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Five reasons why direct marketing matters as much as digital

Customer Think

Quite frequently, direct marketing – for example, direct mail, partially addressed mail, online and printed ads, websites and catalogue – are often looked down upon by proponents of digital marketing.

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10 Tough Questions to Evaluate Your Target Account List

Customer Think

TweetLinkedInShareEmail In a far-gone era, when demand generation was “direct marketing,” it was often said that for any campaign to be successful, the list was paramount. Do everything else right (message, offer, creative, etc.), the experts tol.

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Nick Goss: How the Customer’s Experience is impacted by ‘good intentions’

Bill Quiseng

If your intentions are oriented toward your company’s desired outcome (anti-theft, direct marketing, promotions, upsells, etc) your efforts will become gimmicky, robotic, and ingenuine. If your intentions are oriented to your customer’s desired outcome, you will more than likely be successful and create loyalty.

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Unica and Alterian Lead Database Marketers to the Digital Promised Land

Customer Experience Matrix

The connection is that these both support my feeling that many members of the old-line database marketing community have failed to adapt to the new world of digital marketing. They did move from direct mail to email, but those are pretty much the same thing. Industry vendors who support them will thrive.

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Finding Real Experts in the Age of LinkedIn

Taylor Reach Group

Direct Marketing News, a regular column. Taylor Reach senior leaders have published more than 2,000 articles on the topic of contact center, customer experience, transformation, etc. including on industry sites including; Foundations Magazine. Contact Management Magazine, Contact Centre Pipeline. Customer Think. Call Centre Times.

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More Systems for Business-to-Consumer Marketing Automation

Customer Experience Matrix

I spent yesterday prowling the exhibit hall at the Direct Marketing Association annual conference in Boston. This uncovered several additional candidates for mid-tier business-to-consumer marketing automation.

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When ‘Push’ Marketing Goes Too Far

Beyond Philosophy

and, while some carriers are taking precautions to protect their customers from text message advertising, so far neither the direct marketing industry nor the federal government has been able to control this form of spam. Wireless text messaging is widely used in the U.S.;