10 Ways BDEX Helps Auto Marketers Reconnect on bdex.com

10 Ways BDEX Helps Auto Marketers Reconnect
January 30, 2019| | in category analysis methods, bdex, Big Data, business, clustering, Data Exchange Platform, Data Industry News, digital marketing, Direct mail, Email Marketing, First Party Data, in-market data, Internet of Things, IT, location-based data, Mobile Marketing, Real Time Data, Thick Data, Third party Data, Web Design, Web Hosting, website re-targeting Comments Off on 10 Ways BDEX Helps Auto Marketers Reconnect

Auto dealerships depend on customers returning for their vehicle servicing needs, but when warranties end, this can stop. Without the right customer data, efforts to reconnect fail from the start

The owner of a large automotive marketing company was recently discussing how bad the data he was receiving really was. He bought a list of leads based on bank information or expired leases, but the first 50 phone numbers he dialed were either no longer in use or being used by someone else. The numbers were no good.

“My data sucks,” he told Warren Miller, vice president of business development/automotive for BDEX. “I was told to call you guys because I hear you have something nobody else has.”

Accurate, comprehensive data is the lifeblood of the automotive industry, not just because there is so much competition for new car buyers, but because customers often stop bringing in their cars for servicing once their manufacturer’s warranty expires. Given that the National Association of Automobile Dealers estimates the average dealership gets about half its revenue from the service department and a quarter from selling used cars, staying in touch with these customers is vital to today’s auto dealership.

By layering BDEX’s nearly 1 trillion real-time data signals over the dealership’s data, a marketing agency can find dozens of ways to reconnect with customers who have fallen off their client’s radar screen. How does BDEX do this?

First, unlike dealerships, BDEX ties everything to a unique customer identification number (Customer ID), rather than a VIN number. Second, we monitor real-time data signals from hundreds of millions of smartphones and use 100 percent deterministic cross-device matching, which means we can match customers in the dealership’s customer database to a Customer ID no matter how many times the individual has traded in their car, smartphone or changed their email addresses.

Not only is our data constantly updated it’s also far more comprehensive. Thanks to partnerships with more than 100 data providers, the BDEX Data Exchange Platform (DXP) can provide not just valuable clickstream data, but where a former customer has been servicing and fueling their vehicle, or what competing dealerships a prospect has visited recently. Today we have 8.5 billion data points in our Personal/Automotive dataset class.

“The results are just tremendous,” Miller said of the improved performance automotive marketers are experiencing with BDEX data. “That’s why we do so well. That’s why people love us.”

Here’s a look at 10 ways that marketers can use real-time data signals from the BDEX data exchange platform (DXP) to help dealers reconnect.

10 ways real-time data signals help dealers reconnect

1.  Tracking who’s visiting a dealership lot

A geofence is a perimeter of an area where you’re gathering data. Think of it as a virtual fence around a location that can be big or small, a whole city or a square foot. Or, your car lot.

The benefits of geofencing data are endless when it comes to marketing, especially for auto dealers. You can track who comes in and out of any dealership lot and follow up with them afterward or send them a targeted ad.

2.  Tracking courtesy vehicles

When a customer needs alternate transportation while his or her vehicle is in the shop, you can track the courtesy vehicles you loan them. This allows you to see when they enter or exit your lot, and if they’re visiting competitors’ lots.

3.  Tracking after-market service station visits

POS data, or purchase data from cash registers, allows you access to customers who have visited after-market service stations for oil changes or other services or auto parts dealers. For instance, you could decide to mail a coupon for an oil change to car owners who just paid for an oil change at a Jiffy Lube.

4.  Tracking when customers’ leases expire

BDEX allows you to receive data about customers who are currently shopping for cars or those who have a car lease expiring soon. This means that they’ll likely have a new vehicle to bring in for servicing needs again soon.

5.  Sending alerts to participants at tradeshows

Geofencing can help you track customers who come to tradeshows, and you can connect with them immediately so they’ll be more likely to visit your booth.

6.  Contacting customers if they go to a competitor’s lot

Another big benefit of geofencing is that you can actually create a virtual fence around a competitor’s lot. This way, you can send ads or alerts to customers who are visiting those lots.

7.  Separating types of vehicles on your lot

To target marketing efforts even further, you can create a geofence around a portion of your dealership lot. This allows you to send ads for, say, SUVs when a customer is in an SUV section, or high-end luxury vehicles. And, you can do the same in competitors’ lots, which helps if you’re trying to reconnect with a past customer.

8.  What car brands customers buy

BDEX data can show you which brands customers buy, which allows you to target their specific wants and needs in a vehicle.

9.  Layering with clickstream data

Clickstream data, which is data from customers or potential customers’ computer, ssmartphone or other connected devices can provide valuable insight into where a prospect is in the sales funnel, including the class, brand, price range and option packages that interest them.

By layering clickstream data with the geofencing data that BDEX provides, you’ll have a much more accurate picture of where prospects are in the sales funnel.

10.  The type of gas or tire brands customers use

To better target your ads and messages, you can find out which types of gas or tires customers use by using POS data. Or, you can set up a geofence around certain brand service centers to get this information.

BDEX uses and monitors 900 million of these real-time data signals to identify and reach customers who are ready to buy. This data is important in recognizing where customers are in their path to purchase, allowing auto dealerships valuable insight into buying behavior.

Call Warren Miller today (937) 581-9390 or email him at warren@bdex.com to learn how BDEX can transform you automotive marketing.

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How e Put Marketers in the Driver’s Seat on bdex.com

How We Put Marketers in the Driver’s Seat
January 23, 2019| | in category Analytics, bdex, Big Data, business, buy data, daas, Data Exchange Platform, data marketplace, digital marketing, direct mail targeting, Email Marketing, email retargeting, First Party Data, in-market data, Internet of Things, IT, location-based data, Mobile Marketing, Real Time Data, sell data, Thick Data, Third party Data, Web Design, Web Hosting, website re-targeting Comments Off on How We Put Marketers in the Driver’s Seat

BDEX has structured its business around customers’ needs from the beginning by enabling them to find and buy only the data they need and nothing more.

We’ve previously discussed how BDEX is not a typical data company, and one of the reasons for this is because we strive to give our customers the most useful and relevant data possible. But we also pride ourselves on offering the best service and support to everyone we work with. We accomplish this by taking a personalized approach that focuses on these areas:

Explore BDEX Taxonomy

We created Explore BDEX Taxonomy so you can explore our vast database, including nearly 1 trillion constantly refreshing real-time data signals at your convenience. This enables you to determine whether we have what you are looking for without having to pick up the phone to call us. Read more about how the BDEX taxonomy tool can be used here.

Custom data feeds

When you find what you are looking for – and we are very confident you will – you can schedule an exploratory consultation. BDEX data analysts will sit in on the call to ensure they understand how you define the key steps in your target customer’s path to purchase. We understand that you know your customers better than anyone, as well as the data signals that show they’re ready to buy. Our job is to translate that information into a data feed that meets your needs.

Omnisource IQ

The next step involves using our proprietary Omnisource IQ© process to scour billions of real-time data signals to determine not only which consumers are good prospects but exactly where they are in their path to purchase so you can decide whether, when and how to contact them. We do this with our unmatched, 100 percent-deterministic cross-device matching as well as data on what products consumers have purchased and visited from brick-and-mortar stores via point-of-sale systems and geofencing data provided by our more than 70 partners. Omnisource IQ© is our secret sauce and your secret weapon and its constantly being refreshed.

A subscription model

Most data companies are eager to please before you make a purchase, but once you do, their customer support can be underwhelming. Not BDEX. With our subscription model, you can get access to data whenever you need it and only pay for what you use.

If you need to reach people who live or work in downtown Pittsburgh who are actively shopping for a new home, you get to determine what “new” and “searched” mean using the BDEX Targeting Module.

If you are only interested in people who have physically visited specific subdivisions in the last month, there is no need to buy records on the thousands who merely searched for new homes on the web in the last month. This may sound a little complicated, but with an intuitive interface and many download options, we’ve made our service extremely easy to use.

Again, the feed we set up for you will constantly be updated with thousands of real-time data signals every month to provide you an authoritative view of your in-funnel customers. Our data experts can even set up automatic alerts based on criteria you select to notify you when an actionable selling opportunity arises.

Data as a Service

With traditional online advertising, you pay for every ad impression, as well as the data used for that impression. But with our Data as a Service (DaaS) solutions, you will get all of the data you need at one cost, and you can then upload your custom audience into almost any ad platform. At that point, you will be able to market to them and only pay for the ad impressions from then on. Instead of a cost per impression, we provide you with a fixed cost.

The bottom line

BDEX has structured its business around customers needs from the beginning in a bid to create a new kind of company. We know you know your customers better than we do. Our role is to help you connect with them with unprecedented precision by delivering the right insight into the right people at the right time so you can close the sale.  Our mission is not to just to sell data but to build a data infrastructure that powers human connectivity and believe our success hinges as much on the quality of our customer service and support as our data.

This is why so many leading companies have chosen BDEX to fulfill their marketing data needs across so many industries, including:

Media – We help multi-platform media companies reach consumers on all their devices.

Franchises – We give franchisees the ability to find out who is visiting their competitors so they can convert those consumers into their own customers.

Retailers – The BDEX Targeting Module enables brands to select any data attributes, combine them, and select the quality, age and price of each and every data element.

Get in touch with BDEX today to learn how you can take your data marketing to the next level by connecting with consumers like never before.

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2018 Year in Review. Data Overload on bdex.com

2018 Year in Review. Data Overload
December 14, 2018| | in category analysis methods, Analytics, bdex, Big Data, Buisness, buy data, Data Exchange Platform, data management platform, data marketplace, digital marketing, Direct mail, Email Marketing, email retargeting, in-market data, Internet of Things, location-based data, Mobile Marketing, Real Time Data, sell data, Thick Data, Third party Data, Web Design, Web Hosting Comments Off on 2018 Year in Review. Data Overload

The proliferation of unstructured data seen this year is poised to accelerate in 2019 and BDEX stands ready with an infrastructure built to power human connectivity.

One of the recurring themes to emerge in 2018 was data overload. The ability of humans to generate data continued to outstrip our ability to understand and act on it. In 2019, there will be the additional challenge of structuring the growing torrent of data from so many disparate sources.

Amid all the excitement about the convergence of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), however, some still ask if all the data is going to make us any smarter?  Is it really going to make marketing more efficient, more precise, more effective?

At BDEX we are confident it will because we have spent the last five years building a proprietary data infrastructure to power human connectivity. Today, our platform tracks more 800 million connections between email and mobile IDs and cookie and email IDs to make sure we can connect our customers to the right people on the right device at the right time. We have curated more than 5,500 data classifications that enable our analysts to produce targeted customer lists with unprecedented accuracy, granularity, and speed.

We see the value of these investments being validated every day in the marketplace. As 2018 draws to a close, it seems like a good time to review how and why we have built our infrastructure and what marketers can do with it. So here is a curated list of some of the articles we published on our blog last year.

We look forward to publishing new articles next year and will strive to make them as accurate, timely and actionable as our data. Stay tuned.

The BDEX advantage

BDEX is Not a Typical Marketing Data Company

The BDEX Data Difference

The Ins and Outs of Our Data Exchange Platform (DXP)

Why a Subscription Model Makes Sense for Targeted Marketing Data

How BDEX powers human connectivity

Find Your Ideal Customers with Our Taxonomy Explorer Tool

Device-Matching Connects Customers with Devices – and Businesses with Sales

Getting the Channel Mix Right in Target Marketing

Which Vehicles Will Drive the Success of Your Marketing Campaign?

How specific industries use BDEX to connect

Data-Driven Direct Marketing for Auto Dealers

Customer Targeting Made Easier for Media Companies

How Can Retailers Better Target Customers?

Automotive Marketing Case Study: Maher Chevrolet

How BDEX sees the future

AI on Target to Change the Way We Market

The Future of Data Promises the Perfect In-Store Marketing Experience

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The Future of Data Promises the Perfect In-Store Marketing Experience
November 28, 2018| | in category analysis methods, Analytics, bdex, Big Data, Data Exchange Platform, data management platform, data marketplace, digital marketing, Direct mail, Email Marketing, email retargeting, First Party Data, in-market data, Internet of Things, Mobile Marketing, Real Time Data, Third party Data, Web Hosting, website re-targeting Comments Off on The Future of Data Promises the Perfect In-Store Marketing Experience

Data-driven solutions taking shape on the shop floor will match gender, age, ethnicity, and shopping habits to what’s on offer now

The days of aimlessly wandering the store in search of a deal or a “you” item look to soon be over. Brick and mortar retailers are embracing the latest in data technology to recognize and serve visitors like never before. Device matching, real-time targeting, and even budding facial recognition tech are eroding the notion of searching for a new customer. It’s now possible to know someone who wants to buy the moment they walk in.

How real-time data provides the most actionable marketing possible

Speed of transmission and lack of detail were two old enemies of in-store marketing. They’re becoming obsolete in an era where almost the instant a customer expresses an interest in/buys a product, a retailer can be notified and be able to target that individual with relevant content.

How is this possible? Smart uses of data like device matching and geofencing are two methods which create a purchasing portrait of prospects across every major demographic. Device matching with BDEX allows retailers to market to consumers across multiple devices and channels as the data link a consumer’s search/purchase activity via mobile, email, social media, and other avenues.

Geofencing creates a data map of all the physical retail locations a potential prospect has visited. This is useful because it shows they’re actively and physically searching for an item or service. Internet browsing data is valuable, but geofencing further isolates a consumer who’s actually visited a certain type of business. This is one of the reasons why BDEX data can drive and support in-store marketing so effectively.

We repeatedly test our data to authenticate its accuracy and currency to sidestep the pitfalls of outdated or “too broad” data – and we enable our customers to buy only the data they need. Our tailored approach allows retailers to create a dynamically-informed marketing effort that never sleeps. Actionable prospects can be marketed to in their home, via their mobile device on the go, and even when they visit your location.

The latest in-store marketing is a customer service gold mine

When a prospect has entered a store, data has the potential to really close a sale. Modern digital signage can be updated on a single screen or storewide to display offers relevant to specific viewers. Imagine a scenario where a prospect checks in and you know exactly whom is watching your in-store screen – and precisely what they’d been browsing only an hour before.

Interactive digital displays provide the same tactile satisfaction as customer cell phones or other touchscreen devices. In fact, this in-store marketing sector is set to exceed $20 billion by 2024. Nevertheless, all the digital signs in the world are just flashy eye-catchers without being powered by actionable data.

Who’s marketing in-store and why it’s working

Ralph Lauren has integrated in-store digital into their changing rooms to powerful effect. Embracing this kind of innovation has provided real-time data on customer purchases (or lack thereof) and tripled their sales forecast while increasing customer engagement by 90%. McDonald’s is realizing the potential of onsite touch screens as an alternative to face to face orders. They’re also reviewing cell phone ordering, along with other chains that have successfully implemented the technology.

The supermarket sector (including the Walmart brand) understands how data is vital to staying competitive. They’re using it to engage in-store customers in a personal manner. The retail giant has even registered multiple patents to take their data-driven marketing into the future, an effort that sees them calculating 2.5 petabytes of data … every hour!

Clearly, the potential for data-driven in-store marketing is vast. Customers engaged by relevant, real-time data will interact further with your brand, providing even more data to enrich your understanding of that customer’s needs and build a lasting relationship. Current and future technology will allow stores and customers to connect at every point on the retail journey – from first thought to final checkout.

BDEX is the first-ever Data Exchange Platform (DXP). The BDEX DXP and DAAS platforms enable companies to acquire impartial, quality-scored third-party data reaching the right people at the right time. You can call at (917) 410 – 6616 or email us at info@bdex.com

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AI on Target to Change the Way We Market on bdex.com

AI on Target to Change the Way We Market
November 21, 2018| | in category analysis methods, bdex, Big Data, business, Data Exchange Platform, digital marketing, direct mail targeting, Email Marketing, email retargeting, First Party Data, in-market data, location-based data, Mobile Marketing, Real Time Data, sell data, Third party Data, Web Hosting, website re-targeting Comments Off on AI on Target to Change the Way We Market

6 ways artificial intelligence could impact target marketing

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most talked about and promising technologies today. While many individuals think it still exists mainly in the realm of science fiction, AI is actually very much part of the real world now. It’s becoming increasingly more sophisticated and the number of industries using the technology is growing, including professionals in marketing and advertising.

First, what is artificial intelligence exactly?

Artificial intelligence is widely misunderstood, mainly due to Hollywood movies featuring robots that try to take over the world. Think The Terminator or HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. In today’s actual, practical applications, AI technology makes it possible for machines to “learn” discrete tasks much as humans do. Think with Google describes it this way: “Artificial intelligence is the study of how to make machines intelligent or capable of solving problems as well as people … with machine learning, we teach computers to learn without having to program them with a rigid set of rules.”

Here are 6 promising ways AI is (or will be) used in marketing and advertising:

1.  AI can be used to create customizable ad campaigns

AI is a tool that will allow marketers to tailor ad campaigns based on consumer intent at the moment. “We’re getting closer to the point where campaigns and customer interactions can be made more relevant end-to-end – from planning to creative messaging to media targeting to the retail experience,” according to Think with Google.

BDEX already has the technology to target customer behavior based on real-time data such as online searches, geofencing, and in-store POS purchases. When this data interface with full-developed AI, what you do with it will become automatic.

2.  AI can allow you to set up custom ad impressions

AI is already present in marketing tools that use custom algorithms to increase the number and relevancy of impressions that are served to potential consumers online. By using historical data and online search data, programs learn to predict consumer behavior and then automatically show ads that are most relevant to prospects at that time.

3.  AI can help you create programmatic advertising

Programmatic advertising is a promising new technology that has a lot of marketers excited. This tool allows you to buy digital advertising space automatically after AI analyzes data to determine which ads to buy. Demand-side platform (DSP) and supply-side platform (SSP) work together to match the right ad to the right audience. AI can analyze online behavior to create an instantaneous campaign that is optimized to a specific user.

4.  AI can create responsive search ads

Along with customizable and programmed ads, AI can also be used to create something called responsive search ads. It’s a technology being employed by the Google Marketing Platform. You submit 3-15 different ad layouts, along with meta-descriptions for each ad. Google will combine their data with your ad parameters and use it to determine which ad should be displayed for a particular user. The ad that’s displayed is different for everyone, as it’s based on his or her search history, habits, and preferences.

5.  AI can help create and curate ad campaign content

Although it’s hard to imagine a computer coming up with creative ideas, it has been done successfully. “Toyota recently started to create AI-generated ads …They were able to generate a system that created realistic-sounding lines that they were able to implement in their marketing,” reports Target Marketing Magazine.

AI can also be used to create visual content, such as videos, commercials, and in-store promotions displayed on digital screens.

6.  AI can help you test different ad campaigns

AI is capable of automating complex tasks like A/B testing to gauge the effectiveness of various marketing campaigns. It can get feedback in many different ways and formats and then determine the success or failure of a specific campaign based on a vast array of metrics. This same concept can also be applied to data that is supplied by BDEX. Our customers often want to be able to adjust their marketing campaigns based on different data signals; let’s say you choose four different data signals and run unique campaigns based on each segment. You can monitor the performance of each campaign and then use algorithms to decide which one is working the best for each data source. The essential promise of AI is that it can iteratively learn which data signals are the best predictors of behavior and the success of a campaign – at a much higher volume and a much faster pace, automatically.

Artificial intelligence is technology that is changing the way marketers and advertisers interact with and reach potential consumers. Some of it is future tech, while much of it is being used now.

BDEX also offers new and innovative ways to reach your target audience through the use of comprehensive, real-time data. Contact us to today to learn more.

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BDEX is Not a Typical Marketing Data Company on bdex.com

BDEX is Not a Typical Marketing Data Company
November 7, 2018| | in category analysis methods, Analytics, Big Data, business, clustering, Data Exchange Platform, Data Vendors, digital marketing, Email Marketing, email retargeting, First Party Data, geofencing, in-market data, Internet of Things, IT, location-based data, Mobile Marketing, Thick Data, Third party Data, Web Design, Web Hosting Comments Off on BDEX is Not a Typical Marketing Data Company

We make a point to know our customers so they can know theirs better

Although data analysis for marketing purposes is relatively new, there are now numerous companies that sell data and associated services to businesses. The problem, though, is that while plentiful, often much of this data is worthless – because it’s old, unreliable, or just not relevant.

Most companies don’t work closely enough with their customers to find the right data, and once they make a sale, they often don’t care whether or not it was useful. However, this is where BDEX stands out from the pack.

The BDEX difference

At BDEX, we take a consultative approach with our customers. This involves getting to know them in order to get a clear understanding of who their customers are and who they’re trying to reach. But we also dig much deeper. To determine if someone is an ideal prospect for our clients, we look at behaviors and intents.

Are individuals in the process of looking for a business’s specific product or service? If so, how and when are they searching? It’s at that point that we look at the data signals that indicate certain behaviors.

When we identify the right data signals, we start building the proper filter for our customer. In addition to the exact signals, we also look at a specific geographic region. One of the best aspects of our process is that it’s almost completely turnkey. We make it extremely simple for our customers. And once the filter is built, we start sending them data that is very easy to read and utilize.

Comprehensive reports

Our team of data experts creates and distributes regular reports for our customers. These involve the agreed-upon signals and geographic region that show how many consumers can be reached per month, along with their costs. They can also get files daily, monthly, or weekly with the names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails of the people whom they want to market to.

Real-time behaviors, not predictive analytics

One company we work with does a lot related to the furniture industry. After determining who their customers are and who they want to target, we thought about when people decide to buy furniture. Often this is related to certain life events, such as when someone has a baby or when they move. We began to identify the signals that show that someone may need new furniture. And, unlike most data companies that use predictive analytics, we look at real-time behaviors.

For example, if someone visits a real estate website, we will know it almost as soon as it happens. This could be an indication that now is a good time to reach this person, as new furniture often accompanies a home purchase. And when it’s coupled with other real-time signals – such as actively shopping at a competing furniture store – the data becomes incredibly precise and powerful.

In addition to businesses that sell furniture, this information is also relevant to financing companies. Before someone moves – or even before they buy a new home – they can be presented with financing offers, giving them an incentive to go to a specific furniture store when they’re ready to buy.

Quick adaptations

We understand that our success is based on the success of our customers, which is why we don’t just supply data and walk away. We always make a point to follow up to talk about their marketing results. If things need to be tweaked, we will make the necessary changes or adjustments. In most cases, customers want to expand what they’re doing with us because they see how effective it is.

If your company’s marketing efforts are too broad, BDEX can help you narrow them so you are just targeting customers who are ready to buy right now. Contact us to get started.

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