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 […]
Flow Leads Media in partnership with DataXcel are pleased to announce the launch of their premium UK Lead Generation website “Winnersville” on 1st February 2016. Winnersville clients will be able to benefit from a premium Lead Generation service that will include inline validation, user scoring optimisation, real-time deliveries and a dedicated Client Account Manager. Winnersville […]
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 […]
I am a firm believer in keeping things simple and maybe its me but I am a hardent supporter of going back to Direct Marketing basics find the consumer’s trigger point, engage the way they want you too and convert. With the Pre – Christmas mailings about to get into full swing we want […]
I will cut to the chase as a board member of the IDMA we are hosting our flagship event on the 1st October titled ‘Show Me The Love’. Its not all about value its about engaging with the consumer to show you really care about them. Three reasons You should attend besides the fact we […]
I have worked in the Direct Marketing industry in Ireland now for just over 20 years and regardless of this length of time, which I can’t believe goes so quickly, one fundamental ethos of DM remains to this day – We work in DM to get a response to a brand proposition. This response is […]
In Ireland and like allot of countries throughout the world we have encountered 7 years of pain, challenges, recession, tight budgets, departments stripped of really good people but deemed too expensive by the finance guys to retain them but that is what has happened to us all. We have seen own brand purchases surge from […]
Anyone in the Data World thinks about it all the time but really doesn’t want to think about it as it can be a game changer look at loyalty build last year and the recent media around the Affairs site ”Ashley Madison” but here is a really good example of the implications of a hacking […]
As I write this the news on the street is that the Minister in charge and the eircode team are finishing there finely tuned speech’s to formally launch the long awaited Irish Postcode system next Monday 13th July. From what I hear there will be a National Awareness campaign for a week and then the […]
