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HP opens door to Hispanic market
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, the number of small and midsize Hispanic-owned U.S. businesses is now at about 2 million and expected
PUMP UP the VALUE
The days of multichannel marketing as an independent business discipline, dominated by just a few tech-savvy marketers, are over. Successful direct marketers
Christmas in May
It’s never to soon to start thinking about the all-important holiday season. Before the gift-buying frenzy typically gets under way, customers are stocking
Getting physical
Successful catalogers know what makes a print layout work, and many have also mastered the layout or navigation of a Website. But laying out a brick-and-mortar
A Tale of Two Databases: Marketing and Operational
In keeping with the move toward multichannel marketing, many catalogers are converting their house files into customer marketing databases, says Arthur Middleton Hughes, vice president/solutions architect for Richardson, TX-based database marketing firm KnowledgeBase Marketing. Some are using advanced techniques to increase customer response, retention, and cross-sells. In return they are seeing increased rates of retention and increased order sizes.
Avoiding the Most-Common Mistakes Marketers Make After Acquiring an E-mail Address
Building your permission-based e-mail database begins with creating a strategy for e-mail address collection and, ultimately, your corresponding value-based e-mail communications program, says Deirdre Namur, vice president of creative services at e-mail solutions provider Bigfoot Interactive. As such, she advises paying particular attention to collecting important demographic and product-interest fields that will help you build relevant e-mail communications.
To keep growing, Sharper Image prunes
Sharper Image Corp. has had a great run: For nine of the 10 past years, the San Francisco-based manufacturer/marketer of high-tech gifts enjoyed sales
Now You See It
IF YOU LOOK HARD ENOUGH, you just may catch a glimpse of the next big thing in technology. computing, as it is widely called, is a market that’s slated