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 […]
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 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 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 […]
