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Complimentary Resource – Explode 6 Direct Marketing Myths.

Strategy Driven

This paper focuses on six myths that surround direct marketing best practices and discusses how you can use specific analytical techniques and tools to beat these myths, increase response rates and boost ROI. Click here for more information on Explode 6 Direct Marketing Myths.

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The Importance of Testing in an E-marketing Campaign

Women on Business

The same principles apply to e-marketing: before rolling out a campaign to a large audience, test it on a small one. How does their e-marketing supplement their traditional marketing? Create a Benchmark Traditional direct marketing always uses a control piece as the benchmark, generally with an A/B split test.

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Wiki Brands - CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Monday, December 27, 2010 Wiki Brands According the the NY Time is a good season to forgive. Mostly it was inspiring because I like marketing and social media and this book is at the intersection of those fields. Marketing cannot fix a bad product. Beautiful snow in NY today. Over a foot.

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Why Every Fortune 1000 CEO “Needs a Therapist”

Lead Change Blog

Seasoned CEOs, hired for their industry experience and leadership abilities, may never actually have had to pivot and innovate in the way that today’s world requires: agile, fast, and iterative. I encountered this kind of resistance in the early days of the Internet when I founded my last company, an online marketing agency, in 1998.

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Leading Above The Line

N2Growth Blog

Watch This Video I hope it provides a new perspective on the leadership vs. management argument. As the video progresses, the orange horizontal line that cuts the image in half is what I refer to as the leadership line. It also represents a great illustration of letting the tail wag the dog.

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Risk Advantage - The Relationship Between Opportunity And Risk

Eric Jacobson

In The Risk Advantage , Panaggio tells the story of how he and his business partners built two thriving companies: Direct Mail Express (which now employs over 400 people and is a leading direct marketing company), and Response Mail Express (which was eventually sold to an equity fund, Huron Capital Partners).

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From Boring to Bravo: How to Revamp Your Employee Newsletter and Keep Your Team Interested

HR Digest

According to a study by the Direct Marketing Association, email newsletters have an average ROI of $38 for every $1 spent. In fact, according to research by the Content Marketing Institute, headlines are the most important element of an article, with 8 out of 10 people reading the headline, but only 2 out of 10 reading the rest.