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Advantages of Creating an Integrated Marketing Database for Your Business
Integrated marketing is creating growing complications for most businesses to manage their customer data. Customer Email data management requirements for opt-outs and bounces are often difficult to maintain, and creating intelligent landing pages for customers to provide you with updated customer data adds yet another level of complexity. In our opinion, one of the easiest ways [...]
The Importance of Developing Handraisers for your Business
So few companies fully understand and leverage the power of developing “handraisers”. In our world, this is someone who is interested in your company’s product, but not ready to purchase your products or services at this time. It applies to just about every business segment and industry. I am sure you can relate this to your every day shopping [...]
Volume down as prices go up for USPS. What does it mean for Marketers?
May 11th is the date targeted for postage rates to go up across the board. The average rate increase is about 3.8% and does vary by segment. Of course, the behind the scenes story contributing to the increase is the decline in recent mail volume … with a 9.5 billion piece decline in mail for 2008. According [...]
Build your email mix with sweepstakes!
I was visiting with a client the other day who was doing an excellent job of acquiring their customers’ email addresses. They are very experienced marketers who focus the majority of their marketing efforts on cross-sell activities. They were leveraging enticing promotional sweepstakes as a way to drive email activation from customers who had not previously provided [...]