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'''Real-time marketing''' is marketing performed "on-the-fly" to determine an appropriate or optimal approach to a particular customer at a particular time and place. It is a form of [[market research]] [[inbound marketing]] that seeks the most appropriate offer for a given customer sales opportunity, reversing the traditional [[outbound marketing]] (or [[interruption marketing]]) which aims to acquire appropriate customers for a given 'pre-defined' offer. The dynamic 'just-in-time' decision making behind a real-time offer aims to exploit a given customer interaction defined by web-site [[clickstream|clicks]] or verbal contact centre conversation. |
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==History== |
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Real-time marketing techniques developed during the mid 1990's following the initial deployment of [[customer relationship management ]] (CRM) solutions in major retail banking, investment banking and telecommunications companies. The intrinsic and prevailing 'heavyweight' nature of the key CRM vendors at this time, who were generally focused on major back-front office system integration projects, provided an opportunity for niche players within the campaign management application arena. |
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== Solution delivery == |
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The implementation of real-time marketing solutions through the late 1990s would typically involve a 10-14 week delivery project with 1-2 [[Full-time equivalent|FTE]] expert consultants and often would follow an earlier outbound marketing solution implementation. This relatively lightweight delivery model had obvious attractions within the vendor sales cycle and customer procurement context but was ultimately to prove a disincentive for major systems integration services providers to partner with real-time marketing vendors. |
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== Technical overview == |
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Real-time marketing solution implementation classically involves the server-side installation of a multithreaded core decisioning application server / interaction transactional-biased [[schema]] and supporting client components such as a 'fat-client' desktop campaign studio / rules editor, browser-based marketing user reporting interface and enterprise application [[API]]s such as [[web services]] / [[Java (programming language)|Java]] components. Vendors typically will also provide legacy interfaces for COM, [[sockets]] and [[HTTP]] integration. |
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Vendor solution approaches to real-time learning naturally vary but commonly, the underlying models utilize a naive [[Bayesian probability]] classifier, recognising that despite their apparently over-simplified assumptions, these classifiers have worked well in many complex real-world situations. To help gain acceptance with in-house specialist [[data mining]] stakeholders, the real-time solutions also support external model scores and execution within offer decision making. |
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The dotcom 'bust' of 2000 inhibited the further development and implementation of item-based [[collaborative filtering]] techniques which, having been incorporated within real-time marketing solutions through the 1990s, should have been immediately attractive to online retailers managing hundreds of thousands (or millions) of products as opposed to a retail bank with a hundred propositions across savings, credit card and mortgage product lines. |
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== Marketing vision == |
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Over time, it became apparent to solution vendors and maturing customers alike, that 'traditional' outbound and emergent inbound marketing initiatives should be consolidated within a coherent and coordinated enterprise marketing strategy. To this end, a class of marketing application known as [[marketing resource management]] (MRM) which 'sits above' real-time marketing, began to emerge during the early 21st Century, albeit in a fairly bespoke and implementation-specific guise. The essence of this abstraction layer is that the MRM application orchestrates strategy, stakeholder sign-off, budgeting, program planning, campaign execution and effectiveness reporting across inbound real-time and outbound marketing disciplines. |
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== Unrealized promise == |
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The term "real-time marketing" has the potential weakness of self-limiting the underlying decisioning server capability to cross/up-selling despite the observation that this particular function is generally the most compelling aspect of the application class. Vendors therefore found themselves re-branding real-time marketing products to suggest a more holistic appreciation of enterprise interaction decision management. |
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In some respects, these early real-time marketing customer implementations were ahead of their time despite acknowledged revenue realization within the early adopters. |
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Hosted real-time marketing solutions are an obvious and increasingly prevalent means of provisioning organisational demand for this critical enterprise capability. A remaining challenge for such solution vendors is to fully convince enterprise clients that the customer data profile (often comprising up to 1000 source or derived attributes) involved in the decision making and targeting processes is fully secure. Packaged 'private' cloud solutions are already appearing alongside 'cloudsourcing' management consultancies. |
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Gartner's predictions for the Gartner Top 10 Technologies for 2011<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/gartners-top-10-tech-trends-for-2012/144169 |title=Gartner's Top 10 Tech Trends for 2012 |first=Michael |last=Cooney |work=itworldcanada.com |year=2011 [last update] |accessdate=November 3, 2011}}</ref> suggest that whatever the nomenclature, real-time marketing will continue to evolve, crucially to embrace mobile platforms underpinned by an awareness of customer context, location and social networking (collective intelligence) implications. |
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==Notes== |
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[[Category:Marketing techniques]] |
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