Direct Marketing News, Tips & Trends
IWCO Direct 1to1 Delivers the Real “Jobs To Be Done” for Your Marketing Strategy
Almost 60 years ago, the late Harvard Business School professor Theodore Leavitt coined the term “marketing myopia.” Leavitt is probably best known for the statement, “people don’t want a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole,” which is how he helped students understand [...]
Navigating the Sensitive Healthcare Market and Creating a Personalized Customer Experience with IWCO Direct 1to1
Marketers know that highly personalized offers using variable creative layouts and content (text and images) are the most direct route to acquiring new customers for products or creating members for loyalty and other continuity programs and services. Today’s consumers, especially millennials and Gen X buyers, respond...
IWCO Direct 1to1 Puts You in Control of Your Marketing Content
Earlier this year, I wrote that marketers’ urgent need to send data-driven, highly personalized offers presented us with a challenge: to find and implement a configurable technology platform that provides a user-friendly workflow that automates the management of variable offers, text, and images. IWCO Direct’s answer to this challenge is IWCO Direct 1to1℠.
Is Your Marketing Organization Embracing its Inner Weirdness?
A few months ago, a blog with the title “Eat Predictable for Breakfast” appeared in my inbox. The timing seemed a little spooky since I had just finished a conversation about differentiators and how to pique curiosity with content that just can’t be ignored. I have no idea how this blog got to my inbox, […]
Why Brands Should Be the Ones to Bridge the Millennial/Gen Z Gap
After writing September’s millennial/Gen Z blog, I went online to find a definitive answer about which generation I belong to (as someone born in 1996, I’m usually in the gray area between millennials and Generation Z). My first search told me a millennial is a person who reached young adulthood around the year 2000, so I am Gen Z (1995 or later). Business Insider disagreed; millennials are 1981–1996… I’m a millennial? […]
