The New Direct Marketing: How to Implement a Profit-Driven Database Marketing Strategy / Edition 3
by David Shepard Associates, David ShepardDramatically increase your sales with techniques to gather, store, and use customer information. Good customers are too valuable - and hard to find - for you to risk losing them. especially by being passive, indifferent, or indistinguishable from your competitors. The New Direct Marketing, Third Edition, shows you how to combine databasetechnology with innovative… See more details below
Overview
Dramatically increase your sales with techniques to gather, store, and use customer information. Good customers are too valuable - and hard to find - for you to risk losing them. especially by being passive, indifferent, or indistinguishable from your competitors. The New Direct Marketing, Third Edition, shows you how to combine databasetechnology with innovative direct marketing methods to first identify, and then profit from. your customers' all-important needs, desires,likes, and dislikes. The unique, authoritative reference work on database management theory and practice for over a decade, now exhaustively revised and updated to encompass today's new technology, The New Direct Marketing, Third Edition, is your key to developing customized, customer-focused marketing programs and strategies. Detailed concepts are explained and supported with easy-to-understand graphs, charts, and case studies, giving you the tools you need to: Offset skyrocketing marketing costs by customizing the sequence and flow of your communications; Target promotions and bonus offers based on your customers' previous purchases, buying patterns, and stated preferences. Create ongoing customer dialogues, giving you a constant incoming stream of valuable demographic, psychographic, and lifestyle data. All customers are not created equal. Updated knowledge and strategies you learn from The New Direct Marketing, Third Edition, will help you expand the boundaries of database marketing today's take-no-prisoners direct marketing battleground.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780070580565
- Publisher:
- McGraw-Hill Companies, The
- Publication date:
- 03/31/1999
- Edition description:
- REV
- Pages:
- 736
- Product dimensions:
- 8.70(w) x 10.90(h) x 1.63(d)
Table of Contents
Ch. 1 | An Overview of the New Direct Marketing | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Sources of Marketing Data | 10 |
Ch. 3 | Buzzwords | 30 |
Ch. 4 | Why Companies are Building Database Marketing Systems | 41 |
Ch. 5 | What Do You Want the Database to Do? | 44 |
Ch. 6 | Creating and Updating the Database | 53 |
Ch. 7 | Hardware and Software Issues | 77 |
Ch. 8 | Impact of New Computer Technology on Business | 88 |
Ch. 9 | Configurations to Support Business Needs | 95 |
Ch. 10 | The Basics of Statistical Analysis | 103 |
Ch. 11 | Relationships Between Variables | 121 |
Ch. 12 | Multiple Regression | 140 |
Ch. 13 | Response Analysis | 169 |
Ch. 14 | Segmentation Analysis | 187 |
Ch. 15 | A Closer Look Back | 201 |
Ch. 16 | Artificial Neural Networks | 224 |
Ch. 17 | An Introduction to the Economics of the New Direct Marketing | 235 |
Ch. 18 | Back to Basics: The Economics of Classical Direct Marketing | 241 |
Ch. 19 | The Role of Modeling in the New Direct Marketing | 271 |
Ch. 20 | Financial Models | 315 |
Appendix A: Lotus 1-2-3 Programs | 328 | |
Appendix B: Vendors of Data and Computer Services | 337 | |
Index | 487 |
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