by Marina Erulkar | Jun 2, 2018 | Customer Acquisition, Customer Intelligence, Customer Relationship, Customer Retention, Customer Segmentation, Increase Revenue, Strategy
Customer acquisition is important because, of course, new customers increase revenue. Customer acquisition is also typically the most expensive of the customer lifecycle phases. This crucial phase is about more than grabbing that first transaction. The true objective...
by Marina Erulkar | Jun 2, 2017 | Customer Intelligence, Customer Optimization, Customer Relationship, Customer Segmentation, Increase Revenue
Forrester offered a splashy prediction recently: The End of Advertising! The more significant statement followed the comma: the “beginning” of customer relationships. Not to split hairs here, but there was a time when companies routinely engaged in CRM (Customer...
by Marina Erulkar | May 3, 2017 | Big Data, Customer Acquisition, Customer Relationship, Customer Segmentation, Increase Revenue, Process Efficiency
There is a popular marketing practice based on customer personas. The approach defines simple customer segmentation by demographic descriptors, and then essentially targets like groups with tailored messages. Full disclosure: I was never a believer. The underlying...
by Marina Erulkar | Sep 4, 2016 | Analytics, Customer Intelligence, Customer Segmentation
For some of us, extracting intelligence from “big data” has been a practice for decades or more. We simply didn’t have a convenient buzzy term for it. What hasn’t changed over that time is the necessity to extract meaningful, actionable intelligence and apply it to...
