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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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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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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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Beyond Buyer Profiling To Buyer Personification

Tony Zambito

Personalization is an extension of database marketing, whereby attempts are made to differentiate through personalized marketing. When Alan Cooper originated the concept of (goal-directed) personas for user-centered design in the 1990’s, it coincided with the publishing of The Digital Economy by Don Tapscott.

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Decoding the True Essence of Outbound Marketing

MarketJoy

Alternatively, outbound marketing is referred to as traditional or direct marketing. Amidst the hoopla surrounding inbound marketing, several business experts and marketers have turned away from outbound marketing and taken to the other. The Relevance of Outbound Marketing.