How CDP Contributes to Email Marketing
Martech Outlook | Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Marketers are increasingly using CDP to enhance the relevance and effectiveness of their email marketing strategies.
FREMONT, CA: Email marketing has been one of the most effective means of generating leads. According to a report, 59 percent of marketers considered email marketing to offer the best return on investments. The key ingredient of any email marketing strategy is data. As technology moved from the traditional means of collecting data to marketing automation, marketers are gaining a better grip on the turn of events. The evolution of a technology-led customer data platform (CDP) is enabling marketers to improve their email marketing strategy.
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Despite the massive returns gained by brands from their email marketing campaigns, many of the brands continue to miss out on the opportunity to take maximum advantage of email as a means of boosting sales. One of the major reasons that lead to the missed opportunity is the lack of coordination between the email strategies and other marketing activities. Thus, brands need a customer data platform that places their customers at the center of their stack to offer timelier, relevant, and useful emails. CDP is the key marketing technology at present that can enable the marketers to make up for the coordination issue.
As a CDP accounts for a unified and comprehensive database that encompasses customers’ data from various sources, it can aptly complement email marketing efforts. Some marketers are leveraging CDPs to address their customers in a highly personalized way. For instance, brands are sending marketing emails to the customers by addressing them with their names. Further, refined customer data from CDPs can also trigger automated drip marketing campaigns, thereby increasing the probability of lead generation. The alternative customer data from CDPs are also being used to understand customer behavior and expectations, thereby enabling the marketers to target the customers accordingly.
With further advancements in data science, CDPs will offer much more use cases to marketers. Subsequently, email marketing will certainly be among the top contenders to gain from data advancements.
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