by Marina Erulkar | Feb 3, 2018 | Analytics, Big Data, Critical Thinking, Customer Experience, Customer Relationship, Strategy
In a recent interview, I was asked if I’d ever witnessed a situation where customer data was used in an invasive manner. My response was bigger than the answer I provided. We all hear about Big Data. Data is collected from digital interactions and increasingly, with...
by Marina Erulkar | Jan 1, 2018 | Analytics, Big Data, Critical Thinking, Customer Acquisition, Customer Growth, Customer Retention, Marketing Technology
Data is the rich foundation for customer intelligence. So much can be learned and applied to speed acquisition of the right customers, grow them to full potential, and retain valuable existing customers. All too often though, companies spend their time exactly where...
by Marina Erulkar | Jan 3, 2018 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Critical Thinking, Data Analytics
There are great expectations for the valuable applications that artificial intelligence (AI) could have in attracting, acquiring, and growing customers. We should be excited: the potential for recognizing customers’ true interest real-time and then immediately...
by Marina Erulkar | Oct 1, 2016 | Customer Acquisition, Customer Analytics, Customer Intelligence, Increase Revenue, Marketing
Data is the raw material for deriving business and marketing intelligence. So much must go right to form that intelligence: ensuring that data is accurate, clean, complete, available, relevant, applicable, and actionable. And those are just table stakes. Actually...
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...