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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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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors.

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

Customer Experience Matrix

Next year it will add display ad audiences and Facebook Custom Audiences. The vendor is also integrating with the R statistical system for predictive models and scoring. which also owns a database marketing services agency called Blue Sheep. but kept the name for itself. The good news is: this won't be on the final.

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Coremetrics Survey: Online Marketers Eager to Consolidate Data Across Channels

Customer Experience Matrix

The article referred to a survey of online marketers sponsored by Web analytics vendor Coremetrics. As the headline suggests, about three-quarters of the marketers listed personalized email, display advertising and onsite pages as a high priority, but just under half are actually using them. It's the best I could do.

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Marketo Conference: Small Changes, Big Picture

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketo wrapped up its three day Marketing Nation conference yesterday, having once more displayed its own marketing prowess by attracting national media attention (see here and here ) with an appearance by Hillary Clinton. This borders on integration of Web display with marketing automation, an extremely important trend.

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Customer Centricity Isn't Marketers' Major Concern--Yet

Customer Experience Matrix

Contrary to my initial impression that “customer centricity” was the major topic at the National Center for Database Marketing conference this week, a close look at the program shows just four of the 45 sessions had this as their focus. I count 37 service vendors and 17 software companies. Reality can be so annoying.

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Decoding the True Essence of Outbound Marketing

MarketJoy

60% of the IT executives stated that IT vendors were analyzed solely on the basis of emails or outbound calls. This information came when social media, content marketing, search engine optimization, and other inbound strategies had already proved their mettle with regards to “cost-efficiency.”