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Hi Folks. As part of our journey to creating a National Suppression File for Ireland we want to get your feedback. I’d be hugely grateful if you could find a moment to complete this survey on the Mail Preference Services for the IDMA (I’m on the board and tasked with this project along with a […]

I have worked in the Direct Marketing industry in Ireland now for just over 20 years and regardless of this length of time, which I can’t believe goes so quickly, one fundamental ethos of DM remains to this day – We work in DM to get a response to a brand proposition. This response is […]

This is not a sales pitch it is simple a short list of tick box questions that you need to ask yourself before testing or indeed buying telephone data anywhere in the world. 1. Is the data compliant with all current Data Protection Regulations and Legislation within the country of origin the data was collected. […]

In Ireland and like allot of countries throughout the world we have encountered 7 years of pain, challenges, recession, tight budgets, departments stripped of really good people but deemed too expensive by the finance guys to retain them but that is what has happened to us all. We have seen own brand purchases surge from […]

30,000 Deaths were recorded in Ireland last year are these records on Your Database? Aug 12, 20150 views0 Likes0 CommentsShare on LinkedInShare on FacebookShare on Twitter Death is always a strange subject to talk about and especially early in the morning and for the family and friends closely associated with a bereavement it is a […]

I recently joined the board of the IDMA and along with numerous tasks promoting best codes of practise and data compliance education events I am tasked with developing a national suppression file which would include the MPS (Mail Preference Service) along with other industry relevant suppression data files. We are focussed on providing all data […]

Anyone in the Data World thinks about it all the time but really doesn’t want to think about it as it can be a game changer look at loyalty build last year and the recent media around the Affairs site ”Ashley Madison” but here is a really good example of the implications of a hacking […]

As I write this the news on the street is that the Minister in charge and the eircode team are finishing there finely tuned speech’s to formally launch the long awaited Irish Postcode system next Monday 13th July. From what I hear there will be a National Awareness campaign for a week and then the […]

Yes it seems the word on the street and the mumblings amongst all those crazy and exciting data people like me is that eircodes will be launched on the 6th July. The waiting seems to be over and the data should soon be available for those who intend to append it to there current in […]