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As organisations transition from the mass marketing paradigm to the one-to-one,
relationship marketing paradigm, so the need for more knowledge about individual
customers rapidly escalates.
Typically organisations make the transition via the direct marketing paradigm
which targets customers based on analysis of aggregate data. The average response
rates from these direct marketing programs is around 2%. Not surprisingly, management
are keen to pursue strategies which produce significantly better results.
Accordingly, individual customer profiles have evolved to provide a much greater
level of detail to support one-to-one, relationship marketing.
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