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Where is B2B data-driven marketing headed?

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Real-time marketing gets real. We are fast approaching the holy grail of proactive database marketing, built on always-on, in-the-moment customer interactions. Real-time marketing will be real for business marketers, says Russell Kern of the Kern Agency. The post Where is B2B data-driven marketing headed?

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Building Your B2B Marketing Database

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Without a robust collection of contact information, firmographic and transactional data about customers and prospects, you are adrift when it comes to customer segmentation, analytics, and marketing communications of all sorts, whether for acquiring new customers or to expand the value of existing customers.

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Three barriers to B2B data-driven marketing

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They built a business case, established a partnership with their IT counterparts, and created a roadmap for the systems needed for data access and analytics. 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.

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Case study in data-driven B2B customer acquisition marketing

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My new book, B2B Data-Driven Marketing: Sources, Uses, Results , is launching in a few weeks. While preparing case studies for book, I had the fun of interviewing a bunch of very smart B2B marketers to learn how they were applying data and analytics to their marketing objectives. First, we target the right accounts.

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Troubleshooting your B2B marketing data problems

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This can be done by hand, using Google Analytics, or more easily by using any number of services that enable IP address look-up. Marketing automation systems are increasingly baking this option into their tools. The post Troubleshooting your B2B marketing data problems appeared first on Biznology. Sign up for our emails here.

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Why you should consider centralizing your search keyword lists

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IBM also produces every kind of marketing and communications asset you can think of related to the event across the major channels: Paid: TV ads, print ads, banner ads, iPad mobile ads, paid search. Owned: ibm.com sites, including ibm.com/analytics and ibm.com/cloud-computing.

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New directions for B2B data-driven marketing

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Sewell , president of Spear Marketing Group. Software and analytics can’t tell you the what and the why. “You can have all kinds of customer data, and still not understand how to communicate persuasively with customers and prospects,” notes Howard J. We need to respect and harness what the data tells us, but also put it in its place.”.