Identify Crossover Buyers in House File Segmentation
Are you automatically dropping off your older buyers, suppressing them from your mailings perhaps after 24 months of inactivity, perhaps after 36 months or longer?
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Developing Business Rules for Matchback Allocation
With the flood of web buyers arriving without source codes, matchback analysis has become the methodology for reading results. Matchbacks are simply matching the mail file of the circulation with the response file of orders received during the life of the catalog being measured.
Choosing a NCOALink Option
In its Best Practices White Paper on Address Hygiene, East Greenbush, NY-based database marketer I-Centrix identifies one key difference between these products: the amount of move history contained in the file. The NCOALink 0-48 month process provides 48 months of move data and assigns nixie return codes to records that are almost, but not quite, NCOA hits.
Spring Clean Your Lists Before Postal Rate Hike
As the May 14 postal rate increase draws closer, it is essential for companies to understand the complexities of those changes. That means mailers need to get in the habit of keeping their databases extra clean, says Arnie Cohen, senior manager of product logistics for Carlsbad, CA-based marketer/mail house Modern Postcard.
Quick Tip: Use E-mail Subscriber Status to Improve Catalog Response
When it comes to e-mail as a marketing channel, determining the relative value of a contact to whom you can promote via e-mail vs. one to whom you cannot is pretty simple; it
The Changing Mailing Landscape: 2007 Postal Rate Case
Catalogers and multichannel retailers are facing a number of key issues in the marketplace. But the one issue that is currently on the minds of all who mail flats and catalogs is the huge postage increase scheduled to be implemented May 14. Unless the Postal Rate Commission reduces its proposed increase to flats mailers (which, if it occurs will most likely not happen until sometime after May 14), most flats mailers will see postage increases that will exceed 20%.
Using Segmentation as a Competitive Advantage
Segmentation is a critical lever that direct marketers can pull to drive better results from their programs. When performed properly, marketers can use segmentation to customize their offer, creative, and messaging by combining value, life cycle, and demographic data to identify the unique segments within their customer base. Once identified, marketers can then develop differentiated and relevant customer treatment strategies.
Should Catalogers Prospect Direct-to-door?
Many catalogers are questioning how they will use catalogs to prospect once the U.S. Postal Service’s rate increase takes affect next month. One San Antonio-based direct marketer thinks it could have an old-fashioned sounding solution
Six Keys to Mailing Your Web Buyers
Catalog merchants need to learn the new rules for mailing Web buyers profitably to manage the flood of business coming through the Web. And pure web merchants will gain a huge advantage other Web marketers if they learn to circulate catalogs to their buyers
How E-mail Hygiene Can Improve Deliverability and Protect your Reputation
In the past couple of months, we at Loyalty Lab have been called in to rescue some pretty sketchy e-mail lists. Our clients had been operating on a