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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. Alterian has already made big bets in social media and Web content management, which are also well beyond the scope of traditional database marketing.

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DIGIDAY:TARGET, or, Yogi Berra Meets Data in the Online World.

Customer Experience Matrix

In fact one of the best data scientists I know never took a stats course. Early examples of this are the classic CPG scanner data, pharmaceutical detailing data and financial services direct marketing data sets. Its déjà vu all over again” Yogi had it right. So where do you find this expertise?

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Demandbase: A New Twist In The Lead Management Automation Market

Online Marketing Institute

For those needing more capabilities to help with sales enablement or account-based communication, I would add: 8) Sales/marketing portal or workspace — includes account spaces/threaded discussions, sales call/activity prep, libraries for marketing content, task lists. Just makes it easier to manage all the stuff.

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

Convince & Convert

more [link] ) [link] jaybaer I believe we agree far more than we disagree on this point, and as a former direct marketer, I share your concerns about chatter being overvalued. At the same time, word of mouth marketing IS important, and effective.