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Taguchi Testing: Triggered marketing testing on overdrive

If you are already using triggered marketing approaches, then you will want to maximize the value of each contact with your customer. To do that, you need to test your communications. And if you’re like most people, you’d be happy to improve the conversion on your triggered pieces by a few percentage points. What if there was a way to double or triple the number of conversions?

Impossible?

There is way and the secret is to vastly improve your ability to test e-newsletter elements efficiently and effectively. The way to do that is called Taguchi test design. [Read more…]

Adam Ramshaw

Adam Ramshaw has been helping companies to improve their Net Promoter® and Customer Feedback systems for more than 15 years. He is on a mission to stamp out ineffective processes and bad surveys.

Trigger Marketing Demands a New Approach

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Trigger marketing is not just a fancy new marketing technique that you can layer over your existing campaign process. It is a fundamentally different way of interacting with your customers.

With trigger marketing programs typically 2 to 12 times more effective than traditional direct marketing programs [1], it’s worth implementing this new perspective for your business. [Read more…]

Adam Ramshaw

Adam Ramshaw has been helping companies to improve their Net Promoter® and Customer Feedback systems for more than 15 years. He is on a mission to stamp out ineffective processes and bad surveys.

The 6 Road Blocks to Trigger Based Marketing and how to avoid them

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The path to successful Trigger Based Marketing often seems to be strewn with road blocks but is it? In this post I will examine the six most often cited road-blocks and demolish them.

This is a follow-up to my recent post The 5 Critical Factors for Interactive Marketing Success. In life there is Yin and Yang and this is the Yin to the last post’s Yang.

As I noted in the last post, the value that can be driven from trigger based marketing (also called interactive marketing) is very substantial: conversion rates of 45%, 35% reductions in direct marketing costs are just the tip of the iceberg. None the less, many people are so concerned about the perceived road blocks to trigger marketing that they enter a state of paralysis and so don’t leverage that value.

Read on to avoid this state. [Read more…]

Adam Ramshaw

Adam Ramshaw has been helping companies to improve their Net Promoter® and Customer Feedback systems for more than 15 years. He is on a mission to stamp out ineffective processes and bad surveys.

Interactive Marketing: the 7 Critical Factors you need for success

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Interactive marketing is a relatively new feature on the marketing and customer management landscape. It is only with the relatively recent advances in software tools that this dramatically more effective way to market to prospects and customers has come within the reach of most organisations.

And be assured that interactive marketing (also called trigger or event based marketing) can drive dramatic results: conversion rates of 45%, 35% reductions in direct marketing costs are just the tip of the iceberg.

However, to be successful there are seven critical success factors that you need to consider. [Read more…]

Adam Ramshaw

Adam Ramshaw has been helping companies to improve their Net Promoter® and Customer Feedback systems for more than 15 years. He is on a mission to stamp out ineffective processes and bad surveys.

New stats: Australian Marketers concerned most about process

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Aprimo is currently touring Australia presenting to marketers far and wide about “The Imperatives of the Marketing Revolution”.

I attended the 29 March 2011 event in Sydney (disclosure Genroe is an Aprimo Field Partner) at which Aprimo CMO Lisa Arthur presented the organisation’s “10 Imperatives of the Marketing Revolution”. Overall, a good presentation and interesting content.

Also interesting were the results from the impromptu polls that Lisa performed on the assembled marketers. Using hand held response devices, Lisa asked questions and gathered live data for review by the audience. [Read more…]

Adam Ramshaw

Adam Ramshaw has been helping companies to improve their Net Promoter® and Customer Feedback systems for more than 15 years. He is on a mission to stamp out ineffective processes and bad surveys.

Taguchi Testing: Triggered marketing testing on overdrive

Impossible?

Trigger Marketing Demands a New Approach

The 6 Road Blocks to Trigger Based Marketing and how to avoid them

Interactive Marketing: the 7 Critical Factors you need for success

New stats: Australian Marketers concerned most about process

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