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B2C CDPs Need To Survive Before They Can Thrive

Forrester eCommerce

B2C customer data platforms (CDPs): all the hype, none of the follow through. That summarizes the analysis of the CDP space in our inaugural report on the category in 2018.

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Long B2C Sales Cycle? Use Content to Power Marketing

Optimizely

Both of the above are examples of B2C products, but the length of the sales cycle is very different for the two products. If your brand sells an expensive or niche product with a long B2C sales process, you have to think about your marketing differently long-term. Use content marketing throughout long B2C sales cycles.

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Why B2C Marketers Need to Own All Customer Data

Optimizely

Your B2C brand has a big sale coming up to move excess women’s shoe inventory and make room for next season’s styles. In order to do that, you need access to your customer data. What you can do — and what you need to do — is have access and ownership of all customer data yourself. Seems simple?

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Customer Data Platforms Show That Playing The Long Game Pays Off

Forrester eCommerce

Forrester has published The Forrester Wave™: Customer Data Platforms for B2C, Q3 2024. Given the heavy buyer and vendor interest in customer data platforms it evokes the obvious question “What took you so long?!” For context, consider the history […]

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Why B2C Branding is Really a Management Tool

Optimizely

” Trader Joe’s won the second year in a row as the American’s favorite grocery retailer on the Dunnhumby customer data survey. Here’s how you should approach branding and use it as a tool to manage your entire B2C business. The post Why B2C Branding is Really a Management Tool appeared first on Zaius.

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These Aren’t The Droids You’re Looking For: B2C Marketers And CDPs

Forrester eCommerce

Six months ago we started a conversation about customer data platforms (CDPs). The timing was right; CDPs were driving attention towards a historically sleepy corner of the martech universe centered around data management, gaining traction among vendors, and racking up mentions in the marketing trade press.

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Forrester Report: 6 Steps for B2C Marketers Seeking Wins in 2023

Retail TouchPoints

Two types of technological change are causing the proverbial sleepless nights for business-to-consumer (B2C) marketers: updating data strategies to adapt to data deprecation, and introducing or enhancing their organization’s AI capabilities.

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