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What's Next for the CDP Industry?

Customer Experience Matrix

They pointed out that adoption came earliest in industries with the shortest, most transactional buying cycles, and then spread quite steadily to industries with longer cycles and higher product costs. On the other hand, viewing CDP utility as a function of buying cycle does make sense.

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Don't Fix Your Marketing Process

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketers need people, processes and technology that allow them to react quickly to new opportunities. HOW can marketers adjust their staffing and processes, given the practical constraints of time and budget? This is what allows them to design a new set of processes and techniques optimized for that situation.

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6Sense Finds B2B Prospects Using Web Site Activities

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Starting at the beginning, the system imports a list of each client’s customers and sales opportunities from CRM and marketing automation systems. APIs can load data from other sources, potentially including other CRM marketing automation products, Web logs, order processing, call centers, media impressions, and pretty much anything else.

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5 Steps to Marketing Measurement Maturity

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Summary: marketing performance measurement can start with simple response tracking, and grow in stages to show business impact, track the buying process, optimize results and demonstrate strategic alignment. Each stage adds new data, systems, measures and processes. Understand the Buying Process.

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Clarifying the Differences Between Database and Digital Marketing

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Since rule-based decision flows are less viable as the number of options increases, digital marketers lean more heavily on self-adjusting automated decision engines. Digital marketers can also measure who clicks on a Web ad, and sometimes can track that person further into the buying cycle.

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Aberdeen Predicts Web Content Systems Will Add Marketing Automation: I Agree, But.

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Summary: a new Aberdeen Group report argues that Web content management systems should add customer management features and will ultimately compete with traditional marketing automation products. I’ve been convinced for some time that Web content management systems (CMS) will become important platforms for marketing automation.

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Predictions for B2B Marketing in 2011

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Marketing automation hits an inflection point, or maybe two. Mainstream B2B marketers will purchase marketing automation systems in large numbers, having finally heard about it often enough to believe it's worthwhile. This will eventually lead to a backlash against marketing automation, although that might not happen until after 2011.