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Unica and Alterian Lead Database Marketers to the Digital Promised Land

Customer Experience Matrix

Here are some quick thoughts on two items: Unica ’s acquisition of paid search bid management system MakeMeTop (now mercifully renamed Unica Search) and Alterian ’s recently-released and excellent annual marketing survey. Related factoids include: - 61% of marketers do not integrate Web analytics with other customer data. -

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Can Old Database Marketers Learn Digital Tricks?

Customer Experience Matrix

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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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. As I wrote in my June 30 post on consolidation among marketing automation vendors , I expect the number of competitors to shrink fairly quickly as new buyers concentrate their purchases among a handful of leading vendors.

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Customer Centricity Isn't Marketers' Major Concern--Yet

Customer Experience Matrix

Contrary to my initial impression that “customer centricity” was the major topic at the National Center for Database Marketing conference this week, a close look at the program shows just four of the 45 sessions had this as their focus. I count 37 service vendors and 17 software companies. Reality can be so annoying.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

Online Marketing Institute

We have integrated some of our other social vendors like Gigya into Sitecatalyst so that we can look at our shares, likes, tweets, pins, social logins, comments, etc., Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. The breakdown: “This is a new vendor for us. Vendor. -->. ); MAG Radar END-->. Newsletter.

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Customer Data Platforms Revisited: The Future of Marketing Data

Customer Experience Matrix

Established vendors have grown quickly and attracted funding; new vendors have joined the mix, also often with substantial funding. A look at the entire CDP ecosystem uncovers important patterns that are hidden when you look at individual vendors or vendor categories. But things aren’t quite so simple.

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

However, many tech buyers visit vendor Web sites many times to learn about and compare products, yet few register or leave evidence of their activity. You don’t dig through your junk email folder to find that email some vendor sent you weeks ago. In fact, 88% said Web sites were important in helping them decide what to buy.