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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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Two Database Marketing Principles to Increase Email Marketing ROI

Webbiquity

Do you think that the strategies above would do better than “random emails to the database when we feel like or it think it will be a good idea”? Database marketing is not just about the automated front-end, and where it lands your prospects / clients once the automation ends.

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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. I’ve been talking about this a lot with consulting clients but don’t think I’ve written about it at length in this blog.

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Ruth Stevens: Spotlight on the expert

Martech

Ruth Stevens found her way into B2B marketing by accident, as many B2B marketers do. Her route took her through the publishing industry, then grad school, before diving into the intersection of marketing and technology by learning database marketing. One constant in Ruth’s career: teaching.

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5 Trends that Will Define the Future of Marketing Automation

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The evolution of marketing automation has had a profound influence on marketers and buyers alike. From the days of spray-and-pray email marketing and complicated database marketing, the technology and expertise of marketers have truly elevated marketing automation as a practice.

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Why Social Media Really Matters

Customer Experience Matrix

database marketing, or, more poetically, narrowcasting. search marketing. I’ll date it from 2008, although effective marketing uses of social media are just starting to emerge. Of course, the old media don’t go away completely. marketing focus. This shows the critical task that marketers must master.

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How to reach your customers at work or at home

Biznology

I have just learned about a new service from the San Antonio-based database marketing company Stirista that offers a way to link an individual’s consumer record with the business record. Of course, the technique does not work for the John Smiths, but it did add another layer of names to the file.