Direct Marketing
How to Create a Content Strategy
Clients in the News: There is no shortage of content marketing experts these days, and there’s no shortage of ideas on the best ways for companies to leverage their content to achieve desired results. The problem is that these ideas are often without context–not grounded in real-world examples that can help would-be content marketers get...
Keep ReadingPutting the Science Back in Fundraising
Clients in the News: Let me just say it outright. I am not a fan of the email barrage tactic that has been so prevalent in fundraising of late. All too often there is no ask. Instead, the recipient receives what amounts to a threat that “If you don’t donate $X today, then some dire...
Keep ReadingFrom Working the ‘Talk Show’ Circuit to a $30K Conference Budget: How One Exec Marketed a New Line of Business
Clients in the News: Like many Washington, D.C.-based direct-marketing firms, Chapman Cubine Adams + Hussey was built on political fundraising. The 80-employee company started with direct mailings. Then it added telemarketing services. And thanks to Kim Cubine, now a principal and the president of the company, the firm is also a major player in the...
Keep ReadingSurround Sound Fundraising
Clients in the News: The growth of the Internet and the expansion of digital communications give nonprofits new ways to reach their donors and supporters. While the old techniques — direct mail and telemarketing — still work and generate many responses, they alone are no longer the “gold standard” in fundraising. Savvy nonprofits are moving to...
Keep ReadingSurround Sound Fundraising
Clients in the News: The growth of the Internet and the expansion of digital communications give nonprofits new ways to reach their donors and supporters. While the old techniques — direct mail and telemarketing — still work and generate responses, they alone are no longer the “gold standard” in fundraising. Savvy nonprofits are moving to “surround...
Keep ReadingThe Future Is Now: Marketing in a Mobile World
Clients in the News: Mobile isn’t the future of online marketing—it’s the present. Last year, mobile Internet browsing eclipsed desktop Internet browsing for the first time. By the end of 2014, there will be more mobile device subscriptions than people on Earth. For many Americans, a mobile device is the primary screen through which they...
Keep ReadingIntegrated Campaign Management in the New Era of Multi-Channel Marketing
Clients in the News: Direct Marketing program-development and management have become more complex in recent years…” Read more:
Keep ReadingDirect Marketing: Are You Integrated?
Clients in the News: We live in an age of integrated on/offline marketing contact strategies. New technologies and abundant data—both in terms of availability and accessibility (Big Data)—are influencing our direct marketing campaign approaches, especially their design, development, and deployment. Read more:
Keep ReadingCEO Forum: Innovation and Ideation
lients in the News: Our business is routed in helping marketers and fundraisers leverage vast amounts of data to increase marketing performance and results. Read more:
Keep ReadingDirectMail.com: Laying Out a Map
Clients in the News: DirectMail.com has been around a lot longer than its domain name — longer than domain names in general. But purchasing the enviable URL was just one in a series of smart moves by the Prince Frederick, Md., company. Ten years ago, DirectMail.com began to shift from a primarily production-based company —...
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