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November 07, 2006

PERSONALIZATION, FREQUENCY AND RELEVANCY: THE EMAIL SUCCESS TRIO

The Technology Council of Southern California posted a great article from Morgan Stewart

  Personalization.  Frequency.  Relevancy.   The potential that can be unleashed by acting upon these three words is significant.

Consider Amazon.com, whose CRM database is arguably the online world's most valuable asset. Amazon.com leverages their database to deploy personal, relevant and timely communications based on historical customer interactions while maintaining a high level of trust.

In the early days of email marketing, generating lofty response rates proved relatively easy-definitely easier with a higher return on investment (ROI) than other direct marketing channels such as direct mail. The costs were low and the returns were high. A single, one-size-fits-all email message sent to thousands of subscribers resulted in response rates that no other medium could achieve. However, as email evolves into a mainstream marketing channel, it takes more than batch 'n blast messages to sustain high response rates.  read more....

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hiya.. the link you gave (http://www.tcosc.org/resources/personalization1) doesn't seem to work?

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