Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 27, 2020

As coronavirus forces most marketers to work from home, I’ve also been pondering ways to deliver information that are more engaging than traditional Webinars and, ahem, blog posts. I’ve put a working version of this in a Google spreadsheet that you can access here. That’s about all the enthusiasm I can hope for, I suspect.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 3, 2021

The stakes are higher when real-world objects are involved and there’s an irreducible level of complexity needed to make things work right. - As with all technology shifts, the leaders in the old world – the big software companies and audience aggregators like Facebook and Google – won’t necessarily lead in the new world.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Meanwhile, actions by Google, Microsoft, Apple and other major browser are putting still more barriers in the way of data business as usual. Pre-Internet advertising wasn’t as targeted or measurable as today’s display and social ads, but it did work. In sum, privacy regulations won't kill targeted marketing.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The best of those workers have many employment options and want to work at firms that agree with their values. But employee protests at Google , Amazon and Microsoft tell a similar story. Again, the problem is most severe for Facebook, whose own employees are increasingly concerned that it is doing more harm than good.

Paid Search Agency 192

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 7, 2017

That is, work is still organized into campaigns that deal with customer segments because the human manager needs to think in those terms. These vendors are still working with campaigns, not individual-level journey orchestration. But they are definitely showing progress.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 8, 2018

What GDPR does seem to doing is create a shake-out in the data supply chain as big companies reduce their risks by limiting the number of partners they’ll work with. The best example is Google’s proposed consent tool for publishers , which limits consent to no more than twelve data partners.

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In no particular order, things I didn’t quite expect this year include: - pushback against the walled garden vendors (Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.) Of course, that's only positive if the agents actually work in consumers’ interest. Those firms continue to dominate life online, and advertising and ecommerce in particular.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 3, 2017

I’m still chewing over the role of “walled garden” vendors including Google, Amazon, and Facebook, and in particular how most observers – especially in the general media – fail to grasp how those firms differ from traditional monopolists. Since just a handful of people will see the slides in person, I figured I’d share them here as well.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

These resemble attribution except they work at the channel level and are not based on individual data. It's also important to note that the technical details of the algorithmic methods differ greatly from vendor to vendor, and of course each vendor is convinced that their method is by far the best approach.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Most of the work in any marketing analytics project is integrating data from multiple systems. It also uses matches created elsewhere such as lead IDs used to synchronize CRM and marketing automation data or cookie IDs imported from Google Analytics. The matching happens at both the contact and account level.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 13, 2018

The idea isn’t new but it’s become more popular as people see the huge profits that Google , Facebook , and others make from using that data, as consumers become more aware of the data trade, and as blockchain technology makes low cost micro-payments a possibility. Should marketers pay consumers directly to access their personal data?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 1, 2015

It works with the company’s own data and primarily through company-owned media like email and Web sites. We already do this today in specialized areas like search engine optimization (“selling” to Google for a higher ranking) and programmatic media buying (providing more data about impressions so they earn higher bids).

Work Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 7, 2014

Great customer support has been important because setting up work flows in Ontraport, such as order processing for the VEST report, was pretty darn complicated. Ontraport recognized the issue some time ago and has in fact been working on a complete rebuild for more than two years. I’m only talking here about new enhancements.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Like Radius, Infer works by importing the client's CRM data and enhancing it with Infer's information. The system also has connectors to import data from marketing automation and Google Analytics. Mintigo’s actual implementation is considerably messier than that, but such is the price of working in the real world.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 25, 2012

Here’s how it works. Integrations are currently available for Outlook, Gmail, Google Calendar, MailChimp email, Wufoo web forms, and HubSpot marketing automation. That might not sound like much, but in practice it’s pretty darn slick. Say you’re selling a product related to, oh, circuit boards.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s people’s concerns about being tracked that leads Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and every other major browser to block third party cookies, although you all know that Google just deferred that on Chrome yet again. And privacy is just one of the challenges that Google, Facebook, and other Big Tech companies like Apple and Amazon.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Openprise also integrates today with Google Apps and the Amazon Redshift database. Openprise works by connecting data sources, which are typically lists but sometimes API feeds, to “pipelines” that contain a sequence of if/then rules. Integrations with Oracle Eloqua , HubSpot and Salesforce Pardot are planned by end of this year.

Work Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 9, 2017

One point that I think does need more discussion is how companies like Facebook , Google , Apple , and Amazon have a natural tendency to take over more and more of each consumer’s experience. That’s still possible but it will take coordinated hard work to make it happen. __ *For example, Martin Gurri’s The Revolt of the Public -.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Of the three classic competitive strategies – low price, great service and innovative products – there are plenty of low price options and leading vendors work aggressively to help their clients succeed. Also can capture results of Google Adwords campaigns and has a URL-shortener to track traffic from social media.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

This is a major extension beyond traditional marketing automation, which works mostly through email to known prospects. But that’s the nature of this sort of thing; the business question is how well the data works even in its imperfect state. Like DemandBase, Bizo has found many applications for its core data asset.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 13, 2007

There’s nothing wrong with that: payroll software also isn’t very interesting, but people care deeply that it works correctly. One challenge facing search vendors today is the dominance of Google. Consumer search is also working on moving beyond Web pages to different repositories, formats and languages.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The answer may not matter to marketers who don’t themselves work for a marketing automation vendor. But I think the right basis of comparison is Google AdWords, which made entry-level search engine marketing so incredibly simple that pretty much anyone can do it with no training at all.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The difference matters because marketers are increasingly required to pick a collection of components that somehow work together to deliver integrated customer experiences. Iterative’s B2C focus is further clarified by its prebuilt integration with Magento for ecommerce and with Mixpanel and Google Analytics for mobile and Web analytics.

Marketing Analytics Tools 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If social media worked the same way, companies would first buy a monitoring system to track what’s being said, followed by tools to respond to comments made by others. Spredfast's developers also recognized that large companies will have many different people working on different aspects of a project. links for each event.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 22, 2010

Exchange Applications went to Amdocs , Prime Response went to Chordiant (itself recently purchased by Pegasystems ), Protagona was purchased by DoubleClick (now part of Google ), Ceres ended up with Teradata , Intrinsic was bought by SAS , Epiphany became part of Infor , Paragren was bought by Siebe l (now Oracle ).

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Google Adwords integration and advertising through Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn audiences are more widely available but I don’t include them here. But that’s a much weaker selling point than being one of the few firms to do it at all.) - ad tech integration. Okay, maybe it’s a bit of both.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Some of this may be due to the fact that it’s much easier to buy search advertising (think Google AdWords ) than other types of online ads. Although social media currently gather under 3% of online advertising, this will surely change as marketers work to find ways to exploit its potential. post-sale relationship.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve seen marketing agencies and direct response media that work on a cost-per-lead basis. Of course, the classic pay-per-click medium is paid search, and above all Google AdWords. So marketers will have plenty of work whether or not they use LeadPAC. If you're aware of a similar product, please let me know.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 15, 2009

But different products work differently*, so figures for some vendors include landing page traffic while figures for other vendors do not. Some of the vendors offered alternative measures, such as search counts from Google AdWords. In itself, this doesn’t bother me, since it provides data on actual use of the systems.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 6, 2009

Summary: Infusionsoft knows exactly how to sell marketing automation to small business: promise more revenue, less work, strong support and a low price. But this is where it’s worth remembering that Infusionsoft is working with very small businesses: larger firms might have greater need for separate systems.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 22, 2014

Not quite standard but increasingly common features include social media sharing and tracking, Webinar integration, visitor identification via reverse IP lookup, and capturing campaign information from Google AdWords. Target360 was also developed by a UK-based service firm, in this case CRM consultants specializing in Microsoft Dynamics.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 6, 2010

I haven’t written much about QlikView recently, partly because my own work hasn’t required using it and partly because it’s now well enough known that other people cover it in depth. The company has also made it easier to merge QlikView with other systems like Google Maps and SharePoint.

Enterprise Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 26, 2011

There’s no shopping cart or Web site hosting but I don’t yet consider those standard features, even for micro-business systems.

Small Business Marketing 120

Small Business Marketing Work Management Features Marketing Management 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 6, 2007

The article also mentions efforts by Google and DoubleClick to create online exchanges for advertising purchases, and suggests these may also face resistance from media companies. Although the article doesn’t mention it, other reports have stated that Google is indeed having trouble gaining cooperation from radio stations.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 2, 2008

But there are many dozens of cards even in the high-performance category, so I couldn’t just type them all into a search box, either on Google or within an e-commerce site. As data extraction challenges go, this isn’t the hardest I can imagine, but it’s still a bit of work. They must do this automatically since it constantly changes.

Personalization 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 3, 2013

But things don’t work that way on my little corner of planet Earth. It supports pages, blogs, member sign-in, stores, coupons, advertising, support tickets, and tracking via Google Analytics. One problem with writing about a system like Venntive is evaluating its huge number of features. The Web site builder is much more robust.

Small Business Marketing 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2006

I’m sure they do customer experience management work, but the few I checked don’t seem to have practices with that title. Wikipedia was interesting: it has brief article on “customer experience management” based mostly Bernd Schmitt’s work. But no Customer Experience Management for Dummies. No buzz-power there.

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