Have you ever received a generic piece of mail that made you feel like one of the masses? It might say something like “Dear Homeowner” or “Our Neighbors At”. On the other hand, have you received mail that included your name and an offer related to something you are...
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...
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...
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...
Data rarely gets to be the star of the visual show. It takes people who are both creative and data-savvy to conceptualize how data points can be translated into visual appeal. Today’s marketers are increasingly in-tune to both left-brain and right-brain thinking,...
