“Gathering intelligence” might sound like something that’s straight out of an espionage movie, but marketers do it, too — specifically, gathering customer intelligence (CI). Why? Because right now, the customer is more powerful than ever. In a study from Dimensional Research, a whopping 90% of people who read online reviews said that their purchasing decisions were influenced by positive reviews, while 86% said negative reviews swayed them.  Consumers nowadays are likely to investigate the real…