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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 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 to and ownership of all customer data yourself. Seems simple?

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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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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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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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Want More Customer Data? Build An Enterprise Data Strategy First

Forrester eCommerce

In the era of data deprecation, many B2C marketing clients are asking me “how can I get more first-party data?” or “how do I get more customers to share data with me?”

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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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