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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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Ruth Stevens: Spotlight on the expert

Martech

Her route took her through the publishing industry, then grad school, before diving into the intersection of marketing and technology by learning database marketing. Thus began a career combining marketing and technology for B2B businesses like Ziff Davis and IBM. Business email address Subscribe Processing.

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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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MarTech Salary and Career: Greg Morales on the joy of always learning

Martech

I started with a company that initially was doing IT training and I got exposure to a ton of different technologies because I was the person to set up the classrooms for different vendors that were renting classroom space. It went from a small business to a medium one and then we actually ended up in the enterprise space. Get MarTech!

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The B2B case for retention marketing: 7 key tactics

Martech

Luckily, B2B retention marketing differs significantly from consumer retention efforts that rely heavily on discounts and perks. This article outlines essential retention marketing strategies and tactics tailored specifically for a B2B context to strengthen customer relationships, prevent churn and maximize lifetime value.

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Pega: AI will power the autonomous enterprise

Martech

But here’s where Pega sees the revolution leading us: the continually optimizing enterprise, or, as Pega tags it, the “autonomous enterprise” — the enterprise that uses the full range of AI and automation to teach itself better processes, systems and business logic. In other words, the enterprise as a self-driving car.