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 […]
Ensuring that your sales funnel is fed with a steady flow of new potential customers is of vital importance for most companies. While there are several channels which can contribute to your lead generation activity, when using Consumer Telephone Data from outside of your existing customer base to acquire new sales, there are a number […]
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 can hear the Digital heads going What?? but a number of companies in the UK have garnered the cookie data that is traditionally used for targeted display advertising then matched the cookie to an actual address and triggered a digitally printed, highly relevant, perfectly timed Direct Mail pack to a user who has dropped […]
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 […]
Along with the day job at Dataxcel I also act as a board member of the IDMA which unlike allot of other European regulatory bodies is a voluntary run organisation by a group of people that give their time because they are passionate about the Direct Marketing Industry in Ireland. The IDMA’s primary focus is […]
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 […]
The not for profit sector has experienced an unprecedented shift in Donor Behaviour over the past few years with credibility and trust being hit at various touchpoints. In the UK we had the ‘Olive Cooke’ story an emotive story that really shook the industry and escalated greater regulation around data usage by the charity sector. […]
