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Direct Marketing Doesn’t Have to Suck

Paul Gillin

Last week I got two letters in the mail that appeared to be personally addressed to me in a feminine hand (right). Is it any surprise that forecasters expect direct-mail marketing to decline nearly 40% over the next two years? I unsubscribe from any e-mails that don’t offer clear value to me. Dump the Junk.

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Finding Balance in the Always-On World

Paul Gillin

They range from Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor, who refuses to check e-mail after he leaves the office every day, to football star Rosie Grier, who found relief from a pressurized career in needlepoint. The fact that someone sends you an unsolicited e-mail does not mean you are obliged to respond. Innovators have big dreams.

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Research Finds Expanded Marketing Role Correlates With Business Results

Paul Gillin

And who better to help them get there than the technology pros? Other interesting data: E-mail is kind of a mess. Two thirds of marketers don’t integrate e-mail data with other customer information or they integrate data manually, which doesn’t scale.

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Constant Contact Colocates with Small Business Customers

Paul Gillin

Three companies that do an outstanding job of advocating for the small business customer are American Express (with its Open Forum small business community and annual Small Business Saturday promotion, among other things), Intuit and Constant Contact , the Massachusetts-based e-mail marketing company.

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Surprising Security Gaps at Star-Studded D.C. Gala

Paul Gillin

However, that cover turned out to be an e-mail attachment. I just can’t help feeling uneasy that in this age of terror, at a party in our nation’s capital, there wasn’t more being done to prevent a tragedy. I mean an invitation printed from my office computer. Fortunately, everyone was there only to gawk and schmooze.

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Gordon Gekko is So Last Century

Paul Gillin

Just like they did with e-mail and the Internet, Eighty-two percent of emerging market professionals and 41% of developed market professionals agree that blogs, information from social media or crowd-sourced information on the Internet are highly useful in helping to understanding an issue or news item.

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The Social CIO: Texas Health Builds a Knowledge Engine

Paul Gillin

For example: As electronic health records (EHR) are adopted throughout the system, physicians set up a forum to help each other champion the new technology. Rapid communication helped Texas Health become one of the first hospital networks to identify the outbreak of the virus and move to protect members.