“I’m a guy, and I don’t ski. Why are you showing me pictures of a woman skiing?” I wish I could remember the name of the man who said this, because it is a great summary of the customer perspective of personalization. The implication is, he’d be more responsive to offers that featured guys doingContinue reading “The Right Questions for Personalization Success”
Category Archives: Digital Marketing
Evolution to Personalization: 3 Maturity Levels
How will you mature your digital marketing? If you expect to excel in your market via superior customer experience, targeting, or personalization, you need a culture of optimization – measuring, improving, and predicting. The strategy of using audience data to improve customer experience and optimize results has become this decade’s gold rush — for marketersContinue reading “Evolution to Personalization: 3 Maturity Levels”
Digital Transformation: Turnaround at Malaysia Airlines
[with co-author Patricia Seybold, CEO Patricia Seybold Group] Leaders in digital transformation foster a culture of experimentation, customer experience management supported by mature optimization programs, and measurements relevant to their goals. They demonstrate how an integrated platform, skilled people, and mature optimization capabilities are the keys to success. One such leader is Dean Dacko, SVPContinue reading “Digital Transformation: Turnaround at Malaysia Airlines”
Digital Transformation Leader: Suncorp Group
Leaders communicate the path; followers must interpret. Leaders in digital transformation foster a culture of experimentation, customer experience management supported by mature optimization programs, and measurements relevant to their goals. They demonstrate how an integrated platform, skilled people, and mature optimization capabilities are the keys to success. One such leader is Murray Howe, Executive ManagerContinue reading “Digital Transformation Leader: Suncorp Group”
Predicting the Past
Predictions are guesses about the past, present, or future. Prediction is not reporting: reporting is an organized recap of what is known. Why predict the past? Predicting the past is the starting point for predicting the future. Wait, don’t we know what the past is/was? Not usually. For example, economic events are so hard to identify and measureContinue reading “Predicting the Past”
Marketing in the Digital World
As customers, we experience digital transformation all the time—perhaps almost every day. In the past decade alone, the ways we consume music, movies, photography, news, retail, and travel have changed utterly. We are on the cusp of similar transformation of transportation and manufacturing, with the advent of onboard computers in cars, driverless cars, and 3DContinue reading “Marketing in the Digital World”
Data Science and Not-So-Big Data
Statisticians joke (yes, they do!) that half the job is wrestling the data into shape, half is performing useful analyses, and half is explaining the findings. The data wrestling too often expands to consume all my time, leaving me too ennervated to find any findings. Big Data is what got everyone so excited about data science. But BiggerContinue reading “Data Science and Not-So-Big Data”
Data Scientist: Your New PartNerd
Inescapable: data science delivers the insights you need in order to be effective with digital marketing. Short-term avoidable: hiring a data scientist. Embraceable: Your new data scientist.Creative people and data science people should work together all day, every day, until they can understand each other, with a shared vision and shared vocabulary. Your data scientist must beContinue reading “Data Scientist: Your New PartNerd”
The Tragedy of Targeted Marketing and Personalization
OK, not really a tragedy. But a source of tremendous pain for many: targeted marketing, and personalization, are the antithesis of one size fits all. And this means you need an assortment for every bit of content that personalizes your customer experience. Not one walnut, but 7 or 8 or dozens. Having lots of contentContinue reading “The Tragedy of Targeted Marketing and Personalization”
The 6 Obstacles to Using Data Science
It would be great if we all had data to drive our decisions and processes — and used it. But the obstacles are so daunting that most of us can’t. Here are the top 6: Leadership from the top is mostly lacking. Data quality issues are omnipresent. Data science in marketing is not established (itContinue reading “The 6 Obstacles to Using Data Science”
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