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Customer Data Hygiene: Overcoming Marketing Roadblocks
Customer data hygiene might conjure up unpleasant images of sitting in a dental chair. In fact, it’s a critical aspect of marketing performance. Achieving a strong ROI begins with data hygiene and intelligent data segmentation. Here are some best practices for small, scrappy businesses in order to take their marketing campaigns to the next level.
Growing Social Commerce Starts With Customer Trust
Retailers should consider the impact their social strategy elements have on customer trust. This includes your choice of social platforms, the payment methods you accept, how you screen orders for fraud and how you safeguard your brand presence on social media. Identify the platforms your customers trust the most.
Kroger’s 84.51° Labs: Pushing the Boundaries of Data Science
Kroger and its data arm, 84.51°, have launched a Science and Technology Solutions team. The focus is on delivering science and technology solutions that revolutionize customer engagement in retail. Andrew Cron, Chief Scientist and SVP of Science, and Barbara Connors, VP of Strategy and Acceleration at 84.51°, explain more in this podcast.
Amazon, iRobot and the Smart Home Data Play
Amazon has purchased iRobot, naturally raising some privacy concerns about the use of consumer data in combination from Roomba, Alexa and Ring devices. It also fits in nicely with Amazon’s bigger ambition to own the smart home market. Jason Boyce, founder and CEO of Avenue7Media, discusses this as well as antitrust concerns.
The Best Marketers Experiment Every Day
How do marketers stand out, when so many dollars are chasing the same consumers? There’s still too much uncertainty about what channels work for which messages. To get the most out of each channel, experiment. Constantly test different messages, landing pages and designs to learn what works to inform your tactics.
Retailers Defining the Future with Data
Taking full advantage of big data insights will enable retailers to make quick, informed decisions vs. relying on traditional analytics. They can better understand their customers, track their behaviors, and understand purchase patterns and frequency, in order to market the right products in the right places at the right time.
5 Metaverse Marketing Considerations for Brands
Marketers are wondering what issues they should be considering as metaverse marketing becomes a must have. Five issues to keep top of mind: balancing branding and performance; campaign buying methodologies; developing new metrics; what customer data will look like; and how to build secure experiences.
Total Information Awareness: Why It Matters for Marketers
Marketers who make sure their team – in fact, their entire organization – has easy access to critical first- and third-party data can achieve total information awareness nirvana. They can use data-driven insights to personalize their marketing strategies, acquire new customers, reduce churn, launch new products and mitigate risk.
