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Data Driven ROI

  • Herschell Gordon Lewis on Newsletter Frequency

    Herschell Gordon Lewis knows a few things about keeping fannies in seats. He directed cult movie classics like “Blood Feast” and “The Gore Gore Girls,” then repeated that success as a direct mail copywriter. Here’s what he says about e-mail newsletters, and how to keep people opening them.

  • What Banks Are Doing About Phishing

    There’s good news and bad news for banks about phishing, the scam in which identity thieves masquerading as trusted companies send out e-mail to induce recipients to click on a link, go to a Web page and give up their personal information.

  • American Express, JetBlue Boost Co-Branded Card Via Rewards Competition

    American Express and JetBlue are giving new meaning to the task of earning rewards, launching a rewards competition in which two families will compete to earn points for a return flight home. American Express and JetBlue are searching for two families …

  • MTV Pimps Out Sweeps With Midway’s L.A. Rush

    To boost the launch of Midway’s new arcade-style racing game L.A. Rush, MTV and MTV2 are rolling out two separate sweepstakes in which three consumers can win a pimped out 2006 Subaru Impreza WRX STI. The promotion coincides with yesterday’s launch of …

  • CDW Offers Personal Account Managers

    CDW has always been ahead of the curve. A traditional mail order company specializing in high-tech products, CDW started a Web site in 1995 and two years later offered online ordering. And it has since developed a multi-channel approach to serve its technically savvy customers.

  • A Call Center With a Heart

    This year the oldest of the baby boomers turned 60. In recognition of this potential market, health insurance firm Humana Inc. is setting up a call center in Tampa Bay, FL to deal expressly with its growing Medicare business.

  • Real Estate and Recipes: Quantum’s CRM Formula

    Those recipes hanging on the refrigerator for peach bread pudding and Grandma’s potato salad aren’t from an old family recipe book. Nope – they’re from your real estate agent. And he wouldn’t mind one bit if you passed them along because it’s his way of staying…InTouch.

  • What’s New is Old: An Answer to Peppers and Rogers

    In their rebuttal to the CRM Cynic, Peppers and Rogers wrote:
    We’ve been searching the academic and trade literature for two years and we haven’t found a single example. That’s why we maintain that Return on Customer is in fact that rarest of things in business—a truly new idea.” They should have checked Google.

  • Dell Takes One Hell of a Blogging

    Type the phrase “Dell hell” on Google and the world’s most popular search engine returns more than 2.4 million results. Type “Dell sucks” and almost 1.3 million results come back. Dude, Dell has a problem.

  • Data Debris

    What’s the hot new medium for marketers? Direct mail. Spending on the old workhorse will grow by 7.5% this year, according to a white paper released by Winterberry Group.