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Database Marketing: Five Important Things to Know

Webbiquity

A form of direct marketing , database marketing uses business and consumer databases to generate targeted recipient lists. What distinguishes database from direct marketing is the awareness to the analysis of data. Database Marketing Types. Consumer Database Marketing.

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What You Need to Know About Database Marketing

PureB2B

If your answer is the latter, you’re probably using database marketing. Database Marketing vs. Direct Marketing. Database marketing definitions often speak of its contrast to direct marketing. In truth, database marketing and direct marketing are far from polar opposites.

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Can Old Database Marketers Learn Digital Tricks?

Customer Experience Matrix

Summary: Database marketing and digital marketing are more different than it seems. It’s self-evident that digital marketing (mostly on the Internet, but also mobile, in-game, and eventually interactive TV) is a major change from both traditional mass media and more recent database marketing (mail, email, telemarketing, CRM).

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How to leverage Database marketing to increase your conversions

Smarte

The face of Database marketing is still continuing to evolve despite being around for nearly three decades. Many marketers are yet to implement Database Marketing, wait a minute, what is Database Marketing? Breaking up your contact lists into smaller segments is the first step in Database Marketing.

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Unica and Alterian Lead Database Marketers to the Digital Promised Land

Customer Experience Matrix

The connection is that these both support my feeling that many members of the old-line database marketing community have failed to adapt to the new world of digital marketing. Alterian has already made big bets in social media and Web content management, which are also well beyond the scope of traditional database marketing.

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5 Ways To Incorporate Direct Mail Into Your Marketing Mix

The Point

Tags: B2B Marketing Database Marketing Demand Generation Dimensional Mail Direct Mail Installed Base Marketing Lead Management Lead Nurturing direct marketing b2b demand generation b2b lead generation direct marketing best practices.

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In Defense of Unsolicited Email

The Point

I’m old enough to remember when list-based marketing was the workhorse of B2B demand generation (or, as we called it back then, “direct marketing.”) Today’s modern demand generation is driven by content marketing, social media, search marketing, and other inbound strategies. In fact, I’d recommend it.