Direct Marketing Advisor
| Solution Spotlight - Data Enrichment & Segmentation
It’s time to get smarter about direct marketing
Teri Dimon, Sr Editor, Melissa Data
In response to the recent announcement by the USPS to increase postage rates on non-competitive products an average of 1.741%, effective April 17, 2011, this issue of the Marketing Advisor hopes to shed a little light on the technologies marketers can integrate with direct mail, and other channels of marketing, in order to bring efficiency and improved ROI to your campaigns.
It’s not how much data you have, it’s what you have and how you use it!
Even the best-maintained data; corrected, updated, and scrubbed could remain incomplete, jeopardizing the full potential of your marketing initiatives. As a business marketer, you need to regularly append and update your contact database to enhance the accuracy and predictive power of that data.
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Segmentation - It all comes down to latitude, longitude, and the right attitude
Teri Dimon, Sr Editor, Melissa Data
The goal of segmentation is to identify groups in which the customers are as much alike as possible—and greatly differentiated from customers in other segments. If the segmentation application is well designed, members of a segment have similar interests, attitudes and behaviors, and they will respond similarly to elements of the marketing mix such as pricing, promotion, and sales channel. All consumer markets contain many subgroups of customers and prospects who behave differently, and have different purchasing behaviors.
Segmentation enables you to craft individual marketing plans that hit the “hot buttons” of each consumer group.
Segmentation is the result of geocoding, adding the latitude/longitude coordinates to the addresses of your best customers, to your in-house list, or use as a reference prior to launching a marketing initiative. Read more
What’s Wrong with Direct Mail Today? Plenty!
Mike Porter, President, Print/Mail Consultants
A lot of the direct marketing pieces that are generated today seem to be stuck in time, even though sophisticated software, printing technology, and data is now more available than ever, many marketers continue to rely upon decades-old methods to crank out the mail. Creating mail pieces that are personal, relevant, and are delivered as part of a multi-channel marketing strategy to the right audience can result in greater response rates and more revenue per customer than “spray and pray” could ever achieve.
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| Product Information, Free Trials & Demos
You can try any of these solutions for yourself, risk free. Read more about address enrichment solutions from Melissa Data and request or download a free trial of the GeoCoder Object, the WebSmart GeoCoder Service, or the MAILERS+4 postal automation software with GeoCoder add-on, request a free quote for services, or submit your file for the Data Quality Challenge and find out just what shape your contact database is in right now!
| White Paper of the Month
Geocoding
For direct marketers, geocoding is critical in targeting specific demographics and customizing push-marketing messages to a specific audience – based on the geographic location of potential customers. This White Paper explores the opportunities available through geocoding, and of course, the benefits.
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| LookUp of the Month
ZIP Code Demographics
Discover the most viable zones to target for the greatest response to your sales and marketing initiatives. This lookup gives you Census demographic information related to any 5-digit ZIP Code in the U.S. to give you a better feel for the consumers in this location. ZIP Code Demographics returns:
- Population – Urban & Rural
- Population by Race & Sex by Age
- Households - Population & Families
Melissa Data Lookups—A Top 10 Search Engine
Entrepreneur.com identified the Melissa Data
Lookups site as one of the top “specialized
search sites that will help you find the
business information you need—fast. There
are so many free search options it may
become a favorite on your bookmarks."
| List of the Month:
New Movers
Here’s a prime target for your products and services, New Movers. Whether they’re renters or new homeowners, this group spends more money on home-related purchases within the first three months of living in their new household than most people do in three to five years. Our files are updated weekly, scrubbed and CASS verified to ensure 100% deliverability. Get counts, order, and download a list in minutes!
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Archived Articles from Favorite Author Mike Porter
Find articles on a lot of different industry topics. You can even sign up for one of his newsletters here!
"What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form."
-David Ogilvy
David MacKenzie Ogilvy (June 23, 1911–July 21, 1999), was a notable advertising executive. He has often been called "The Father of Advertising."
In 1962, Time called him "the most sought-after wizard in today's advertising industry." He was known for a career of expanding the bounds of both creativity and morality in advertising.
About Melissa Data Corp.
Melissa Data
is a total solutions provider of direct
mail, marketing and data quality tools.
Melissa Data helps companies acquire and
retain customers, validate and enhance
contact data, improve marketing ROI, and
save money on postage and mail processing.
Since 1985, Melissa Data has helped
companies like the FBI, Northrop Grumman,
AAA, Safeway, and the Atlanta Braves improve
customer communications.
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February 2011
In this Issue:
Solution Spotlight
White Paper of the Month
Lookup of the Month
List of the Month
Download of the Month
Words of Wisdom
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