Topic

CRM

  • Back to Print with Custom Publishing

    (Promo) Here’s a hot tip for marketers who want to stay in touch with their customers: Take a page from the past and try a customized magazine. Though more costly than e-mail, it can serve as the perfect setting for promotional offers.

  • Making Measurement Matter

    (Direct) The rest of the world finally appears to have caught up with direct marketers’ focus on accountability.

  • When All You Know Is an E-mail Address

    There’s a lot you can predict with respect to overall responsiveness, spam complaints, and unsubscribe and abandonment rates based on e-mail address.

  • Something for Something Drives Data Collection

    In Latin, quid pro quo means “something for something.” As English speakers, we use the term to refer to a more-or-less equal exchange of goods or services. But that definition has severe limitations in the world of interactive promotions

  • Resolve to Communicate Better in 2007

    It’s the start of a New Year, so that means it’s time to make some meaningful New Year’s Resolutions. You know, the kind that will make more money for your clients and yourself. It’s time to take a new look at what exactly you are selling for your clients. It’s also when you look at who really are your customers and prospects.

  • For Dave’s, CRM is Best in Show

    It doesn’t matter if your clientele has four legs, two legs, wings or fins: good customer relationships are vital. We chatted recently with Dave Ratner, the “chief instigating officer” of Dave’s Soda and Pet City, an Agawam, MA-based chain of pet supply stores (that, yes, also sells soda).

  • Recording Customers in Motion

    (Multichannel Merchant) During the next five years, retail store sales are projected to grow by 2.4%. In contrast, e-commerce sales are expected to climb by 13%-14%.

  • Empowering the Lonely Loyalty Champion

    Not too long ago I spent a day teaching a group of marketing professionals about loyalty marketing. Fun it was not.

  • ID, Please

    Collette Vacations had a powerful marketing tool at its fingertips: A database of customer satisfaction survey responses, which also held information

  • AAA Targets Teens

    AAA Insider, one of AAA Southern New England’s newest member programs, is also one of its most effective. A year in, free-to-paid memberships are converting at nearly 95%, compared with the club’s general renewal rate of around 89%.