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Evolving relationships for business growth![Organisations in the public eye: perception vs. reality](https://blogs.sas.com/content/customeranalytics/files/2011/11/Graph-11.png)
Healthcare was one of five sectors looked in the Pleased to Meet You research (the other four were Banking, Supermarkets, Soft Drinks, and Mobile). In the UK the majority of healthcare is publicly funded, and so healthcare was chosen to as a representative of the public sector. It allows us
![How the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies exceeds customer expectations](https://blogs.sas.com/content/customeranalytics/files/2017/01/CustomerIntelligence-1.png)
Just today we published a new “success story,” our term for customer testimonial, with a great customer of ours, Chubb. As I was reading through the story, I realized what a complex environment insurance marketers find themselves in, especially when independent insurance agents are in the mix, issuing the policies
![Video: customer analytics as an agency service](https://blogs.sas.com/content/customeranalytics/files/2017/01/CustomerIntelligence-1.png)
As mentioned in a previous post, We had the pleasure to sponsor the eMetrics Marketing Optimization conference again this year with a marketing lab. Our featured story was an innovative use of customer analytics by Organic, a digital marketing agency and SAS customer. We highlighted how Organic worked with their client Pulte
![Marketing accountability as business strategy](https://blogs.sas.com/content/customeranalytics/files/2017/01/CustomerIntelligence-2.png)
I've had the pleasure to work closely this year with the Association of National Advertisers on a Thought Leadership Sponsorship. One of my favorite outcomes of that effort was an e-Magazine titled, "Measures for Success - How to become a more accountable marketing organization." The title article of that eMagazine
![Four ways to approach a blog editorial calendar](https://blogs.sas.com/content/customeranalytics/files/2011/10/AnalyticInsurer.png)
Most bloggers start thinking about blog editorial calendars from a planning perspective. You want to make sure you have enough content to keep the blog updated somewhat regularly, and you want to make sure you are publishing content that your audience needs, without overlooking any of your prioritized topic areas
![Marketing optimization merges art and science](https://blogs.sas.com/content/customeranalytics/files/2017/01/CustomerIntelligence-1.png)
My friend and colleague Amartya Bhattacharjy led a roundtable discussion today titled, Merging Art and Science in Marketing at #PBLS11, which I've tried to distill for you here. He began with the traditional view of marketing in terms of two types of activities that had their own mindsets: Brand marketing (mass