How the Best Marketers Use Data with Affinity Solutions CEO, Jonathan Silver

Marketing Trends

By now you’ve probably heard a lot of our guests talk about the need for marketers to have a 360-degree of their customers. But that begs the question why? What makes up that 360-degree view and what benefits does having all this data actually do for your business?

“[Data] is no longer just a marketing function it's the whole enterprise.It's real estate it's where do I open stores? Where do I close stores? It's merchandising, what products should I sell? How should they be priced? How should they be displayed? All relying on real-time data. What's happened is the CMO’s role has become much more central.”

Jonathan Silver is the CEO of Affinity Solutions, a data-led intelligence platform that uses purchase signals to help marketers make better decisions. Jonathan and his company are putting all that data to good use and on this episode of Marketing Trends, he explains how. Jonathan dives into what those purchase signals are and how they are helping marketers compile a 360-degree view of their consumers' behavior. Plus, he reveals what the next phase of personalization is and how marketers can attack it.

Main Takeaways:

• Hyper-Personalization: Marketers’ personalization efforts are evolving from simple OOH advertising and targeted ads to individual immersive experiences that include the ability to personalize screens, provide product suggestions, and use in-store overlays to cater to individual consumers.
• I Can See Clearly Now: Data has never been more important to the overall success of a company's marketing strategy than it is today. But while data allows marketers to predict trends, and set prices, it’s also allowing those same marketers to put together a 360-degree view of a consumer’s behavior. By creating this holistic view, marketers can see what consumers are doing outside of their stores, websites, and individual interactions. Without data, marketers are only getting a partial view of the customer journey.
• A Single Source of Truth: As cookies fade away and privacy regulations continue to change, marketers must adjust how they collect information about their consumers and no longer rely on multiple third-party data sources to provide them with valuable insights about their customers. By having a single source of truth, which is a single platform where marketers can access their data, marketers can freely trust where their data lives.

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