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Database Marketing: Five Important Things to Know

Webbiquity

A form of direct marketing , database marketing uses business and consumer databases to generate targeted recipient lists. Emphasizing the use of statistical techniques, database marketing aims to develop models of customer behavior. Database Marketing Types. Consumer Database Marketing.

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Entiera Offers Consumer Marketing Automation Software as a Service

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Entiera is a sophisticated consumer marketing automation system, offered as a service and at a lower price than conventional competitors. Entiera Insight is a marketing automation system primarily for companies that sell to consumers. This is unusual among consumer marketing automation vendors.

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Marketing Automation Vendor Consolidation: Lessons from History

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: consolidation isn't new among marketing software vendors. When campaign management systems consolidated in the late 1990's and early 2000's, most were bought by enterprise software companies. Will weaker marketing automation vendors merge with each other to establish a larger market presence?

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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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Why Companies Buy Marketing Automation Software

The Point

Recently, Lauren Carlson of research site Software Advice wrote a very perceptive and timely piece entitled “ Tailwinds for Marketing Automation Software ” about the broader market trends that, in her view, are driving the increased adoption of marketing automation technology. The reason?

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Customer Data Platforms Revisited: The Future of Marketing Data

Customer Experience Matrix

It’s nearly two years since I introduced the concept of a Customer Data Platform , defined as a marketer-controlled system that builds a multi-source customer database and exposes it to external execution systems. Vendor Categories So far so good, but it’s really just theory. But things aren’t quite so simple.