A Map or a Matrix? Identity Management Is More Complex By the Day
A newly published white paper on how advertisers and brands can recognize unique customers across marketing platforms underscores just how tough this important job is for data-driven marketers. As technologists [...]
Brands Need to Keep Engaging – Don’t Just Stop Because of Crisis
We are in extraordinary times – and it’s only prudent to recognize this. While the Fed may be doing everything possible to keep our economy afloat, we likely will remain [...]
The Grand Reopening of the U.S. Economy Will Happen, Plan for It
We are in uncharted territory, much as we were in previous economic downturns and recessions. Yet, do know, another expansion will follow … eventually. There will be a grand reopening [...]
Guiding Clients Through COVID-19 Challenges
Times of drastically scaled back face-to-face client meetings are likely to pop up over the course of your career. Even if you’ve been lucky enough so to have no local [...]
What I Hope to Learn in Orlando’s Magic ‘Data’ Kingdom
The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) inaugural 2020 Masters of Data and Technology Conference kicks off today. It will be interesting to learn how brands see themselves transformed by all [...]
3 Ways to Maintain Strong Client Relationships
After the initial investment that brings clients on board, you enter a blissful honeymoon phase where everyone’s happy. Resist the temptation to rest on your laurels! Before your clients’ eyes [...]
Data Love Story in the USA With a Few Spats, Too
You might call this time of year, Jan. 15 to March 15, marketing data’s “high season,” based on all of the goings-on. There’s a lot of data love out there [...]
Marketers’ New Year’s Resolution: ‘I Will Give Customers More T-R-A’
The turning of the calendar may mean a new fiscal year for many marketing organizations, but there is one constant that remains paramount for customer-centric enterprises: TLC (tender loving care) [...]
Earn Consumer Trust Through ‘Surprise and Delight’ in a Post-Privacy Age
Recent consumer research from Pew Research Center shows we have some work to do persuading consumers to let us use data about them for marketing. Right now, the risks seem [...]
Were Publishers the First DTC Brands? How 2 Areas of Marketing Align
DTC brands are hot entities. Practically any consumer product can be translated to a paid subscription business model. As a direct result, circulation and subscription marketing professionals have become very [...]
Here’s the Customer Psychology You’ve Shown You Care About, Marketers
Customer psychology helps marketers design campaigns. Emotion drives many purchases, even in B2B circles. And considering all I write about is customer psychology, let’s look at what aspects of it [...]
The Cost Marketing Pays When Sales Misuses the CRM
Bad things happen when sales reps ignore all of the insights their organization’s marketers place in the CRM system. From management not being able to discern how pipeline strength correlates [...]
Media Outlook 2019: Spell Marketing with a ‘D’
The January marketing calendar in New York has included for the past decade or so a certain can’t-miss event of the Direct Marketing Club of New York. In 60 fly-by [...]
How Optimum Healthcare IT Is Building a Tech Stack on a Budget
No matter the size of their company, every marketer charged with building out a technology stack is inevitably limited by their allocated tech budget. No one can buy all the [...]
Are Your Data Decisions Sending the Right Message?
The old way of “house-holding” is relevant when making household purchases, like cable service. But, it’s not relevant with making individual purchases, like shoes. Today even a 3-year-old child has [...]