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Marketing automation integrates and automates the scheduling and tracking of marketing campaigns. Marketing campaign automation helps businesses integrate processes that have previously been performed manually, allowing them to become much more efficient. In addition, marketing campaign automation also creates opportunities for numerous new marketing processes that boost the cost-effectiveness, efficiency
Look around the next time you’re in a coffee shop, airport, bookstore or public area and you’ll see Millennials (often called Gen Ys) pecking away on their smart phones or iPads like there wasn’t another human being around for miles. However, just because Generation Ys are completely absorbed in technology
Mark McGuinness of Lateral Action guest posted a terrific blog at Copyblogger: Are You a Marketing Artist or Scientist? In it he describes two distinct tribes that most marketers fall into (1) the right-brain types that like to create and find inspiration in coffee shops journaling and brainstorming about their next blog,
Social media is the marketing activity nonprofits say they need help with most, according to a free report from Constant Contact called the Nonprofit Pulse Report. More than 57% of the 307 respondents said they needed help with social media, followed by 36% with email marketing, and 35% with their nonprofit
Discontinuing Saturday delivery of first-class mail has been discussed as a means to cut postal service costs for years. Now that five-day delivery has been officially announced and scheduled to start this August, what are the implications on businesses? Not as much as one might think (at first glance at
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 realized their connectivity, and how
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 from constantly pushing the envelope and tabulating campaign measurement
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 expenditure line item by line item. These are the signs
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 marketers are cost-conscious these days when setting
Advanced Variable Data Printing Case Studies Variable Data Printing, the process of personalizing print communications using database information, has progressed rapidly during the last twenty years, opening up exciting opportunities to improve marketing relevance and response. However, many organizations, direct marketers, and printers have not progressed past primary Variable Data
