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Responsible Marketing with First-Party Data
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Responsible Marketing with First-Party Data

Henry Leon, Shilpa Patel and Dominic Field
Boston Consulting Group, 2020
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Your customers no longer just want a great product at a good price – they want a product that feels individualized and relevant to their unique lifestyles. Sound like a daunting task? In this report, the Boston Consulting Group explores 70+ interviews conducted with leading European companies to get a clearer picture of how successful firms wield first-party data in the fight for market relevance. Based on these findings, the authors offer practical tips for collecting, analyzing, using and sharing data without violating your customers’ trust.

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Historically, companies won market share by making a better, cheaper product; now, your must personalize your product to each customer.

Think providing an inexpensive, high-quality product is enough to ensure your business’ success? Think again. Customer-relevant experiences are a make-or-break proposition in the modern marketplace. In 2019, Harris conducted a survey for Redpoint Global which revealed that 63% of consumers “expect personalization as a standard of service.”

Delivering a personalized customer experience starts with “multimoment maturity”: sophisticated digital marketing techniques that repeatedly deliver relevant messages to the customer as they make their way along the purchase journey. True multimoment...

About the Authors

Shilpa Patel is a Managing Director & Partner, Dominic Field is a Senior Advisor, and Henry Leon is a Principal in the Boston Consulting Group’s London office.

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