Tech marketing agency Walker Sands and industry guru Scott Brinker of Chief Martech yesterday published a fascinating survey on the State of Marketing Technology 2017, which you can download here. MORE
For the past year, the most common question about Customer Data Platforms has been how they differ from Data Management Platforms. Recently that seems to have changed. Today, the question everyone seems to be asking is what project they should pick as their first CDP use case. That’s certainly progress but it’s a much harder question to answer than the one about DMPs. Like any good consultant, I can only answer that question with “it depends” and by then asking more questions. MORE
I escaped from my cave this week to present at two conferences: the first-ever “Customer Data Platform Summit” hosted by AgilOne in Los Angeles, preceding Shop.org, and the Technology for Marketing conference in London, where BlueVenn sponsored me. MORE
I ran a four hour workshop on Customer Data Platforms this week at the MarTech Conference in San Diego.* The attendees were a mix of marketers and technologists from brands, agencies, and vendor companies. MORE
Everyone in marketing knows there’s a lot of new marketing technology, but how quickly is martech really growing? Many people cite changes in Scott Brinker ’s iconic marketing technology landscape, which has roughly doubled in size every year since Brinker first published it in 2011. MORE
It feels like forever since I first wrote about Journey Orchestration Engines (JOEs) , although it is just one year. Orchestration was already a hot term when I started, so I take neither credit nor blame for its continued popularity. MORE
Like many people in the marketing technology industry, I was tickled in 2011 when Gartner predicted that CMOs would soon have bigger tech budgets than CIOs , and even more tickled when Gartner said in 2016 that it had happened. MORE
The Customer Data Platform Institute (which is run by Raab Associates) on Monday published results of a survey we conducted in cooperation with MarTech Advisor. MORE
A recent Forrester study found that most marketers expect artificial intelligence to take over the more routine parts of their jobs, allowing them to focus on creative and strategic work. That’s been my attitude as well. MORE
It’s almost ten years to the day since I first wrote about Celebrus , which then called itself speed-trap (a term that presumably has fewer negative connotations in the U.K. than the U.S.). Back then, they were an easy-to-deploy Web site script that captured detailed visitor behaviors. Today, they gather data from all sources, map it to a client-tailored version of a 100+ table data model, and expose the results to analytics and customer engagement systems as in-memory profiles. MORE
"A CDP by any other name still stores unified customer data." Adobe on Tuesday announced the Experience Cloud Profile, which it described as a “complete, real-time view of customers” including data from outside of Adobe Cloud systems. MORE
The Customer Data Platform Institute will be launching its European branch later this month with a series of presentations in London, Amsterdam and Hamburg. MORE
Last week’s passenger-dragging incident at United Airlines left many marketers (and other humans) aghast that any company could purposely assault its own customer. As it happens, airline technology vendor Sabre published a survey of airline executives just before the event. MORE
Thomas Wieberneit argues in a thoughtful blog post that companies need one platform for consolidated customer data, but that Customer Data Platform isn’t it because the CDP is “marketer-controlled” by definition, and thus doesn’t support other departments. This hits a nerve. MORE
I spend a lot of time with vendors trying to decide whether they are, or should be, a Customer Data Platform. I also spend a lot of time with marketers trying to decide which CDPs might be right for them. MORE
Political situations come and go but trust is the foundation of civilization itself. So I was genuinely shaken to see a report from the Edelman PR agency that trust in U.S. MORE
I was asked the other day about the distinction between Customer Data Platforms and Journey Orchestration Engines. My immediate answer was “Some CDPs are JOEs and some JOEs are CDPs. A CDP is a JOE if has journey orchestration. A JOE is a CDP if its data is accessible to other systems. MORE
Adobe yesterday announced its purchase of the Magento Commerce platform, a widely used ecommerce system, for a cool $1.68 billion. That Adobe would purchase an ecommerce system was the least surprising thing about the deal: it fills an obvious gap in the Adobe product line compared with Oracle , Salesforce , IBM , and SAP , which all have their own ecommerce systems. Owler estimates that Magento had $125 million revenue, which would mean that Adobe paid 13x revenue. MORE
I gave my presentation on Self-Driving Marketing Campaigns at the MarTech conference last week. Most of the content followed the arguments I made here a couple of weeks ago, about the challenges of coordinating multiple specialist AI systems. MORE
John Wanamaker, patron saint of marketing measurement. If you’ve been following my slow progress towards a set of screening questions for Customer Data Platforms , you may recall that “incremental attribution” was on the list. MORE
Should marketers pay consumers directly to access their personal data? MORE
Some of the most impressive marketing systems I’ve seen have been developed for mobile phone marketing, especially for companies that sell prepaid phones. I don’t know why: probably some combination of intense competition, easy switching when customers have no subscription, location as a clear indicator of varying needs, immediately measurable financial impact, and lack of legacy constraints in a new industry. MORE
I’ve been working for months to find a way to help marketers understand the differences between Customer Data Platform vendors. After several trial balloons and with considerable help from industry friends, I recently published a set of criteria that I think will do the job. You can see the full explanation on the CDP Institute blog. But, since this blog has its own readership I figured I’d post the basics here as well. MORE
I’m currently drafting a paper on use of Customer Data Platforms by B2B SaaS marketers. The topic is more intriguing than it sounds because it raises the dual questions of why CDPs haven’t previously been used much by B2B SaaS companies and what's changed. MORE
I’ve sensed a certain weariness in recent discussions of marketing technology, as marketers realize their business problems remain even after massive investments in new systems. MORE
The Customer Data Platform Institute (CDPI) recently surveyed its members about their customer-facing systems and CDP deployment plans. Click here to download the full report.) MORE
I’ve had at four conversations in the past twenty four hours with vendors who build a unified customer database and use it to guide customer treatments. MORE
I’m no fan of the TV show Black Mirror – the plots are obvious and excruciatingly slow. But nevertheless, here’s a story for consideration. Our tale begins in a world where all data is stored in the cloud. This means people don’t have their own computers but can instead log into whatever machine is handy wherever they go. All is lovely until our hero one day notices a slight error in some data. MORE
If one picture’s worth a thousand words, why is everyone rushing to replace graphical interfaces with voice-activated systems? The question has an answer, which we’ll get to below. But even though the phrasing is a bit silly, it truly is worth asking. MORE
Most of the comments I’ve seen about Amazon ’s acquisition of Whole Foods have described it as Amazon (a) expanding into a new industry (b) continuing to disrupt conventional retail and (c) moving more commerce from offline to online channels. Those are all true, I suppose, but I felt they missed the real story: this is another step in Amazon building a self-contained universe that its customers never have to leave. That sounds a bit more paranoid than it should. MORE
Readers of this blog and the CDP Institute newsletter know that I’ve been fussing for years about privacy-related issues with Facebook , Google , and others. With the issue now attracting much broader public attention, I’ve backed off my own coverage. MORE
The Customer Data Platform industry is doing very well, thank you, with new reports out recently from both Gartner and Forrester and the CDP Institute launching its European branch. But the great question hovering over the industry has been why the giant marketing cloud vendors haven’t brought out their own products and what will happen when they do. MORE
Some people have feared (or hoped) that the European Unions’ General Data Protection Regulation would force major change in the the marketing and advertising ecosystems by shutting off vital data flows. MORE
Trust has been chasing me like a hungry mosquito. It seems that everyone has suddenly decided that creating trust is the key to success, whether it’s in the context of data sharing, artificial intelligence, or customer retention. MORE
My wife is working on a Ph.D. in education and recently took a course on strategic planning for academic institutions. Her final project included creating a game to help illustrate the course lessons. MORE
Like an imminent hanging, the looming execution of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has concentrated business leaders’ minds on their customer data. MORE
Customer Experience Matrix
MAY 1, 2018
Readers of this blog and the CDP Institute newsletter know that I’ve been fussing for years about privacy-related issues with Facebook , Google , and others. With the issue now attracting much broader public attention, I’ve backed off my own coverage.
Customer Experience Matrix
MAY 8, 2018
Some people have feared (or hoped) that the European Unions’ General Data Protection Regulation would force major change in the the marketing and advertising ecosystems by shutting off vital data flows.
Customer Experience Matrix
APRIL 27, 2018
I ran a four hour workshop on Customer Data Platforms this week at the MarTech Conference in San Diego.* The attendees were a mix of marketers and technologists from brands, agencies, and vendor companies.
Customer Experience Matrix
MARCH 4, 2018
The Customer Data Platform Institute will be launching its European branch later this month with a series of presentations in London, Amsterdam and Hamburg.
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Customer Experience Matrix
APRIL 13, 2018
Trust has been chasing me like a hungry mosquito. It seems that everyone has suddenly decided that creating trust is the key to success, whether it’s in the context of data sharing, artificial intelligence, or customer retention.
Customer Experience Matrix
JANUARY 27, 2018
Political situations come and go but trust is the foundation of civilization itself. So I was genuinely shaken to see a report from the Edelman PR agency that trust in U.S.
Customer Experience Matrix
MARCH 28, 2018
"A CDP by any other name still stores unified customer data." Adobe on Tuesday announced the Experience Cloud Profile, which it described as a “complete, real-time view of customers” including data from outside of Adobe Cloud systems.
Customer Experience Matrix
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
I’m currently drafting a paper on use of Customer Data Platforms by B2B SaaS marketers. The topic is more intriguing than it sounds because it raises the dual questions of why CDPs haven’t previously been used much by B2B SaaS companies and what's changed.
Speaker: David Crane, Head of Content & Thought Leadership, Integrate
The coming month will test the boundaries of change management for marketing organizations (and their colleagues in sales, finance, IT and legal) as they ready their teams for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will go into effect May 2018. Much of what we’ve seen in B2B marketing publications, martech vendor blogs and from word-of-mouth borders on fear-mongering. Not to say this isn’t understandable – a lot of rather quick changes must be made to ensure GDPR compliance, and they can feel overwhelming. However, some of the wisest B2B marketing experts continue to reiterate one very important point: GDPR, while causing significant stress now, will lead to more efficient and effective marketing and sales down the road.
Customer Experience Matrix
MARCH 13, 2018
Should marketers pay consumers directly to access their personal data?
Customer Experience Matrix
MAY 7, 2018
I’m no fan of the TV show Black Mirror – the plots are obvious and excruciatingly slow. But nevertheless, here’s a story for consideration. Our tale begins in a world where all data is stored in the cloud. This means people don’t have their own computers but can instead log into whatever machine is handy wherever they go. All is lovely until our hero one day notices a slight error in some data.
Customer Experience Matrix
OCTOBER 7, 2017
I gave my presentation on Self-Driving Marketing Campaigns at the MarTech conference last week. Most of the content followed the arguments I made here a couple of weeks ago, about the challenges of coordinating multiple specialist AI systems.
Customer Experience Matrix
MARCH 14, 2017
It feels like forever since I first wrote about Journey Orchestration Engines (JOEs) , although it is just one year. Orchestration was already a hot term when I started, so I take neither credit nor blame for its continued popularity.
Customer Experience Matrix
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
John Wanamaker, patron saint of marketing measurement. If you’ve been following my slow progress towards a set of screening questions for Customer Data Platforms , you may recall that “incremental attribution” was on the list.
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Customer Experience Matrix
DECEMBER 8, 2016
I’ve had at four conversations in the past twenty four hours with vendors who build a unified customer database and use it to guide customer treatments.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 25, 2017
A recent Forrester study found that most marketers expect artificial intelligence to take over the more routine parts of their jobs, allowing them to focus on creative and strategic work. That’s been my attitude as well.
Customer Experience Matrix
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
I spend a lot of time with vendors trying to decide whether they are, or should be, a Customer Data Platform. I also spend a lot of time with marketers trying to decide which CDPs might be right for them.
Customer Experience Matrix
MARCH 20, 2018
The Customer Data Platform industry is doing very well, thank you, with new reports out recently from both Gartner and Forrester and the CDP Institute launching its European branch. But the great question hovering over the industry has been why the giant marketing cloud vendors haven’t brought out their own products and what will happen when they do.
Speaker: Brian Carroll, CEO & Founder of markempa
Today’s sales and marketing environment is a paradox. There has never been more marketing channels to reach potential customers. But, connecting and building trust with buyers has never been harder. That's why we need to go beyond rational-logic based marketing to understand how our customers feel. Empathy is not just a “soft” skill, it's an incredibly powerful tool to understand customer motivation and increase lead conversion.
Customer Experience Matrix
APRIL 19, 2017
Last week’s passenger-dragging incident at United Airlines left many marketers (and other humans) aghast that any company could purposely assault its own customer. As it happens, airline technology vendor Sabre published a survey of airline executives just before the event.
Customer Experience Matrix
DECEMBER 19, 2017
The Customer Data Platform Institute (CDPI) recently surveyed its members about their customer-facing systems and CDP deployment plans. Click here to download the full report.)
Customer Experience Matrix
OCTOBER 29, 2017
Some of the most impressive marketing systems I’ve seen have been developed for mobile phone marketing, especially for companies that sell prepaid phones. I don’t know why: probably some combination of intense competition, easy switching when customers have no subscription, location as a clear indicator of varying needs, immediately measurable financial impact, and lack of legacy constraints in a new industry.
Customer Experience Matrix
DECEMBER 6, 2017
My wife is working on a Ph.D. in education and recently took a course on strategic planning for academic institutions. Her final project included creating a game to help illustrate the course lessons.
Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, CEO & Founder of VisumCx
B2B buyers are self-guiding their purchase journey, consuming more content along their purchase path and involving more stakeholders in the final decision. Therefore, it is necessary for B2B marketing teams to align to this purchase path and to the buying committees. This is not accomplished by creating more content or sending more communication, the key to success is establishing a conversation with your buyers that engages them in a meaningful dialogue and ultimately converts them to a customer.
Customer Experience Matrix
FEBRUARY 24, 2017
I’ve sensed a certain weariness in recent discussions of marketing technology, as marketers realize their business problems remain even after massive investments in new systems.
Customer Experience Matrix
JANUARY 24, 2018
I’ve been working for months to find a way to help marketers understand the differences between Customer Data Platform vendors. After several trial balloons and with considerable help from industry friends, I recently published a set of criteria that I think will do the job. You can see the full explanation on the CDP Institute blog. But, since this blog has its own readership I figured I’d post the basics here as well.
Customer Experience Matrix
MARCH 29, 2017
Like many people in the marketing technology industry, I was tickled in 2011 when Gartner predicted that CMOs would soon have bigger tech budgets than CIOs , and even more tickled when Gartner said in 2016 that it had happened.
Customer Experience Matrix
MARCH 18, 2018
For the past year, the most common question about Customer Data Platforms has been how they differ from Data Management Platforms. Recently that seems to have changed. Today, the question everyone seems to be asking is what project they should pick as their first CDP use case. That’s certainly progress but it’s a much harder question to answer than the one about DMPs. Like any good consultant, I can only answer that question with “it depends” and by then asking more questions.
Speaker: Douglas Burdett, Host of The Marketing Book Podcast, Founder/Principal of ARTILLERY
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Customer Experience Matrix
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
The Customer Data Platform Institute (which is run by Raab Associates) on Monday published results of a survey we conducted in cooperation with MarTech Advisor.
Customer Experience Matrix
MARCH 12, 2017
Thomas Wieberneit argues in a thoughtful blog post that companies need one platform for consolidated customer data, but that Customer Data Platform isn’t it because the CDP is “marketer-controlled” by definition, and thus doesn’t support other departments. This hits a nerve.
Customer Experience Matrix
MARCH 23, 2017
I was asked the other day about the distinction between Customer Data Platforms and Journey Orchestration Engines. My immediate answer was “Some CDPs are JOEs and some JOEs are CDPs. A CDP is a JOE if has journey orchestration. A JOE is a CDP if its data is accessible to other systems.
Customer Experience Matrix
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017
I escaped from my cave this week to present at two conferences: the first-ever “Customer Data Platform Summit” hosted by AgilOne in Los Angeles, preceding Shop.org, and the Technology for Marketing conference in London, where BlueVenn sponsored me.
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Customer Experience Matrix
JUNE 18, 2017
Most of the comments I’ve seen about Amazon ’s acquisition of Whole Foods have described it as Amazon (a) expanding into a new industry (b) continuing to disrupt conventional retail and (c) moving more commerce from offline to online channels. Those are all true, I suppose, but I felt they missed the real story: this is another step in Amazon building a self-contained universe that its customers never have to leave. That sounds a bit more paranoid than it should.
Customer Experience Matrix
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
Tech marketing agency Walker Sands and industry guru Scott Brinker of Chief Martech yesterday published a fascinating survey on the State of Marketing Technology 2017, which you can download here.
Customer Experience Matrix
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Everyone in marketing knows there’s a lot of new marketing technology, but how quickly is martech really growing? Many people cite changes in Scott Brinker ’s iconic marketing technology landscape, which has roughly doubled in size every year since Brinker first published it in 2011.
Customer Experience Matrix
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
It’s almost ten years to the day since I first wrote about Celebrus , which then called itself speed-trap (a term that presumably has fewer negative connotations in the U.K. than the U.S.). Back then, they were an easy-to-deploy Web site script that captured detailed visitor behaviors. Today, they gather data from all sources, map it to a client-tailored version of a 100+ table data model, and expose the results to analytics and customer engagement systems as in-memory profiles.
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