Intouch Insight, which captures customer feedback through surveys, social media, and more, has launched an experience management system that tracks customers, identifies problem areas in their journey, and helps companies run campaigns to improve results. The system combines its own data with information from CRM and other systems and can use the results to create target lists for campaigns.
Content marketing vendor LookBookHQ has expanded its product to select content based on long-term impact on buyer behavior, ingesting data from CRM and marketing automation systems to make this possible. Reflecting a fundamental shift in its business, the company has renamed itself PathFactory.
I’ll spare you yet another survey on lack of preparation for GDPR and instead point to this Forrester study, done for Dun & Bradstreet, reminding us why collecting data is worth the trouble. Forrester rated respondents on data management maturity and found leaders are roughly twice as successful as laggards at uncovering new business opportunities, personalizing customer experience, measuring campaign results, and buying the right technology. Leaders also outperformed laggards at improving metrics ranging from sales cycle speed to customer lifetime value. You get the idea: good data pays.
T-Mobile will allow advertisers to target more than 20,000 screens in 11,000 store locations. That’s a lot of screens, but how much foot traffic does the average T-Mobile store get? It’s also linking up with streaming media company Plex as a CTV partner.