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Using Digital Exhaust to Improve Sales

Harvard Business Review

At one B2B technology company, for example, account managers were supposed to focus their efforts on their highest-value, “top of the pyramid” accounts. It notifies a company if one of its competitors files a credit check on a customer, signaling potential defection. How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

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AskObama Is a Meaningless Marketing Stunt

Harvard Business Review

If you want loyalty, you need engagement. You can't buy my "engagement" for a few bucks, you certainly can't have my "loyalty" (because though I might be a mutt, I'm not a pet). Who smoothly said something like: "Duuudes. It's marketing over substance, hype over reality, spin over reform — as usual. In political terms?

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Three Questions to Ask Your Advanced-Analytics Team

Harvard Business Review

Even more broadly, a customer loyalty program can help, since it gives consumers a unique ID that they apply to every purchase, regardless of the channel. The idea is that direct driving behavior over time will be more predictive than traditional proxies such as age, credit rating, or geography.