Current Businesses are focusing on pressure from the customers to engage with them on a more personal and meaningful level. Clients are now focusing on information precision marketing. It is a form of marketing that gathers the data about a consumer and aims to send the user messages that are targeted and relevant to them. Like most other sectors, marketing has made the most of technology. Myself, like many others, are impressed at the level of advance of this now ‘sector’ of technology. Doing this though, there are many challenges that are faced which need to be overcome.
Data Complexity and Integration Issues
The integration and management of a customer’s data
dashboard might just be the largest challenge a company adopting precision
driven strategies faces. The data firms gather from their websites, social
networks, customer service, and even third-parties can easily be overwhelming.
Compounding the problem, the diverse sources of data are disparate and need to
be harmonized into an actionable whole. Businesses frequently grapple with data
duplication, profile incompleteness, and format difference, which undermine the
effectiveness of personalization. There needs to be strong data governance if
precision marketing is to succeed.
Technology and Tools Gap
The right insights from quality data cannot be extracted in
the absence of appropriate tools. With the advent of advanced platforms
including the intent
data platform, predicting buyers and their purchasing behavior and
understanding intent is easier. However, the technology adoption lifecycle
includes steep costs, specialized skill sets, and ongoing upkeep. This is
particularly problematic for many small and medium sized companies, who feel
inability to leverage the capabilities of advanced tools due to budget
restrictions. This inability to absorb advanced technology is an area of major
concern for firms wanting to compete in a data driven market.
Content Relevance and Distribution
Second, a marketing strategy could be wholly ineffective
even when the right data is collected and the most appropriate tools are
adopted. The problem of content creation tailored to and targeted at a specific
audience could be the most complex one. The creation of content is only the
first step in a multi-step process. Deploying the content effectively to the
audience through a targeted marketing step such as B2B
content syndication is a herculean task. The thin line between content
that is too general in nature, or too targeted and narrow in scope, is an area
that most marketers find difficult to navigate.
Privacy and Compliance Concerns
With customers’ data at the core of sophisticated marketing
strategies, firms have to balance the ever-evolving stringent regulatory
frameworks of GDPR and CCPA. Consumers themselves are increasingly concerned
about the manner in which their PII is used and disseminated. Marketers are
forced to walk a tightrope between personalization and trust by ensuring that
compliance is fully accomplished, and the CX is not compromised. The
mismanagement of these issues not only invites regulatory scrutiny, which is a risk
in itself, but also is reputationally damaging to the brand, making this a
highly sensitive issue in the context of challenges dominating the implementing
of freedom-kissing road precision approaches.
Conclusion
The use of precision marketing is highly cumbersome and
multifaceted. The sophisticated systems of data integration, the toolbox that
has to be acquired, the issue of being compliant and relevant in the content
that is created, are all taken together obstacles
for the business. However, the firms that manage to address these
hurdles are bound to take the edge when it comes to competition. The precision
and retention strategies that these firms deploy, coupled with a value
proposition that is customer aligned, will enable these firms to realize the
full extent of the benefits derived from precision marketing to trigger
sustained growth.
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