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Marketing 101: What Is Direct Marketing?

US Data Corporation

Direct marketing is making direct contact with a specific audience to promote your products or services. It can be executed through various channels, including direct mail , email marketing , and telemarketing. A key factor in direct marketing is the “call to action,” also known as CTA. Telemarketing.

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4 Elements that drive B2B direct marketing results

Biznology

If you’re an experienced B2B direct marketer, this is probably not for you. This is information of value that focuses on the issue/problem that is addressed by your product/service coupled with no commitment asked of the recipient beyond their basic information (keep the form simple and short). Like this post?

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Goal-Directed Marketing: How Marketers Can Help Buyers Achieve Their Goals

Tony Zambito

Where the disconnect occurs is when CMOs and their team focus solely on profile-based information as described above. While understanding profile-based information is important, especially for sales, it amounts to trying to connect with buyers solely based on their job descriptions, responsibilities, and generalized objectives.

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Informed Customer Understanding Should Guide Marketing

Tony Zambito

Most often, there is an inertia to marketing being guided by projects, campaigns, and initiatives. Without deep customer understanding, marketing is left to brainstorm a list of potential projects and initiatives. Often, most marketing teams are using the first two and often forget the third. Choosing Wisely.

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Put Your Data to Work: The Complete Playbook

They rely on data to power products, business insights, and marketing strategy. From search engines to navigation systems, data is used to fuel products, manage risk, inform business strategy, create competitive analysis reports, provide direct marketing services, and much more.

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PowerViews with James Obermayer: Lead Management & Integrated Direct Marketing

ViewPoint

While everyone wants less expensive leads in the form of prospects who identify themselves via company websites, traditional direct marketing is still needed to educate prospects and drive them to websites. But many are going for cold, hard, qualified leads. He notes the basics haven’t died—they’ve just shifted.

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Marketing 101: What is Direct Marketing?

US Data Corporation

Direct marketing is making direct contact with a specific audience to promote your products and services. Direct marketing can be executed through various channels, including direct mail , email marketing , and telemarketing. A key factor in direct marketing is the “call to action,” also known as CTA.