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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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Unica and Alterian Lead Database Marketers to the Digital Promised Land

Customer Experience Matrix

The connection is that these both support my feeling that many members of the old-line database marketing community have failed to adapt to the new world of digital marketing. Both Unica and Alterian have been exceptionally forward-thinking among marketing automation vendors in preparing for this transition.

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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. This includes three related to multi-variate testing (e.g.

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Conversen Simplifies Complex Messages Through Multi-Channel Dynamic Content

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Conversen makes it easy to generate dynamic messages across multiple channels. It's more a supplement than a replacement for conventional campaign management but should save a lot of work for marketers and their agencies. Conversen is working on multi-media content blocks that could be inserted into any medium.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. However, for marketers, a social media address is insufficient to manage that channel. Foremost, we need a way to convert with whom we interact in social media into real prospects.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

Online Marketing Institute

B2B: Business Media. Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. 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. Business Development.

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Using Data in Marketing Is Complicated — This Platform Can Help

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

In the decades since the time of that data processing center, we’ve seen innovations transform the marketing landscape. And as companies reimagine what digital transformation means for their business, it’s no question that data remains at the center of success. What is a customer data platform? Data unification.