(DIRECT) Brunswick Bowling and Billiards has turned an offer of an hour of free bowling in return for e-mail contact information into a database of almost half a million e-mail addresses. Some managers say the database has helped them meet their sales goals for the year.
As most marketers devote tiny amounts of their budgets to their e-mail efforts, the channel continues to deliver insane returns on every dollar spent, according to the Direct Marketing Association. However, e-mail’s ROI has dropped significantly in the last year and will continue to do so, the organization said in its annual Power of Direct…
Under the heading “couldn’t-make-this-up-if-we-tried” comes news of a proposed settlement between lawyers conducting a class-action lawsuit on behalf of one Jeffery Horton and anyone else who bought penis-enlargement dietary supplement VigRx, and Leading Edge Marketing, the company accused of hawking the product through spam.
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E-mail companies exhibiting at the DMA07 fall conference in Chicago this week are much happier than they were at last year
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Strongmail yesterday announced Strongmail 4.0, the latest version of the e-mail marketing application designed to work with the company’s e-mail infrastructure technology. According to Strongmail’s vice president of market and product strategy, Tricia Robinson-Pridemore, updates to the company’s offering include a better user interface and an ability to work with multiple databases.
Marketing services provider Yesmail yesterday announced a new package of services aimed at small businesses. Dubbed Yesmail Direct, the service includes basic e-mail marketing, search-marketing and direct-mail services.
(PromoXTRA) Marketers who want to generate leads should turn to e-mail. E-mail produced the highest response rates (4.09%) for those companies whose primary objective was to generate leads, according to the Direct Marketing Association's 2007 Response Rate Trends Report.
Strongmail is expected today to announce Strongmail 4.0, the latest version of the e-mail marketing application designed to work with the company's e-mail infrastructure technology.
