That is easy for businesses like hotels or airlines, whose customers make reservations in their own names and whose transactions and preferences are easy to track.
Other B2B platforms, such as the Slovenian startup FoodPlus, are developing algorithms to gain a better understanding of what a buyer needs based on their past transactions and preferences.
The web enabled online commerce, which meant that oodles of personal data – name and address, age, gender, credit-card details, purchases and transactions, consumer preferences, interests, hobbies, etc – could be hoovered up by corporations, while software for tracking web browsing provided all kinds of equally interesting data for advertisers.
The customer is not just an anonymous caller who has to struggle to acquaint the firm with her needs: instead, the firm's respondent has instant access to all previous transactions, likes and preferences and can treat the customer as someone who is recognized and known and understood.
It might offer to equip its customers with credit cards or smart cards, television-viewing meters, or other tools for acquiring data, which would allow customers to build much broader profiles of their own activities, preferences, and transactions.
The data holds a history of the customer, their transactions, personal details and preferences.
Each small chink in the big network model translates to more and more user control by turning preferences into transactions, all completely outside the ratings game.
On the demand-sensing side, Zara was a pioneer in using technology, including PDAs (personal digital assistants) to capture real-time consumer data not only on transactions, but also on preferences underlying perceptions of value.
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For instance, Epsilon's Agility Harmony tool helps you to create custom emails based on a customer's online behavior, preferences and transaction history.
