The power of content continues to make its presence felt. According to Time Inc.’s “How Custom Content Inspires Consumers” study, two in three consumers have greater trust in custom content than traditional advertising. In addition to trust, the study (which queried more than 17,000 Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Xers) shows that custom content is...
Category: MARKETING INTELLIGENCE
Celebrating International Print Day 2017
For those of us in the print industry October 18th is a special day marking the return of International Print Day, a 24-hour event that lets like-minded people share their love of print through social media. International Print Day promotes the open sharing of information within the print marketing community worldwide. It seeks to inform participants...
10 Marketing Lessons We Can Learn from Apple [Infographic]
The 10-year-old kid, selling ice cold fresh lemonade on the street corner in your local neighborhood had it right. He or she may not have not realized it but the simple marketing strategy that they accidentally and innocently came up with works perfectly on the people strolling by on their daily walk. For starters, a...
Why IP Targeting is The Postman of the Internet [Infographic]
Everybody likes cookies, right? Especially the ones your grandmother made. But what about cookies that are used for digital targeting, people like those too, right? Since the 1990’s, cookies, those small pieces of coding that are placed on your web browser by the server of website you visit, have played a major role in digital...
4 Easy Ways to Track the Success of Your Direct Mail Campaign
Ask marketers how to gauge the success of their direct mail campaigns, and the answer inevitably points to ROI. One of the biggest reasons a direct mail campaign fails is the inability to measure success. If you cannot accurately track results, your enthusiasm level drops. The key, according to Allegra Marketing Services, is to establish...
What We Can Learn From the 2017 State of Inbound Report
For the past eight years, Hubspot has been tracking how customers do their shopping and and want their information, as well at analyzing sales and marketing trends with their annual State of Inbound report. The 2017 report is hot off the press, and here’s a few of the findings: 63% of marketers say their top challenge...
Want to Engage the Millennial Market? Use Their Mailbox
The millennial market is now the nation’s largest living generation, according to the US Census Bureau; the millennials (age 18-34) are projected to number 75.3 million, surpassing the baby boomers by the end of this year. Contrary to popular belief, this digital generation is highly responsive to direct mail marketing campaigns. “82% of 18-34-year olds cite using...
Report on Marketing Automation Buyer Trends
As we have mentioned in this space, marketing automation software is at the forefront of the convergence of marketing and technology. At NextPage, we are excited to offer marketing automation services and feel like it will be a cornerstone of marketing in the near future. Since the technology is relatively new, we thought you might enjoy this...
Marketing Automation is Marketing Intelligence
Our last post mentioned Marketing Automation and what a great tool this emerging technology is for today’s marketers. Today’s post goes into more detail about the why and how behind the technology. These days, the buying process starts at a computer. The buyer searches for a product or service online. They quickly find web sites, landing pages,...