It's a Numbers Game...

Throughout this year you will send multiple messages to customers or members utilizing various mediums. So how can you increase your response to each of these marketing messages? … get a better list!

Remember better doesn’t always mean bigger! Simply updating your list with correct customer or member information can go a long way to expanding your reach.

This year, try starting off the year with a campaign or sales initiative to grow your database. Starting with a clean database help to make the rest of your 2011 campaigns/marketing initiatives a success. Whether it’s emails, addresses, phone numbers, followers, or facebook friends, the larger your list, the more people you will reach. And, of course, the more people you reach, the greater response you will receive!

Best,

Jamie

Resolve to Work Smarter

As we approach the end of the year, a reflective tone on our past performance often resonates. We often compare our actual performance to the goals we had set out for ourselves to see how we measured up.

Reflecting on the past year’s performance of what we did well and what we could have done better leads us to the question, “how can we do it better in 2011?“ Lessons learned from 2010 can guide us in the right direction for working smarter in 2011. Working smarter is very relevant as we remain in an era of increasing responsibilities and minimal budgets.

Explore these ideas to discover ways you can work smarter in 2011…

• Acquire the market and industry intelligence in order to become a “smarter” when targeting prospective customers
• How can you package products or provide relationship benefits to better engage current and new customers in a broader relationship
• Review internal customer data in order to expand balances and services per household through better targeting and more innovative profiling
• Review operational communication messaging in order to maximize retention or expand relationships
• Ensure your products and customer service are better than the competition

Looking over 2010 with a critical eye is important to discover ways that you can continually grow and improve your marketing. Using this information to work smarter will help us to deliver the results we all need to keep growing and reaching our goals.

Resolve to work smarter this year!

Jamie

Think Inside the Box #2

This week, I am meeting with a client in Florida to share our analysis of the MCIF data and review our recommendations for moving the information gained into a knowledge-backed plan!

The key has been helping them see that they have the information they need...but our "filters" based on experience and the expertise we have developed, has opened their eyes to what the knowledge they now have at their disposal to move forward in a very targeted, strategic manner!

Thinking inside the box!

Take a new look at what you have...and then extrapolate that information into tangible cannot-be-ignored knowledge that drives three levels of activities:

1. Organizational level
2. Product level
3. Point-of-purchase front line staff level

Each level in integral to the overall success of your marketing strategy and each level is inter-related to ensuring that the knowledge is moved into action!

in 2011, we are developing a Brown Bag Lunch Series session specifically addressing the "think inside the box" strategy and gives tips and hints into the exact items you need and what questions you should be asking to land at the 'cannot-be-ignored' stage.

Look for more information and the entire 2011 Brown Bag Lunch Series schedule coming out next week.

Cheers!

Bruce Clapp