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.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.