2 Biggies That Make Snailmail Intelligent with Intelisent

Last week at the DMA‘s Digital Marketing Days, The Marketing Consigliere was curious about what technologies there were to improve traditional “non-technical” direct marketing.   Sadly enough, many of the exhibitors involved in printing looked sort of embarrassed when they were asked if they were involved with “variable data printing.”  Another SWAG vendor offering custom logo printing on just about anything with a surface had not ever used Twitter, confusing it with Facebook as a “toy for teenagers.”   But one of the refreshing stops he made was at a booth where there’s a Connecticut based company that is intelligently helping maintain the value of direct mail…

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B2B & Marketing Automation Events for 2010

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With a tight economy, many Marketers are forgoing important national trade shows to keep focused on their main job: to manage the processes which allow for the gathering, storing, analyzing, sharing, and acting up on data that drives revenue for their firms.  However, in this brave new world of Network Centric Marketing, it pays to make the investment in knowing your peers in other industries and learning about the newest tools that will make your job easier.  So to keep up with the many facets of advertising, behavioral marketing, business intelligence, search, social networking, web analytics, email marketing and demand generation, there are many choices to make. [Read more...]