Email Append 101: A Quick and Easy Guide to Grow Your List
E-mail marketing is generally less expensive than traditional mail or telemarketing initiatives, often yielding a high response rate and a solid return on investment (ROI). Proven as direct and trackable, e-mail adds value by bolstering customer participation and retention rates, maximizing response and enabling personalized communication. Historically, this higher tech method of outreach is optimized…
Tying together direct marketing channels
Direct mail complemented by email and social can benefit immensely from modern prospect list technologies. Direct marketing is undergoing tremendous changes. It’s being used these days as much for managing customer relationships as it is as a campaign. Companies are shifting much of their work toward analytics that drive trigger-based communications, and the technology has…
5 Reasons to Invest in Reliable Data Sources Before Investing in a Property
Never judge a book by its cover – or in this case, never invest in a property based off a picture! From investors, to lenders, to real estate professionals and insurance agents, the details in any property project determine whether you or your client will find either success or ruin in a property venture. Big…
Direct Marketing Enters a New Phase
New tactics, smart databases, and list updating and hygiene are making direct mail more viable than ever Rumors of the “death” of direct marketing have been greatly exaggerated. Marketers increasingly are using new tactics driven by advanced demographic data and digital capabilities to make direct marketing more viable than ever. As digital communications fill our…
Melissa Offers Insight on How a Healthy Data Lifecycle Supports Smart Business Decisions
New Resource Touts the Importance of Full Spectrum Protection to Combat Data Pitfalls Rancho Santa Margarita, CALIF – March 6, 2019 – Melissa, a leading provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions, today announced availability of the 2019 Melissa Solutions Catalog, a new resource that shares a wealth of information on the…
How useful is demographic data for targeted advertising use?
Demographic data can be very useful for an advertiser to know who his target customer is. As an example, knowledge about a family’s household income can be used by a realtor when marketing a potential home to a client. Likewise, banks can use an individual’s income and occupation to properly target services and products such…
Spooktacular Marketing: 5 Ideas so Good they’re Scary
Forget Freddy Krueger movies, ghost stories by flashlight, scream masks and haunted houses – the true horror lies in wasted efforts, lost customers, low response and a ruined reputation. Don’t worry, we’ve got 5 spooktacular marketing tips – no tricks – to grow your business, cut costs and position yourself as an industry leader. They’re…
3 Ways to Get Your Integrated Marketing in Gear
Do you feel your marketing efforts need to be more unified? Try integrated marketing – a holistic approach to ensuring your audience receives a consistent message both online and offline. But to be effective, you need the data to reach them the way they want to be contacted. Here’s 3 easy ways to get your…
Melissa Data’s Listware Online Brings Efficient Cloud-Based Data Quality to Business Users
Take the headache out of maintaining clean contact data with our new Listware Online! With a simple data upload (there’s no software to install), this Cloud-based service verifies, corrects, and standardizes U.S. and Canadian addresses, and adds missing name, address, phone, and email information. Listware Online also enriches your data with additional information, including lat/long…
Validation, Standardization, and Correction: Tool or Process?
By David Loshin There are all sorts of tools associated with address standardization, cleansing, and validation. As an example, the USPS has a certification program for software vendors, referred to as CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System)™ certification. According to their website, CASS enables the Postal Service™ to evaluate the accuracy of address matching software programs…