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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
