This week's question: With today's younger generation more accustomed to e-mail, mobile, etc. what do you think about the viability of direct mail lists long-term? Our current panel features Erik Formica of FMI Inc., Jackie Kern of Main Street Direct, Jeff Kobil of LDS Group Inc., Lee Kroll of Kroll Direct Marketing Inc., Chaim Lazar…
Life is full of second chances. You may try a restaurant more than once to determine how good their food is. You might see a movie by an actor who was once in a movie you hated. You might even go on a second date with someone even if the chemistry wasn't there the first…
A 2007 study on the value of lead response time from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has proven a godsend for lead technology firms. According to the MIT study, the odds of contacting a lead captured by an inbound contact center drop by 80% after a five-minute threshold. After half an hour, the odds fall…
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This week's question: How are brokers coping with fewer new lists regularly coming into the market?
A marketing database must be able to perform all of the mission-critical analytical tasks required for data-driven marketing. Many people think they have a marketing database when, in reality, what they have is an operational database. An operational database supports essential "nuts and bolts" tasks such as customer service, fulfillment and inventory management. But, it…
Recency/frequency/monetary value modeling, or RFM, is a tried-and-true segmentation tactic for catalogers and other mail order marketers. But e-mail practitioners have been more reluctant to use it to segment their campaigns.
Autobytel Inc. has debuted iControl by Autobytel. The new offering assists vehicle dealers in managing third-party leads.
There's been a lot of talk among direct marketing industry veterans about reinventing themselves in the digital age. And this, of course, is followed by a crowd of social media consultants with creative concoctions for how to prosper in times of change.
ValueClick Inc.
