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What You Need to Know About Database Marketing

PureB2B

Or do your strategies involve marketing databases, careful research, personalized contacts, and meticulous relationship building? If your answer is the latter, you’re probably using database marketing. Database Marketing vs. Direct Marketing. True database marketing is different—at least in part.

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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

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. 35% of marketers expect to move more than 20% of their direct marketing budget into digital channels next year.

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The Ongoing Challenge of B2B Multi-channel Attribution: 7 Practical Workarounds

Biznology

B2B marketers have long struggled to demonstrate results along the complex path from a campaign investment, to a sales lead, to a closed revenue deal. Digital campaign channels make things easier on the front end. Keep it about “did you buy,” and resist the temptation to gain more marketing insights. But let’s not go there.

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B2B Marketers Are Buying Customer Data Platforms. Here's Why.

Customer Experience Matrix

And, while I don’t have firm data, my impression is that online-only retailers have been slower to buy CDPs than their multi-channel cousins. (Online retailers do capture customer names and transactions operationally. If so, they're the exception that proves the rule.)

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More Surveys Agree: Web and Non-Web Data Must Be Integrated

Customer Experience Matrix

. - another survey by another marketing automation vendor, Alterian , found the most-commonly cited top obstacle in online marketing (25% of respondents) was “integration of online with database marketing and offline channels”.

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Cleansing and Enriching Your Contact Records for a Pristine ABM Program

Engagio

According to the Database Marketing and Contact Acquisition Survey Report this is one area where some marketers are falling short. Part of the challenge is that marketers are simply not performing data cleansing often enough to keep track of their B2B contacts. Let me illustrate with a couple examples.