Managing Efficiency
Finally, Trialogue provides coaching and consultation services to help clients manage marketing communications efficiency in this new and dynamic world of hundreds of thousands of combinations and potentially millions of variables. A marketing communications environment based upon automation tools can result in literally thousands, sometimes even millions, of versions of materials. There are clients on the Streamlyne™ System with communications efforts based on a matrix utilizing 40,000 variables. Managing a brand in that environment is far different than managing twenty or thirty static “jobs” over a year.
Ultimately, implementation of an Automated Marketing Communications system with real-time capabilities results in a “Process Based Marketing” work environment. It offers numerous benefits over a static, job-based, marketing communications environment:
But, all of that is incumbent upon a marketing communications team that is capable of managing a dynamic, free-flowing marketing communications environment.
Historically, the largest single constraint on marketing communications is production cost. In the future, the largest constraint we face will be creative. How do you “manage” creative messaging and brand implications for 2.5 million versions of a single piece?