Behavioral Targeting

Personas, Be Gone: 1:1 Marketing Revisited

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By Chet Dalzell

Millennials are not the only ones who eschew labels.

Soccer moms, coffee house professionals, gears-and-gadget guys — in the world of data marketing, the audience personas available to select from enterprising data vendors go on and on and on. Tailoring and targeting based on personas — with hundreds of variables and data elements — dominate the business rules that direct billions in media spending and gazillions of business rules built inside customer journey mapping. Practically every retailer, every brand, has a best customer look-alike model — and segments to that model.

But

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Chet Dalzell

Marketing Sustainably: A blog posting questions, opportunities, concerns and observations on sustainability in marketing. Chet Dalzell has 25 years of public relations management and expertise in service to leading brands in consumer, donor, patient and business-to-business markets, and in the field of integrated marketing. He serves on the ANA International ECHO Awards Board of Governors, as an adviser to the Direct Marketing Club of New York, and is senior director, communications and industry relations, with the Digital Advertising Alliance. Chet loves UConn Basketball (men's and women's) and Nebraska Football (that's just men, at this point), too! 

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