Customer Experiences
How Enterprise Brands Can Simplify the CDP Market
Sometimes billion-dollar ideas start small. Look no further than the customer data platform (CDP) market for proof. Seen as an emerging technology not too long ago, now nearly 90% of brands say they’ve either already deployed a CDP or are planning to. But what started as a straightforward technology proposition has gotten more complicated. A…
Read MoreHow to Power Holiday Success With Your Customer Data
The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and with it a massive opportunity for retail brands. After seeing a huge surge in e-commerce growth last year, retailers are poised to capitalize on a 7% boost in sales from November to December in 2021. This increase — the second-highest growth rate in 20 years — is forecasted…
Read More3 Ways to Optimize Omnichannel Marketing With Your CDP
Digital transformation killed the “straight line” sales funnel, but lots of businesses act as if they missed the funeral. The different stages of the customer journey — awareness, consideration, decision, customer retention — remain the same, but what used to be a straight line now looks like a squiggly drawing sketched by a child. That’s…
Read MoreHow Condé Nast Achieved CX Sophistication With Its CDP
There are leaders and laggards in every industry, and the leaders all have one thing in common: They put customer experience at the center of their strategy. But achieving customer centricity — proven to boost customer satisfaction by 20-30% — requires swapping the status quo for a more sophisticated approach. While customer data is every…
Read MoreHow B2B Brands Can Hit Growth Goals by Putting People at the Center of Their Strategies
The pressure is on for business-to-business (B2B) marketers. Digital transformation means brands must deliver superior customer experiences across a wide range of touchpoints to stay competitive, and rising consumer expectations have made acquiring and retaining new customers that much harder — an especially dangerous development for subscription-based businesses. Approximately 50% of consumers say CX is…
Read MoreHow to Take Back Control of Your CX in a Post-Cookie World
You may have heard the sky is falling. According to recent headlines, the deprecation of third-party cookies and other changes to anonymous identifiers are “killing the marketing star” and “rewriting the bargain at the center of the internet.” Hyperbole aside, the death of the cookie is a massive change to business as usual for many…
Read MoreHow to Put the ‘Real’ in Real-Time Customer Experiences
Imagine you’re eating out at a new restaurant. Your waiter seems to know what you want even before you do. They take your order, bring your food and leave your check with lightning-fast efficiency. Worthy of a big tip and a five-star review, right? Not so fast. Speed alone doesn’t drive exceptional customer experiences. If…
Read MoreAdTech Earthquake Part 1: Cracks in the Foundation
A powerful earthquake can rock foundations, destroy our greatest creations and permanently alter large swaths of landscape. The AdTech world is about to experience one such powerful earthquake. We don’t often think about it, but our best practices and complex ecosystems are built atop foundations controlled by a small handful of big tech companies—namely Facebook,…
Read MoreWhat is One to One Marketing?
Nearly 30 years ago, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers published one of the most important business books ever written: “The One to One Future: Building Relationships One Customer at a Time.” Peppers & Rogers predicted a future where brands would use one to one marketing to personalize customer communications and interactions at scale. Their predictions…
Read MoreThe Five Ps for Executing a Successful Marketing Plan
In the realm of marketing, there’s a classic concept called the four Ps: product, price, place and promotion. Also known as the “marketing mix,” these key factors make up the necessary components for executing a successful marketing plan. But in today’s world of rising consumer expectations and hyper-personalization, it’s necessary to add a fifth P…
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