That 24-year-old sports enthusiast watching Major League Soccer on Univision and that 65-year-old news junky listening to NPR may not actually be in your target audience. Not everyone in a demographic will be, and that’s OK. There are other types of data that can effectively help you home in on the consumers who could turn out to be your next high-value customer.
Thrive Market CEO: “Consumers Don’t Just Want Value, They Want Values”
Organic food delivery service Thrive Market has one prodigious asset that nearly all marketers covet: more than 1,000 points of useful customer data that it harvests for everything from personalization to product development.
What’s Next for Data-Driven Marketers? Avoid Being “Brand Regressive”
“Marketing is nothing if not a me-too industry. Once one big company asks for a new deal, everyone else will, too.”
LiveRamp chief executive officer Scott Howe made that assertion during an intimate press breakfast at the identity resolution vendor’s customer conference, RampUp 2019. Howe also made several predictions, based on where technology and the largest advertisers are headed:
The Case for Discovery in Marketing
Let me start by saying: I’m all about the data.
I’m an advocate of one-to-one marketing. I think behavior-based targeting is an essential part of the marketing mix. And, I’m certain that machine learning and other forms of AI will become so core to marketing as to be a virtually invisible element of areas such as personalization.
But, please, marketers, I implore you: Don’t get so caught up in all that contextual personalization has to offer that you overlook the art of discovery.
The Unintended Consequences of Siloed Metrics
Measuring the return on marketing spend by channel is essential, but done in a vacuum it can lead to misinterpretation and unintended consequences.
During a recent conversation on the topic with Steve Bonnell, director of digital analytics at unified.agency, he explained how marketing performance falls short of its potential when marketers are too focused on what he calls middle metrics: diagnostic metrics used in isolation for one part of the customer journey, such as click-through rates and landing page conversion rates. If, for example, marketers focus too much on email open rates, they may not pay the needed attention to click-through rates and landing page conversions.
Fortunately, Bonnell also explained how marketers can refocus, viewing channels and campaigns more holistically to optimize marketing efforts across the customer journey.
5 Marketing “Shoulds” in an Overwhelming List of “Coulds”
You’ve heard the adage, “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.” This is especially true in marketing, where the ever-so-tempting list of “coulds” is lengthy at best and overwhelming at worst.
The Happy (Re)Marriage of First- and Third-Party Data
There’s a renaissance in marketing, Kevin Dean said during a panel discussion at DMA’s &THEN 2016 conference. That renaissance, says Dean, president and GM of targeting for Experian Marketing Services, is the resurgence in marketers’ interest in third-party data.
Ginger Conlon 