Customer Intelligence Blog
Evolving relationships for business growth![Marketing and the fiscal cliff Weather vane in Georgetown, Washington, DC.](https://blogs.sas.com/content/customeranalytics/files/2012/12/2012-09-08-13.11.051.jpg)
A colossal man-made storm known as “the fiscal cliff” looms on the horizon of the United States economy. Much attention has been paid to the political wrangling behind this situation in Washington, while Congress seems oblivious to unanimity among economists that large-scale abrupt austerity measures like this “fiscal cliff” generate more harm
![How Vail Resorts creates epic experiences](https://blogs.sas.com/content/customeranalytics/files/2017/01/CustomerIntelligence-1.png)
Marketers all focus on what we think our customers will like. We analyze mountains of data, look at what our competition is doing, ask our staff for ideas, look at past year's marketing campaigns, look at our facilties/products, hire outside consultants......and the list goes on and on. But with all this analysis going on, one
![What's in a name – landmarks on the software landscape](https://blogs.sas.com/content/customeranalytics/files/2012/12/wedge2.jpg)
In today’s fast paced marketing software industry, sorting through terms and naming conventions can be quite a confusing task. Often times – in an attempt to “differentiate” themselves from other vendors – software companies and solution providers invent new names and terms, which can easily result in confusion. Naming a
![Seven ways for marketers to respond to big data, from Brian Solis](https://blogs.sas.com/content/customeranalytics/files/2017/01/CustomerIntelligence-2.png)
Apparently the “big” in “big data” is only going to get bigger. And it turns out that organizations have not prioritized big data as much as they perhaps should because too many of them aren’t effectively leveraging customer data across channels. Both of those are positions held by the Altimeter
![Anatomy of a spam comment](https://blogs.sas.com/content/customeranalytics/files/2012/12/spambait.png)
This is the cross-post of a funny and informative post written for an internal SAS blog by my colleague and blogger extraordinare Chris Hemedinger. For those of you not familiar with "spam," it's a scourge of electronic media that shows up in blog comments among other places - placed with the intention of gaining better
![3 lessons marketers can learn from the World Series](https://blogs.sas.com/content/customeranalytics/files/2017/01/CustomerIntelligence-2.png)
Hello, everyone! I’m excited to be part of this great blog and share a few of my ideas. A little about me – I’m a marketer at heart, passionate about strategy, creativity, branding and analytics. I love discovering marketing lessons by examining things around me. At SAS, I’m a marketing