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  • Chief Marketer Listline

    Chief Marketer and NextMark offer you a selection of files new to market. The criteria for selection for Chief Marketer Listline is: · New list to market in past 7 days · Exclusive to list manager · Data card quality score 85 or higher on NextMark · …

  • Why Hotlines Are the Coolest List Option

    Not everyone bothers to update their address with the postal service when they move. As the current economic situation forces more and more people to relocate to find work, hotlines and recency selects will continue to be more important than ever.

  • Rise in Email Targeting Doesn’t Mean Decline in Volume

    The need to replace generic email “blasts” with targeted messaging was a key industry rallying cry during the past year. Sending fewer but more-relevant emails, the pundits declared, would lift open and clickthrough rates and reduce spam complaints, which in turn would improve senders’ reputations among the ISPs and therefore improve deliverability. Why, then, did the number of promotional emails sent by top online retailers increase 16% last year?

  • Broker Roundtable: How Have Cooperative Databases Changed?

    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: How has the role of cooperative databases changed, and how do you anticipate it will change further in 2011?

  • Healthcare Enewsletter Reform Perks Up Response

    Three steps–reducing frequency, creating better content, and redesigning the template–helped lift an enewsletter’s open rates by 30%

  • Quidsi Peddles Diapers, Soap and Beauty within Facebook

    Shopping within Facebook has so far been a goal rather than an accomplishment. Most of the brands that claim to drive transactions with a Facebook presence actually let Facebook users browse

  • Get on Target With a Marketing Audit

    A good first step in keeping up with what’s expected of professional marketer’s and aligning sales and marketing goals with the company’s vision is the implementation of a marketing audit.

  • Direct Mail Scratch Cards Promote Daily Deal Website

    Online daily deal website Bare Deal (http://www.baredeal.com) is using good old fashioned direct mail to attract users to take advantage of offers from Chicago-area businesses.