Consider the scenario where the information acquired in real time at a touchpoint from an enquirer is matched to the information held in a marketing database. The touchpoint management process can exist off-site in the ‘cloud’.
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Out of the clouds
August 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Features · This month's online edition
International charities win donors in recession-driven churn
July 15th, 2009 · No Comments
The recession has generated a unique form of charity donor churn – donors are moving their support from domestic to international charities and environmental organisations.
In the last year, 12 per cent of UK givers have changed to a type of charity they regard as more worthy of support during a world economic crisis and a [...]
Tags: News · Sally Hooton · This month's online edition
Columnist awarded industry accolade
July 14th, 2009 · No Comments
DMI columnist Rosemary Smith has been elected to the UK Direct Marketing Association’s (DMA) Roll of Honour, along with fellow direct marketing stalwart Charles Ping.
They were honoured in recognition of their outstanding service to the direct marketing industry. The accolade has only been conferred on 24 direct marketers, the most recent of whom was another DMI [...]
Tags: News · Sally Hooton · This month's online edition
Talk Back!
July 14th, 2009 · 18 Comments
Un-social media!
The world is Twittering and connecting, but what does it all mean for marketers?
Well, Rupert Murdoch isn’t sold. At this years annual Allen & Co schmooze-fest he warned against investing in Twitter and the general view is it’s impossible to monetise.
In a recent research note by Morgan Stanley, a 15-year-old analyst – Matthew Robson [...]
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Recession ‘easing its grip on direct marketing employment’
July 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Hundreds of US-based direct marketers, agencies and service providers are offering glimmers of hope for direct marketing jobseekers, according to the latest Bernhart Associates employment update.
“It appears the direct marketing job market is scraping the bottom,” reports Jerry Bernhart, principal of Bernhart Associates Executive Search, a direct marketing recruiting firm which has been issuing quarterly [...]
Tags: News · Sally Hooton · This month's online edition
Global adspend down seven per cent in first quarter: Nielsen
July 8th, 2009 · No Comments
Global advertising expenditure across television, newspapers, magazines and radio has recorded a drop of 7.2 per cent for the first quarter of 2009 compared to the first quarter of 2008, according to a global advertising trends report released today by research company Nielsen.
The report, Global AdView Pulse, reveals that the global economic crisis is taking [...]
Tags: News · Sally Hooton · This month's online edition
Marketers focus ‘in-store’ as customers remain frugal
July 6th, 2009 · No Comments
Britain’s retail experts are shifting promotional priorities in-store this summer as classic footfall drivers like advertising, sponsorship and celebrity endorsements fail to halt declining customer numbers on the high street: So says a new retail study released by Norway-headquartered software solutions provider Mohive.
The study, which collates the experiences and opinions of more than 100 retail [...]
Tags: News · Sally Hooton · This month's online edition
Russians engage most with social networking
July 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
When it comes to pinpointing the population which most enjoys social networking, new research from conScore shows the Russians to be world leaders.
Visitors in the market spend 6.6 hours on social networks, viewing more than 1,300 pages each a month. The country’s leading social networking site is Vkontakte.ru, which has 59 per cent reach among [...]
Tags: News · Sally Hooton · This month's online edition
USA DMA joins key trade groups in privacy principles initiative
July 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
Media and marketing trade associations from across America – including the USA Direct Marketing Association (DMA) – have joined forces to release self-regulatory principles which protect consumer privacy in ad-supported interactive media; requiring advertisers and [...]
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Spotlight on Poland
July 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Susanne Hornikel looks at direct marketing trends in the Polish marketplace.
Poland is – after the Russian Federation and Ukraine – the largest central European country with a surface of 322,500 km2 and approximately 38.48 million inhabitants. Outside the major cities, Poland is a vast nature reserve with a total of 23 national parks.
Almost 90 per [...]
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