measurement/ROI

Interpreting Your Bounce Rate, Click Thru and Open Rates

Posted on November 7, 2010. Filed under: Direct Marketing, measurement/ROI, Strategy | Tags: , |

Many marketers implement email marketing without truly understanding how to interpret the metrics so that you can optimize your demand generation programs. Eloqua is a powerful marketing automation tool but requires human intervention. Every week I review the campaign metrics of our firm. If the bounce rate is high, I know the database needs to [...]

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Marketing activity does not a marketer make

Posted on August 24, 2010. Filed under: measurement/ROI, Strategy | Tags: |

Marketing measurement is a must. Relying on anectodal evidence is worthless today.

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Developing the “infrastructure” for a better Internet strategy

Posted on January 17, 2010. Filed under: Content development, Database, Direct Marketing, measurement/ROI, Strategy | Tags: , |

Building a sustainable engine that takes advantage of web2.0 and Internet marketing requires the coordination of a finely tuned infrastructure.

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“Closed” online Golf Community Creating 15% Click thru rate!

Posted on August 10, 2009. Filed under: Content development, Direct Marketing, Lead management, measurement/ROI, Strategy | Tags: , , , |

For the past 10 months we’ve experimented with an online golf community. It is a “closed” community – meaning – you must be invited in to participate. The goal of the community is to begin a dialog with a prospect or client through something that they enjoy. That’s not new. Accenture, E&Y and KMPG all [...]

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Making an “Ass” out of “U” and “Me”

Posted on May 3, 2009. Filed under: Content development, Database, Direct Marketing, email marketing, measurement/ROI, Partner relations, Tactical Marketing |

Making an assumption is always dangerous, especially when you decide to “push” market.

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Linking Sales Performance to Sales Automation

Posted on April 30, 2009. Filed under: measurement/ROI, Sales |

As we improve our sales automation system, the sales group has also been reworking the sales process to help standardize the sales process. Four phases and dozens of questions/activities later the new process is born. Unfortunately, without some way of recording the questions/answers the sales person is suppossed to get and the activities that show [...]

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Analytics the new credibility driver for Marketing

Posted on April 18, 2009. Filed under: Direct Marketing, Lead management, measurement/ROI, Partner relations, Tactical Marketing | Tags: , , , |

If you can’t measure your marketing, then you are stuck in constant debate with people who think they know marketing.

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