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A targeted marketing effort attempting to re-engage customers who've stopped buying, typically through discounts and guilt-inducing subject lines like 'We miss you.' It's the commercial equivalent of texting your ex at 2am.
The strategic process of determining where, when, and how frequently to place advertising to reach target audiences effectively. It's like planning a military campaign, except the objective is getting people to buy laundry detergent.
A customer segmentation method analyzing when someone last purchased, how often they purchase, and how much they spend. Abbreviated as RFM, it's the scorecard that determines whether you get the good coupons or the desperate ones.
A marketing campaign that runs continuously rather than in sporadic bursts, like a retail store that never closes or that friend who won't stop texting. Designed to maintain constant brand presence without the panic of starting and stopping.
In data analytics and sociology, the act of assigning credit, blame, or characteristics to a person or thing based on analysis rather than self-identification. Marketers use this to decide who deserves credit for a conversion, while sociologists use it to study how society boxes people into categories they didn't choose. Both involve making assumptions that may or may not reflect reality.
An advertising concept that looks beautiful and timeless in the boardroom but is completely impractical for actual implementation. Named after objects better suited for museums than utility.
The data-driven magic of discovering patterns in numbers that either confirm what you already suspected or reveal uncomfortable truths about your business. It's the corporate world's obsession with turning everything—clicks, purchases, employee bathroom breaks—into measurable insights and pretty dashboards. Modern companies worship at the altar of analytics, believing that if you can't measure it, it didn't happen.
Using natural language processing to determine whether customer feedback, social mentions, or reviews express positive, negative, or neutral opinions about your brand. It's teaching computers to detect sarcasm, which goes about as well as you'd expect.
When a marketing message achieves the exact opposite of its intended effect, causing the audience to reject the brand or idea being promoted. The marketing version of telling someone not to think about pink elephants.
Content created specifically to flatter influential people or brands in hopes they'll share it with their audiences. Shameless flattery disguised as journalism or analysis.
The phenomenon where users subconsciously ignore banner ads and anything that looks like advertising, developed through years of exposure to terrible ads. It's the internet's immune system response to marketing.
A fancy word for 'slice' that marketers use to sound more professional when dividing customers into groups. Whether it's a pie chart section, a customer demographic, or a portion of your total addressable market, segments make everything feel quantifiable and strategic. It's basically the business world's way of saying 'let's break this down.'
The organizational structure of a company's brands, products, and services—whether they're independent siblings, a parent-child hierarchy, or one big happy endorsed family. It's the family tree that determines who gets what inheritance.
A hidden message, inside joke, or subtle reference embedded in marketing materials or products that rewards attentive audiences. The marketing team's way of entertaining themselves.
In marketing, any medium through which you push your message into people's consciousness, whether they asked for it or not. Email, social media, carrier pigeons—if it can transmit your brand's desperate plea for attention, it's a channel. Modern marketers obsess over being "omnichannel," which means annoying customers everywhere simultaneously.
A machine learning approach that constantly explores new options while exploiting what currently works—basically A/B testing on steroids with mathematical justification.
The deliberate repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words—a linguistic technique that makes marketing messages memorable, melodious, and occasionally, mercifully minimalist.
In marketing, a magical word that justifies charging triple the price for produce that bugs have nibbled on. Organic growth or reach means you didn't pay for it directly, making it the social media equivalent of 'all-natural' or 'chemical-free.' When used in digital marketing, it means your content succeeded without ad spend, which is about as rare as finding actual organic products in a regular supermarket.
The combination of tactics and channels used to promote your product, traditionally reduced to the 'Four Ps' (Product, Price, Place, Promotion) by people who love oversimplifying complex systems. It's strategic planning that fits on a napkin.
In marketing, the emotional rush or novelty factor that gets people excited about a product or campaign. A product with 'kick' has the X-factor that makes people actually care instead of just scrolling past. Without it, you're just another forgettable ad in a feed of thousands.
The practice of scheduling ads or content to run during specific times of day when target audiences are most active. Because showing cereal ads at 3 AM is generally suboptimal.
A prospect who's been vetted by marketing, kicked over to sales, and deemed worthy of actual human attention rather than automated email sequences. Abbreviated as SQL, which confusingly has nothing to do with databases.
A curated audience of people who previously interacted with your brand, creating a permission structure to follow them around the internet like a well-intentioned stalker. It's not creepy, it's marketing.
A product deliberately sold at a loss to attract customers who'll hopefully buy other profitable items, the retail equivalent of free samples at Costco. It's why printers are cheap but ink costs more than human blood.