Direct marketing is on the rise and it doesn’t show signs of slowing down. Customers appreciate targeted marketing more than ever. You can see this trend in the growing number of users turning on their adblockers; that number climbed to nearly 26% in 2018. But customers still enjoy sorting their mail and seeing offers that are targeted towards them. When our spam folders are overflowing, it’s...
Your seasonal catalog strategy and catalog circulation plans were developed many months ago, and now the Holiday season is rapidly approaching. But you’re in good shape because you’ve already ordered paper and scheduled catalog production time with the printer based on your catalog in-home dates. And now it’s time to execute the final steps of mailing your catalog. Use the following timeline as a guide...
Marketing without a well-thought-out strategy, be it catalog marketing or otherwise, is just like building a house without a blueprint. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you will never get there, but there will be a lot of wasted time and resources before you do. Equally as important, is for you to remember that no strategy is fool proof, regardless of how much thought and analysis was put...
Developed some decades ago, the RFM Analysis is a great marketing model used to segment a customer list based on their behavior. This method has proven itself time and time again, by helping direct and online marketers minimize their costs while, at the same time, maximizing their returns. The RFM Analysis is based on the Pareto principle, or the 80/20 rule, which states that 80%...
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