The cost-of-living crisis is fuelling changing behaviour among direct mail recipients, with a major increase in the number of households retaining their mail from financial services, utilities, and government advertisers for longer, filing it away for use at a later date. That is one of the key findings of the latest report from Jicmail, the […]
“How can you deliver email marketing that the consumer wants to receive, gets past ISP filters, arrives in the Inbox and not just on an ESP deliverability report and still achieve your objectives?” The answer seems obvious. By helping the consumer to achieve their objective, you the brand, by default achieve yours. Consumers are continually […]
How effective is SMS Marketing in Ireland? These stats show just how useful it can be when used in the marketing mix. 1.) SMS has an average open rate of 98%. 2.) 95% of SMS are read within 3 minutes (Source: Forbes). 3.) 75% of people would like to have offers sent to them via […]
You might say it is an easy statement to make, that Consumer and Business Data in Ireland converts but let’s back this up with the WHY? Irish Consumers receive far less unsolicited marketing contact than most European countries, so open rates to emails for example are higher on average 15% plus, response to outbound telemarketing and […]
I am not going to bore you with a dialogue of what the GDPR means for your business or the potential fines or provide our views on what you need to do to prepare. This information is all available FREE online via various chat forums such as the Data Privacy Network on Linkedin or other specific channels […]
The not for profit sector let’s face it, has been through a number of challenging years both In Ireland and the UK and through a combination of increased industry regulation around fundraising best practise and considerable work by the key stakeholders around building donor recruitment credibility the industry is in allot better shape than it […]
Everyone talks about the economic and migratory issues around Brexit but what could it mean for Direct and Digital Marketers in Ireland and the UK. We contacted a number of members in the IDMA to understand a collective view of what Brexit would mean for the industry and here is a summary of that feedback. […]
Thanks to DataIQ for another great and timely press release keeping us Data Passionate people in Ireland up to date. The new EU Data Protection final text otherwise known as the GDPR, ‘General Data Protection Regulation’, has been finally approved by the EU Parliament and Council last week. In simple terms it means that the […]
In this brief overview of the EU GDPR, Hugh Jones will suggest the ‘Ten-step Prep” – ten areas on which any organisation can focus, in order to prepare for the challenges of the new Regulation. It is the first in a series of events in which the IDMA will work with its members and […]
Here is another great piece from the ‘Global Marketing Alliance’ I really love their in depth and relevant stories” ”The digital marketing industry may already be facing a headache over ad-blockers, viewability and effectiveness, but the rise of ad fraud is likely to turn that into a head-splitting migraine which will cost brand-owners $7.2bn (£5.1bn) […]
