Knows your name.
Knows your taste.
Pays attention to you.
Highlights offers you might be interested in.
Knows your favorite drink.
Find the way to them: communicate where, when and the way your customers are open for it
Initiate a conversation: communicate bi-directionally, on top of distributing information.
Get to know them: ask for their needs, or even better, analyse their behavior.
Organise the information about them: create a full, company-wide view on your customers.
Provide personalised offers: if you know your customers, you can propose offers which they need or dream of.
With personalised, customer and product lifecycle based communication.
By standardising the customer related business processes.
By implementing standard customer profiles, single customer view and analysing their behavior.
Harmonising and connecting the IT systems containing customer data.
And last but not least, automatising all these processes, in order to let you deal with your business instead of the communication details.
How big is the marketing database and where/how it is stored?
How do you send out the e-newsletters?
What are your products and target groups?
Is there registration, questionnaire, webhsop on your homepage?
What is the product lifecycle? Is there seasonality in it?