Customer experience is the new battleground, and marketing is leading the charge. Buyers across most industries are seeking easier, personalised experiences and if you fail to deliver, customers will quickly find alternatives.
To succeed, companies must take control of the customer experience. It’s not just about digital transformation; it’s about blending digital and physical experiences seamlessly. Data is the foundation for creating meaningful brand engagements, optimising marketing spend, and predicting customer opportunities.
Welcome to Dynamic Marketing—a strategy to move from mass digital experiences to real-time, personalised interactions based on unified data. Here are the five key principles to transform your marketing organisation into a customer experience powerhouse:
Principle #1: Build Customer Trust
Customers expect a trusted experience, and privacy is paramount. Building trust requires prioritising privacy from the top down and across all teams handling customer data. Unifying consent data with customer profiles in real time is essential to meet privacy standards and gain valuable insights.
Principle #2: Data Unity
Customers demand a consistent experience across all channels. Achieving this requires data unity, starting with alignment at the executive level. A holistic view of customer data, handled through a customer data supply chain, ensures relevant and consistent experiences.
Principle #3: Now’s good
Real-time capabilities are essential for agility. Companies need to collect, process, and deliver data in real-time to provide customers with seamless experiences. Embracing automation, particularly with a real-time Customer Data Platform, empowers marketers to act swiftly and at scale.
Principle #4: Consistency
Customers interact with brands through multiple touchpoints, necessitating a consistent experience across channels. However, personalisation should be thoughtful and not intrusive. A unified data foundation allows you to create intelligent actions across various customer touchpoints.
Principle #5: Exceed expectations
Machine learning is the key to predictive customer experiences. By embedding machine learning into your data processes, you can anticipate critical moments and delight customers by removing friction and exceeding expectations.
Empower your marketing teams with the following fundamental data management practices:
- Collect: Gather data from various sources to create a comprehensive view of customers.
- Standardise and Govern: Set business rules to uniformly define and govern data, ensuring usability.
- Transform and Enrich: Bring together and align collected data with a Customer Data Platform to create individual customer profiles.
- Integrate: Integrate customer data insights with marketing tools for a cohesive experience.
- Activate: Deliver real-time, omni-channel experiences from a single source of truth, streamlining marketing efforts.
- Predict: Use machine learning to enable predictive insights, creating strategic and impactful customer experiences.
Deploying a CDP will help you deliver exceptional experiences, earn customer trust, and stay ahead of the competition. And, your customers will thank you for it.
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