Digital + Social

The effort involves online video, twitter, Facebook and even a branded casual game.

Most direct mailers segment their promotions to customers, sending offers that their analytics have determined will be most responsive to this particular product or offer. They do this because it is a profitable approach. Dynamically segmented direct mail boosts conversions and profits.

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) has released a framework of security guidelines designed to help email and online marketers protect their valuable data assets.

It’s very curious that Fortune 500 brands close their commercials with a social call to action, rather than mentioning their own company site. Sending prospects to Facebook or Twitter rather than their own site is a huge missed opportunity—and a sign that many companies still have a lot to learn about social media.

Modeling business-to-business data can be tricky business. There are considerations consumer marketers don’t have to worry about, such as how a given industry indicates propensity to purchase, or the impact of multiple decision makers within an organization.

Chief Marketer spoke with Matt Fulk, senior manager of database marketing at SAS, about the challenges of creating B-to-B prospect lead analysis models.

It was 2008 when Nescafé launched the coffee system, Dolce Gusto, amid a competitive category of already established single-serve coffee makers. After monitoring early sales in specialty retail stores sales looked good and a full roll out took place. With all marketing and selling systems in place, it was time to open a Facebook page.

Social media has led to a lot of great creativity and innovation in digital communications and marketing. It truly enables the whole concept of word-of-mouth marketing by giving users easy tools to share with their network, for ideas to spread beyond our own social circles, and for new ways to connect with brands and products we love. With all that promise it is important, as companies, for us to provide the most effective way to stay fresh with news and information to keep fans, followers, subscribers, and most importantly, customers efficiently informed.

All email marketers want more subscribers. Subscribers spend money. If visitors come to your website for one reason or another, they should be encouraged to register to receive your emails. If thousands come to your site and fail to register, you don’t have a very good website.

Akron Children’s Hospital has revamped its enewsletter program, with an eye towards better tracking responses from parents, donors and other constituents, and growing its email database.

Facebook is commanding an ever-increasing piece of advertising budget pies, thanks to the measurable results it provides marketers in terms of new fans and website conversions. While Facebook’s auction-based bid and cost-per-click pricing structures are similar to Google’s, they are much more valuable to marketers for a few key reasons—namely, the interest-based targeting, immediate gratification opportunities and the potential for viral activity they offer. Here’s how each of these serve marketers: