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  • Marketing to Consumers Ready to Move

    For years there has been a strong demand for pre-movers—people planning to move. This was prompted by moving companies, who wanted to pitch the pre-mover on their upcoming moves. When online surveys became popular, companies started asking “are you planning to relocate within the next three months?” Those names became the first pre-mover lists.

  • Broker Roundtable: Political Mailing Lists

    Welcome to Broker Roundtable, where each week we ask list brokers to give their opinions on issues that matter to the marketing community. This week’s question: Looking ahead to next year, how important will political mailing lists be—especially in light of Obama’s success with electronic media in 2008?

  • The Strong Plays With Site Design to Create Better Web Traffic

    It may house the world’s largest collection of toys and games, but when it comes to web metrics, The Strong isn’t playing around. A site redesign helped the museum better gauge the ROI of visitors and increase stickiness.

  • Social Media’s Growing Influence on ECommerce

    In conjunction with ROI Research, Performics performed a deep dive on social networks and why/how participants use them as part of their purchasing processes, with a specific emphasis on discovering differences and similarities across product categories.

  • 7-Eleven Slurpee Unity Tour Wins Top 2011 PRO Award

    And the 2011 PRO Award Best Promotion of the Year goes to …. The 7-Eleven “Slurpee Unity Tour” and its agencies! The Unity Tour was just one promotion among an extraordinary collection of promotional marketing campaigns that stood out from among the hundreds of PRO Award entries. View the 2011 PRO Award Winner’s Presentation.

  • How to Effectively Execute a Sample Program

    As marketing times change fast check out these new rules for conducting sampling programs.

  • Settlement in Suit Alleging NBC, Fox Text Games Were Illegal Lotteries

    A settlement has been reached in a proposed class-action suit filed over the use of premium text messaging as a channel for promoting games built around two once very popular TV shows

  • Email Social Sharing Link Adoption Slowing Down

    Use of share-within-your-network (SWYN) social links is declining slightly in online retailers’ email messaging, according to a new report from Responsys.

  • Turning Chiliheads into Cheeseheads: Kraft

    It seems like odd fit: a well-known cheese brand, Kraft, sponsoring a popular chili cook off whose rules do not allow for the chefs to use cheese as an ingredient in their competitive recipes.

  • Marketers Targeting Travel, Meeting Pros Getting More Savvy

    Marketers looking to reach professionals in the travel and meeting planning sector are getting increasingly more sophisticated in their use of list segmentation and creative approaches.