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Is Direct Marketing Relevant Anymore?

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DM News, the venerable tabloid that I remember reading while cutting my direct marketing teeth back at Oracle in the late 1980s, is switching from a weekly to bi-weekly publication schedule. This prompted a discussion on LinkedIn wondering if the change augured tougher times ahead for direct marketers.

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10 Tough Questions to Evaluate Your Target Account List

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In a far-gone era, when demand generation was “direct marketing,” it was often said that for any campaign to be successful, the list was paramount. Fast-forward 20 years to a world of Account-Based Marketing (ABM) , and little has changed. Do everything else right (message, offer, creative, etc.),

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How to Answer a Question: 5 Tips for Making the Most of LinkedIn

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One of the biggest clients of my 15+ year agency career was won as a direct result of a question to which I responded on LinkedIn , the popular business networking site. LinkedIn now boasts more than 60 million registered users , but far fewer than that number are active members in group discussions and in LinkedIn’s “Answers” section.

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Checklist: 5 Ways to Minimize Webinar No-Shows

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This is to remind you that our Webinar is taking place …” Drop the formality and treat the copy just like any other direct marketing campaign, except now the call to action isn’t “register,” it’s “attend” (or alternatively, “add this event to your calendar.”) LinkedIn used to have an “events” feature but shut it down in 2012.

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Stop Asking Your Marketing Agency for Client References

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Use LinkedIn to identify clients/past employers directly. If I were hiring an agency, I’d review that list and either a) find a company where I already know people on the marketing team, or b) choose a company in a similar category and search on LinkedIn to find possible connections. Here are two suggestions: 1.