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Is print more powerful than email marketing for a business?

The Startup Magazine

All around the world businesses are using email as one of their main focus areas for brand awareness and getting their product in front of consumers. Here, with Direct Letterbox Marketing, which offers a leaflet distribution service, we look at how you can reap the rewards of correct marketing. Communication is key.

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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

And then, of course, other business owners stay aloof from customers for a different, more instinctual reason: In a digital age dominated by email and computer screens, they simply don’t know how to interact with customers face-to-face and avoid doing so at all costs. Do you wait days before responding to emails?

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[Infographic] The Numbers Around Direct Mail Marketing

YoungUpstarts

With all the hype surrounding digital advertising, one would’ve thought that traditional methods of marketing have been rendered absolutely obsolete. billion is still spent, ever year, on direct marketing? 65%: Of people who have received direct mail who make purchases/engage. But isn’t print dying?

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Customer loyalty comes in four special forms.

Berkonomics

A competitor could find easy pickings here, with direct marketing to habit shoppers with coupons, special prices, and exciting promotions. Free advertising. You don’t want your customers to buy strictly because you have become their “habit of comfort.”. It takes work. . And the reward will surprise you. High margins.

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7 Easy and Effective Customer Segments to Target in Facebook Ads

ConversionXL

Facebook is, by far, the most promising social advertising platform for E-Commerce purposes — the site has 1.86B users , an average ROI on targeted ads of 152% , and is responsible for 85% of all social media e-commerce. In April of 2017, Facebook announced that there were more than 5 million active advertisers using their ad platform.

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Wonga Launches Fraud Hotline To Combat Phishing Scam

YoungUpstarts

Wonga, the well known short term lender, is being used as the front for an email and SMS phishing scam perpetrated by a gang on internet fraudsters. The scam starts with an email or SMS being sent to customers, purported by Wonga South Africa, to a diverse range of recipients.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

CRM became more sophisticated, resulting in detailed monthly statements and targeted direct marketing. Web sites already offer the option of logging in with Facebook or creating an account with an email address and password. All merchants have to fund are the discounts or whatever other benefits they want to give.