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Martha Bush

4 (Plus) Steps in a Complete Database Marketing Assessment

As the remainder of 2011 winds down, we have been pulling together some popular reading on a variety of topics. Marketing assessments continue to be an area of interest, and in particular, database marketing assessments. Start with the basics and then take a look at data management, targeting and analytics, campaign management, messaging and even the technology behind them.

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9 Key Marketing Metrics Every Company Should Measure.

When organizations begin to standardize marketing measurements across their sales channels, business units and media, the closer they will come to the more complex process of tracking corporate Brand Equity, Market Share, Marketing ROI, and Product and Customer Profitability.

Here are 9 metrics every marketing organization should be measuring :

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Assessments Create a Fast Start to Customer Engagement

One of the most productive means to a fast start with a new client or partner is through a Marketing Assessment. In a new relationship, everyone has a lot of questions and this is a great way to drill through a mutual discovery process in a quick, and (usually!) fun way.

We try to coordinate an intensive 1 to 2 day series of question-and-answer sessions – usually fueled by a good stack of chocolate chip cookies.

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Marketing Maturity Roadmap: Building a Campaign Management Practice

Successful campaign management is a combination of strong skills and properly tuned technology. If you are attempting to build or grow smart campaign management inside your organization, you’ll need to focus on the two parallel paths of developing the practice of campaign management while helping tune the technology to enable best practices in campaign management. Here we’ll focus on the Practice.

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Marketing Maturity Roadmap: Data Management for Multichannel Campaigns

It’s the Data, stupid. If your organization is charging into the multichannel future, you need to get smart fast about the data you’ll need. Data to collect, data to ignore, data to store. It’s a daunting task in this time of exploding channels and devices and media – all of which are throwing off more data each year than was ever created in the history of the world up until this minute!

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A Multichannel Marketing Roadmap: Analytics and Insights

“Unified Marketing,” “Customer Engagement Marketing,” “Marketing 2.0” and “Consumerism” are all concepts of marketing practice that aim to create the most relevant dialogues with the possible. Whether the conversation happens at retail, on the phone, on the Web or in the form of direct response to mail and/or email, the interaction with your customer or prospect should be informed by customer intelligence. The practice of building customer insights into every interaction, and listening to the response so the next dialogues can keep getting better, is at the core of smart Multichannel Marketing.

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A Multichannel Marketing Roadmap: Messaging Strategy and Campaign Design

Forget about managing your relationship with your customer. Today she manages the relationship with you! This new fact becomes real in every dialogue or customer interaction you have. When your customer or prospect finds the information they were looking for – or were ready for- they feel satisfied and empowered. On the other hand, if they can’t put their finger on the right information they feel confused and frustrated and they rightfully take it out on the last place that didn’t deliver satisfaction – your website, your email, your direct mail, your call center.

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A Philosophy of Customer Understanding: Looking Backward While Looking Forward

At the start of new client relationships, prior to implementing a new campaign management solution or a major investment in database marketing clients should have some customer and market-focused analytical benchmarks that can be used to help make the decisions about new ventures. Most clients have done campaign-focused analytics, but often don’t have the time to look for insights that can come from a 360° view of their customers.

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SIGMA Marketing’s Top 10 Blog Posts of 2010.

2010 has been an exciting year for digital and database marketers. As new trends and technologies emerge, it becomes even more pressing to stay on top, stay educated, – not only for marketers, but for those seeking marketing technology and solutions. In keeping with that, here are the ten most read blog posts on Fifth Gear Analytics from 2010. It’s an interesting mix of articles, but you can see by the list below, B2B social media and web analytics seem to be a priority.

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