Topic | Lead generation

Marketers who think that creative doesn't matter in business-to-business marketing might want to think again

MeritDirect has formed the Strategic Services Group. The new operation includes Strategic Consulting, Merit Digital, b2bbase and Insert Media.

This week’s question: How reliable are income selects on lists, especially in light of the current economy? Our current panel features Jim Hall of All That Marketing, Matt Kaiser of Veradata and Don Yaffe of Belardi/Ostroy. (Would you like to be considered to be a member of our roundtable? Contact Larry Riggs at [email protected].)

In the consumer loyalty space, digital technologies have made it far easier for brands and retailers to maintain direct communication with existing customers and recruit new ones

A cataloger of Celtic merchandise, GaelSong has been enjoying impressive year-on-year growth. And the company achieved this lift not by implementing cutting-edge Web 3.0 technology or launching splashy social media campaigns. Rather, says vice president/general manager Tom Steele,

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Thanks to reduced prospecting and catalog circulation, many mailers are finding they have fewer housefile names to leverage, and less new names on the rental market. How can you improve your list's performance, and get profitably back in the mail? Here's a few tips.

Think you know just about everything there is to know about using business-to-business lists to generate new customers? Maybe you do. But some marketers, in their enthusiasm for implementing the most cutting-edge tactics, might be overlooking the basics.

Statistical prospecting models don’t have to be confusing to direct mailers. If you know about two main types of acquisition models, you can boost your business far beyond the "mail-to-everyone-all-the-time" approach to finding new customers. You don’t even have to know how to create models. Just know what to ask for when you want them.

This week's question: With today's younger generation more accustomed to e-mail, mobile, etc. what do you think about the viability of direct mail lists long-term? Our current panel features Erik Formica of FMI Inc., Jackie Kern of Main Street Direct, Jeff Kobil of LDS Group Inc., Lee Kroll of Kroll Direct Marketing Inc., Chaim Lazar…