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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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In Defense of Unsolicited Email

The Point

Over at marketing automation firm Marketo , CEO Phil Fernandez just wrote a full-throated rant against the evils of unsolicited email and purchased email lists used indiscriminately: “How does anyone think that these are sensible emails to send to the CEO of a fast-growing public company? In fact, I’d recommend it.

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B2B Lead Generation – Challenges & Strategies That Work

PureB2B

At worst, your tactics will be seen as what they are—spam—and you will alienate even the prospective clients that might have had a relevant interest in your product or service. B2B marketing is all about coming out of the woodwork to present a prospective client with solutions. Using Database Marketing to Drive B2B Lead Generation.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

And it’s not clear to me if lead management automation deserves to be a separate category or to be subsumed as part of the broader marketing platform. (I I know Suresh Vittal includes lead management as a component of his enterprise marketing platform. My point: B2B marketers are looking elsewhere for help generating demand.