August 01, 2012
Insert marketers taking a data-driven approach can drive conversions by more precisely targeting customers based on their individual profiles and past behavior.
July 01, 2012
School is out for summer, but for marketers, dealing with teens is a year-round learning process.
May 01, 2012
Marketers are elevating their pop-up store strategy, as the concept of the temporary store matures.
March 01, 2012
Retailers have now begun to embrace gift cards as both a product and a marketing vehicle, not just a way to grab stray dollars from indecisive shoppers.
January 01, 2012
The 2012 campaign season is already heating up, and while politicians will be buzzing about their social media and digital marketing tactics, direct mail is a stalwart for political campaign marketing that isn't going anywhere.
January 01, 2012
With 2012 approaching, there is a single, inescapable trend that we are seeing, no matter the marketing channel: big data.
January 01, 2012
Diane Berry, SVP of Coveo, discusses how companies can use customer data to align service, sales and marketing.
December 01, 2011
With 300-plus direct response TV campaigns under our belt and more than 15 years of experience in online customer acquisition, I believe there's nothing more important than wrapping one's head around the critical roles of websites and search in DRTV campaigns.
December 01, 2011
Hampton Direct, a direct marketer with previous direct response TV (DRTV) successes with the Total Pillow and the Wonder Hanger, faced a challenge with its PajamaJeans. Apparel is tricky to sell on direct channels, since the shopper can't feel the fabric or the fit of the garment.
December 01, 2011
This holiday shopping season could finally make free shipping the norm among multichannel retailers — and free returns could be next.
November 01, 2011
Rider Dickerson used the variable printing capacities and incorporated marketing software by MindFireInc. to execute a campaign that included personalized letters and postcards to 385,000 prospects, followed up with targeted emails.
November 01, 2011
Direct mail is more interesting than ever and our ability to leverage it effectively to acquire, retain and grow customer relationships gets stronger all the time. It is more expensive than its electronic brethren.
November 01, 2011
Facing a fourth holiday of economic uncertainty, merchants this year will attempt to repeat the success they had attracting shoppers in 2010. Experts predict an onslaught of coupons, free shipping and multichannel efforts to draw in recession-weary consumers.
October 01, 2011
Charities struggling in a weak economy are required to do more with less toward their fundraising efforts, so they are sharpening their messages and audience-segmentation tactics when it comes to direct mail campaigns.
October 01, 2011
We often discount our business turning to "couponing" as the last bastion in our marketing toolboxes to spike sales and momentarily hit revenue goals. Recently, like clockwork, we perused the cache of options we had stashed in our coffers, selected the one we forecasted would have the swiftest impact, mailed the offer and waited for the results.
October 01, 2011
Logicalis wanted to promote its data center and IT consulting solutions in a crowded marketplace, according to Amee BellWanzo, account services executive at Sudden Impact Marketing, which worked with Logicalis.
September 01, 2011
Billboards and installations usually remain static. However, after credit card company MasterCard rolled out its "Priceless New York" campaign in July, it wasn't the TV ads, the dedicated blog, the social media or online banner ads that were arguably the most direct digital components.
September 01, 2011
Townsend Communications publishes magazines sent to the homes of high school juniors and seniors, aimed at helping colleges recruit incoming students. It also runs MyMajors.com, a site which leads students through a short quiz that recommends majors and matches them with colleges.
September 01, 2011
If you could identify which names in your next mailing are likely to become high lifetime value customers — and which aren't — would you change your deployment strategy? That's the idea behind optimizing campaigns through list scoring.
August 01, 2011
It's not just about 800-numbers anymore. Direct response TV, once seen as a low-rent ad form, is quickly gaining momentum, as leading national advertisers embrace the medium and integrate it with other digital platforms.
August 01, 2011
Reward certificates, rebates, points and miles are well- known marketing tactics that have become standard operating procedure in the competitive travel and hospitality field. So it's fitting that a set of standard practices governing how companies account for incentives is about to be adopted in the US.
August 01, 2011
Outreach Inc., one of the nation's largest providers of church-outreach programs, needed help during crunch times — especially around Easter and Christmas, its two top mailing periods. During Easter, it mails from 6 million to 10 million postcards, requiring employee overtime and sometimes outsourcing to meet deadlines.
July 01, 2011
Two years of deal-seeking and a faltering economic recovery mean consumers won't stop looking for discounts, and offline deals will remain an important tactic for marketers, say industry experts.
July 01, 2011
Direct marketers are able to personalize consumer experiences across multiple touchpoints with the advent of digital marketing and new software packages. Customers who visit a website, for example, experience a personalized encounter that assembles the Web page relevant to the customer's relationship.
July 01, 2011
Commerce Payment Systems, a provider of credit card processing solutions, was prospecting for new accounts mainly through paid search, but its costs were rising sharply, and CEO Michael Mendlowitz began to reexamine the search marketing strategy.
June 01, 2011
Brands such as Burger King Corp., United Parcel Service of America (UPS) and Hotels.com are adopting in-app ads, capitalizing on the growing number of consumers using smartphones and the deep engagement provided by mobile applications.
June 01, 2011
While the mobile marketer crowd is abuzz about the latest location-based marketing tools, "old-fashioned" location-based event promotions are hitting the road and helping marketers effectively build their in-house databases.
June 01, 2011
Hundreds of articles, webinars and materials have focused in the last few years on how marketers can become more environmentally friendly. While many organizations want to be considered green marketers with a reputation as good stewards of a healthy environment, are green goals really a driving factor behind marketing?
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
Direct marketers are concerned about the prospect of additional postal increases, overshadowing worries over printing materials.
May 01, 2011
Marketers rely on direct response consumer data to make strategic business decisions, and the explosion of media options has only increased the importance of measuring the quality of advertising results.
May 01, 2011
The tough housing market has been a challenge for companies such as BlueLinx Corp., a distributor of building products with more than 11,500 customers nationwide. It means merchandising products and services efficiently is critical.
April 01, 2011
The digitalization of marketing won't trigger the end of direct mail. For most marketers, a campaign's effectiveness is contingent upon marrying traditional direct marketing tactics with digital technology. That is particularly true for new customer acquisition tactics.
April 01, 2011
Consumers are inundated with printed promotional messages every day, ranging from brochures to fliers and postcards.
April 01, 2011
Capital Hospice, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit providing end-of-life care, wanted to create fundraising appeals that would attract larger gifts, while cutting back on mailing costs. DirectMail.com worked with Capital Hospice to define list selects and analyze appeal copy, first by segmenting the nonprofit's donor file.
March 01, 2011
The postal rate increase coming this spring is not expected to have a significant effect on direct mail marketing plans this year, thanks to its size and timing.
March 01, 2011
As we move at light speed into a world that continually serves up new media options, we often look over the documented tenets of good, solid direct mail use in conjunction with an integrated campaign. A quick reminder never hurts.
March 01, 2011
In summer 2010, after the passage of healthcare reform, WPS Health Insurance charged SeQuel Response with the launch of supplemental health insurance for retirees too young for Medicare.
February 01, 2011
A stabilizing economy and an energized competitive environment has had credit card issuers out in full force, enticing potential new customers as well as current cardholders with rewards and new products in order to stand out.
February 01, 2011
A fundamental truth of online marketing is that not every customer can be generated solely through the Internet, and even fewer will be generated by their first interaction with an advertiser.
February 01, 2011
The ImageOut Festival in Rochester, NY has steadily grown in its 18-year history, most recently screening 87 films to more than 10,000 attendees last October. This year, the festival sought further expansion of its marketing efforts.
January 01, 2011
Single-cup coffee brewing company Keurig is well known for the brewers it sells to corporations.
January 01, 2011
One would think that by now, the word "solution" would have run its course as a direct marketing and sales word.
January 01, 2011
Chico's FAS, a women's retail company, was having a hard time using customer data effectively.
December 01, 2010
This may be remembered as the season of free shipping. Many catalogers are offering free delivery, often with no minimum-spending limit, to get the attention of holiday shoppers.
November 01, 2010
Retailers continue to rely on catalogs this holiday season, but the catalog role is changing.
Direct mail continues to be a very viable channel, but only if the direct marketing fundamentals are applied.
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.
October 01, 2010
While no one argues the importance of good digital marketing programs, some marketers have turned to more traditional forms of direct marketing to cut through the online clutter.
October 01, 2010
Tapped by the US Census Bureau, Draftfcb New York led a massive marketing campaign aimed at making sure the increasingly diverse US population sent in its 2010 Census forms, while keeping labor costs for door-to-door staff to a minimum.
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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.
