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Go Beyond Customer Segmentation and Explore Predictive Analytics Part 2

Direct Marketing Magazine shared some ideas about predictive analytics.

Predictive Analytics Road Map

To get the most out of customer segmentation analysis, organizations could create road maps incorporating the following steps:

Determine the Overall Business Objective. Get everyone on the same path and in agreement with what you want to accomplish, such as improving the yield on lead-generation [...]

Go Beyond Customer Segmentation and Explore Predictive Analytics Part 1

Direct Marketing Magazine shared some ideas about predictive analytics.

Personalize Customer Relationships

Segmentation is a way of grouping people or organizations with similar demographic profiles, attitudes, purchasing patterns, buying behaviors or other attributes. This helps to understand customers more thoroughly and thus market to them more effectively.

Many businesses use segmentation to recognize that customers have some unique [...]

Tips for Print Buying

We are all being pressured to produce more with less. More powerful campaigns, more cutting-edge designs, more targeted pieces, more tangible ROI, more pizzazz than your competitors’ materials, more pressure to deliver faster with less money in your marketing budget.

These tips should apply in any economy, but right now it is so important to save [...]

Make the Most of What You Have

Direct Magazine published an article titled, “Make the Most of What You’ve Got”. Author, Carol Lustig, shared some realistic practical information with a great attitude. She talked about how her information technology systems were not completely up to date and she was not able to get the exact customer purchase data that she wanted to [...]

Media Choices

The multitude of media choices available to target and deliver  messages is amazing. And there are more options headed our way. This means that readers are strapped for time and bombarded with marketing communications, great writing alone probably won’t get your messages opened and read. Pat Friesen offered some understanding of how to deliver the [...]

Inexpensive Marketing Maneuvers

Forbes Magazine featured a story about some marketing ideas. Our favorite was to make your customer the star.

Using a classic cooperative strategy, you could create their marketing for them. If you provide services or products to other businesses, can you help them with creative marketing featuring your products. Do you sell framing materials to frame [...]

The Future of Marketing?

Is it really the economy, or is the recovery sluggish because people are not being reached when they want to consider marketing messages?

In a post that appeared on a Harvard Business Review blog, Dick Patton suggested that the four P’s of the traditional marketing mix (product, price, placement and promotion) be replaced. His article suggests [...]

Define Your Customers Part 2

This is the second part from Target Marketing Magazine’s invitation to take a look at who your customers really are.

What Customers Believe

Understanding customer beliefs leads to building a powerful brand and can pay dividends in creative presentations and communications. Psychographics, or attitudinal data, are generally established by evaluating the thoughts and feelings of various cohort [...]

Define Your Customers Part 1

Target Marketing Magazine printed an invitation to take a look at who your customers really are.

Many marketers think of customers in straight-forward terms: females, 45 to 60 years old, $75,000-plus household incomes, for example. These broad-sweeping descriptors have a place in customer definitions but aren’t the end in defining who does business with you.

Many of [...]