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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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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. It’s really only possible in a reactive sense via social CRM, where individual complaints or questions can indeed be handled. At the same time, word of mouth marketing IS important, and effective.

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B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up

Online Marketing Institute

Positioning yourselves as “lead management” does not help differentiate what you REALLY do. And will the lead management market continue to grow in addition to – or despite – the plethora of offerings hovering around it? Direct marketing lists? How do you differentiate between these two in conversation?