List Firms Increasingly Stress Marketing Services

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

How many incidents within the list industry does it take to make a trend? Three months ago, Clare Hart, Infogroup’s new CEO, revealed plans to rebalance the company away from providing list information and more toward services. Late last month, Infogroup announced Ed Mallin, who was instrumental in Infogroup’s list management firm acquisition activities, was…

Email 2011: Location, Location, Location

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

It has been a pinnacle year for location-based technologies, and their emergence has allowed marketers to reach audiences in a more direct and personal manner. Email marketing in particular has benefited from these advances. As we move forward into 2011, it is important for all merchants to understand the power of location-based tools