Marketing, Technology

How to Scale-Personalize Your Marketing With AI

The nature of marketing has made it absolutely necessary to embark on the survival of the fittest and this can only be done by constantly honing and upping your area of competitive advantage. Fortunately for you, however, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently opened the door to scale-personalize without compromise. No two customers are exactly the same, there are differences, concerns, feelings, pain points, and needs that must be addressed individually. But in a world of 7.7 billion people as of February 2019, according to the most recent United Nations estimates, it seems almost impossible to scale-personalize marketing. How do you go about attending to the different needs of these people, when everybody wants to be reckoned with? This is surely a herculean task especially now that customers want to know where, when, and how without being given excuses. Humans have constraints as well as the propensity to be inconsistent, therefore, it becomes difficult to effectively create responses that can appeal to a larger group at the level of the individual. Also, just one interaction that is out of context is enough to make you proffer the wrong response because you didn’t understand what brought about that particular interaction and in…

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Marketing

How to Integrate Data Science Into Your Marketing

It’s a new dawn, a new era, you can’t afford to be caught with your pants down. Data science is the in-thing. The size of your business shouldn’t be an excuse, integrate now. If you still believed in trying to attract customers only by taking out full-page advertisements in magazines, plastering the town with bright billboards, and even signing up glamorous celebrities for television commercials, you must be operating from another planet and you do have another think coming. Marketing these days has moved to another level and brands are overly becoming more effective, extracting value from data by automating and optimizing processes or producing actionable insights.  Forbes reports that 91 percent of senior marketers indicated that information gathered on customer was essential to making decisions. The interesting thing is that you have all along had all these data for the asking but failed to utilize the begging opportunity. Data is growing faster than ever before and by the year 2020, about 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every second for every human being on the planet. But according to a report, less than 0.5 percent of all data is analyzed and used You, however, still can avail…

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