Marketing databases, data marts, and Single Customer Views have been talked about, built and rebuilt over time which means Marketers must work with data from everywhere.
This can be challenging and allows for error when attempting to send campaigns and messages to a targeted audience.
These slides were part of a webinar where we explore how simply gathering data to power intelligence isn't enough, the data must better inform the marketer to make better decisions - it must provide wisdom!
In it we discuss how the fundamental facets of our personal relationships can be incorporated into a Single Customer View database providing memory, perspective, and a trustworthy foundation for analytics, segmentation and campaign management.
The webinar is available on-demand here: https://youtu.be/2vaKFhzyn4g
8. Focus On The Foundation
Good
Judgement
Wisdom
Practical
Contact with
Facts &
Events
Knowledge
Skills
Facts
Considered
Iterative
Learning
Information
Informed
Experience
9. Focus On The Foundation
Good
Judgement
Wisdom
Practical
Contact with
Facts &
Events
Knowledge
Skills
Facts
Considered
Iterative
Learning
Information
Informed
Experience
10. DO I KNOW YOU?
Human relationships need human memories
11. Personal vs Customer Relationships
What do I
know about
them?
What do
others know
about them?
Has any
money
changed
hands?
How do they
behave?
Where and
how do they
live?
What
conversations
have we had?
12. Personal vs Customer Relationships
What do I
know about
them?
What do
others know
about them?
Has any
money
changed
hands?
How do they
behave?
Where and
how do they
live?
What
conversations
have we had?
Customer Data
Behavioural
Events
15. The Ever Changing Human
James Robert Smith
Mr J Smith
Jim Smith
James Smith
JR Smith
J Smith
16. The Ever Changing Human
James Robert Smith
Mr J Smith
Jim Smith
James Smith
JR Smith
J Smith
15 Oak Drive
james@home.com
020 243 7666
07024 266722
MyBiz Co.
jsmith@work.com
020 254 8777
17. The Ever Changing Human
James Robert Smith
Mr J Smith
Jim Smith
James Smith
JR Smith
J Smith
15 Oak Drive
james@home.com
020 243 7666
07024 266722
MyBiz Co.
jsmith@work.com
020 254 8777
18. The Ever Changing Human
James Robert Smith
Mr J Smith
Jim Smith
James Smith
JR Smith
J Smith
15 Oak Drive
james@home.com
020 243 7666
07024 266722
MyBiz Co.
jsmith@work.com
020 254 8777
253 Brook Rd
01432 657564
19. People Buy From People
Who is your ‘Customer’?
Household
or Premise
Account
Person or
Individual
26. Origins of Facts
Purchases Refund/Return Shipping
Individuals
…
Page Views
…
Link ClicksBasket Use
Email Sent
Website
Sales
Opens Click Through
… …
Events
…
Finance
Existing
Electoral
3rd Party
Households
…
Existing
27. Origins of Facts
Purchases Refund/Return Shipping
Individuals
…
Page Views
…
Link ClicksBasket Use
Email Sent
Website
Sales
Opens Click Through
… …
Events
…
Finance
Existing
Electoral
3rd Party
Households
…
Existing
Is it legal?
Is it trustworthy?
Is it accurate and clean?
Is it marketing ready?
Is it structured?
28. Governance and Preparation
Is it legal?
Is it trustworthy?
Is it accurate and clean?
Is it marketing ready?
Is it structured?
Can I use it in analysis or queries &
will it power targeting?
Should it be from the customers
perspective, or mine?
Do I need to clean the data before
it’s useable? Amend it perhaps?
Should I trust this source over
another source with same data?
Am I legally able to store, maintain
and use this data?
Usable, Clean, Accurate & Trustworthy Data
29. THE IMPORTANCE OF ONE
Matching and merging data to create a single individual
30. Improve Matching Through Better Hygiene
Mr
Jim Smith
15 Oal Dr.
London, SW2 1FE
Tel. 020 243 7666
Ordered:
MX5624 BLACK
Price: £60
31. Improve Matching Through Better Hygiene
Mr
Jim Smith
15 Oal Dr.
London, SW2 1FE
Tel. 020 243 7666
Ordered:
MX5624 BLACK
Price: £60
NO MATCH
• New customer record created
• New customer! Hurray!
Acquisition metrics updated
• “Welcome” conversation started
• Can’t ship to “Oal Dr.”…oops
• Customer complains
32. Improve Matching Through Better Hygiene
Mr
Jim Smith
15 Oal Dr.
London, SW2 1FE
Tel. 020 243 7666
Ordered:
MX5624 BLACK
Price: £60
CUSTOMER FOUND
33. Mr
Jim or James or Jimmy
Smith
15 Oak Drive
London, SW2 1FE
Tel. 020 243 7666
Data Hygiene
Improve Matching Through Better Hygiene
Mr
Jim Smith
15 Oal Dr.
London, SW2 1FE
Tel. 020 243 7666
Ordered:
MX5624 BLACK
Price: £60
CUSTOER FOUND
34. Mr
Jim or James or Jimmy
Smith
15 Oak Drive
London, SW2 1FE
Tel. 020 243 7666
Data Hygiene
Improve Matching Through Better Hygiene
Mr
Jim Smith
15 Oal Dr.
London, SW2 1FE
Tel. 020 243 7666
Ordered:
MX5624 BLACK
Price: £60
CUSTOMER FOUND
• Existing customer
• High value, worth over £1200
• Return customer!
• Attributed to ‘New Suitcases!’ email
• “Top customer” conversation started
• Customer pleased with service
35. Badly Matched Data Creates Issues
Acquisition
•Duplicate
individuals created
•Acquisition metrics
incorrect
•Success over-
represented
•Existing customers
treated as new ones
Retention
•Individuals not
matched against
known individuals
•Retention offers
badly targeted
•‘Lost’ customers
may actually not be
lost at all
Segmentation
•Duplicate
individuals
•Can’t accurately
understand buyer
behaviour
•Segment
performance
inaccurate
Campaigns
•Duplicated
individuals
•Cost wasted
through duplicated
comm’s
•Customers cannot
respond twice
•Response rate
greatly reduced
36. Duplicates vs False Positives
Duplicates
False
Positives
Bad Data
Bad Metrics
Bad Decisions
Bad Data
Bad Metrics
Bad Decisions
Duplicates
False
Positives
• Reduces database
• ‘Lose’ customers
• Some customers
receive someone
else’s contact
• Acting upon a false
positive annoys the
customer(s), damages
metrics and may get
you into trouble…
• Enlarges database
• ‘Gain’ customers
• Some customers
receive duplicate
contact
• Acting upon a single
customer multiple
times annoys the
customer and
damages metrics
38. Data Needs Perspective (and it’s not yours)
MX8732 BLK
costs £125
I bought a black
cocktail dress.
39. Data Needs Perspective (and it’s not yours)
MX8732 BLK
costs £125
I bought a black
cocktail dress.
Browsed on 2 May,
bought on 3 May
I browsed for 15
minutes then bought
straight away.
Spend £100
Default database
date is 01/01/1900
I am not 114
years old!
Umm no… product was
£100, VAT £20, shipping
£20 – I just spent £140
Returns Rate: 40%
I order several sizes to try
them on! I keep one of
everything I buy!
41. What is a Single Customer View?
Database
Data Data Data
Data Data
PROCESS
PRESENT
42. What is a Single Customer View?
Database
Data Data Data
Data Data
PROCESS
Premises
Customer
Orders
Order Lines
Contact
History
Other…
PRESENT
43. What should an SCV contain?
Customer Detail
Premises Detail
Contact Channel Information
Campaign Contact History
Transactions
Other Events and Responses
44. What should an SCV contain?
Raw Data
Clean Data
Presented Data
Derivation Rules
Data Consolidation Events
Subject Access/Usage Data
45. Turning Data Into Information
Collect
Prepare
Merge
Structure
SCV
• Extract, transform & load
data from various sources
• Format, clean & prepare data
into a standard format
• Match, de-duplicate & merge
records into a single record
• Apply structure, perspective,
derivations & metrics
• Clean, trustworthy & structured,
single record per customer
46. Things To Think About
• Data Sources
– Data feed standards
– Frequency of data feeds
– Automated extraction/receipt
– Ad-hoc sources
• Data Standardisation
– Shortened names/nicknames
– Different field formats
– International address formats
– Vanity addresses
• Data Validation
– Name & address validation
– Additional field validation
– Salacious name screening
• Data Hygiene
– Postal location cleansing
– Individual cleansing
– Business premise cleansing
• Matching
– Tuned matching by source
– Matching individuals
– Matching households
– Consolidating social groups
– Matching commercial businesses
– Consolidating business sites
• Deduplication
– Data survivorship rules
– Data source trust differentials
– Data merging & consolidation
48. The Logical Parts of an SCV
Data
Sources
Structure
& Schema
Merge
& Dedupe
Rules
Prepare
Routines
Collect
Processes
Enhancement
Files
Hygiene
Files
Single
Customer
View
49. The Logical Parts of an SCV
Data
Sources
Structure
& Schema
Merge
& Dedupe
Rules
Prepare
Routines
Collect
Processes
Enhancement
Files
Hygiene
Files
Single
Customer
View
Third-party data hygiene
reference files e.g.
address, phone etc.
Third-party data
enhancement files e.g.
suppression, geo-dems
The processes that
extract and load data
from multiple sources
The data model that
joins all the data
together and stores it
The business rules that
optimise matching,
cleaning & deduplication
The routines that clean
and process the data into
usable information
For example, customer
data, transactions and
communication history
50. Yours
Licensed from
3rd Parties
Build, Buy or Rent
The Logical Parts of an SCV
Data
Sources
Structure
& Schema
Merge
& Dedupe
Rules
Prepare
Routines
Collect
Processes
Enhancement
Files
Hygiene
Files
Single
Customer
View
52. Key Thoughts
Memories define
relationships.
Perspective defines
conversation.
Have clear marketing
goals in mind. Start
small, think big.
Operational data is
for operations.
Don’t confuse Big Data
with Lots of Data.
If you outsource
your SCV, be clear
what you own.
Avoid duplicates
& false positives.
Clean data wins.
Gathering data is not enough.
It must inform better decisions.
It must provide wisdom.
Data comes from
everywhere.
Only your date
of birth will stay
the same.
Great new wisdom?
Personalise without
being personal.
53. Q & A
Thank you for listening
Intelligence :: ability to
acquire and apply
knowledge and skills
Wisdom :: informed
decision powered by
good intelligence