Remove differences industry

Customer Experience Matrix

article thumbnail

Optify Lets Agencies Provide Small Business with Marketing Automation, Distributed Marketing, and Sales Enablement

Customer Experience Matrix

sales enablement: systems to share marketing information with sales ( Genius , SalesFusion , LeadFormix , RightOn Interactive , Optify) distributed marketing: systems shared between central marketing organizations and local branches, dealers, distributors, sales agents, etc. That''s theme number three. That''s theme number three.

article thumbnail

How Lego Bocks Explain Why Bloomreach Bought Exponea

Customer Experience Matrix

Still a suite, but a different kind. The pure vision is a distributed, non-hierarchical architecture, modeled roughly on the Internet itself, where any system can connect with any other system. What, then, do these acquisitions tell us about the future of the CDP industry?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What's Next for the CDP Industry?

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s been quite fascinating to watch the Customer Data Platform industry develop over the past few years. So far, we’ve seen two main trends emerge: extension of CDP product scope beyond the core of building the customer database itself and expansion into new industries. Both shed light on what we can expect to happen next.

article thumbnail

Balihoo Offers "Local Marketing Automation" for Channel Partners

Customer Experience Matrix

One of first marketing automation systems I ever saw – this would be during the Reagan Presidency – was a custom-built dial-up network to distribute collateral to farm equipment dealers. This and similar seeds have since sprouted into a forest of products that help brand marketers work with dealers, distributors, franchisees, and agents.

article thumbnail

Privacy Regulations Will Lead to Advertising Innovation

Customer Experience Matrix

None of this marks the end of the advertising industry or even of targeted online advertising. A total end to distribution of third party personal data would still leave Internet marketers able to target based on context, content, and in-session behaviors. If that’s all that happens, it’s no different from any other extract.

Privacy 149
article thumbnail

Why Designing Your Marketing Technology Stack is a Waste of Time

Customer Experience Matrix

On reflection, this is absolutely correct – it is why there are already so many different uses of machine learning across the marketing landscape. Applications then evolve into something completely different as people uncover the best ways to use the new technology. It's simply something that all good software will do.”

Design 120
article thumbnail

Marketing Automation 2014 Industry Overview: What the Surveys Tell Us

Customer Experience Matrix

The Interwebs have delivered an unusually rich trove of data about the marketing automation industry in the past few weeks. Strong Growth Continues As I reported last week , I expect industry revenue to grow 60% in 2014, accelerating from the already-impressive 50% per year we saw in 2012 and 2013. Here’s how I see things.