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What You Need to Know About Database Marketing

PureB2B

Or do your strategies involve marketing databases, careful research, personalized contacts, and meticulous relationship building? If your answer is the latter, you’re probably using database marketing. Database Marketing vs. Direct Marketing. True database marketing is different—at least in part.

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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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Unica and Alterian Lead Database Marketers to the Digital Promised Land

Customer Experience Matrix

The connection is that these both support my feeling that many members of the old-line database marketing community have failed to adapt to the new world of digital marketing. Alterian has already made big bets in social media and Web content management, which are also well beyond the scope of traditional database marketing.

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The Ongoing Challenge of B2B Multi-channel Attribution: 7 Practical Workarounds

Biznology

B2B marketers have long struggled to demonstrate results along the complex path from a campaign investment, to a sales lead, to a closed revenue deal. Digital campaign channels make things easier on the front end. Closed loop works best on high-value products and services. We can track a click to a lead with confidence.

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Cleansing and Enriching Your Contact Records for a Pristine ABM Program

Engagio

According to the Database Marketing and Contact Acquisition Survey Report this is one area where some marketers are falling short. Part of the challenge is that marketers are simply not performing data cleansing often enough to keep track of their B2B contacts. Let me illustrate with a couple examples.

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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. This includes three related to multi-variate testing (e.g.

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Conversen Simplifies Complex Messages Through Multi-Channel Dynamic Content

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Conversen makes it easy to generate dynamic messages across multiple channels. It's more a supplement than a replacement for conventional campaign management but should save a lot of work for marketers and their agencies. Conversen is working on multi-media content blocks that could be inserted into any medium.