Data Driven Marketing
The Big Deal about Big Data for Customer Engagement
The Forrester report The Big Deal about Big Data for Customer Engagement:
Highlights the importance and challenges of Big Data
Outlines the changing role of key business decision makers in driving big data initiatives
Explains how businesses can better understand their customers and unlock new revenue streams
Turn Conversations into Conversions: 5 Steps to Social ROI
Measuring social ROI is not easy. Every marketer has their own theory for the magic bullet metric but they are seldom sustainable, scalable or reliable. In this new white paper, we detail the top five ways that social can impact business metrics, business value and marketing value to help you justify your social strategies.
The Definitive Guide to Marketing Automation
Looking to do better marketing with fewer resources? The new Definitive Guide to Marketing Automation will show you how you can streamline, automate, and measure marketing tasks so efficiently that you'll feel like you have an army of marketing robots at your disposal!
Get your company on board with the future of marketing solutions.
40 Must-See Charts for Modern Marketers
Imagine what it would be like to know what worked for marketing leaders that are solving the exact problem you have. How do they construct their campaigns? What are they doing that you haven't tried? Where have they had success?
We have the answer. We crunched the numbers from more than 10-billion daily transactions in the Eloqua marketing automation platform to provide you with proven results from real marketing programmes.
Single View of the Customer in UK Businesses
A Market Study by Henley Business School in association with SAS UK.
Big brands struggle with single customer view, according to SAS and Henley Business School. The study reveals lack of skills and capital investment means organisations are not using big data to gain a single customer view.
Brands are yet to get to grips with big data to gain a single customer view — a term used to describe the ability of companies to capture all the interactions a customer has with a company or organisation, regardless of the channel used by the customer.
Download a copy of this report to find out what businesses are saying and what's standing in the way of their quest for a single view of the customer. The research comes together with customer case studies from B2C, B2B and the Financial Services Sector.
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The Data Advantage: How accuracy creates opportunity
This year's Experian QAS research, conducted by Dynamic Markets, discusses the latest data-quality trends of 2012. Most alarming this year is the dramatic rise in formal data-quality strategies in sharp contrast to the minimal improvement in data quality.
Did you know?
A staggering 99% of respondents now have data quality strategies in place. Conversely there has not been a corresponding rise in good data quality, in fact common data errors have increased by 2%.
Data Attitudes Report
As the social and technological landscape changes, so do people’s attitudes about what information they would happily share, and who they trust with it.
To find out more about what motivates people to do so, Sky IQ commissioned a survey of 3,097 UK adults aged 18+.
The report provides valuable insights for marketers, and others, from all kinds of organisations into how the British public thinks about data and how this is reflected in their daily lives.
5 steps to successful segmentation
Today’s customers expect a seamless and consistent user experience at all times — which is impossible to achieve without a deep understanding of their needs and behaviours.
Experian Marketing Services latest white paper explores the basics of segmentation, ways to integrate on- and off-line data and highlights five critical tips for segmentation success.
Download The Grande Guide to Social Demand Generation
If you’re struggling to prove the impact of social channels on lead generation — you’re not alone. Don’t miss the opportunity social channels can provide in your demand generation strategy. Learn how to leverage the power of social sign-on as part of a contact management strategy and measure the impact of social on leads.
B2B Marketing Trends & Predictions For 2012
More and more, marketers are challenged with increasing marketing’s impact on revenue and adapting to rapidly changing buyer behaviours. Read this report to better understand the trends you need to be tracking and how they will affect your strategic decisions this year.
Download the Forrester Report now.
Marketing attribution in a multi-channel world
Tracking value in a multi-channel environment is arguably one of the biggest obstacles for today’s marketers. As the use of multi-channel marketing continues to grow and customer interactions become increasingly complex, it is those organisations that fully embrace an integrated approach and can effectively track results across all media they employ, that will hold the competitive advantage long term.
Big Data: an evolution not a revolution
There have been many articles explaining the impact Big Data will have, but the key thing to consider is that it’s not just that there’s more data to deal with – it’s what you do with it that counts. This new paper explores where marketers should focus their efforts, discusses how online and offline data can be linked for greater insight and shows how it’s only at the point where decisions are made and consumers engaged that the real impact of Big Data can be felt.
SoLoMo Marketing: From Concept to Practice
SoLoMo (Social-Local-Mobile) allows organisations to deliver relevant engagement with a brand simultaneously in the digital and real world. Brand interactions are no longer bound by the constraints of a home or office computer; they are real-time, digital experiences at a physical location. In this white paper, we will walk through the emergence and relevance of SoLoMo, as well as some best practices for digital marketers looking to use it to their advantage.
Email Marketing and Marketing Automation in Complex Buying Processes
How is Marketing Automation different from email marketing? In this white paper, you’ll learn the difference between email marketing and marketing automation, how each supports complex buying processes, and whether email marketing or marketing automation are the right tools to use.
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Definitive Guide to Marketing Metrics and Analytics
The Bottom Line is the Top Line: Revenue
Marketers are under constant pressure to measure and demonstrate marketing's ROI and impact on overall revenue. With compelling graphics and real-life examples of Marketo's own metrics and tactics, the Definitive Guide to Marketing Metrics and Analytics offers best practices and techniques for harnessing data to not only prove, but improve ROI.
This 70 page guide will teach you:
- The right metrics for understanding and interpreting marketing results
- Why measuring marketing programs is difficult, and how to do it correctly and efficiently
- Revenue metrics that get the executives' attention and prove marketing ROI
- The critical elements of a marketing dashboard
- And much, much more!
Let the Definitive Guide to Marketing Metrics and Analytics help you gain the insights you need to grow your company's revenue and demonstrate the true value of your marketing.
From concept to reality: achieving the Single Customer View
The Single Customer View is the foundation on which to build an understanding of your customers - enabling far more effective engagement across all marketing channels.
Based on new consumer and business research, this paper separates fact from fiction, outlines the tangible benefits that can be achieved, the dangers of failure and gives practical advice on how to turn the Single Customer View concept into a marketing reality.
Are you suffering from Digital Amnesia?
Do you struggle to keep track of your customers? You could be suffering from Digital Amnesia
Hear from experts on video as they discuss this topic and how brands are affected. Learn how, through data, a joined up approach in the future is a way to stop your brand suffering from digital amnesia.
Home Movers - an overlooked marketing opportunity?
Research shows that home movers spend an average of £5,000 on products and services related to their move, but this is also the time when consumers are most likely to change providers, with 65 per cent of people switching to a new supplier when they move.
The white paper highlights that today's consumers, driven by concerns about money, are much more likely to shop around for the best deals, with the help of price comparison sites and peer-to-peer networking.
Grande Guide to Lead Nurturing
Ahh... The first cup of your morning brew. Now you can sip it while drinking in a quick introduction to lead nurturing. Nurturing can build strong brand loyalty, increase the conversion of unqualified leads to opportunities and drive more revenue. With best practices and case studies, this guide is one to be savored!
Reinventing the Customer Lifecycle
The customer lifecycle concept is a familiar one for many marketers. But how many UK brands have a defined lifecycle programme in place as opposed to just taking a campaign-by-campaign approach which is often product rather than customer segment led? This paper makes the case for a defined programme of ongoing customer communications to drive better customer engagement (and therefore improved retention rates) as well as incremental revenue flows.
Using Marketing Automation to Increase Your ROI on CRM
Marketing Automation is a comprehensive solution that can dramatically increase the ROI of the investment in your CRM solution. This paper presents the key benefits of CRM systems, and demonstrates how Marketing Automation can increase the effectiveness of the entire sales and marketing function. Topics you will learn about include:
* What is Marketing Automation?
* Why CRM alone is not enough
* Benefits of Marketing Automation
* How Marketing Automation increases your ROI on CRM
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Connecting with your customers in a multi-channel world
It¹s a multi-channel world, so marketers need new strategies to connect with their customers - wherever they are. This white paper provides the essential insights to help you create and implement a multi-channel strategy, including how to drive better engagement through a Single Customer View, how to enhance data for email campaigns and how to build smarter social media activity.
The ROI of Marketing Automation
Today¹s fastest growing companies are using repeatable marketing and sales 2.0 techniques to grow revenue predictably and reliably.This paper outlines how marketing automation optimizes marketing programs and can help companies:
* Create a faster and more predictable revenue cycle
* Increase profitability with tactics that result in a higher conversion rates
* Align the efforts of marketing and sales teams to substantially increase top-line revenue growth
2012 Electoral Roll Opt-Out Regional Report
Despite decreasing for the second year in a row, electoral roll opt-out rates still remain significantly high with dramatic disparities between local authorities. Callcredit's 2012 report looks at the regional variations (including a breakdown of each UK council) and takes a look at the profile of a typical opted-out consumer.
Building a Tangible ROI for Data Quality
Organizations often lack insight into the quality of the data used in everyday decision-making. By developing a strategy that measures and reports on data quality metrics, stakeholders can craft a business case and ROI model to drive investment in data quality initiatives. Learn what processes to scrutinize, what metrics to measure, and what strategies position these metrics as proof points for ROI.
Marketing Perspectives 2012: Adapting to Win with Multichannel Marketing
As the economy attempts to find its footing, marketing leaders are assessing their go-to-market strategies, plans and budgets for 2012. And optimising success across all channels, with a renewed emphasis on new media, is a top priority. What is the best mix of social, digital and traditional media? How can you best measure performance? What are the key areas of risk? To find out, SAS UK commissioned Marketing Week to conduct an in-depth survey of over 900 marketing leaders.
Stopping the Rot How to Prevent Data Decay
Incorrect, incomplete or ‘dirty’ address data incurs unnecessary costs to the business in terms of wasted time as well as money. Failed, delayed or misplaced deliveries, due to a bad address incur significant costs, as well as the time spent trying to retrieve the correct one! More importantly, failed deliveries means a broken promise and possible damage to your brand image. All that money you spent on brand building over the years could be wasted if you fail to deliver on your promise.
This white paper reveals:
• How to tackle the problem of data decay in your customer data
• The enormous improvements in data quality that can be achieved with the smallest financial outlay.
• Top tips for better data management that can enhance marketing and help you save money.
Moving from intuition to data-driven decisions
In this white paper, learn from an expert panel of digital marketers including John Lovett, president of Web Analytics Demystified, as well as Adobe customers including McAfee. The panel discussion topics range from how to create an optimisation roadmap for your organisation to best practices for using testing, targeting, and segmentation across your website.
The six consumer groups marketers need to know
What is the difference between a social shopper and a dedicated fan? And can you connect with a detached introvert? Ruth Mortimer learns more at a Marketing Week/SAS seminar on a new segmentation model.
The Marketer's Conundrum: Strategic Decision Making in the Information Age
Today's marketing and business professional lives in an environment that is constantly inundated with new information. This paper discusses the needs of today's marketing manager, the crucial role that a refined and solid research methodology provides in cultivating sound marketing strategies and how the intelligent application of information can build success upon success. Trust, access, usability, strategic alignment of information, analysis and execution are critical in today's business environment.
Exploiting the Single Customer View to maximise the value of customer relationships
The concept of multi-channel customer engagement is nothing new, so why do many marketers struggle to make this a reality? The key factor is the lack of a single customer view and insight across all channels and databases. This new white paper explores how to solve this challenge to improve customer service, enhance brand loyalty and enable multi-channel campaigns which drive ROI.
Digital natives dig for data from another level
Marketing Week's latest roundtable, in association with Experian Marketing Services, examines the challenges of multichannel marketing with a panel of senior industry figures. As marketers continue to explore a wide variety of digital technologies, our panel concludes that data remains the driving force of any brand strategy.
The New Formula for Generating High Quality Leads in 2011
More is not always better. That's why marketers are shifting lead-gen efforts from quantity to quality. But how do you target and engage the best prospects so that fewer leads pack a punch?
This DemandGen eBook explores the strategies, tactics and tools that leading BtoB marketers are using to improve the flow of quality leads.
Read the eBook to learn:
- Top vehicles for driving high value leads
- Why companies are tapping into the power of the web
- How webinars rate in driving high quality leads that convert to sales
- And more...
Get personal to deliver consumer engagement
Marketing Week's latest roundtable, in association with SAS UK and Capgemini, explores how social media and other digital channels can help brands personalise their communication strategies and achieve greater levels of consumer engagement.
Integrated Marketing Intelligence
Evolution is explosive in digital marketing today exciting changes roll out at a mind bending rate in mobile, social, 'big data' analytics, re-targeting and search. In this book Latitude, part of Callcredit Marketing Solutions, has captured a snapshot of insights from experts including Google, Yahoo, Layar, Tagman and Struq on opportunities emerging in each domain.
Online testing: a crash course by Forrester Research
Struggling to get your testing strategy working? Improve your testing plans with free advice from Forrester: 14 Elements of a Successful Online Testing Plan
Download this independent report, to view Forrester's framework of steps you can take to overcome the common challenges and pitfalls that many marketers face when creating an online testing process.
4 Notable Trends in Marketing Strategy
An accurate view of the external forces impacting your marketing strategy is essential for both short-term tactical success and the viability of your long-term strategy. In 4 Notable Trends in Marketing Strategy, you will find a set of hand-selected articles from Factiva that highlight the latest trends, exemplify the effects of dynamic ideas and provide real-life learnings from some of the largest companies in the world.
Customer Centricity in the telecommunications industry: Transformation from Product-Centric to Customer-Centric and creating a Competitive Advantage along the way
Executive leaders across all industries continue to face the most disruptive market conditions in decades. Increased competition has only accelerated. Large rivals continue to compete by aggressively buying market share, new entrants are more nimble and substitute products seem to pop up almost at every turn. This whitepaper provides the latest information on how providers can become more customer-centric while building greater competitive advantage.
Customer Engagement. A new paradigm?
The marketing world keeps getting more complex. Growth in peer reviews, Facebook, Twitter and Groupon are just one example of the shift in consumer influence and power. With more customer contact points, media channels and opportunities to build two way communications, more brands are seeking to engage with their customers. But who should you engage with and how? Is Customer Engagement just CRM repackaged or is there a fundamental difference in these concepts?
Terms of Engagement
A seismic shift in the consumer landscape has changed how we look at the issues of life and which brands we trust. Any organisation which operates the 'traditional' linear and "one size fits all" model of customer engagement is going to struggle to compete effectively in this chaotic, changing world. This whitepaper sets out 7 steps to success, looking at how marketers can reapply the fundamentals of DM to successfully engage with a new breed of consumer in 2011.
In the Shade of the Trust Arbor: Nurturing Better Business
With digital channels commonplace, data streams growing rapidly and customer expectations of relevant and respectful interactions, technology is often the only way for a marketer to manage interactions, understand customers and execute campaigns. But sometimes the technology can overshadow the crux of marketing ¬ the connection for a period of time between a buyer and a seller that involves an exchange of some kind.
Improve Marketing ROI Through Data Quality
Poor data quality has far-reaching effects and consequences on marketing ROI. Find out why data quality is the cornerstone to accurate targeting, customer analysis and effective marketing campaigns. This white paper provides insight into the simple but low cost data quality measures that deliver a quantifiable return on investment
Communicate more effectively with valid email addresses
Are you confident about the quality of the email addresses you
currently hold and/or those you may be buying in from third parties?
Download our recent webinar to find out how to
- Improve customer services and brand perception
- Increase conversion rate on email marketing campaigns
- Have confidence in the data on your system and/or acquired from third
parties
Improving ROI and keeping your data up-to-date
Description: Are you keeping track of your customers and any changes in their data? In conjunction with our partners REaD UK, Experian QAS recently hosted a webinar offering best practice advice on data cleansing and suppression.
Download this webinar now to hear how to:
- Get to grips with data cleaning and suppression
- Track house movers
- Remove deceased contacts
- Use success stories to build your business case
Analytical insight: bringing science to the art of marketing
How can you extract greater value from your data? By bringing science to the art of marketing to convert customer information into intelligence. This best practice paper shows how to achieve this by breaking the process down into five manageable stages, and offers some practical guidance on choosing the right tools for the job.
Is “now” the right time?
A white paper from Transactis that explores the benefits of right-time marketing and how event triggers can be identified and exploited to create loyalty, enhance response, build customer value and ultimately deliver improved business performance.
Integrating Online & Offline Marketing Whitepaper
Most consumers combine online & offline channels when investigating and buying. However, most marketing organisations struggle to follow their customers across on and offline channels. Discover how marketing can take advantage of online web behaviour to improve the coordination of offers and campaigns across all channels.
How to source the most responsive consumer leads
When it comes to effective direct marketing campaigns, accurate consumer lifestyle data is king. In this White Paper John Pooley, Managing Director of The Data Partnership, advises on how you can ensure that you get the right data for both your marketing budgets and needs.
Marketing Week Social Media Seminar Highlights
Marketing Week joined forces with RAPP and international brands Philips and Eurostar to explore how brands can best use the social media space to develop real relationships with real consumers.
Marketing Perspectives 2011: Winning in Today's Economy with Multichannel Marketing
After a protracted period of economic uncertainty, marketing leaders are assessing their strategies for 2011 - and optimising success across multiple channels is a top priority. To find out what to expect and how to plan for 2011 and beyond, SAS UK commissioned Marketing Week to conduct an in-depth survey of over 500 marketing leaders.
Data Strategy Peer Panel in association with Transactis
Data Strategy spoke to key figures at Facebook, Orange, Fedex Express,
Transactis and Getting Casinos to gather their understanding of customer
experience and their take on key issues such what they view as the key
differences between this and CRM and the role of marketing in delivering
customer experience.
Marketing Week’s latest webinar
Improve customer engagement through location, location, location, in association with Pitney Bowes Business Insight, addresses attaining a 360-degree view of the customer and targeting new customers with similar demographics.
David Reed, editor of Data Strategy and Burchard Hillmann-Koester of Pitney Bowes Business Insight led the discussion in adding "where" to the "who", "what" and "why" of marketing activities and business processes.
Improve international marketing & customer service
Are you achieving success with managing your international customer data and service? Discover how effective address and data quality management (DQM) is the key to preventing data decay and achieving a single customer view. This whitepaper surveys the opinions of international businesses and examines how DQM can improve data accuracy, analysis and marketing, and enhance your overall customer service.
Brand communications move to next multilevel
Marketing Week’s latest roundtable, in association with SAS, addresses how web-based technology has added spice to the mix of marketing channels, as brands get a taste for direct engagement with their consumers.
Fedex, British Airways, P&O Cruises and SeaFrance joined the debate and discussed ways in which they communicate with different types of customer.
Taking Control with Marketing Optimisation
Marketing today means meeting the new consumer demand for personalised content and interaction. This White Paper looks at why giving the consumer a personalised experience is no longer a choice, how data now needs to be at the heart of marketing, and the way new technology is supporting digital marketing optimisation.
Marketing Week's latest roundtable, in association with SAS
Marketing Week's latest roundtable, in association with SAS, shines a spotlight on the travel industry and leading brands within the sector. Just as travel broadens the mind, so the greater use of social media is increasing the opportunities for engagement.
Air France, BAA, Hostelling International, Page and Moy, Princess cruises, Transport for London and Virgin Atlantic Airways joined the debate and discussed ways they keep their finger on the interactive pulse.
Download the related white paper - "Understanding Social Media"
Intelligence-driven marketing
Marketing Week's latest roundtable, in association with Communisis explores the ways brands can build a truly 'customer-centric' strategy and make it work in a multi-channel world.
BSkyB, Ladbrokes, Capital One, Phones4U and the BBC joined the debate and discussed ways they have engaged with their consumers while carrying out effective marketing for their organisations. How do the best in our industry measure, manage and execute campaigns in an entirely new communications landscape?
Marketing Week On Demand webinar in association with Sage
CRM: WIN NOW AND BUILD FOR THE FUTURE
Listen to our webinar to hear how Sage user, Kieron Moran from Epsilon PHs, got buy in across his organisation for a CRM project . Their CRM implementation now gives them a single view of their customers. So they can market more effectively, have been able to streamline many business processes, can guarantee service levels and have ultimately increased their bottom line profits.
Marketing Week On demand webinar- Best practice in Marketing Analytics
Is your customer data driving profitable relationships? Are you using prospect information effectively to make your marketing campaigns hit home? To get the best out of your customer insight and analytics resource, download this webinar and pick up some tips from the best in the field.
How to reduce the risk of bad marketing decisions
How to Reduce the Risk of bad Marketing Decisions - the many advantages of affordable cross-channel marketing solutions. Deciding where to invest marketing budget often carries the same risks as spinning a roulette wheel. Placing the company chips on a few intuitively selected marketing ideas could pay off or bust the company.
Improve return on investment through a more targeted approach
This report addresses how to achieve powerful results using simple data analysis and GIS tools, including a Coca-Cola case study
Data Quality is the key to building a successful Single Customer View - learn how with Trillium Software
Did you know the topmost technology reason for CRM projects to fail or miss expectations is poor DQ.
Trillium Software has the technology and expertise to ensure your data quality is above the standard required to successfully build a Single Customer View and we’ve helped companies like Nectar and Iceland Frozen Foods to do just that.
Download the Single Customer View Solution Guide from Trillium Software.
Forrester's new Cross-Channel Campaign Management Report
Forrester evaluated 11 cross-channel campaign management vendors based on 91 criteria and found that Unica led with its platform depth, cross-channel program integration, and data management capabilities. Unica is recognised for offering marketers a set of tools to manage highly relevant and personalised communications delivered through online and interactive channels, as well as traditional programs.