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Six Steps for Profitable Custom Modeling

Faced with new customer types from search and affiliate programs, lower direct-buyer conversion rates, and higher overall costs, multichannel marketers are continually evaluating new strategies and techniques to maintain and improve acceptable levels of success. In the quest for the “next big thing” in marketing, many companies often overlook proven strategies that have the potential to greatly improve marketing performance.

Data Driven ROI

The Known, the Unknown, and the Danger of Deadlines

“In the universe, there are things that are known, and there are things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors,” wrote William Blake. Those doors, according to a new white paper from database services provider Merkle, are key to “quantitative marketing.”

Acquisition

Cadbury Adams Sweetens Tones with Sweeps

There’s nothing sweeter than the sound of good music. That’s what Cadbury Adams USA LLC, the manufacturer and distributor of Swedish Fish, Sour Patch and Chiclets, is banking on under a new sweepstakes that offers a chance to win tickets to a private …

Acquisition

Chrysler Group Targets Creative Minds

Chrysler Group is challenging consumers to come up with an idea of what product can become a faster, more powerful and cooler by adding a HEMI engine to it, and is dangling a HEMI-powered vehicle to the one who comes up with the best idea. Consumers can …

Acquisition

Maserati Offering High-End Sweeps

Maserati dangles a trip to Italy Maserati North America is targeting the wealthy with a direct response marketing campaign that dangles a trip for two to Italy for a sports car enthusiast. Though consumers of any income can enter the sweepstakes, the …

Acquisition

Arby’s Campaign Shows Fast Food Difference

In celebration of its 40 years in business, Arby’s is out with a new ad campaign—and a sweeps—touting its ability to provide customers with “something different, something better,” which focuses on its roots and its staple red hat. Arby’s tagline for …

Acquisition

Daily News Attempts a Make Good with $1 Million Drawing

The Daily News is offering a special drawing in an attempt to make amends to the thousands of readers who thought they had hit the jackpot in its Scratch n’ Match game because of a misprint in the winning numbers. Newpaper tries to appease readers in …

Acquisition

NBC Builds Online Buzz For The Office Premiere

Days before it hits the airwaves, NBC is already getting a jump-start creating buzz around its new comedy series, The Office, via the Internet and a designated online community. NBC and MySpace.com give viewers a sneak peak at The Office American Style …

Acquisition

ABC Launches Desperate Housewives Sweeps

Desperate to win a contest? ABC is inviting fans of its hit comedy Desperate Housewives to enter an online quiz and sweeps, offering a grand-prize trip to attend the show’s DVD launch party in Los Angeles. Desperate fans seeking to win a prize can …

Data & Analytics

Creativity Substitutes for Data in the Gay Market

Marketing to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community isn’t as difficult as quantifying the market. That was one conclusion you could draw from the Reaching Out conference held in February by students at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Yale School of Management.