Today, brands should think, organize, and plan how they will use the data they collect in their marketing programs. For more calculated data collection, new attitudes must be mastered.
Even in face-to-face interactions, the COVID-19 pandemic and the tightening of privacy constraints have caused a shift in how brands communicate and trade with customers. This transition, on the other hand, gives a chance to more accurately identify known and unknown customers in a privacy-friendly manner, as well as change how organizations use customer data to fuel in-the-moment experiences. Industries that were unaffected by the pandemic should take note of those who were quick to adapt and are now flourishing. Continuing with a digital and offline identity strategy may be in their best interests.
Identity for foundational knowledge
Identity resolution (the work of linking the known and unknown customers and prospects) has become a desirable and must-have capacity for enterprises as a result of these shifts. As first-party data collection is crucial to fuel identity, this is also the beginning point for operationalizing the data. Brands have traditionally aimed to increase the number of known customers over anonymous ones. But today, more than ever, this is critical, as third-party cookies will soon become an unreliable tracking option as privacy regulations tighten.
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It is not, however, a one-sided coin. Customers expect to receive something of value in exchange for their data, but this isn’t always the case. Marketers should consider what “value” means to their customers. Free gated content, discounts and vouchers, or loyalty points could all be used to achieve this. The ability to study and learn from customer interactions with the business is accelerated by connecting those customer experiences (CX) to customer IDs.
Gather the correct data to satisfy goals
Data collecting varies by industry and is not the same for every business. When it comes to identity strategy, marketers should take a step back and consider the experiences they want to create and the data they will need to support them. Marketers can use rich first-party data to create more compelling and personalized messaging when they have it.
Consumers all throughout the world now have the right to see and erase their data, making broad data collecting unhelpful and potentially dangerous. This might be a serious issue if marketers do not have a reliable mechanism in place for compliant customer lookup and deletion. It is not only unsafe, but it is also inconvenient for customers to be requested for large amounts of data that will never be used.
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Real-time activation in action
As part of operational shifts, real-time capabilities to activate data may inherently increase. Brands should also resolve client identity, update consumer profiles in real-time, and make judgments in order to coordinate and execute in-the-moment interactions as quickly as possible.
These real-time interactions are not instantaneous. To obtain early victories, marketers should start small with what they have. They can then use this knowledge to better grasp the data required to create more complicated experiences and exploit factors such as consumer preferences and other more personal data. If a marketer does not yet have an identification capability, the first step is to meet with a technology consultant to assess their present level of maturity and choose which technology is best for them.
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