Understand how customers progress through long-term conversion lifecycles
IBM® Digital Analytics Lifecycle is the industry's first application geared to enable online marketers to track and understand how customers progress through long-term conversion lifecycles. A lifecycle is characterized by milestones ranging from first-time visitors to advanced customers who engage with your brand through repeat purchases, newsletter subscriptions, product reviews, following you on Facebook or Twitter, and more.
Traditionally, many online marketers have based web analytics largely on single-session clickstream data, tying conversion to the customer's last marketing touchpoint. The issue is that most conversions occur only after multiple days and multiple site visits or other online interactions. IBM Digital Analytics Lifecycle allows marketers to:
- Look beyond single-session metrics to understand the customer lifecycle.
- Analyze marketing effectiveness for granular customer segments at various stages.
- Continuously evaluate and optimize techniques to accelerate lifecycle progression.
Understand the customer lifecycle
- Gain a deep, broad perspective into the customer lifecycle over many months and evaluate which campaigns and tactics are most effective in prompting customers to progress from milestone to milestone.
- Move away from the analysis of individual touch points and towards a holistic program of business enhancement.
- Examine which campaigns and channels are most effective in driving lifecycle progression.
- Continuously optimize your initiatives to generate maximum value with insights into which campaigns, channels, touchpoints, and customer characteristics are in play.
Analyze marketing effectiveness
- Map visitors into milestones based on either pre-built or customized segments.
- Reveal the areas to research, test and optimize, then discover how those efforts affect the overall flow and development of customer relationships.
- Tailor marketing initiatives differently to early-, mid- and late-stage customers.
- Engage prospects and customers with relevant, personalized marketing based on where they are in the customer lifecycle, channels and campaigns most appealing to them, and products and services of the greatest interest to them.
Accelerate lifecycle progression
- Measure the time and sessions required for customers to progress, and set goals to reduce the time it takes to reach milestones by using the tactics and techniques that are the most effective.
- Explore which techniques and offers work best for early-stage customers, and what is most effective for late-stage customers.
- Pinpoint key interactions and events that prompt customer progression through lifecycle milestones.

Zoom in on customers in any milestone to find out what specific marketing channels, programs and products are most effective.
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- White Paper: Introducing IBM Digital Analytics Lifecycle
Perfecting the Science of the Customer Journey IBM Digital Analytics Lifecycle is the industry’s first application geared to enable online marketers to track and understand how customers progress through long term purchasing and conversion lifecycles.
- Data sheet: IBM Digital Analytics Lifecycle (230KB)
Visibility into unique, event-driven customer segments helping marketers cultivate high-value customers
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