Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 23, 2015

Picture posted by Terminus I can’t decide which is more exciting about next month’s FlipMyFunnel conference in Atlanta (register here and use the code DR50 for a 50% discount): the opportunity to interact with a great collection of speakers and attendees or seeing what the conference organizers at Terminus do with the notion of MarTech Stack Jenga.

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Competitors of the acquiring firms will feel pressure to offer similar services that help their clients deploy customer data. The path leads to a world where unified, sharable customer data is available to nearly every organization: that is, a world where every company has a CDP. They simply realized that buying was the better option.

Enterprise Management 257

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

But they still seemed to need help distinguishing CDPs from other types of systems, so we still have plenty more work to do in educating the market. Both also had a reasonable notion of what a CDP does. Use of CDPs beyond marketing.

Multi-Touch Attribution 136

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 20, 2018

The World Health Organization has just declared that video addiction is a real disease but they've missed something even more insidious: the dangers of newsletter publishing. Google also announced several enhancements last week that help retailers display their inventory on-line and drive traffic to local stores.

Marketing Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 18, 2018

This is where good delivery resources can be helpful: it’s much easier to deliver value with a use case that involves direct customer interaction and, thus, the opportunity to increase revenue or reduce costs. What use case will provide value? Where’s the pain?

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 13, 2014

At that stage, all the central marketing system can do is “listen” to customer activities and make the data it assembles available to the channel systems to help guide their own decisions. BlueConic gets involved at Level 1, where treatments are tailored to the individual but each interaction managed independently within each channel.

Paid Search Agency 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 16, 2018

My previous view was retail and publishing were early adopters because they had such poor systems in place before CDPs, making the incremental benefit higher than in banking and travel, here customer data was already fairly well organized. That is surely a helpful thing to have.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 29, 2011

I'll qualify this a bit by pointing out that OfficeAutoPilot is one of the systems aimed at small businesses, which means it includes the CRM and e-commerce components you don't find in products aimed at larger organizations. Industry gurus, myself included, rant about this endlessly.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Her final project included creating a game to help illustrate the course lessons. In the long run, resources are not fixed, so organizations can decide which resources they need to support the actions they need for strategic success. My wife is working on a Ph.D. This is the ultimate message of the game.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 24, 2016

Video recordings would let people catch up on sessions they missed; if that’s too expensive, voice recordings to accompany the slides would be a big help. Maybe a better delineation among the tracks themselves would help too. Speaking of social interaction, I still think the conference could do more to help people have fun.

Conference 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 17, 2016

I first started paying attention to “customer success management” systems when I realized they were assembling data from multiple sources to build a consolidated customer view – something that could potentially serve other departments throughout the organization.

Automation 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I meant both that predictive models guide decisions at every stage in many marketing programs, and that models are used throughout the organization by marketing, sales, and service. This helps users understand the model and suggests criteria for targeting increased marketing investment. Is SalesPredict right for you?

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 7, 2017

This allows Transavia to be genuinely helpful to customers, for example by letting cabin crews see passenger information and resolve service issues inflight. The speakers’ organizations had really built or rebuilt themselves around it. Given the customer-hostile approach of most airlines, it was nice to glimpse an alternate reality.

Marketing AI 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 28, 2014

I mentioned 6Sense briefly in a recent post about vendors who help companies find prospects on the Web. 6Sense can also display the information on screen to help guide sales conversations, although it doesn’t (yet) recommend specific talking points.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 22, 2013

The deal makes sense and will help Infusionsoft expand its social media capabilities, which have been limited. Naturally, Infusionsoft still strives to make its system as easy as possible to use, but its experience shows that new clients still need extensive help. It will continue to operate independently.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

It organizes the information into customer profiles that can include both static attributes and events such as transactions. The system also provides a preference center to capture customer permissions to receive messages in different channels – a feature that is essential in B2C, although certainly helpful in B2B as well.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 3, 2013

Venntive’s pricing model – starting at $25 per month for up to 1,000 contacts, with unlimited email – also fits a small organization without a big prospect list, since it would pay about that amount for basic email and Web hosting. But there''s a lot to learn and users will need help. And probably other things I haven’t mentioned.

Small Business Marketing 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The next frontier is refining and expanding existing programs, especiallyat larger organizations (a Left Brain specialty), which have the data volume and resourcesto support advanced analytics. But I’mstill here and happy to hear from people who need help in those areas. But we now understand what the issues are and howto solve them.

Demand Generation Agencies 120

Demand Generation Agencies Work Management Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency 120

Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 14, 2012

The interface is cleaner, organized around tasks rather than data objects, and lets users customize their menu of top-level functions. But Infusionsoft says it’s the biggest release in company history and I've no reason to doubt. A new interface and campaign builder are big projects.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 15, 2014

Each implies different requirements for marketing, product design, production, customer support, and administration, which in turn drive technology, core competencies, and organization.†† The conference will provide a much-needed vendor-agnostic forum for understanding marketing technologies and how organizations can use best them.

Marketing & Strategy 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

The uses for this information are obvious, including helping marketers to understand which topics are most appealing and giving salespeople insight into the interests of individual prospects. Captora is focused on paid and organic search marketing, so it can’t pick which ads to display to which prospects.

Conference 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

As Model Factory’s developers correctly point out, many organizations could healthily consume a nearly unlimited number of models. Modern Analytics has staff to help with that, but it can still be a substantial task. So far as I can tell, the models produced by Model Factory are quite good.

Analytics 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 15, 2011

Data hygiene can be an issue if you are working with a data set that is new to your organization. Most data experts love to teach so the entire data IQ of you organization increases. Look for people from the telecommunications industry who helped build systems to analyze Call Detail Records (CDRs).

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 29, 2011

This is quite different from marketing, and marketing automation, as a largely self-contained activity that only connects with the rest of the organization comes when it drives customers to make a purchase. eBay ’s $2.4 But both are pushing the fundamental idea of marketing as a node within the larger organizational collective. But I won’t.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 23, 2011

Summary : Infusionsoft is making it easier to build campaigns and taken a new approach to helping clients plan their marketing programs. Others have used its sequential processes either separately, to automate a variety of annoying manual tasks, or by painstakingly stringing them together by themselves or with professional help.

Work Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 13, 2014

chiefmartec *, last week published a terrific Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic organizing nearly 1,000 vendors into 43 categories and six major classes. 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. Scott Brinker, a.k.a.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 16, 2010

Summary: here are some checklists to help select a marketing automation system. On June 29, I'll be giving a Webinar on “Matching a Marketing Automation System to Your Needs”, part of a day-long set of all-star lead management presentations organized by the Focus online business community. Click here to register ; it’s free.)

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Customer Experience Matrix

MAY 3, 2013

Provenir is organized around process flows, which cover a particular task such as reacting to a Web site visit. It’s also sold as the “glue” connecting data sources, modeling, and execution systems, which is exactly the role played by a CDP. So, what the heck…welcome to the club!

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 24, 2008

Like a doctor specialized in “diseases of the rich”, I've been writing mostly about technologies for large organizations: specialized databases, enterprise marketing systems, advanced business intelligence platforms. It is basically a system to help direct marketers select names for catalog mailings and email.

Enterprise Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 9, 2010

In fact, Curata provides a complete system to not just locate the right content but also to organize and present it to the marketer’s target audience. The result is an organized archive that offers real value to someone interested in a topic. This is a critical advantage for many marketers who lack priority access to those resources.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

The logic is this: buying ATG suggests that Oracle, like IBM (which put Unica in its WebSphere organization), is focusing on online marketing rather than marketing automation in general. A less-helpful result may be to further isolate digital marketing from other channels, when what we need is to integrate them more closely.

Marketing Automation Services 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

These should be packaged into a formal requirements document so you have them all in one place, easily organized and available to share with vendors. Your goals are to define the scope of your required solution and to help prioritize different capabilities. But don’t think you’re writing the document for vendors.

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Customer Experience Matrix

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Functionally, the system is organized into layers for data loading, database management and analytics, and data consumption, which is exactly the model you’d expect from a CDP. On to Aginity itself. Where it differs from most CDPs is the underlying technology.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 19, 2007

But it doesn't help with the real challenge of measurement projects, which is choosing metrics that support corporate strategies. Most gurus seem to assume a flash of enlightenment will show each organization its own path. Perhaps organizations and strategies are all too different for any methodology to be more specific.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 24, 2007

We all know that organizations act in ways that are not purely rational. Certainly the personal and political interests that favor existing, product-based organization structures will not vanish simply because LTV analysis shows they yield suboptimal results. But it’s an important role and helps many companies to move ahead.

Enterprise Management 120

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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I wrote in February about one set of these vendors: Balihoo and others that specialize in helping central marketing organizations work with channel partners such as dealers and franchisees.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Paid Search Agency Marketing Automation Advertising Agencies 120

Customer Experience Matrix

OCTOBER 31, 2006

According to Computerworld ( www.computerworld.com , October 30, 2006, “BPM Is Helping Firms Control Critical Business Processes”), Business Process Management (BPM) has graduated from improving departmental processes to coordinating mission-critical activities across an enterprise. Click here for the article. That’s nice.

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