Topic

Data Driven ROI

  • Web Tracking Firm Blends E-Zines and Surveys

    Need to poll one in three Internet users? purchasing?
    BURST! says it can help. Its e-newsletter, Online Insights, goes to approximately 10,000 advertisers, agency, media reps, clients who purchase media and other media pros.

  • Partnerships That Build Newsletter Lists

    You can build your e-mail newsletter list quickly through the use of strategic partnerships. Look for companies who target similar demographic audiences with their Web sites and e-mails, but who are not your direct competitors.

  • A Checklist for Vetting Data Partners

    Be very careful with whom you work and especially with partners who send e-mail that looks like it comes from you. Your brand reputation is on the line, and the last thing you want is for anyone receiving your e-mails to feel that they are being spammed.

  • FTC Says ISPs Are Better at Blocking Spam

    Spammers are as busy as ever harvesting e-mail addresses, but Internet service providers block the vast majority of their attempts to flood consumers’ inboxes, according to a report released in November by the Federal Trade Commission.

  • CRM Swing Shift

    After years of scarfing up the lion’s share of direct marketing budgets, retention has taken a back seat to prospecting, according to Direct magazine’s latest readers’ survey.

  • Kestler Financial Improves Its Two-Way Dialogue

    What’s a wholesaler of financial products to over 5,500 independent brokers to do when it has to gather information regarding quotes and respond to agent inquiries? Here’s what Kestler Financial Group, Inc. did.

    That was the challenge facing Kestler Financial Group, Inc. (KFG), a company specializing in securities, annuities, life insurance and long-term care insurance.

  • The Age of the Paperless Bank

    Rob Strickland has a dream: That banks will one day operate without paper.
    But unlike many other fantasies, this one is actually coming true.

  • NY Times Touts Broadway

    The New York Times is applauding Broadway with a month-long promotional campaign.

  • Dr Pepper Dangles $1 Million in Football Toss

    Dec. 3 is going to be a big day for some Dr Pepper fans. During the three championship college football games held that day, one fan will compete for up to $1 million in the Dr Pepper Football Championship Challenge. Dr Pepper has held the challenge for …

  • Dell/Merkle Named Platinum NCDM Excellence Winners

    A direct marketing campaign Merkle Inc. coordinated for client Dell was named the 2005 National Center for Database Marketing (NCDM) Excellence Award’s platinum winner.