Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Of the three classic competitive strategies – low price, great service and innovative products – there are plenty of low price options and leading vendors work aggressively to help their clients succeed. Also can capture results of Google Adwords campaigns and has a URL-shortener to track traffic from social media.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s people’s concerns about being tracked that leads Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and every other major browser to block third party cookies, although you all know that Google just deferred that on Chrome yet again. And privacy is just one of the challenges that Google, Facebook, and other Big Tech companies like Apple and Amazon.

Marketing AI 292

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2009

But no one knows how best to use it, which has led to a wide range of offerings under the social media label. It analyzes the results to identify key events and to build consolidated profiles with its best guess at the correct current information. Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

If you're aware of a similar product, please let me know. Of course, the classic pay-per-click medium is paid search, and above all Google AdWords. But the cost-per-response model saves them the effort of managing details such as importing and refreshing lists, spacing their mailings over time, and tracking which segments respond best.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

As you might imagine, I’ve been trying to decide how to expand the set of products covered in the Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems. My original set of products was based on a general knowledge of which companies are most established, plus some consultation with vendors to learn who they felt were their main competitors.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 30, 2010

To make a free product viable, LoopFuse needed to engineer as much cost as possible out of the entire client life cycle. The free product should increase the number of companies that try LoopFuse first, which will gain it paying customers down the road. Here’s where the free system comes back into play.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 21, 2006

Everybody wants to get the best results from their Web site, and plenty of vendors are willing to help. Examples are Google Website Optimizer, Offermatica, Optimost, SiteSpect and Vertster. But it’s up to the user to apply the test results to production systems. Examples are Coremetrics, Omniture, WebSideStory, and WebTrends.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 20, 2009

Summary: Active Conversion helps marketing and sales departments make the best use of leads they’ve generated outside the system. This is considerably lower than most demand generation products, although it doesn’t include email transmission. So, on balance, more options is good news. For example, take Active Conversion.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But the situation facing potential entrants is daunting: the leading independent CDP vendors now have mature products, big customer bases, high brand recognition, and lots of funding. But the more promising path in most cases will be to offer specialized products that can be the best in a particular niche. I don’t think so.

Enterprise Management 260

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 18, 2017

It’s just that I see the over-arching story of the current economy as creation of closed universes by Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and maybe a couple of others. At present, Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon still occupy largely separate spheres, so most people live in more than one universe. Owning the Pipes. The AIs Have It.

Amazon 212

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 17, 2019

Adobe, Salesforce and Oracle all made announcements regarding Customer Data Platform products this week. It doesn’t include anything new about the product. Salesforce now says they’ll release that product this November. What benchmarks should these CDP products be measured against?

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 11, 2020

So buying a CDP they can deploy immediately gains them time and a mature product. It also offers entry to 20,000 accounts that might buy other Twilio products, especially given Segment’s position at the heart of their customer data infrastructure. Of these deals, only AgilOne seemed central to the product strategy of the buyers.

Segmentation 276

Segmentation Marketing Management Buy Acquisitions 276

Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 28, 2018

The announcement was frustratingly vague but some ferreting around* uncovered this blog post by Adobe VP of Product Engineering Anjul Bhambhri, who clarified that (a) the new product will persistently store data ingested from all sources and (b) perform the identity stitching needed to build a meaningfully unified customer view.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 14, 2017

More precisely, orchestration requires a decision system that uses activated customer data to find best messages and then distributes them to customer-facing systems for delivery. Surely firms with products that are literally addictive can gain consumer consent in ways that will satisfy even the most determined regulators.

Privacy 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 7, 2015

To test this, I listed the tasks that go into building a marketing program and matched these against my list of AI-based products. Some AI options are available for execution, but most are conventional predictive modeling products that I don’t count as strong AI because they still require humans to deploy their results.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

It has connectors to gather data from Shopify and Magento ecommerce systems and the Segment , Tealium and Google tag managers.* Security features can limit users to specified subsets of data, such as particular Web sites or product groups. Turns out, the primary thing that Zaius does is to build that unified customer database.

Top of Funnel 168

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 8, 2010

In practice, the specialists in each field tend to be better than components of the larger surrounding suites: this is the essence of a “best of breed” strategy. Or do you keep the doughnut together and enrich it with parts of the other products? And I don’t think Google has much interest in moving into Adobe’s other slices.

Work Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 29, 2016

The planning module was the original product. Standard integrations are available for Salesforce.com, Oracle Eloqua, Marketo , Google Analytics , Adobe Marketing Analytics , and other systems. Here's how it works: users can set up a rule tied to journey stage, product type, or customer attribute such as industry or persona.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 3, 2009

That is, youcalc provides analytical applications that read from an existing system, typically a Software-as-a-Service vendor like Salesforce.com or Google AdWords. At best, youcalc could point to an externally-built data warehouse as a source – but now you’re back doing all the database development that youcalc is supposed to avoid.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Current examples: Hubspot's Web site grader for SEO, Omniture Test & Target for landing page optimization, Google AdWords for keyword and copy testing.) Marketers in 2011 will still be confused about how to make best use of the many opportunities presented by social media. Integration will be the new mantra.

Enterprise Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 20, 2011

The system provides a social media publishing tool that automatically creates links with embedded Google-Analytics-compatible identifiers for campaign, content, and source. Argyle launched its product at the end of last year and is nearing 100 customers. Argyle’s particular focus is making social media measurable.

Social Media 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 27, 2018

Further muddying the waters, social and ecommerce companies (Facebook, Amazon, and eBay) topped NetBase’s list of most loved brands while Google ranked just 29th. Similarly, The Verge found that Amazon and Google were significantly better liked and trusted than Facebook or Twitter. The stakes couldn’t be higher.

Paid Content 153

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Lead Scoring 153

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 19, 2016

This is a huge change from marketing today, which aims mainly to sell individual products. In the future, those product decisions will be handled by algorithms that consumers cannot understand in detail. In an ideal world the gatekeepers would constantly scan the market to find the best products for each customer.

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