by NextPage | Dec 11, 2012 | Blog, DATABASE MARKETING, MARKETING MANAGEMENT
Business databases have moved beyond name, address, city, state and zip. Today’s savvy customer relationship management gurus capture purchase history, lifestyle, lifecycle, and lifespan info that enables them to engage, re-engage, and even dis-engage (that’s a fancy...
by NextPage | Sep 13, 2012 | Blog, SOCIAL MARKETING
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...
by NextPage | Jul 17, 2012 | MARKETING MANAGEMENT, MULTI-CHANNEL MARKETING
Marketers wear many hats to design campaigns that earn loyalty, likes, sales, or donations. To start your next project with a zero-based obstacle point of view, think like a great architect. How would Le Corbusier design the rollout? How would Karl Rove remove the...
by NextPage | Dec 27, 2011 | Blog, DIRECT MAIL, DIRECT MARKETING, EMAIL MARKETING, MARKETING MANAGEMENT
Over lunch my friend described the duress his associates were going through because of a switch from a 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...
by NextPage | Oct 26, 2011 | Blog, DIRECT MAIL, DIRECT MARKETING, EMAIL MARKETING, MULTI-CHANNEL MARKETING
They live happily ever after because they both work at it. Direct mail is like the mayo on a sandwich. The sandwich isn’t as good without it. Direct mail delivers the ROI zing while online marketing helps whet the palette. However, direct mail often gets a bad wrap....