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<title><![CDATA[Dalla Georeferenziazione al GeoMarketing: suggerimenti per orientarsi con questi strumenti di Marketing Intelligence]]></title>
<link>http://leonardomilan.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/dalla-georeferenziazione-al-geomarketing-suggerimenti-per-orientarsi-con-questi-strumenti-di-marketing-intelligence/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Leonardo Milan</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Sono passati più di ven’anni dai primi incroci fra dati di marketing e GIS - Geographic Informati]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sono passati più di ven’anni dai primi incroci fra dati di marketing e GIS - Geographic Information Systems: da questi primi report nacquero i sistemi di GeoMarketing. <br />Da qualche anno la segmentazione della clientela può essere effettuata con nuovi strumenti di GeoMarketing. <a href="http://maps.google.it/">Google Maps</a>, consente gratuitamente agli sviluppatori di web solutions, l’utilizzo dei codici html per l’inserimento delle mappe per la georeferenziazione delle aziende, indirizzi e quant’altro. Oltre a Vale-Net (già da tempo avviata nell’utilizzo di funzionalità di GeoMarketing), <a href="http://www.viamichelin.it/viamichelin/ita/dyn/controller/Tourisme"><img style="border-width:0;margin:5px 10px 0 0;" height="175" alt="image" src="http://leonardomilan.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/image3.png" width="316" align="left"/></a>esistono <b>società specializzate</b> nella fornitura di servizi di GeoMarketing puro (es.: <a href="http://www.tpsitalia.it/geomarketing/index.php?page=mapandmarket.php">TPS Italia</a>, <a href="http://www.ubiest.com/lang_id_1/page_id_/ctg_cat_id_174-204/prodotto.htm">UbiEst</a>, ecc.) e di servizi di GeoMarketing con declinazione agli itinerari ed al booking turistico (es.: <a href="http://www.viamichelin.it/viamichelin/ita/dyn/controller/Tourisme">ViaMichelin</a>, <a href="http://www.visual.paginegialle.it/">Pagine Gialle</a>, ecc.), in piena concorrenza con Google Maps, dispongono di mapper proprietarie unitamente al software di gestione e visualizzazione. <br />Non esiste attività turistica o esercizio commerciale che non abbia un’inserzione <i>georeferenziata</i>. <br />La Georeferenziazione, è un report di visualizzazione di dati su mappa geografica. Questa è l’accezione comune per la <i>georeferenziazione</i>. Nel gergo tecnico, per <i>georeferenziazione</i> si intende una procedura che consente di assegnare coordinate standard (es.: via, città, CAP, ecc.) a dei punti/coordinate di un’immagine, con l’ausilio di punti di controllo (GCP - Ground Control Point) di una mappa/carta geografica o di un’immagine strutturata per la georeferenziazione. <br />Il GeoMarketing però va oltre alla <i>georeferenziazione</i> ed agli aspetti della visibilità delle attività commerciali, Il GeoMarketing può essere definito come “<i>il complesso di applicazioni di marketing condotte su una serie di dati ottenuti partendo da basi geografiche</i>” (S.D.A. Bocconi – Area Marketing), indispensabile, quindi, ad un sistema di <a href="http://leonardomilan.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/i-sistemi-di-misurazione-ed-il-crm-intelligence-lesempio-del-ciclo-di-vita-del-cliente/">CRM Intelligence</a> e di Business Intelligence.</p>
<h3><b><font color="#808080">GeoMarketing come supporto alla strategia aziendale</font></b> </h3>
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<p>In un’ottica strategica di <i>differenziazione</i>, rispetto alla concorrenza, oltre alle <i>caratteristiche del prodotto/offerta</i>, devono essere tenuti in rilievo le <i>caratteristiche dei clienti/acquirenti</i>: <br />- Clienti/aziende<br />- Clienti finali/consumers (diretti o finali delle aziende/clienti)<br />- Canali di distribuzione<br /><b>- Posizione geografica</b> (dei Clienti e dei Canali)</p>
<p>Le basi per la segmentazione, soprattutto nel mercato dei Clienti finali/consumers, sono:<br />- Demografiche (età, sesso, istruzione, reddito, ecc.)<br />- Psicografiche (classe sociale, stile di vita, ecc.)<br />- Comportamentali (comportamento e frequenza d’acquisto, vantaggi ricercati, status, bisogni, ecc.)<br />- Fedeltà alla marca/prodotto<br />- <b>Geografiche </b></p>
<p><a href="http://leonardomilan.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/image6.png"><img style="border-width:0;margin:0 15px 0 5px;" height="167" alt="image" src="http://leonardomilan.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/image-thumb4.png" width="231" align="right"/></a> È chiaro che la posizione geografica dell’acquirente, soprattutto nel mercato fisico (meno per il mercato online), è importante per influenzare soprattutto gli elementi <i>comportamentali </i>e di <i>fedeltà</i> alla marca/prodotto. Nel marketing operativo del <i>mix </i>tra prodotto, prezzo, posizionamento, promozione, è il <b>posizionamento</b> (e la distribuzione, la reperibilità del prodotto) che declina con il dove, con il GeoMarketing.<br />I dati dell’azienda devono, declinare anche sul <i>dove</i>, con l’ausilio della visualizzazione cartografica (<i>georeferenziazione</i>), ma anche essere confrontati con dati socio economici georeferenziati. Solo in questo caso possiamo dire di avere gli elementi per realizzare attività di analisi di GeoMarketing. <br />Si stima che circa l’80% dei dati aziendali possono essere georeferenziati, questi sono:<br />- Clienti, fornitori, partner<br />- Rete vendita/Rete acquisto (SFA - Sales Force Automation, rete Punti Vendita/Retail, ecc.)<br />- Quote di mercato (% di vendite distribuite nel territorio dei vari prodotti e/o categorie di prodotto).</p>
<p>I <i>dati aziendali</i>, intesi come <i>interni all’azienda</i>, non sono di per sé sufficienti per poter generare benchmark analitici e/o analisi di mercato (intesa come analisi del mercato aziendale <i>comparata </i>con il mercato di segmento considerato). I <i>dati aziendali</i> devono essere integrati con i seguenti dati aggiuntivi:<br />- Dati inerenti al mercato di riferimento dell’azienda<br />- Dati socio economici</p>
<p>Queste due macrocategorie di dati possono essere suddivise in:<br />- Dati <b>desk</b>, disponibili, facilmente reperibili ed utilizzabili fin da subito<br />- Dati <b>ad hoc</b>, specifici per le esigenze dell’azienda (rilevabili solamente tramite un’azione di ricerca/rilevamento)</p>
<h3><font color="#808080"><b>GeoMarketing come supporto all’attività commerciale</b> </font></h3>
<p><a href="http://leonardomilan.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/image73.png"><img style="border-width:0;margin:0 15px 0 5px;" height="162" alt="image" src="http://leonardomilan.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/image7-thumb3.png" width="204" align="left"/></a> Il GeoMarketing consente alla direzione commerciale di ottimizzare: l’attività della forza vendita, la distribuzione della rete di vendita, i piani logistici, le aree territoriali ove realizzare promozioni o sviluppare azioni di difesa o di conquista del territorio.<br />Avendo inquadrato l’utilizzo degli strumenti di GeoMarketing in ambito aziendale, rimane ora da riportare alcuni esempi sugli utilizzi del GeoMarketing e della Georeferenziazione.</p>
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<h3><strong><font color="#808080">Esempi di possibili utilizzi delle funzionalità GeoMarketing</font></strong> </h3>
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<li>Analisi di <b>contesto</b> (es.: la definizione del potenziale commerciale e la pressione competitiva nei mercati in cui un’ azienda opera in funzione del proprio sistema di offerta)  </li>
<li>Analisi di <b>tendenza</b> (es.: analisi predittive sui mercati potenziali, oppure la valutazione delle performance della propria rete commerciale e distributiva in funzione del potenziale espresso dal territorio, oppure consumi medi del prodotto/settore in aree geografiche ancora non coperte, ecc.)  </li>
<li><a href="http://leonardomilan.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/image5.png"><img style="border-width:0;margin:0 10px;" height="149" alt="image" src="http://leonardomilan.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/image-thumb3.png" width="217" align="right"/></a>Analisi di <b>posizionamento</b> (es.: visualizzazione dei livelli di concentrazione della forza vendita o della distribuzione logistica dei prodotti nel territorio, anche in confronto con la concorrenza, ecc.)  </li>
<li><b>Psicodemografia</b> e analisi spettrale dei consumi (es.: per intraprendere azioni per aumentare la fidelizzazione dei propri clienti ed acquisire quote di mercato)  </li>
<li>Verifica/<b>simulazione</b> di apertura di nuove attività commerciali (es.:. area di gravitazione di un Punti Vendita, oppure la razionalizzazione della rete di vendita ed ottimizzare il presidio commerciale, oppure l’individuazione del dove aprire un nuovo Punti Vendita in funzione della concentrazione del target, attività tipica svolta dalla GDO - Grande Distribuzione Organizzata, ecc.  </li>
<li>Organizzazione <b>visite</b> della clientela, in ambito SFA - Sales Force Automation</li>
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<h3><font color="#808080"><br />Esempi di possibili utilizzi in ambito WEB</font></h3>
<ul>
<li>Definizione itinerari e/o percorsi stradali  </li>
<li>Ricerca di prossimità (es.: quale esercizio/struttura trovo nel raggio di X km?)  </li>
<li>Ricerca e visualizzazione struttura/esercizio (P.O.I. - Point of Interest) nella <i>mappa</i> e/o nell’<i>area</i> considerata (es.: provincia o selezione mouse)  </li>
<li>Collocazione della struttura/esercizio rispetto a P.O.I. presenti nel territorio  </li>
<li>… per non parlare della combinazione GeoMarketing con GPS ... in ambito wireless/mobile…</li>
</ul>
<p><b><br />Conclusioni<br /></b>Paradossalmente con la nascita dell’eCommerce e quindi della a-geograficità e delocalizzazione<br />potenziale di ogni attività, il geomarketing ha aumentato la propria valenza strategica. Non c’è un portale turistico, per esempio, che non usi dinamicamente un minimo di mappatura del territorio con l’ausilio dei P.O.I. - Point of Interest.<br />Per il GeoMarketing vale quanto detto in letteratura sul CRM: in sé è uno strumento, occorre una strategia di utilizzo dello strumento in ambito strategico, marketing e commerciale. Utilizzato senza questo contesto ci si limita alla <em>Georeferenziazione</em> ed ai relativi tools grafici, belli da vedere ma alquanto inutili ... soprattutto in un contesto di <em>marketing intelligence</em>.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:l.milan@leonardomilan.it">Leonardo Milan</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Marketing Databases - A prologue]]></title>
<link>http://gramatr.wordpress.com/?p=151</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Over the years I have had the opportunity / challenge of overseeing the construction of many mark]]></description>
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<p class="Body" style="padding-top:0;">Over the years I have had the opportunity / challenge of overseeing the construction of many marketing databases, discuss feature needs with clients and operations practicalities with end users. As one of the most important pieces in an accountable marketing environment, you might be surprised at the disconnect between customers / users and software vendors related to features, functions and their ultimate importance on success. When a prospective client asks to see a systems campaign management capability - the software vendor is happy because it is an easy component of the software to understand and the client/ users are happy because they can see how the software will affect their daily lives.</p>
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<p class="Body">Unfortunately, this is the first step towards many unsuccessful projects and unhappy clients. Marketing databases are first and foremost about the data and vendor qualification should be more about the data integration experience of the deployment team and systems toolsets used to clean / transform and express business rules on incoming data. Software vendors / consultants and their clients approach data integration  many times with a “don’t ask - don’t tell” policy and begin assuming the data is clean and will work when imported into the system. Beyond that, many vendors / consultants commit to implementations that make <span class="style_1">minimal </span>or no impact on outdated business processes. Both of these <span class="style_1">too common</span> behaviors and user tool focused sales process contribute to both misguided expectations on all parts and dissatisfied clients / users.</p>
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<p class="Body">By focusing on getting the data right first (even if it takes a lot of time &#38; pain) and then supporting process changes where best practices indicate (they are <span class="style_1">best practices</span> right?) the resulting database will be an accurate representation of both current and future activity and deliver results that can be trusted and audited within a well designed continuous improvement environment. Worry about the painful things first and the rest of the eye candy (campaign management / reporting tools) will not only look good, but will delivery sustainable competitive advantage.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[All marketing is accountable today!]]></title>
<link>http://gramatr.wordpress.com/?p=62</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
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With economic and business pressures continuing to grow, marketers are being required to justify ]]></description>
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<p class="Body" style="padding-top:0;">With economic and business pressures continuing to grow, marketers are being required to <em><span class="style_1">justify</span></em> their budgets more and more. Some may argue that traditional advertising or general marketing are not direct response oriented and thus their impact unquantifiable.</p>
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<p class="Body">I beg to differ... Marketers of today MUST review the financial pro-formas of ALL their advertising and marketing activities and build a balanced portfolio of assets. In cases where direct financial performance is difficult (or impossible) to measure they should be classified as <span class="style_1"><em>unknown</em> </span>assets; the important point to take away here is that this lack of track-ability itself is important for portfolio balancing since no portfolio of activities should be over-weighted with <em><span class="style_1">unknown performers / question marks</span></em>.</p>
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<p class="Body">In an environment of cost sensitivity, the marketer who can show a dedication to accountability will be able to grow high performing programs and re-allocate resources from under-performing ones. This proactive management style with ward off arbitrary budget cuts, since every invested dollar can be accounted for along with its contribution.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[A little bit of marketing intelligence]]></title>
<link>http://moniqs.wordpress.com/?p=127</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The right information does not automatically come to the person who needs it, so it is useful to loo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">The right information does not automatically come to the person who needs it, so it is useful to look at how knowledge is managed. In the military world, sources of data are classified as <strong>‘HUMINT’, ‘TECHINT’ and ‘SIGINT’</strong>. These respectively refer to intelligence derived from humans, intelligence derived from technical sources and that derived from intercepting signals. Collecting these involves questioning, using devices, and observing communications between people. Market researchers use exactly the same techniques.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">A term that is commonly used in this field is ‘market intelligence’. The big difference between military procedures and marketing intelligence procedures is that of transparency: the former thrives in secrecy; the latter is expected to show transparency.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">While the military definitions are subdivided even further, we shall distinguish just three different types of intelligence. Montgomery and Weinberg (1979) make a valuable distinction using the terms ‘defensive’, ‘passive’ and ‘offensive’. Defensive intelligence monitors the environment to avoid surprises. Passive intelligence provides benchmark data to compare with the company’s own performance. Offensive intelligence identifies opportunities that would not otherwise be discovered.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">This is summarized in the following table:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">To avoid surprises, to monitor the environment and support any hunches of what may be happening. An alert of major changes</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">To provide benchmark data to compare the company’s own performance and use it to evaluate objectives</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">To identify opportunities that would not otherwise be discovered</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">(Adapted from Montgomery and Weinberg 1979)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 4 ways to capture VoC]]></title>
<link>http://voiceofcustomer.wordpress.com/?p=32</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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As the VoC Industry evolves, different approaches begin to surface in an effort to gather voice o]]></description>
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<p>As the VoC Industry evolves, different approaches begin to surface in an effort to gather voice of customer metrics and and create actionable solutions.</p>
<p>Here are the top 4 (seen to date):</p>
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<li><strong>Surveys - (usually project specific, may be extensive, easy to use, great level of detail)</strong> Through a survey process of capturing answers to specific questions, customers help bench mark metrics for corporations to progress in various aspect of Sales, Marketing, and Customer Relations.</li>
<li><strong>Collective Intelligence - (intelligence based on honest remarks gathered through 3rd party opinions, on the web, without direct customer interaction)</strong> searching Blogs, News, PR &#38; other Media to determine opinions of products and services performed by a particular company.</li>
<li> <strong>Community Forums - (involved and committed to a cause, membership opportunities, level of involvement)</strong> companies focus on creating communities with particular audience in mind to feed customer input toward products and services</li>
<li><strong>On-Line Feedback - (short, measurable, large numbers, page specific metrics, ongoing interaction)</strong> real time tool positioned visibly on a website to encourage ongoing participation for customers, while answering short but precise question pertaining to corporate goals - Sales, Marketing, Web.</li>
</ul>
<p>All approaches take on some form of real-time communication. Some are lengthy, some short and sweet, but the each process's goal is to gain:</p>
<ul>
<li>Behavioral Metrics - (Usability of the touch points, and prediction of customer next desirable step of progression)</li>
<li>Attitudinal Metrics- (Feelings toward a brand or product by that brand)</li>
<li>Business Intelligence - (Applicable to QC, Physical Stores, Inventory, Logistics, Product Sales, Facilities...)</li>
<li>Intelligent Support - (On-line customer service intervention)</li>
<li>Marketing Intelligence - (NPS, WOM, ad and campaign success, sales and marketing correlation)</li>
<li>Website Insurance - (Customers comment on design, content and usability of a website, and often suggest improvements)</li>
</ul>
<p>How do you Listen to your customers?</p>
<p>....if not, which way to do see being the most favorable?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[RFM Analysis]]></title>
<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=208</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/?p=208</guid>
<description><![CDATA[RFM (recency, frequency, monetary) analysis is used by marketing to determine their campaign targets]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RFM (recency, frequency, monetary) analysis is used by marketing to determine their campaign targets.  It is based on three metrics from the previous sales records:<!--more--></p>
<ul>
<li>Recency -  How recently a customer has purchased</li>
<li>Frequency - How often they purchase</li>
<li>Monetary - How much the customer spends</li>
</ul>
<p>It should be considered as part of Marketing Analytics since it is used by Marketing.  However, it is purely based on the sale data with the focus on the existing customers.</p>
<p>A marketing campaign with a more focus target can come better results.   The usage of these metrics are based on the following assumptions:</p>
<ul>
<li>"80% of your  business comes from 20% of your customers.</li>
<li>Most-recent purchasers are more likely to purchase again than less-recent purchasers</li>
<li>Customers with more purchases are more likely to buy products than customers with fewer purchases</li>
<li>Purchasers who spent the most are more likely to purchase again than small spenders</li>
</ul>
<p>In practice, the numeric measure are converted into the ranking and quintile. It is then used to generate the "RFM code", which is a three digit code assigned to each customer. The details can be found in the reference link [1].</p>
<p>The RFM code can be used to predict the response rate and save the direct marketing mailing cost.  However, as the article in reference [2], said, <i>RFM is not as important in the electronic world</i>.  The email costs much less comparing to the direct mail.</p>
<p>One the other hand, it will allows you to design a better or custom message and thus gain a better response rate. In the article in the reference [3], a RFM Migration Analysis is used to analyze the customer migration patterns and to define the marketing strategies.</p>
<p><b> Reference</b></p>
<p>[1] <a href="http://www.dbmarketing.com/articles/Art149.htm" target="_blank">Quick Profits with RFM Analysis</a>, by Arthur Middleton Hughes, from Direct Marketing Institute</p>
<p>[2]  <a href="http://www.dbmarketing.com/articles/Art245.htm" target="_blank">Why RFM Works in Predicting Response</a>, by Arthur Middleton Hughes, from Direct Marketing Institute</p>
<p>[3] <a href="http://www.dbmarketing.com/articles/Art123.htm" target="_blank">RFM Migration Analysis</a>,  by Arthur Middleton Hughes, from Direct Marketing Institute</p>
<p>[2]  <a href="http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid91_gci751219,00.html">Data Management Definitions - RFM Analysis</a>, from SearchDataManagement.com</p>
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<title><![CDATA[CES Buzz Tracked in Social Mediasphere]]></title>
<link>http://attentionpr.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/ces-buzz-tracked-in-social-mediasphere/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>attentionpr</dc:creator>
<guid>http://attentionpr.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/ces-buzz-tracked-in-social-mediasphere/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The folks over at Collective Intellect did again with their social media monitoring&#8211; tracking ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The folks over at Collective Intellect did again with their social media monitoring-- tracking CES topics across social media (rumor is that their tracking MacWorld too) and offer great insight into the most buzzed about topics:</p>
<p><a href="http://attentionpr.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/ces-buzz-tracked-in-social-mediasphere/34/" rel="attachment wp-att-34" title="ces-theme-buzz.png"><img src="http://attentionpr.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/ces-theme-buzz.png" alt="ces-theme-buzz.png" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Customer Dimension and CRM related Analytics]]></title>
<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/customer-dimension-and-crm-related-analytics/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/customer-dimension-and-crm-related-analytics/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Why is the customer dimension so important?

A well-maintained, well-deployed conforming customer di]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why is the customer dimension so important?</p>
<ul>
<li>A well-maintained, well-deployed conforming customer dimension  is the cornerstone of sound customer centric analysis</li>
</ul>
<p>What are special characteristics of the customer dimension?</p>
<ul>
<li>Customer dimension is extremely deep.  It may have million rows.</li>
<li>Customer dimension is extremely wide.  It has hundreds of attributes.</li>
<li>Customer dimension changes often.  It is not really a slowly changing dimension.  It is sometimes called as  rapidly changing monster dimension.</li>
<li>Keeping the historical images of the customer data is important.</li>
<li>The data in the customer dimension come from multiple sources.  Matching, de-dup, standardization among different sources is critical for successfully conforming the dimension.</li>
<li>The customer dimension with data may be enriched from the external data.</li>
<li>Customer data is the source for other dimensions - geography, industry, lines of business, etc.</li>
<li>You have to comply with the privacy regulation.</li>
<li>The data from external source may be only licensed for a period of time.  The external data need to be associated with your own internal data for analysis for special purposes and the data need to be removed from your database.</li>
<li>The customer dimension itself is actually a source of fact tables.  For example, # of customer living in California with the breakdown by age groups.</li>
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<title><![CDATA[Apresentações - Marketing Under Pressure: “A matriz analítica para obter resultados e diminuir a pressão”]]></title>
<link>http://marketingexecutivenetwork.wordpress.com/2007/03/28/apresentacoes-marketing-under-pressure-%e2%80%9ca-matriz-analitica-para-obter-resultados-e-diminuir-a-pressao%e2%80%9d/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Luis Moniz (SAS)</dc:creator>
<guid>http://marketingexecutivenetwork.wordpress.com/2007/03/28/apresentacoes-marketing-under-pressure-%e2%80%9ca-matriz-analitica-para-obter-resultados-e-diminuir-a-pressao%e2%80%9d/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[1º Encontro do Marketing Executive Network - 27 Março - Museu das Comunicações
Neil Hayward - Gl]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1º Encontro do Marketing Executive Network - 27 Março - Museu das Comunicações</p>
<p><em>Neil Hayward - Global Customer Intelligence Practice - SAS International</em></p>
<p><img src="http://marketingexecutivenetwork.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/blog_neil.jpg" alt="blog_neil.jpg" /></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://marketingexecutivenetwork.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/2007_0327_men_matriz_sas_neil_hayward.pdf" title="2007_0327_men_matriz_sas_neil_hayward.pdf" target="_blank">Download da apresentação aqui (pdf)</a></p>
<p>Tópicos</p>
<ul>
<li>Critical Focus Area 2006</li>
<li>Marketing – Under Pressure to Perform:
<ul>
<li>time</li>
<li>customer</li>
<li>organizational</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>SAS Customer intelligence framework
<ul><img src="http://marketingexecutivenetwork.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/medalha.gif" alt="medalha.gif" /></p>
<li>customer focus
<ul>
<li>know</li>
<li>predict</li>
<li>engage</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>optimized organization
<ul>
<li>define</li>
<li>plan</li>
<li>measure</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Beyond Marketing (casos de estudo)</li>
</ul>
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<title><![CDATA[Up-sell and Cross-Sell]]></title>
<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/up-sell-and-cross-sell/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/up-sell-and-cross-sell/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Up-sell and cross-sell are important for your business due to the increasing competitions and market]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Up-sell and cross-sell are important for your business due to the increasing competitions and market volatility.  You need to maximize your customer value by selling more to your existing customers.  Up-sell and cross-sell are key drivers of deploying a business intelligence analytical application, which can help you identify new source of revenues.</p>
<p>Up-Sell and Cross-sell are defined as below:<!--more--></p>
<p><strong>Up-sell:</strong> Up-sell is a term to describe the practice that you can sell the most profitable products or services to a customer.  You may provide multiple options or multiple versions of a product or a group of similar products.  For a customer, based on their requirement, you can choose a best fit product with most profit margin.</p>
<p><strong>Cross-sell:</strong> Cross-sell is a term to describe the practice that you can sell more related additional items to a customer.  For example, you can see a list of options you can install with your car purchasing.</p>
<p>See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up-selling" title="Up-sell" target="_blank">Up-sell</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-selling" title="Cross-sell" target="_blank">Cross-sell</a> in wikipedia</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Typical Business Intelligence Applications]]></title>
<link>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2006/12/25/typical-business-intelligence-applications/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 01:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dylan Wan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/2006/12/25/typical-business-intelligence-applications/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This arcticles examines the major business drivers of business intelligence and the typical business]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This arcticles examines the major business drivers of business intelligence and the typical business intelligence applications.  Some BI applications are common for all types of enterprise, others are specific to some industries.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/marketing-intelligence/" title="Marketing Intelligence">Marketing Intelligence</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dylanwan.wordpress.com/sales-intelligence/" title="Sales Intelligence">Sales Intelligence</a></li>
<li>Customer Intelligence</li>
<li>Service Intelligence</li>
<li>Financial Intelligence</li>
<li>Project Intelligence</li>
<li>Procurement Intelligence</li>
<li>Human Resource Intelligence</li>
</ul>
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