Creating a Consistent Customer Experience with Sales Content

Every organization understands the importance of offering consistent products and services, but most don’t understand the role content can play in delivering a consistent customer experience. Consistency encourages regularity and reliability, which in turn makes customers feel safe and open to building a long-term relationship with you and your product or service. A study by […]

How Mature is Your Market Intelligence Model?

Recently, our DigitalPulse team attended the Netbase Live 2018 conference in New York. We participate in events like this as part of our ongoing commitment to our clients to stay on the leading edge in the field of digital listening and intelligence. The event saw a diverse mix of experts take the stage ranging from researchers at Carnegie […]

The Promise of the Marketing Data Platform

A relational data warehouse built with standardized schemas, loosely coupled to source systems, and extended to meet a company’s unique requirements.

The Last Mile Problem: 7 Steps to Closing the Insights-to-Outcomes Gap

Changing front-line behaviors with data-driven insights will be critical to realizing the benefits from your investments in analytics.  It’s harder than you think! Perhaps you are one of those companies in the CMO Survey that is planning a 218% increase in analytics spend over the next three years, or perhaps you are part of the […]

FinServ Digital Transformation: It’s All About the Data

CEOs and their leadership teams in FinServ companies—from banking to insurance to credit—are moving on to the next wave of digital transformation: data strategy and execution. While every company is at different stages of digital maturity (as are individual BUs and functions within each company), one trend is absolutely clear:

Cross-Selling is an Endurance Run, Not a Sprint

This month, Chase Sapphire signaled a new strategic focus on cross-selling with a lucrative 60,000-point signup bonus for customers opening a new Sapphire Banking premium checking account. In addition, the offer includes special VIP access to Sapphire lounges at concerts, sports and special events as well as early ticket sales and premium seats. The irony is […]

The Critical Path Ahead for Tech CMOs

It’s here.  The 21st CMO Survey is out and it gives us the opportunity to lift our heads up from our day-to-day work with our Technology clients and understand CMOs’ perspectives on where they are placing bets on growth and where the greatest risks of failure in their operations might be.  It’s a good tool […]

The Opportunities and Challenges of Marketing Analytics for FinServ Firms

The arrival of the 21st CMO Survey in our inbox prompts us to lift our heads up from our day-to-day work with Financial Services clients and to think retrospectively about where the industry has come in the last year. It affords us an opportunity to compare our “on-the-ground” client experiences with the experiences of the […]

Thoughts on the Microsoft-SAP-Adobe Open Data Alliance

This week, Microsoft, SAP, and Adobe (I’ll call it the MAS alliance moving forward) announced an “Open Data Initiative” or ODI. The general consensus is that this is a competitive response to the increasing domination of Salesforce.com in the CRM and marketing technology space, whose PEPM (per employee, per month) SaaS (software-as-a-service) CRM platform has […]

Building Data Intuition for Marketers

The more I interact with seemingly sophisticated companies who fat finger their attempts at personalization, the more I appreciate the efforts of companies who really get me. You would think I’m referring to the independent corner coffee shops, but it’s when a behemoth enterprise somehow manages to establish a relationship with me that I’m truly impressed. […]