Email Marketing performance is often not just the offer or content but in a lot of cases the email never gets to the recipient, instead they go straight to the spam/junk folder or, worse, are being blocked altogether? This is a widespread problem for many email campaigns, leading to low engagement, poor conversions, and it […]
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 […]
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 […]
This is the theme of my speaking slot at the National Sales and Marketing summit to be held in the RDS Dublin next Wednesday 31st May. I intend to bring people through a simple user journey from the first point of contact with a digital ad, optimising conversion from click to data, nurturing the data […]
Legacy Data What happens to the data you have collected under existing laws when GDPR is enforced? Many commentators believed there may be leniency, but I wouldn’t count on it. The Regulation is clear that where consent has been given under the Data Protection Directive, it will only be valid if it also meets the […]
I buy one newspaper every week but that was not always the case. Given my socialist tendencies, I viewed this paper as a representation of the establishment, spouting out articles to support the upper echelons of our society and sneered at the fact people felt they looked good with one under their arm, walking the […]
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. […]
It’s a frightening statistic but one which has been upheld in a recent study carried out by Ricoh. They found that nearly a third of consumers (32 per cent) say they have taken their custom elsewhere after being spammed by irrelevant material from brands and service providers. Furthermore, 68 per cent of consumers have admitted they […]
