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Behavioral Marketing: 4 Huge Myths (inc)
For starters, you don't always get what you pay for -- even on data-rich sites
like Facebook.
**Want to find an audience online** and then effectively engage and sell to
it? One of the standard recommendations has become behavioral marketing--
largely made by the companies that provide services and products in the field.
The pitch is obvious: You want to do some advertising and a sales rep points
out how much more effective paying extra for better targeting will be.
To be sure, knowing more about prospects before you send them marketing
messages will almost always improve your results.
Unfortunately, many of the promises about just how well companies can target
potential customers online are based on myths. Here are some of the bigger
ones you'll hear:
**Myth #1: Tracking online activity identifies consumers**
This is the marketing equivalent of clothes making the person. By looking at
someone's interests, a company is supposed to know who she is. But that's
silly. All you know are her interests. That's important, sure, but to assume
that you can infer more about the identity is dangerous. Look at this example
of mis-identification from The Next Web. Google identified the site's ...
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