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Can Old Database Marketers Learn Digital Tricks?

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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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Clarifying the Differences Between Database and Digital Marketing

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post described the different mindsets of database and digital marketers but it was pretty short on differences between the two marketing methods themselves. DB or Not DB Database marketing is built around a marketing database that contains addressable, identifiable individuals.

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Why Social Media Really Matters

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Although social media currently gather under 3% of online advertising, this will surely change as marketers work to find ways to exploit its potential. database marketing, or, more poetically, narrowcasting. search marketing. marketing focus. This shows the critical task that marketers must master.

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Understanding Relationships Within the Marketing Technology Landscape

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If you want a crude approximation of how much a central database reduces complexity (and hence cost), this is good place to start. I''m working on it as part of a larger methodology to help marketers assess the value of a Customer Data Platform and plan for deployment. But it makes a good story, eh?

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Coremetrics Survey: Online Marketers Eager to Consolidate Data Across Channels

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This seems to contradict my position: if email is run by personalization-oriented database marketers, while Web advertising and (perhaps) site content are run by behavioral-targeting-oriented digital marketers, then email personalization should be more common. database) marketers and Web (i.e.,

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DIGIDAY:TARGET, or, Yogi Berra Meets Data in the Online World.

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Data hygiene can be an issue if you are working with a data set that is new to your organization. Keep in mind that the data scientists of those days were working with computers with less horse power and memory then the average iPad used by the majority of attendees at Digiday:Target. . • Lack of Metadata about data sources. •

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Shocking Thought: Maybe Customer Centricity Isn't for Everyone

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I’ve been at the National Center for Database Marketing conference these past few days. The people asking the question were experienced database marketers, so it’s not that they don’t know any better. As usual, I’ve spent most of my time in the exhibit hall gossiping with friends…I mean, doing research.