Right Customer. Wrong Moment

You think you know your customers, you have their age, location, even their habits and tastes; but something is not resonating. You are celebrating accurate targeting, while missing the context. People are not static; we are not the same in every moment. Your brand needs to adapt to not only who customers are, but what they are doing right now, we call this emotional intelligence in the moment.

Modern CRM

Great customer experience is the difference between brands that thrive and those that languish. Tailored, relevant experiences are now an expectation not a differentiator. Now, more than ever, customers are in the driving seat. Every interaction is on their terms, in their space and on their time. To succeed your brand needs to meet them where, and when, they are.

Modern CRM from Merkle connects your data, customer signals and decisioning into a living ecosystem that responds in real time with adaptive experiences that are customer first and aligned to real-life behaviour, not internal calendars.

Adaptive Experiences

Think Adaptive

Understand the Moment

Forget rigid personas and one size fits all journeys, when you think adaptive you create customer led, always on experiences that are based in reality and that influence decision making in the moment. Leading to connected customers and real, measurable growth.

Feel Adaptive

Apply Emotional Intelligence

Emotional resonance matters if you want to influence behaviour, and it isn’t possible with slow, out of date creatives. Build pre-tested adaptive experience at scale on a platform that defines how your brand behaves. Flexing tone, message and format across channels in every moment.

Act Adaptive

Act in Real Time

When you implement our Modern CRM solution you can say goodbye to siloed platforms, disconnected teams, slow execution and manual workarounds. With real-time experience arbitration, channel-agnostic continuity and instant signals-to-action communication, context travels with the customer, meaning that every interaction is recalculated and optimised in milliseconds.

Modern CRM Services

Today’s CRM is not a channel or tool approach. It is an end-to-end capability and operating model building customer first relationships. How do you do that? Through connected data, technology and operating models. We can help you to adopt a modern CRM approach

Rapid Modern CRM Diagnostic

A maturity analysis and scorecard covering customer experience, data and technology.

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Modern CRM and Loyalty Blueprint

An in-depth analysis of your existing CRM function, across customer experience, data, technology and operating model.

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Modern CRM Strategy

We will help you to build and define a strategic ambition for your CRM function.

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Modern CRM Activation

Working with you, we will define and design CRM use cases across strategy, creative, content, technology and data that will unlock real value.

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End to end modern CRM Transformation

Transform your existing CRM operations with a full end-to-end operating model aligned to our Modern CRM framework.

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The AA

Modernising Legacy Systems for Omnichannel Growth

The AA transformed its legacy tech to make its marketing operations faster, smarter, and more connected across channels.

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Burger King

Data-Driven Loyalty Fit for a King

Serve up fresh promotions and loyalty offerings supported by next-level CRM.

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Six Flags

Creating Next-Level Fun with Reimagined Data, Tech, and CX

Bringing together distinct technology stacks, data, and audiences to increase park attendance

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Discover more of our work

Here at Merkle we work with brands to close the experience gap. Read about how we have helped our clients achieve success.

Our Work

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Why you should trust Modern CRM from Merkle

Heritage in data and tech

Modern CRM is grounded in data and tech, not just big ideas.

Tech agnostic

We work with all major and upcoming tech platforms and know how to maximise value realisation.

Proprietary accelerators

We’ve built a number of AI accelerators to streamline and operationalise Modern CRM. And we can further enrich it with our generative audiences (dentsu audiences).

Award winning strategy

CRM Strategy and loyalty that deliver real KPI results.

Connecting sales, service and marketing

We can truly connect sales, service and marketing – with proven expertise across all three – to deliver end to end Modern CRM.

Empowered by Dentsu Creative and Tag

Backed by our global creative network and our newest acquisition Tag: for scalable content production.

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