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Unica and Alterian Lead Database Marketers to the Digital Promised Land

Customer Experience Matrix

The connection is that these both support my feeling that many members of the old-line database marketing community have failed to adapt to the new world of digital marketing. 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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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors.

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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. The system has prebuilt connectors to import data from popular vendors including Salesforce.com , Marketo , Hubspot , SAP , SugarCRM , and Facebook. Here’s a deeper look. It can connect with others through standard APIs.

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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. So it’s possible the growth could simply be due to better distribution and more vendor credibility, in which case it could be a one-time increase.

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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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Why RFPs Are Not Right for Everyone (and When You Still Need Them)

Customer Experience Matrix

The traditional process for selecting software involves gathering requirements, embedding these in a Request for Proposal, sending the RFP to qualified vendors, and making a decision based on the replies. Tooker makes this case in his usual colorful fashion in his book The Business of Database Marketing. know the vendors.

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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. They know what they need and are looking at vendor sites for specific information.