Friday 19 May 2017

What is CRM data?

Generally, brands manage their customer data using CRM software to better control over customer data which helps sales team, marketing team, support team to take the faster decisions. Marketing team can leverage their customer data from CRM data to target their audience. but what is a CRM data? CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management and CRM data is nothing but information about the customers such as email address, phone number, postal address etc,.

CRM data
CRM data


CRM software is used in enterprise business to store the Customer data, Customer interaction, Tracking leads, Contracts, Employees etc,.. The CRM data can be used by various teams in an enterprise business such as sales team, marketing team and support team.  The CRM data is considered to be potential audience for marketing campaigns because they are already interested in your service. Examples of CRM software includes, Zoho CRM software, Salesforce CRM etc,.

Let's understand by considering an example, an advertiser has multiple electronic stores across the country and he collects their customers data such as phone number, email or postal address while purchasing the products for shipping the product to customer postal address. All the customers data is stored in the CRM software. He can leverage that data for marketing campaigns.  Now, let's say the advertiser is running a seasonal offer on his website and he wants target his display ads to past converted customers across the web and Facebook.

Many ad tech companies such as AdRoll, Facebook, Google Remarketing helps the advertiser to target the display ads. The advertisers have to upload the email address to ad tech companies. Under the hood, when they uploaded email addresses, the data is converted into human unreadable hash format. To target the visitors in a effective way through the marketing campaigns, ad tech companies appoint data on-boarding platforms such as LiveRamp, Datalogix, Conversantmedia, Neustar, Experian etc,. because ad tech campaigns has no idea about CRM data and their customer online behavior.

Data on-boarding platform analyze the CRM data and converts offline data into online data so that ad tech companies can use it for marketing campaigns.

Ad tech companies uses the information(hashed format) provided by the data on-boarding companies and starts cookie matching process across the Web and Facebook. The ad will be served to the customer who logged into Facebook or Google.

What you can do additionally with CRM data?

  • CRM Retargeting
  • CRM Prospecting

CRM Retargeting

CRM Retargeting is a kind of retargeting which allows the advertisers to retarget their audience based on the email address or postal address. Since CRM data is high quality traffic, visitors to tend engage with website audience. CRM Retargeting is an effective way targeting the audience using the marketing ad campaigns. With the help CRM retargeting, the marketers can target the tailored and personalized messages to the visitors which means the right customers at the right time.


Prospect the new customers 

Based on the existing data, ad tech companies use machine learning algorithms to create a lookalike or prospect new users. This helps the advertisers to increase the brand reach and attract new customers to their business.

if you got CRM data then you can directly contact the liveRamp or you can work with any DSP, Retargeting companies to target your audience.



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