Social networks began on college campuses. It didn’t take long for them to become part of our daily lives. A few years later, we were connected with friends on the other side of the world. The networks then went through a commercial revolution, where companies...
Like dedicated Olympians, we trained, we performed, and we took home two Gold and one Silver award this March in the Kansas City Direct Marketing Association’s equivalent to the Olympics—The Ambit Awards. (Ambit stands for AMBITious Achievement.) Our fingers are sore...
Over lunch, my friend described the duress his associates were going through because of a switch from fixed-to-zero-based budgeting. In essence, department heads could no longer use last year’s budget adjusted for inflation. They instead had to cost justify each...
As the economy shows signs of shifting in a more positive direction, many companies are revisiting direct marketing programs that were profitable years ago but were cut during the height of the recession to reduce marketing budgets. Contrary to the boom years, most...
Variable Data Printing, the process of personalizing print communications using database information, has progressed rapidly during the last ten years, opening up exciting opportunities to improve marketing relevance and response. However, many organizations, direct...
