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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

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. The same idea works for e-marketing. Are they using email blasts, social networking, relationships with key bloggers?

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How to Effectively Market Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

A thorough market research should give you insights into customer thinking, buying patterns, location and initial sales forecasts. This can in turn help you to monitor market trends and conduct detailed competitor analysis. Profile Target Markets. Decide on Your Marketing Avenues.

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Leading Above The Line

N2Growth Blog

While I’m all for exploiting trends, and I appreciate a good marketing hook as much as the next person, these e-mails from so-called business experts can be both misleading and dangerous to those readers who don’t possess the savvy to understand that they are just being pitched on a product and not being given sound counsel.

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Craft a Remarkable Personal Brand Statement! 29 Steps & Examples

Miles Anthony Smith

Jacoway "I leverage my avid love of learning and mastery of online technology to facilitate career management for trend-setting professionals who strive to be dynamic and high achieving in their business." John Purkiss ​"I help people to transform their businesses, their careers and their lives."

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How Consumer Brands Can Connect with Customers in a Changing Retail Landscape

Harvard Business Review

At Procter & Gamble, for instance, technology says it’s time to remind parents about Pampers, while analytics says that direct marketing is the best way to do it. Then there’s L’Oréal, which, through its work with Google, discovered that ombré hair color was trending.

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Publishing Is Not Dying

Harvard Business Review

These examples are not mere exceptions, but part of a growing trend. The newspaper industry has been hit especially hard because historically it has derived much of its revenues not from display advertising, but from classifieds and other direct marketing services, where the impact of digital technology has been the greatest.