Direct marketing

Direct marketing - know the results & effectiveness of your marketing

Intelligent, targeted communication

Intelligent, targeted communication in the right place at the right time about the relevant benefits of your product or service.

Direct marketing is about recording and measuring the 'personal' details of your customers and their behaviour so that you know the results and effectiveness of your marketing campaign.

Direct marketing has been used successfully for many years by a vast range of organisations for short & long-term marketing programmes. But it's best considered as the basis of a continuing long-term relationship.

Whilst there are very many direct marketing media and direct marketing techniques used by direct marketers, the reasons for developing that continuing long term relationship is almost always the key to why direct marketing is important to both 'consumer' and producer, reasons such as: convenience, time saving, no travel, armchair comfort, detailed information, price, extended credit, protection/guarantees, exclusivity/unique product or service.

For many companies, direct marketing is the most cost-effective form of marketing. From direct mail and door drops to telemarketing and direct EMail marketing, it allows you to target customers with greater accuracy than any other method. And now, of course there is direct online marketing or direct Internet Marketing.

You can articulate and implement compelling offers, designed to motivate prospects' response to the "What's in it for me?" question. "What's in it for me?" is the only question that matters to prospects and customers - and you have just seconds to give a compelling answer. Otherwise, they change the channel, click away, or toss your catalogue or direct mail into the bin.

Delivering the right answer requires expertise on many fronts: analysis and testing, product development and merchandise selection, offer development, continuity planning, creative, media selection, and more. In other words direct marketing needs a direct marketing strategy and that means planning.

Direct marketing campaigns

We listen to you to gain a genuine understanding of your business, the challenges it faces, the motivations and needs of your customers and potential customers. Our extensive knowledge and experience of direct marketing then provides original ideas, fresh thinking and an ability to understand your business requirements and desired impact. We then develop solutions which are intelligent, creative and most important of all - effective.

We keep our thinking clear, considering each aspect of a brief individually:
What are the objectives of the direct marketing brief?
What is the right proposition for the target audience?
Which channel(s) will effect the best response or transaction?
Which creative route will achieve the most effective solution?

As previously stated delivering the right answer requires expertise on many fronts and just a little more - experience. This is something that we at E-CRM have in spades.

For example, our founding partner has been involved in direct marketing for over 30 years, has helped to found The Institute of Direct Marketing and The Telephone Preference Service, has served on the council of the industry's governing body and lectured on the subject since the 1980s and has been involved in campaigns that use every direct marketing discipline - many of which have won awards.

We offer help and advice on your direct marketing strategy in the context of your business strategy on for a wide range of direct marketing activities including: television, radio, posters, press, inserts, direct mail, door drops, inbound telephone, outbound telephone and the internet.

Campaign planning
Media
Lead generation
Incentives
Retention
Databases
Response handling
Conversions
Data mining
Customer service