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Every successful direct-mail campaigns has been tested and retested. Once it has been found to be effective, do you stop testing? You shouldn't. Customers’ needs and demands change quarterly, monthly...
Perhaps you've heard of personalized URLs, or PURLs, highly effective direct marketing tools that take the one-to-one customer marketing experience to a whole new level, especially when used in conjun...
It's often said that 50 percent of all marketing works — we just don't know which 50 percent that is. I have a pretty good idea about which 50 percent doesn't work: marketing without a “can't refuse”...
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The recession — depression, if you ask me — has forced more and more consumers to clip coupons. As a low-budget family, we have been captains of the coupon for many years. I see more and more people i...