The New Direct Marketing: How to Implement a Profit-Driven Database Marketing Strategy by David Shepard Associates, David Shepard

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Synopsis

Dramatically increase your sales with techniques to gather, store, and use customer information. Good customers are too valuable - and hard to find - for you to risk losing them. especially by being passive, indifferent, or indistinguishable from your competitors. The New Direct Marketing, Third Edition, shows you how to combine databasetechnology with innovative direct marketing methods to first identify, and then profit from. your customers' all-important needs, desires,likes, and dislikes. The unique, authoritative reference work on database management theory and practice for over a decade, now exhaustively revised and updated to encompass today's new technology, The New Direct Marketing, Third Edition, is your key to developing customized, customer-focused marketing programs and strategies. Detailed concepts are explained and supported with easy-to-understand graphs, charts, and case studies, giving you the tools you need to: Offset skyrocketing marketing costs by customizing the sequence and flow of your communications; Target promotions and bonus offers based on your customers' previous purchases, buying patterns, and stated preferences. Create ongoing customer dialogues, giving you a constant incoming stream of valuable demographic, psychographic, and lifestyle data. All customers are not created equal. Updated knowledge and strategies you learn from The New Direct Marketing, Third Edition, will help you expand the boundaries of database marketing today's take-no-prisoners direct marketing battleground.

Annotation

Database technology has advanced considerably in the last three years. This second edition of the direct marketer's essential resource reflects those changes, offering new information about client-server systems and PC systems, as well as traditional mainframes, EDA (Exploratory Data Analysis), the wide range of products and services offered by data vendors and software suppliers, and more.

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