Topic

Database marketing

  • Big Idea Skintimate: 2011 IMA Award Winner

    2011 IMA Award winner, Best Use of Online Contest or Sweepstakes for Lead Generation | Almost 5,000 teenage girls signed up for an essay video contest branded by Skintimate Signature Scents for the chance to become a member of one of two crews of nine girls to be flown to Hollywood to produce a film and edit a short movie

  • Monster.com and Alicia Keys: 2011 IMA Award Winner

    Best Integration of a Campaign into a Brand’s Main Website | Looking to change jobs or score your first one? How would you like to be the social media voice for a recording superstar’s nonprofit organization? That was the incentive offered in a campaign developed by agency The Marketing Arm and online job lister Monster.com

  • Voice Of Customer Data Worth Collecting And Analyzing Despite Challenges

    Analyzing customer opinions can provide valuable insights. This knowledge, however, is not easily gained. Knowing how to collect this information without biasing it, and aggregating qualitative — non-numeric — data can be daunting. Chris Cottle, executive vice president of marketing and products for Allegiance, offers thoughts on best practices in aggregating and using customer opinions.

  • Why You Shouldn’t Over Segment Your Prospecting Database

    Over the last few years, data marketers have gone to extreme lengths to cherry pick what they think is the perfect audience for each communication they send. But is this approach producing a profitable universe—or just a small one?

  • National Audubon Engages With Birders on Facebook

    The National Audubon Society looked at two factors the immense popularity of Angry Birds and the launch of the bird-watching-themed movie The Big Year from 20th Century Fox and saw recruitment potential

  • Mobile, Social Data Transforming Marketing for the Holidays—And Beyond

    Almost every CMO went into Black Friday and CyberMonday with one thought in mind: shoppers are more price-sensitive than ever before. But what actually happened on Black Friday and CyberMonday radically shifted the conversation. Consumers spent like mad—online and on mobile devices.

  • Keeping Marketing Assets Secure in the Cloud

    After all, if your marketing and sales materials are managed and distributed via a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution on the Internet, rather than housed on your company’s own servers, aren’t they more prone to being viewed by unauthorized users? The answer may actually be no, according to some industry analysts.

  • Break The Retail Planning Cycle By Connecting with Shopper Rhythms

    Break The Retail Planning Cycle By Connecting with Shopper Rhythms

  • Direct. B to B to C in Mix for Tullamore Dew U.S. Effort

    The world’s second-largest Irish whisky is Tullamore Dew, and yet comparatively few Americans have heard of it, favoring instead competitors Jameson’s and Bushmills. Importer William Grant & Sons USA is using a mix of retail partner efforts and direct-to-consumer marketing to change that..

  • Five Things B2B Marketers Need to do Before Going Social

    Here’s a reality check for business-to-business firms engaging in social media: Content isn’t king, at least as far as tweets and posts to other forums are concerned. Greg Ott of Demandbase offers five prerequisites B-to-B marketers must have in place to maximize the return of their social media endeavors.