On the other hand, an Accenture survey found that 73% of consumers have never received a brand message they felt was too personalized and 91% are more likely to shop with brands that recognize, remember and give them relevant recommendations. The biggest complaint is targeting based on data they didn’t knowingly provide, although the Most Creepy Award goes to offers received when walking near a physical store.
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.
Treasure Data will provide its system to free for companies that are stuck in contracts with other CDPs. The trade-up program is available to companies with roughly firms with $1 billion or more revenue, that already have a competitive CDP in place. There will still be some costs for services to make the conversion but Treasure Data says these are fairly small since it has considerable experience with such projects.