Current Businesses are focusing on pressure from the customers to engage with them on a more personal and meaningful level. Clients are now focusing on information precision marketing. It is a form of marketing that gathers the data about a consumer and aims to send the user messages that are targeted and relevant to them. Like most other sectors, marketing has made the most of technology. Myself, like many others, are impressed at the level of advance of this now ‘sector’ of technology. Doing this though, there are many challenges that are faced which need to be overcome.

Data Complexity and Integration Issues

The integration and management of a customer’s data dashboard might just be the largest challenge a company adopting precision driven strategies faces. The data firms gather from their websites, social networks, customer service, and even third-parties can easily be overwhelming. Compounding the problem, the diverse sources of data are disparate and need to be harmonized into an actionable whole. Businesses frequently grapple with data duplication, profile incompleteness, and format difference, which undermine the effectiveness of personalization. There needs to be strong data governance if precision marketing is to succeed.

Technology and Tools Gap

The right insights from quality data cannot be extracted in the absence of appropriate tools. With the advent of advanced platforms including the intent data platform, predicting buyers and their purchasing behavior and understanding intent is easier. However, the technology adoption lifecycle includes steep costs, specialized skill sets, and ongoing upkeep. This is particularly problematic for many small and medium sized companies, who feel inability to leverage the capabilities of advanced tools due to budget restrictions. This inability to absorb advanced technology is an area of major concern for firms wanting to compete in a data driven market.

Content Relevance and Distribution

Second, a marketing strategy could be wholly ineffective even when the right data is collected and the most appropriate tools are adopted. The problem of content creation tailored to and targeted at a specific audience could be the most complex one. The creation of content is only the first step in a multi-step process. Deploying the content effectively to the audience through a targeted marketing step such as B2B content syndication is a herculean task. The thin line between content that is too general in nature, or too targeted and narrow in scope, is an area that most marketers find difficult to navigate.

Privacy and Compliance Concerns

With customers’ data at the core of sophisticated marketing strategies, firms have to balance the ever-evolving stringent regulatory frameworks of GDPR and CCPA. Consumers themselves are increasingly concerned about the manner in which their PII is used and disseminated. Marketers are forced to walk a tightrope between personalization and trust by ensuring that compliance is fully accomplished, and the CX is not compromised. The mismanagement of these issues not only invites regulatory scrutiny, which is a risk in itself, but also is reputationally damaging to the brand, making this a highly sensitive issue in the context of challenges dominating the implementing of freedom-kissing road precision approaches.

Conclusion

The use of precision marketing is highly cumbersome and multifaceted. The sophisticated systems of data integration, the toolbox that has to be acquired, the issue of being compliant and relevant in the content that is created, are all taken together obstacles for the business. However, the firms that manage to address these hurdles are bound to take the edge when it comes to competition. The precision and retention strategies that these firms deploy, coupled with a value proposition that is customer aligned, will enable these firms to realize the full extent of the benefits derived from precision marketing to trigger sustained growth.

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