Clearbit for building data-driven products — Kevin Tate // Clearbit

Kevin Tate, Chief Marketing Officer at Clearbit, talks about Clearbit’s B2B data activation platform for marketing intelligence. Clearbit's "Powered by Clearbit" program is designed for teams building data-powered products. By accessing Clearbit's company and customer data through APIs, product teams can make their systems smarter, personalize their products, and provide contextual experiences for end users. Today, Kevin discusses using Clearbit for building data-driven products.
About the speaker

Kevin Tate

Clearbit

 - Clearbit

Kevin is the Chief Marketing Officer at Clearbit

Show Notes

  • 02:10
    Clearbits latest innovation
    Clearbit's new program, "Powered by Clearbit", is designed for product teams building data-powered products. The program is built on Clearbit's foundation of data and APIs to make systems and processes smarter and build highly contextual and personalized products.
  • 03:44
    Using Clearbit's data to personalize user experiences
    Clearbit's "reveal" feature uses machine learning and reverse IP deanonymization to identify website visitors and their companies. This rich data can then personalize user experiences within a product based on a user's company size, industry, subsegments, and technology used.
  • 05:10
    How Clearbit identifies a website visitor's company even when they work from home
    Clearbit is able to identify the company a person is working for, even if they are working from home and sharing the same IP address with others. The use of machine learning and probabilistic models helps to improve accuracy in identifying individuals and their associated companies.
  • 06:22
    Powered by Clearbits target market
    Product and engineering teams are using Clearbit data to enhance their products and make their interactions with customers smarter and more efficient. Many popular martech and B2B apps already use Clearbit data to inform their product experience.
  • 08:29
    Use cases for Powered by Clearbit
    The first use case is for understanding in real-time who is signing up for products and services to make the experience personalized and relevant. On the backend, Clearbits enrichment data enables companies to identify who their ICP is and target highly engaged users.
  • 09:53
    Clearbit's pricing model
    Clearbit now offers free tiers to get started and predictable pricing options for scaling. Theres also the option to extend the Clearbit data key and license to end customers if it is part of the product experience.
  • 12:38
    How Clearbit is marketing Powered by Clearbit
    Clearbit established a specialized salesforce and team of solution engineers to simplify the process of getting started and scaling with Clearbit data. They also offer more technical resources for product teams to get access to the API and get started instantly.
  • 14:24
    Clearbits focus on jobs to be done vs multiple personas
    Clearbit focuses on the reliability and flexibility of the data and platform because that's common to everyone. Rather than relying too heavily on personas, Clearbit instead focuses on value and the jobs to be done.

Quotes

  • "That foundation of data plus APIs is interesting if you're a product team looking to build contextual and personalized products for end users. That's what people use Clearbit's data for in that context." -Kevin Tate, CMO, Clearbit

  • "About 80 or so of the most popular martech and B2B apps incorporate Clearbit data into the product in some way." -Kevin Tate, CMO, Clearbit

  • "Anything where data can help enhance the experience, make the interaction smarter, or more efficient, that's what product teams are often looking to use our data to do." -Kevin Tate, CMO, Clearbit

  • "I find myself letting go of personas and instead focusing on the value and the jobs to be done because trying to predict who's in marketing ops versus sales ops versus rev ops these days is tough." -Kevin Tate, CMO, Clearbit

About the speaker

Kevin Tate

Clearbit

 - Clearbit

Kevin is the Chief Marketing Officer at Clearbit

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