You’ve (Still) Got Mail
Report shows effectiveness of direct mail. You might be six feet away from your customers, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t engage with them. Digital communication channels have been paramount, but overcrowded. That’s where print steps in. Direct mail reported the most significant gains in overall effectiveness when it comes to reaching the target […]
The Story Is The Story
For the past 14-plus years, Sylvie Tongco has worked in communications and marketing in the technology world. Spending the majority of her career helping Silicon Valley startups, enterprise companies and venture capital firms unlock their stories to build sustainable and thought-leading positions, she understands the power of a good story. Today, as the VP of […]
The New Tools of Engagement
A Look At What Works And Why It is not just marketing. It is engagement economy. There is a shrinking gap between companies and their customers because the tools of engagement have evolved to make it a tighter connection. No wonder the sales funnel has skipped right over the sales department. Customers know what they […]
iPhone Update Scans QR Codes Without An App
QR codes are one of the many great ways print and digital tactics are combined. They direct consumers to digital content instantly without needing to memorize a web address. For years, smartphone users have had to download the official QR code app to scan them. Sometimes it takes several attempts to work because you have […]
Multi-Channel Success Could be Easy as 1-2-3
Multi-channel marketing can mean a lot of different things. As the name implies, the marketer employs multiple channels to get the message out to their audience. But with so many marketing channels available today, how many should you use? Below is a success story that involves 3 of the standard channels, phone, email and direct mail. In “SNAP Selling,” […]
Why Marketing Artists and Marketing Scientists Need One Another
Mark McGuinness of Lateral Action guest posted a terrific blog at Copyblogger: Are You a Marketing Artist or Scientist? In it he describes two distinct tribes that most marketers fall into (1) the right-brain types that like to create and find inspiration in coffee shops journaling and brainstorming about their next blog, podcast, video or creation or […]
Read Up and Invest Time into Your Multi Channel Efforts
Social media is the marketing activity nonprofits say they need help with most, according to a free report from Constant Contact called the Nonprofit Pulse Report. More than 57% of the 307 respondents said they needed help with social media, followed by 36% with email marketing, and 35% with their nonprofit websites. Not surprisingly, 88% of […]