Data Enrichment
Sureshot’s Customer Data Platform Primer
A CDP is a type of software that equips you with a clean and connected customer database — enterprise-wide. It accomplishes this by integrating seamlessly with all tools, apps and systems throughout your organization that house data, whether on or offline. As it pulls data from all of these sources, it cleans, completes and standardizes that data, and shares the improved data back to each source. This continual process ensures that everyone in the company has real-time access to a single customer profile comprised of clean and complete information.
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A Guide to Calculating Your Total Addressable Market
A recent Barron’s article declared the acronym TAM, which stands for Total Addressable Market, the new buzzword of the business realm. Editor, Jack Hough said, “Over the past decade, the compound annual growth rate of earnings calls with one or more mentions of TAM is 17%. That compares with a 14% annual return for the S&P 1500 over the same period. That’s right: TAM is beating the market.”
Read it Let’s Talk Turkey: 7 Savory Data Stats to Chew On
Ah, the holidays, a time to gather with the ones we love and have deep conversations about the things that really matter. Naturally, we’re referring to all the end of the year meetings with your team to discuss data-driven marketing results. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we’ve gathered together a few of the latest stats on data that you can use as conversation-starters once everyone is seated at the table.
Read it 5 Steps to Overcoming Data Complexity Issues
A recent study found that one third of marketers cite data complexity as the biggest challenge they face – bigger than creating an engaging customer journey or demonstrating the ROI of marketing’s efforts. Data and its rabbit-like ability to multiply has become the elephant inside a room that’s walls are closing in. The good news is you can stop the walls from closing in — even as your data continues to replicate. Below, we’ve created a proven path for eliminating problems produced by data complexity.
Read it Leveraging Martech to Increase Marketing’s Impact – An Abridged Ebook
Martech has come a long way in the last eight years. When author and martech expert, Scott Brinker first began chronicling its growth in 2011, there were 150 marketing technology options available. Today, there are over 7,040 martech tools for marketers to choose from that span six categories, including: advertising & promotion; content & experience; social & relationships; commerce & sales; data; and management.
Read it Sureshot’s Top 8 Quotes & Key Takeaways from B2BSMX
Sureshot attended the first annual B2B Sales and Marketing Exchange (B2BSMX) in Boston this past August, along with over a thousand other B2B marketing professionals from all over the nation. Featuring six keynote speakers and more than 50 breakout sessions, we hit the ground running ready to glean the latest insights on account based marketing (ABM), demand generation and sales enablement. Now that we’ve done the legwork, you can sit back, relax and read our favorite quotes and key takeaways.
Read it Top 10 Reasons Data Blindness Is Marketing’s Worst Malady
Data blindness is not an effective marketing strategy. Yet, most marketers have little to no ability to know whether or not the information in their database is high-quality or highly ineffective. When you have poor data visibility, bad things can happen without your knowledge or ability to respond.
Read it 6 Steps to a Stellar B2B Segmentation Strategy: Part Two
There are countless ways to segment your customers, but below we will cover some of the more popular approaches. Some of the segment types, like firmographics and geographics, are quick and simple to do. However, others, such as customer needs and customer behaviors, require more time and effort, but their ability to produce meaningful results makes them worthwhile endeavors.
Read it 6 Steps to a Stellar B2B Segmentation Strategy: Part One
Essentially the people in your customer segments are together because they have some common characteristics, and these characteristics should enable you to craft distinctive marketing messages that resonate with them on a remarkably personal level.
Read it 3 Steps to Becoming an ABM Rock Star – Part Two
You need to connect with your customers to build a CX strategy that enhances your relationship with them. You need to connect your martech stack and data sources in order to create a seamless digital experience.
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