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Marketing Database Management

There Is No Quick Fix. But Lead Generation Can Get You Off To The Races.

B2B pros should take a step back, breathe deeply and “look at the big picture” to determine the best way to approach lead generation.

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Virtual Database Analytics

Virtualization offers high performance through technology advancements and resources on-demand. Through high availability, clustering, and redundancy, environments reduce downtime. Database analytics and database marketing are tied to databases that, most of the time, “sleep.” Database marketers should thoroughly investigate how virtualization can increase capability and impact the bottom line for their solutions.

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Lean Marketing Analytics

Lean allows organizations to understand their business processes and streamline toward customer value. Productivity will increase, costs will decrease, work backlogs will decrease, and customer value will rise. If your organization is facing difficult times due to a challenging economy, Lean may be a perfect way to gain productivity.

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Let Them Eat… From the Distributed Marketing… Cake!

Distributed marketing is a powerful concept and capability allowing the corporate marketing organization to develop campaigns in support of enterprise business goals, maintain the brand’s images and messaging while enabling a local flavor to the organization’s marketing execution. When I think of Distributed Marketing, a couple things come to mind.

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Why ROI Measurement Is So Elusive

Definitions for Marketing ROI abound, but the pressures to achieve it have increased to fever pitch across all channels and marketing specialties. Why? One reason may be that with all the new marketing technology tools―with their claims of incredible measurement capabilities blasted to your in-box daily―the real complexity of getting to ROI has become washed over. Expectations have been raised. You need to figure it out.

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Why are Marketing Analytics Like Cracker Jacks?

Marketing analytics offers the same promise as Cracker Jack — chock full of tasty insights plus a free surprise! With marketing analytics, the high maintenance customer is actually the high-value customer! Kudos to Zappos, which saw the “surprise inside” their data and leveraged it for greater brand value.

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Marketing analytics impact on B2B nurturing

According to the Webster Dictionary, “nurturing” is the act of furthering the development of someone or something. In the B2B world, selling opportunities need to be developed over some period of time. Marketing analytics play a critical role over that period of time. They’re critical in what you are nurturing and how you are going about it.

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Data Goes Primetime.

The world our kids will soon occupy as adults will be using data in smarter and smarter ways. How about cupboards and refrigerators that tell you what you should stock up on as you go grocery shopping? How about medical records that travel with you instead of sitting in a folder in a file cabinet? What if you never had to fill out a financial aid form for your college-bound child because that was already in electronic form with the IRS?

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Identifying decision makers enhances marketing analytics

A key to any sales effort is to identify the decision makers, influencers and recommenders and convince them that your products and services are needed to drive the business value they are striving for — whether it is efficiency, revenue generation, cost take-out, market share, etc. But, it often take weeks or months to determine the real decision-making process and its participants. Your effort up front to gather as much information about the company as you can and to go further to identify the decision makers will make your marketing analytics smarter and your sales efforts more effective.

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Using data and marketing analytics to define the multichannel marketing mix

Use Analytics to Adapt Quickly to Your Audience’s Changing Preferences
Most marketers would agree that their consumers are now using multiple channels to research, shop and purchase. Offline and online communications are more tightly entwined than ever before. For example, many marketers have known for years how targeted direct marketing and cataloging will drive the right [...]

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