January 01, 2013
Collectum AB, administrator for Sweden's white collar occupational pension plan, devised a clever plan to get people to open its direct mail.
November 01, 2012
Chase's luxury credit card brand Sapphire launched a marketing campaign for avid golfers.
November 01, 2012
What happens when messages are sent within a printed business document? You may be surprised to know that they get read.
October 01, 2012
Compensation is a thorny issue. Check out of marketing challenge and see how you would deal with our scenario. We'll print the best answers.
September 20, 2012
Banks and Pinterest. I mean, it's not cookies and milk, but why not?
September 01, 2012
Two of the largest U.S. retail banks, Chase and Citibank, have attempted to retain customers and acquire new ones by rebuilding trust and boosting brand loyalty through cohesive marketing across their respective websites, in-store creative, direct mail, email, loyalty marketing, and social media channels.
March 01, 2012
Despite the need to connect with consumers across multiple channels, financial services institutions still don't view social media as an effective direct marketing channel.
January 24, 2012
With 2011 in the rear view mirror, it's time to take stock and look ahead. If your company has been sitting on the sidelines unconvinced of the need for a social media strategy, then 2012 brings you the gift of clarity.
January 01, 2012
Ryon Harms, Farmers Insurance director of social media, says people want to connect with faces, not products, on Facebook.
Marketing services firm Experian expanded its Global Consulting Practice, the company's data and analysis consulting division, to serve clients in the North American market.
December 01, 2011
Discover Financial Services will sponsor a holiday-themed expansion of social gaming company Zynga's "FarmVille" game. The sponsorship, which enables consumers to earn gifts by completing virtual challenges, will go live to the public on Dec. 5.
Visa has acquired mobile financial services platform provider Fundamo for $110 million in cash, both companies said June 9. Visa also said it has signed a commercial agreement with mobile financial technology provider Monitise.
Financial services company JG Wentworth will launch a multichannel campaign later this year to build on its 877-Cash-Now TV ads, company CMO Phil Donahue told Direct Marketing News on June 3. The effort will include direct mail, email, search marketing and social media.
June 01, 2011
The United Nations Federal Credit Union (UNFCU), a nonprofit financial institution serving more than 90,000 United Nations agency staffers, retirees and their families, wanted to launch a Visa "smart card" aimed at individuals who travel frequently overseas.
May 01, 2011
New York-based accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron wants commuters in the metro area to participate in the same problem solving it faces each day. Posters featuring brain teasers appear at stations throughout New York transit and as ads in regional publications.
March 01, 2011
Financial services companies are making investments in direct marketing programs that aim to boost loyalty among their customers — many of whom have become suspicious and angry with the industry for their part in the financial crisis.
March 01, 2011
Lakeland Bank is the third-largest commercial bank in New Jersey (based on assets of $2.7 billion), but the company felt its brand identity could be stronger, particularly among younger customers.
March 01, 2011
Chris Moloney, SVP and head of marketing at Wells Fargo Advisors, discusses his new role and the financial firm's approach to social media
February 01, 2011
Insurance marketers kicked off 2011 with a plethora of new direct response campaigns, from TV spots to Facebook sweepstakes.
January 01, 2011
Major brands, including 3M and Western Union, have recently turned to direct response TV to raise consumer awareness and support retail promotions.
January 01, 2011
Mobile advertising, once nascent, has grown into an increasingly important, but fractured marketplace.
January 01, 2011
CardFlex, a b-to-b company that provides transaction processing services and payment technologies, conducts the majority of its lead generation work through its in-house direct response marketing unit.
January 01, 2011
Sanjay Gupta joined GMAC Inc. as CMO in March 2008, the same month that investment firm Bear Stearns collapsed.
December 20, 2010
Chris Newcomb, owner of Newk's Express Cafe, a 30-store Southern restaurant chain that focuses on upscale quick-serve dining, knows that in the food business "people can throw a lot of marketing dollars at a lot of places."
This week's NCDM 2010 Conference in Miami offered many wonderful examples of how companies use consumer insight to enhance marketing efforts.
Discover Financial Services' telemarketing practices came under fire this week as the Minnesota attorney general filed a suit alleging the credit card company made "aggressive, misleading and deceptive," calls on a variety of products, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Employers Insurance has named SolutionSet its direct marketing agency of record. The two companies have worked together since early fall, with the AOR relationship becoming official this month after a competitive pitch.
December 01, 2010
Financial institutions are emphasizing transparency and choice, and trying to learn more about their customers, increase loyalty, and better target their offers in response to newly enacted federal financial regulations.
November 01, 2010
KeyBank, a division of KeyCorp, was spending an inordinate amount of time and budget on the creative portion of its direct marketing efforts to consumers and small business customers.
Bank of America is planning to offer new consumer-facing banking services by the end of this year, the financial company said in its third-quarter earnings statement.
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What's in our mailbox this month: fitness postcards from Retro Fitness, American Woman Fitness Centers, Union's United Taekwondo Academy, and Bally Total Fitness. (We're totally pumped.)
Social data can improve a brand's bottom line and customer relationships. Just ask brands Infiniti and Diamond Nexus.
Here are three must-have data sets that every marketer should include in his or her email strategy.
