Category: Big data

Five big marketing mistakes companies make

For most businesses, marketing is a crucial component of success. If you can’t market effectively, you can’t sell and grow, and that spells trouble.

Thanks to the internet, the rise of digital marketing channels, and the abundance of marketing tools and technologies, companies have more marketing assets and capabilities than ever.

But figuring out how to use them correctly is often a challenge and there are a number of common mistakes that hold companies back. Here are five of the biggest and most detrimental.

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Get close and personal with your customers

At the end of every year, executives and pundits put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) to project how their industry will change in the months ahead.

Some years that change is downright incremental. In others, there’s a significant shift in how people do business, reach their customers, and make money.

2013 is one of those years.

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Big data in 2013: experts’ view

Moving from conversations dominated by mobile to data, some marketers never want to hear the term ‘Big Data’ again. But with more and more companies in social and tag management utilizing the surge of data available to them, the big data conversation is not one that ended with the end of 2012.

We’ve already touched on big data with a post earlier this month by Patricio Robles on the challenges of big data in 2013, but this time we’re hearing from some of the experts.

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2013: the year of ‘smart data’

Yesterday, we looked at what some industry professionals think are the big trends in big data for the upcoming year. I had the chance to talk to Dr. Michael Wu, Chief Scientist at Lithium Technologies, about what he is looking at for his research in 2013.

For him, it’s about smart data instead of the generics often spoken about around “big data.”

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Big data’s 2013 challenge: making it small

Numerous trends are discernible in the predictions made for 2013. One of the most apparent: the continued rise of big data.

What big data is, the roles it is creating and data management best practices came into focus for many businesses in 2012, but putting big data to use will likely be one of the biggest challenges facing companies in 2013.