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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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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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2024 Is The Make Or Break Year For CDPs

Forrester eCommerce

I’m pleased to announce the publication of The B2C Customer Data Platform Landscape, Q1 2024. Forrester’s landscape research is a valuable resource for marketers to understand and differentiate the range of solutions available to them in a very dynamic market.

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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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Build A Roadmap For Collecting The Customer Data You’ll Actually Use

Forrester eCommerce

Marketers want to capture as much zero- and first-party data as possible, whether that’s email addresses, marketing opt-ins and other consent, or more granular data about who a customer is and what they’re interested in.

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A B2C Marketer’s Biggest Enemy: The Data and Execution Gap

Optimizely

Marketers already know data is key to success in B2C and ecommerce. But knowing it’s important and actually being able to utilize data are very different things. Unfortunately, complete and accurate customer data has been shockingly difficult to get your hands on in B2C marketing. Own your customer data.

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How Gen AI is Reshaping our Understanding of User Intent

Retail TouchPoints

Within the world of B2B and B2C commerce, where understanding consumer behavior is key, this change has spurred a quest for innovative solutions. Consider the application in ecommerce where gen AI-powered chatbots redefine customer interactions. Many retailers grapple with insufficient product data.