Show Me The Data: Put A Freshness Date On Your File

| MCM staff

Data never dies; customer records and angry blogs alike will exist on some medium somewhere for a long time. But customer data does age beyond usefulness very quickly. I was involved in an attempt to recover a form of intellectual property recently, a defunct business

New Products and Partnerships

| MCM staff

Integrated Direct Marketing (IDM), a Reston, VA-based data analytic provider, and Chicago-based direct marketing consultancy Wheaton Group announced a partnership to offer data mining services to IDM clients.

List and Data Strategies: Tips for Capturing More Data

| Tim Parry

The Internet has led to new ways of obtaining marketing data about customers, but old-school methods still work well too. In fact, best practices in capturing information usually require using a combination of strategies to maximize completeness and recency of data, says Scott Cone, vice president/client leader of Lanham, MD-based database marketing company Merkle. Here’s advice from experts on how to effectively gather information and flesh out the data you have.