As many of us know, it’s easier and more profitable to reactivate a lapsed customer than trying to gain a new one, whether through digital, postal or retail. There are many techniques that are deployed in order to identity the proper audiences in the offline world, such as RFM+ segmentation and optimization, or modeling through Read More A Game Changer in Customer Reactivation
Category: Marketing Strategies
Planning in Chaos
One day three statisticians went hunting in Maine. Out overlooking an open meadow, they spotted a deer, and the first one took a careful shot but missed by a yard to the left. Miraculously the deer never moved, allowing the second to take his shot, this time missing by a yard to the right. The Read More Planning in Chaos
What Happened This Year?!
At the height of the “shutdown” that began in late February, retailers were very unsure how COVID-19 would impact their business, their employees’ lives as well as their personal lives. Many brands reduced print, cut expensive marketing programs, and went to remote working almost immediately. There is no overstating the overwhelming effects of the COVID-19 Read More What Happened This Year?!
Circulation Tips to Help You Knock It Out of The Park This Holiday Season
So far, 2020 has been a strange year with the global pandemic affecting us in many ways. I feel that the upcoming Holiday season will be a little different than past years, which means you shouldn’t rely on the same old methods you’ve used in the past. Most retailers will have to up their game Read More Circulation Tips to Help You Knock It Out of The Park This Holiday Season
Move With Your Customers
Now more than ever, amidst a global pandemic, people are leaving crowded cities and opting for a more suburban lifestyle where housing is more affordable, the risk of human interaction is less, and working from home is the new norm. Irrespective of what we’re seeing in recent months however, people are always moving. As marketers, Read More Move With Your Customers
The Last Step for Success
In the last two blogs written by Michelle Houston, she covered the importance of using Contribution Per Order (CPO), instead of ROAS when evaluating the performance of marketing programs. At the end of one of those blogs, she talked about the importance of also assessing and understanding the significance of lifetime value (LTV) as part Read More The Last Step for Success
Let the Results Do the Talking
Last week I wrote an article about why Contribution Per Order (CPO) should be the critical revenue metric that businesses use rather than Return On Ad Spend (ROAS). As a reminder, while ROAS is an efficient measuring metric, it cannot assign health to a channel, making it a relatively useless tool. In contrast to ROAS, Read More Let the Results Do the Talking
Video Killed The Radio Star!
If you’re familiar with that song, it may be with you for a few days now—for that I’m very sorry. Someone put it in my head a few days ago while I was traveling, and it’s been stuck with me ever since. You understand the message of the song though, right? An emerging technology coming Read More Video Killed The Radio Star!
Holiday Marketing Check List – Check it Twice!
The final push of the Holiday season is quickly approaching! Can you believe that Thanksgiving just under a week away?! By now, most of your Holiday catalogs are already at the printer and on their way to mailboxes, but that doesn’t mean you should be sitting back and waiting for the orders to roll in. Read More Holiday Marketing Check List – Check it Twice!
Print is the New Digital Champion – Part II
In the last blog post written by my colleague, Michelle Houston, she demonstrated the symbiotic relationship that postal retargeting shares with digital marketing. She also articulated why it’s vitally important to integrate postal retargeting into the marketing mix. I couldn’t agree more. I wanted to continue on that thread of print being a digital champion Read More Print is the New Digital Champion – Part II