Yearly Archives: 2014

/2014

What is direct mail if it cannot be directed?

And, what is direct mail if it gets trashed before it is opened? – A Hobson’s choice indeed. Of late, there has been a lot of hue and cry over the privacy breach in direct mail strategies, especially in the West, although in India, we aren’t even close to getting our legal definition right for the word ‘privacy’. Nonetheless, the new Code of Practice released by the New York-headquartered Direct Marketing Association (DMA) may have some far-reaching impact

Do people still use direct marketing?

They do, when they are building loyalty for a brand Can’t be sure if you have watched Birla Sun Life’s direct marketing (DM) campaign ‘The Last Telegram’ so here’s a YouTube Link. Conceptualised by DDB Mudra Max, on July 14, 2013, the last day of the Indian telegram service, a team of 15 people from the agency sat at the Telegram Office in Mumbai from 9 am to 10.30 pm and diligently wrote out individual telegrams to high net worth

Does more data imply better customer service?

Not necessarily, if the data collected is not fed back into the feedback loop You may be spending a fortune in opening up new markets, designing and selling personalized products, thinking of newer ways to enhance a customer’s ‘experience’ of your brand, but if your service desk is not making use of the data insights that your CRM software is generating, you may well forget about having any data strategy in place. You are not making proper use of the customer

If you had to have one key B2B marketing tool, what would it be?

Recently, someone started a discussion on LinkedIn about B2B marketing tools. Here are a few interesting threads of that discussion and what is possible… “Linkedin and Twitter are the two platforms I am currently using,” declared one commentator, who rated the former as the best tool for business-to-business networking. He saw so much value in LinkedIn that he confessed he felt compelled to add direct links to LinkedIn profiles in the database records they sold to their clients.

Content marketing and playing it forward

The days of proprietary content are clearly over.  Today, you gain fans and following by ‘playing’ it forward, pun intended.         In the Twitter-Tumblr world, everyone is a journalist, a photographer, a curator, a commentator, an opinion-maker, an expert, an authority or an editor. However working without a content strategy is like fishing in muddy waters – you are posting on various forums but you don’t know the real impact of your content sharing. A recent IBM white paper

Big is getting bigger!

Big data analytics helps design better products and promotions Chew on these statistics: By 2020, marketers would have access to 5,127 gigabyte of data on every consumer, according to the International Data Corp (https://www.idc.com/). This would give them the opportunity to record their consumers’ buying behavior and, accordingly customize their offerings. Personalized products and promotions will then be the order of the day. However with so much complex data to process, marketers also face the uphill task of making sense of this

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