketing want marketers to abandon “push” marketing because they say it is old school and no longer effective. Those marketing tactics need to be updated to make them effective in today’s context.