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 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
I attended and briefly spoke in the not for profit section of the National Data Protection conference today on behalf of the IDMA. The Data Protection Commissioner, Helen Dixon provided some great insights in the main conference room into what is coming down the track in 2016. Here is a summary. 1.The ODPC intend to […]
You guessed it we collect email data in Ireland but did you know each email has a postal address and each postal address has a telephone number so we analysed the various consumer touch points to our data for 2015 to establish who is responding, why are they responding and when are they responding? It’s […]
There is allot of talk at the moment both in Ireland and the UK about opt in, opt out, explicit consent, does the original consent match the actual data usage, is it relevant, have you explained the definition of third party usage clearly enough etc etc There are seminars, debates, events, meetings and allot of […]
