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Book Synopsis
Master the hottest technology around to drive marketing success Marketers are faced with astarkand challenging dilemma: customers demand deep personalization, but they are increasingly leery of offering the type of personal data required to make it happen. As a solution to this problem,Customer Data Platforms have come to the fore, offering companiesaway to capture, unify, activate,and analyze customer data. CDPs are the hottestmarketingtechnologyaroundtoday,but arethey worthyof the hype?Customer Data Platformstakes a deep dive into everything CDPso you can learn how to steer your firm toward the future of personalization. Over the years,many of ushave built byzantine stacks of various marketing and advertising technologyin an attemptto deliver the fabled right person,right message, right time experience.This can lead tosiloed systems, disconnected processes, and legacy technical debt.CDPs offer a way tosimplify the stack and delivera balanced and engaging customer experience.Customer Data Platformsbreaks down the fundamentals, including how to: Understand the problems of managing customer dataUnderstand what CDPs are and what they do (and don't do)Organize and harmonize customer data for use in marketingBuild a safe, compliant first-party data asset that your brand can use as fuelCreate a data-driven culture that puts customers at the center of everything you doUnderstand how to use AI and machine learning to drive the future of personalizationOrchestrate modern customer journeys that react to customers in real-timePower analytics with customer data to get closer to true attribution Inthisbook, you'll discover how to build 1:1 engagement that scales at the speed of today's customers.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

The Pizza Challenge 1

The Perils of Personalization 4

Rise of the Avoidant Customer 5

The Disconnected Data Dilemma 6

Crossing the Customer Data Chasm 7

Customer Data Platform (CDP) 8

Chapter 1 The Customer Data Conundrum 11

Data Silos 11

Known Data 14

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 15

Customer Resolution 15

Data Portability 16

Unknown Data 16

Cross-Device Identity Management (CDIM) 19

Connecting the Known and Unknown 20

Data Onboarding 21

People Silos 22

Customer-Driven Thinker: Kevin Mannion 24

Summary: The Customer Data Problem 26

Chapter 2 The Brief, Wondrous Life of Customer Data Management 29

Customer Data on Cards and Tape? 29

Direct Mail and Email: The Prototypes of Modern Marketing 31

A Brief History of Customer Data Management 32

Relational Databases 34

The Rise of CRM and Marketing Automation 35

Marketing Automation 36

Improved User Interface (UI) 37

The Multichannel Multiverse of the Thoroughly Modern Marketer 38

The Growth of Digital 38

Today’s Landscape 40

Today’s Martech Frankenstack 41

Customer-Driven Thinker: Scott Brinker 43

Summary: The Brief, Wondrous Life of Customer Data Management 44

Chapter 3 What is a CDP, Anyway? 47

Rise of the Customer Data Platform 47

What Marketers Really Want from the CDP 51

The Great RFP Adventure 52

“We Want a Platform, Not a Product” 53

Building a Platform Solution 54

CDP Capabilities 54

Data Collection 54

Data Management 55

Profile Unification 56

Segmentation and Activation 56

Insights/AI 57

The Two (Actually Three) Types of CDPs 58

A System of Insights 58

System of Engagement 60

The Third Type: Enterprise Holistic CDP 62

Known and Unknown (CDMP) Data Must Be Unified 62

A Business-User Friendly UI 62

A Platform Ecosystem 63

The Future is Here 64

Customer-Driven Thinker: David Raab 65

Summary: What is a CDP? 66

Chapter 4 Organizing Customer Data 69

Munging Data in the Midwest 69

Elements of a Data Pipeline 71

Data Management Steps 72

1 Data Ingestion 72

2 Data Harmonization 74

Using an Information Model 75

3 Identity Management 76

Benefits of Identity Management 77

Spectrum of Identity 78

Identity Management in Practice 79

4 Segmentation 79

The Importance of Attributes 82

5 Activation 83

Getting It Done 84

Different Spheres of Influence 84

Customer-Driven Thinker: Brad Feinberg 86

Summary: Organizing Customer Data 88

Chapter 5 Build a First-Party Data Asset with Consent 91

Privacy-First is Customer-Driven 91

Privacy Police: Browsers and Regulators 93

Web Browsers and Standards Bodies 93

Intelligent Tracking Prevention 94

Enhanced Tracking Prevention and Brave 94

Google’s Chrome and AdID 94

Government Regulators 95

The Mistrustful Consumer 96

How Can a Marketer Gain Trust? 98

Attitudes Around the World 99

The Privacy Paradox 100

What Exactly is the Privacy Paradox? 101

How Do You Solve the Paradox? 101

Four Privacy Tactics to Try 102

Customer-Driven Thinker: Sebastian Baltruszewicz 103

Summary: Build a First-Party Data Asset with Consent 104

Chapter 6 Building a Customer-Driven Marketing Machine 107

Know, Personalize, Engage, and Measure 107

Know (“the Right Person”) 108

Personalize (“the Right Message”) 109

Engage (“the Right Channel”) 111

Measure (and Optimize) 113

Organizational Transformation 114

The CDP Working Model 114

Team 114

Platform 116

Use Cases 116

Methodology 117

Operating Model 118

The People at the Center (the Center of Excellence Model) 119

Marketing 120

IT/CRM 121

Analytics 122

How the COE Works 123

How to Get There from Here: A Working Maturity Model 124

Channel Coordination Stages 126

Engagement Maturity Stages 126

Touchpoints: That Was Then 127

Journeys: This is Now 127

Experiences: This is the Future 128

Summary: Build a Customer-Driven Marketing Machine 128

Chapter 7 Adtech and the Data Management Platform 131

The Magic Coffee Maker 131

Background/Evolution of the DMP 132

Five Sources of Value in DMP 133

Advertising as Part of the Marketing Mix 134

Role of Pseudonymous IDs in the Enterprise 135

Advertising in “Walled Gardens” with First-Party Data 135

End-to-end Journey Management: The CDMP 136

Customer-Driven Thinker: Ron Amram 137

Summary: Adtech and the Data Management Platform 138

Chapter 8 Beyond Marketing 141

The Expanding Role of Customer Data Across the Enterprise 141

Service: Frontline Engagement with the Customer 144

Commerce: The Storefront and the Nexus of Response 146

Use of Commerce Data for Modeling and Scoring 147

Sales: The B2B Context, and What That Means for Customer Data 149

Sources of Truth 150

Householding 150

Targetable Attributes 151

Marketing: The Brand Stewards, Revenue, and the Engagement Engine 151

Customer-Driven Thinker: Kumar Subramanyam 152

Summary: Beyond Marketing: Putting Sales, Service, and Commerce Data to Work 153

Chapter 9 Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence 155

Once Upon a Time . . . in Silicon Valley 155

Deep Learning and AI 156

Back to the Hot Dogs 157

Cast of Characters 157

Customer-Driven Machine Learning and AI 159

Data Science in Marketing 160

Machine Learning Vs. Artificial Intelligence? 161

What Does a Marketing Data Scientist Do? 161

Customer Data and Experimental Design 161

Customer Data, Machine Learning, and AI 162

What is a Model? 162

Labeled Vs. Unlabeled Data 162

Fitting a Model to Data 162

Making Predictions 163

Regression 163

Classification 163

Finding Structure 164

Clustering 164

Dimensionality Reduction 164

Neural Networks 164

Applying Machine Learning and AI in Marketing 165

Machine-Learned Segmentation 165

Machine-Learned Attribution 167

Image Recognition and Natural Language Processing (NLP) 168

Importance of Customer Data for AI 169

AI/ML in the Organization: Data Science Teams 170

Customer-Driven Thinker: Alysia Borsa 171

Summary: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence 173

Chapter 10 Orchestrating a Personalized Customer Journey 175

The Rise of Context Marketing 175

Prescriptive Journeys 177

Predictive Journeys 178

Real-Time Interaction Management (RTIM) Journeys 180

Customer-Driven Thinker: Laura Lisowski Cox 181

Summary: Orchestrating a Personalized Customer Journey 183

Chapter 11 Connected Data for Analytics 185

Customer Data for Marketing Analytics 185

Analytical Capabilities 188

Analytics Data Sources 188

Beyond the Basics 189

Key Types of Analytics 190

Marketing/Email Analytics 190

DMP Analytics 191

Multitouch Attribution (MTA) 192

Media Mix Modeling (MMM) 193

Marketing Analytics Platforms 194

Enterprise Analytics/BI 195

Customer-Driven Thinker: Vinny Rinaldi 197

Summary: Connected Data for Analytics 199

Chapter 12 Summary and Looking Ahead 201

Summary 201

Looking Ahead 204

Category Shake-Out! 205

Aggregate-Level Data and “FLOCtimization” 206

A Fresh Start for Multitouch Attribution 206

AI Finally Takes Over 207

The Future 208

Further Reading 209

Acknowledgments 211

About the Authors 213

Index 215

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      Book Synopsis
      Master the hottest technology around to drive marketing success Marketers are faced with astarkand challenging dilemma: customers demand deep personalization, but they are increasingly leery of offering the type of personal data required to make it happen. As a solution to this problem,Customer Data Platforms have come to the fore, offering companiesaway to capture, unify, activate,and analyze customer data. CDPs are the hottestmarketingtechnologyaroundtoday,but arethey worthyof the hype?Customer Data Platformstakes a deep dive into everything CDPso you can learn how to steer your firm toward the future of personalization. Over the years,many of ushave built byzantine stacks of various marketing and advertising technologyin an attemptto deliver the fabled right person,right message, right time experience.This can lead tosiloed systems, disconnected processes, and legacy technical debt.CDPs offer a way tosimplify the stack and delivera balanced and engaging customer experience.Customer Data Platformsbreaks down the fundamentals, including how to: Understand the problems of managing customer dataUnderstand what CDPs are and what they do (and don't do)Organize and harmonize customer data for use in marketingBuild a safe, compliant first-party data asset that your brand can use as fuelCreate a data-driven culture that puts customers at the center of everything you doUnderstand how to use AI and machine learning to drive the future of personalizationOrchestrate modern customer journeys that react to customers in real-timePower analytics with customer data to get closer to true attribution Inthisbook, you'll discover how to build 1:1 engagement that scales at the speed of today's customers.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction 1

      The Pizza Challenge 1

      The Perils of Personalization 4

      Rise of the Avoidant Customer 5

      The Disconnected Data Dilemma 6

      Crossing the Customer Data Chasm 7

      Customer Data Platform (CDP) 8

      Chapter 1 The Customer Data Conundrum 11

      Data Silos 11

      Known Data 14

      Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 15

      Customer Resolution 15

      Data Portability 16

      Unknown Data 16

      Cross-Device Identity Management (CDIM) 19

      Connecting the Known and Unknown 20

      Data Onboarding 21

      People Silos 22

      Customer-Driven Thinker: Kevin Mannion 24

      Summary: The Customer Data Problem 26

      Chapter 2 The Brief, Wondrous Life of Customer Data Management 29

      Customer Data on Cards and Tape? 29

      Direct Mail and Email: The Prototypes of Modern Marketing 31

      A Brief History of Customer Data Management 32

      Relational Databases 34

      The Rise of CRM and Marketing Automation 35

      Marketing Automation 36

      Improved User Interface (UI) 37

      The Multichannel Multiverse of the Thoroughly Modern Marketer 38

      The Growth of Digital 38

      Today’s Landscape 40

      Today’s Martech Frankenstack 41

      Customer-Driven Thinker: Scott Brinker 43

      Summary: The Brief, Wondrous Life of Customer Data Management 44

      Chapter 3 What is a CDP, Anyway? 47

      Rise of the Customer Data Platform 47

      What Marketers Really Want from the CDP 51

      The Great RFP Adventure 52

      “We Want a Platform, Not a Product” 53

      Building a Platform Solution 54

      CDP Capabilities 54

      Data Collection 54

      Data Management 55

      Profile Unification 56

      Segmentation and Activation 56

      Insights/AI 57

      The Two (Actually Three) Types of CDPs 58

      A System of Insights 58

      System of Engagement 60

      The Third Type: Enterprise Holistic CDP 62

      Known and Unknown (CDMP) Data Must Be Unified 62

      A Business-User Friendly UI 62

      A Platform Ecosystem 63

      The Future is Here 64

      Customer-Driven Thinker: David Raab 65

      Summary: What is a CDP? 66

      Chapter 4 Organizing Customer Data 69

      Munging Data in the Midwest 69

      Elements of a Data Pipeline 71

      Data Management Steps 72

      1 Data Ingestion 72

      2 Data Harmonization 74

      Using an Information Model 75

      3 Identity Management 76

      Benefits of Identity Management 77

      Spectrum of Identity 78

      Identity Management in Practice 79

      4 Segmentation 79

      The Importance of Attributes 82

      5 Activation 83

      Getting It Done 84

      Different Spheres of Influence 84

      Customer-Driven Thinker: Brad Feinberg 86

      Summary: Organizing Customer Data 88

      Chapter 5 Build a First-Party Data Asset with Consent 91

      Privacy-First is Customer-Driven 91

      Privacy Police: Browsers and Regulators 93

      Web Browsers and Standards Bodies 93

      Intelligent Tracking Prevention 94

      Enhanced Tracking Prevention and Brave 94

      Google’s Chrome and AdID 94

      Government Regulators 95

      The Mistrustful Consumer 96

      How Can a Marketer Gain Trust? 98

      Attitudes Around the World 99

      The Privacy Paradox 100

      What Exactly is the Privacy Paradox? 101

      How Do You Solve the Paradox? 101

      Four Privacy Tactics to Try 102

      Customer-Driven Thinker: Sebastian Baltruszewicz 103

      Summary: Build a First-Party Data Asset with Consent 104

      Chapter 6 Building a Customer-Driven Marketing Machine 107

      Know, Personalize, Engage, and Measure 107

      Know (“the Right Person”) 108

      Personalize (“the Right Message”) 109

      Engage (“the Right Channel”) 111

      Measure (and Optimize) 113

      Organizational Transformation 114

      The CDP Working Model 114

      Team 114

      Platform 116

      Use Cases 116

      Methodology 117

      Operating Model 118

      The People at the Center (the Center of Excellence Model) 119

      Marketing 120

      IT/CRM 121

      Analytics 122

      How the COE Works 123

      How to Get There from Here: A Working Maturity Model 124

      Channel Coordination Stages 126

      Engagement Maturity Stages 126

      Touchpoints: That Was Then 127

      Journeys: This is Now 127

      Experiences: This is the Future 128

      Summary: Build a Customer-Driven Marketing Machine 128

      Chapter 7 Adtech and the Data Management Platform 131

      The Magic Coffee Maker 131

      Background/Evolution of the DMP 132

      Five Sources of Value in DMP 133

      Advertising as Part of the Marketing Mix 134

      Role of Pseudonymous IDs in the Enterprise 135

      Advertising in “Walled Gardens” with First-Party Data 135

      End-to-end Journey Management: The CDMP 136

      Customer-Driven Thinker: Ron Amram 137

      Summary: Adtech and the Data Management Platform 138

      Chapter 8 Beyond Marketing 141

      The Expanding Role of Customer Data Across the Enterprise 141

      Service: Frontline Engagement with the Customer 144

      Commerce: The Storefront and the Nexus of Response 146

      Use of Commerce Data for Modeling and Scoring 147

      Sales: The B2B Context, and What That Means for Customer Data 149

      Sources of Truth 150

      Householding 150

      Targetable Attributes 151

      Marketing: The Brand Stewards, Revenue, and the Engagement Engine 151

      Customer-Driven Thinker: Kumar Subramanyam 152

      Summary: Beyond Marketing: Putting Sales, Service, and Commerce Data to Work 153

      Chapter 9 Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence 155

      Once Upon a Time . . . in Silicon Valley 155

      Deep Learning and AI 156

      Back to the Hot Dogs 157

      Cast of Characters 157

      Customer-Driven Machine Learning and AI 159

      Data Science in Marketing 160

      Machine Learning Vs. Artificial Intelligence? 161

      What Does a Marketing Data Scientist Do? 161

      Customer Data and Experimental Design 161

      Customer Data, Machine Learning, and AI 162

      What is a Model? 162

      Labeled Vs. Unlabeled Data 162

      Fitting a Model to Data 162

      Making Predictions 163

      Regression 163

      Classification 163

      Finding Structure 164

      Clustering 164

      Dimensionality Reduction 164

      Neural Networks 164

      Applying Machine Learning and AI in Marketing 165

      Machine-Learned Segmentation 165

      Machine-Learned Attribution 167

      Image Recognition and Natural Language Processing (NLP) 168

      Importance of Customer Data for AI 169

      AI/ML in the Organization: Data Science Teams 170

      Customer-Driven Thinker: Alysia Borsa 171

      Summary: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence 173

      Chapter 10 Orchestrating a Personalized Customer Journey 175

      The Rise of Context Marketing 175

      Prescriptive Journeys 177

      Predictive Journeys 178

      Real-Time Interaction Management (RTIM) Journeys 180

      Customer-Driven Thinker: Laura Lisowski Cox 181

      Summary: Orchestrating a Personalized Customer Journey 183

      Chapter 11 Connected Data for Analytics 185

      Customer Data for Marketing Analytics 185

      Analytical Capabilities 188

      Analytics Data Sources 188

      Beyond the Basics 189

      Key Types of Analytics 190

      Marketing/Email Analytics 190

      DMP Analytics 191

      Multitouch Attribution (MTA) 192

      Media Mix Modeling (MMM) 193

      Marketing Analytics Platforms 194

      Enterprise Analytics/BI 195

      Customer-Driven Thinker: Vinny Rinaldi 197

      Summary: Connected Data for Analytics 199

      Chapter 12 Summary and Looking Ahead 201

      Summary 201

      Looking Ahead 204

      Category Shake-Out! 205

      Aggregate-Level Data and “FLOCtimization” 206

      A Fresh Start for Multitouch Attribution 206

      AI Finally Takes Over 207

      The Future 208

      Further Reading 209

      Acknowledgments 211

      About the Authors 213

      Index 215

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