Too often, online and offline data remain separate, creating a data gap that weakens campaigns. Customers may visit your website or walk onto a sales floor, open an email or attend an event. Every interaction is an opportunity to collect data. When all of the data points are combined they power smarter campaigns.
Successful sales and marketing campaigns rely on comprehensive shopper profiles to deliver personalized experiences and fuel customer engagement. Discover how your business can unify online and offline customer data types into a single, complete customer profile.
What the Data Gap is Costing You
Offline data comes from customer interactions that take place off the internet. Offline data comes from customer interactions that take place off the internet. These may include in-store visits and purchases, call center interactions, CRM records,event attendance, and more. Unless you have an intentional system in place, these interactions can be difficult to track. Capturing this information may require data entry and integration with digital systems.
By contrast, online data tends to be more easily available since data collection is built into most online systems. This might include website analytics, social media engagement reporting, email metrics or digital ad performance reports.
As a result many businesses have a glut of online data and little or no offline data. In some cases, offline data exists but is housed within separate systems that don’t integrate with online data tools.
The issue with this divide is that you end up making marketing and sales decisions based on incomplete data. The result is more dire than simply missing opportunities to connect with the customer. The data gap can cause:
- Wasted advertising spend
- More time spent gathering information
- Decisions based on incomplete or outdated information
- Operational inefficiencies
- Lower conversion rates
All of these either directly or indirectly impact financial performance and return on investment. In short, data silos waste time and money. Businesses that want to save time and boost ROI need smarter campaigns. And smarter campaigns start with a unified data system.
How Customer Data Platforms Help Bridge the Online-Offline Data Gap
With multiple data streams, businesses need intentional strategies to bridge the data gap. Effective solutions must collect and unify data from both online and offline sources without creating friction for customers or adding operational burdens for sales and marketing teams.
A customer data platform (CDP) serves as a central database that brings together customer data across online and offline channels. CDPs store and organize information such as customer interactions, service records, purchase history, and behavioral data. More than just a storage system, CDPs integrate with tools like CRMs, e-commerce platforms, marketing automation platforms, messaging systems, and service applications to create a unified, accessible customer view across the organization.
At the center of the CDP’s ability to unify data is identity resolution. This process connects disparate identifiers across systems to build a single profile for each customer. Identity graphs help resolve both known customers and anonymous visitors into persistent profiles that grow more complete as additional data is collected.
Collecting Essential Offline and Online Data
To successfully bridge the online-offline divide, businesses must first capture and integrate data from all customer touchpoints. Offline data sources may include point-of-sale systems, footfall tracking systems, call center logs, and event registrations. In some cases, specialized providers such as Placer.ai or SafeGraph can supply additional location-based and third-party offline data that supplements first-party systems.
Online data is typically easier to capture through integrations with web analytics tools, digital advertising platforms, CRM systems, and marketing automation software. However, truly actionable customer profiles require stitching both online and offline data sources together and that’s where identity resolution becomes essential.
How Launch Labs Enterprise Data Solutions Supports Identity Resolution
Launch Labs Enterprise Data Solutions plays a key role in this process by delivering advanced identity resolution capabilities that unify fragmented customer data. Our platform builds high-confidence identity graphs by linking first-party identifiers across data sources, resolving cross-device identity signals, and leveraging probabilistic matching techniques to connect fragmented customer touchpoints into complete, accurate profiles.
By enriching your existing data ecosystem, Launch Labs Enterprise Data Solutions helps maximize the value of your customer data, improve match rates, and enable downstream systems like CDPs to operate with more complete profiles. This allows marketing, sales, and analytics teams to personalize experiences, improve targeting precision, and make more informed decisions.
To learn how Launch Labs Enterprise Data Solutions can help strengthen your identity resolution strategy and unlock more value from your customer data, contact us to schedule a consultation.
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Unify Online and Offline Data to Power Smarter Marketing
Too often, online and offline data remain separate, creating a data gap that weakens campaigns. Customers may visit your website or walk onto a sales floor, open an email or attend an event. Every interaction is an opportunity to collect data. When all of the data points are combined they power smarter campaigns.
Successful sales and marketing campaigns rely on comprehensive shopper profiles to deliver personalized experiences and fuel customer engagement. Discover how your business can unify online and offline customer data types into a single, complete customer profile.
What the Data Gap is Costing You
Offline data comes from customer interactions that take place off the internet. Offline data comes from customer interactions that take place off the internet. These may include in-store visits and purchases, call center interactions, CRM records,event attendance, and more. Unless you have an intentional system in place, these interactions can be difficult to track. Capturing this information may require data entry and integration with digital systems.
By contrast, online data tends to be more easily available since data collection is built into most online systems. This might include website analytics, social media engagement reporting, email metrics or digital ad performance reports.
As a result many businesses have a glut of online data and little or no offline data. In some cases, offline data exists but is housed within separate systems that don’t integrate with online data tools.
The issue with this divide is that you end up making marketing and sales decisions based on incomplete data. The result is more dire than simply missing opportunities to connect with the customer. The data gap can cause:
- Wasted advertising spend
- More time spent gathering information
- Decisions based on incomplete or outdated information
- Operational inefficiencies
- Lower conversion rates
All of these either directly or indirectly impact financial performance and return on investment. In short, data silos waste time and money. Businesses that want to save time and boost ROI need smarter campaigns. And smarter campaigns start with a unified data system.
How Customer Data Platforms Help Bridge the Online-Offline Data Gap
With multiple data streams, businesses need intentional strategies to bridge the data gap. Effective solutions must collect and unify data from both online and offline sources without creating friction for customers or adding operational burdens for sales and marketing teams.
A customer data platform (CDP) serves as a central database that brings together customer data across online and offline channels. CDPs store and organize information such as customer interactions, service records, purchase history, and behavioral data. More than just a storage system, CDPs integrate with tools like CRMs, e-commerce platforms, marketing automation platforms, messaging systems, and service applications to create a unified, accessible customer view across the organization.
At the center of the CDP’s ability to unify data is identity resolution. This process connects disparate identifiers across systems to build a single profile for each customer. Identity graphs help resolve both known customers and anonymous visitors into persistent profiles that grow more complete as additional data is collected.
Collecting Essential Offline and Online Data
To successfully bridge the online-offline divide, businesses must first capture and integrate data from all customer touchpoints. Offline data sources may include point-of-sale systems, footfall tracking systems, call center logs, and event registrations. In some cases, specialized providers such as Placer.ai or SafeGraph can supply additional location-based and third-party offline data that supplements first-party systems.
Online data is typically easier to capture through integrations with web analytics tools, digital advertising platforms, CRM systems, and marketing automation software. However, truly actionable customer profiles require stitching both online and offline data sources together and that’s where identity resolution becomes essential.
How Launch Labs Enterprise Data Solutions Supports Identity Resolution
Launch Labs Enterprise Data Solutions plays a key role in this process by delivering advanced identity resolution capabilities that unify fragmented customer data. Our platform builds high-confidence identity graphs by linking first-party identifiers across data sources, resolving cross-device identity signals, and leveraging probabilistic matching techniques to connect fragmented customer touchpoints into complete, accurate profiles.
By enriching your existing data ecosystem, Launch Labs Enterprise Data Solutions helps maximize the value of your customer data, improve match rates, and enable downstream systems like CDPs to operate with more complete profiles. This allows marketing, sales, and analytics teams to personalize experiences, improve targeting precision, and make more informed decisions.
To learn how Launch Labs Enterprise Data Solutions can help strengthen your identity resolution strategy and unlock more value from your customer data, contact us to schedule a consultation.
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