Customer Value: Narrowcasting vs. Broadcasting

Virtually every brand we’ve met with in the last few months is hungry for new customers, the war for the customer is on. For more on growing your customer base, consider reading “Bigger is Better, How to Scale Up Customer Acquisition Smarter” an article we published...

The Most Important CRM Metric You Might Be Missing

Virtually every organization we have worked with in the past year is working on managing, improving, or optimizing their relationships with customers. This work falls under the umbrella term “Customer Relationship Management” or “CRM.” It is, of course, the oldest...

Marketing Machines — Possible or Pipedream?

True data-driven marketing is still “just a dream” for many marketers, rather than a reality. Under this vision, systems data mine autonomously, and present fresh actionable insights at your desktop in the morning. For about 99% of marketers, this may sound too good...

Analytics Isn’t Reporting

Working with multi-channel retail organizations, we’ve experienced the frequent concern that online is competing with, or “cannibalizing” retail sales. It seems like a reasonable problem for those responsible for the P&L of the retail business to consider, same...