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Unica and Alterian Lead Database Marketers to the Digital Promised Land

Customer Experience Matrix

Here are some quick thoughts on two items: Unica ’s acquisition of paid search bid management system MakeMeTop (now mercifully renamed Unica Search) and Alterian ’s recently-released and excellent annual marketing survey. 35% of marketers expect to move more than 20% of their direct marketing budget into digital channels next year.

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Why Social Media Really Matters

Customer Experience Matrix

This matters because social media are an alternative gateway to finding Web content: instead of doing a search, I can ask my online community for information or recommendations. Although social media currently gather under 3% of online advertising, this will surely change as marketers work to find ways to exploit its potential.

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BlueVenn Bundles Omnichannel Journey Management, Personalization, and Single Customer View

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The messages can include different forms of dynamic content including recommendations, coupons, and banners. which also owns a database marketing services agency called Blue Sheep. This puts a line of code on client Web sites to gather click stream data, manage first party cookies, and deliver personalized messages.

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Coremetrics Survey: Online Marketers Eager to Consolidate Data Across Channels

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If I were feeling particularly tendentious, I could argue other data in survey supports my claim that digital marketers are relatively disinterested in personalization. But the actual question asks about email, display advertising and onsite content personalized " based on individual online behavior ”. database) marketers and Web (i.e.,

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Dueling Strategies: Adobe and Oracle Take Opposite Paths to Customer Experience Management

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The platform fills the center of Adobe’s three-part corporate mission to “make, manage, and measure” digital content and experiences. The other two pieces were already in place: “make” is Adobe’s original content creation business, while “measure” is Omniture Web analytics. Oracle isn’t very creative with product names.)

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Acxiom Uses Social Media Data to Segment Email Lists

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What Acxiom has done – and this is so Acxiom – is to ignore the content posted in people’s social media comments or profiles, and just capture the “hard” information about links between people and membership in groups. The key point here is that Acxiom is using social media to execute traditional database marketing.

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Aprimo Marketing Studio Supports Sophisticated Business Marketers

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This starts with the core functions of any business marketing system: outbound and multi-step email campaigns, landing pages, Web behavior tracking , lead scoring, Salesforce.com integration, reporting and content management. The same rule-building interface is used for content selection rules, segmentation queries, and lead scoring.