"Anything that's got my name on it, I open, because you never know what it will be," comments one focus group participant in a recent study of direct mail trends commissioned by the Graphic Arts Marketing Information Service (GAMIS) of PIA. In the late 1800s, Richard W. Sears, a railroad c...
1 Direct marketing explained Direct marketing is a collection of techniques that enables organisations to market goods and services directly to customers (business-to-customers or B2C). It is a pro-active approach to marketing that takes the product and/or service to potential customers rather than waiting for them to come to a store or other point of access. It is a form of non-shop' shopping and is sometimes referred to as precision marketing' or one-to-one' marketing. Rather than the marketing firm sending out a general communication or sales message to a large group of p...
1 Direct marketing explained Direct marketing is a collection of techniques that enables organisations to market goods and services directly to customers (business-to-customers or B2C). It is a pro-active approach to marketing that takes the product and/or service to potential customers rather than waiting for them to come to a store or other point of access. It is a form of non-shop' shopping and is sometimes referred to as precision marketing' or one-to-one' marketing. Rather than the marketing firm sending out a general communication or sales message to a large group of p...
1 Direct marketing explained Direct marketing is a collection of techniques that enables organisations to market goods and services directly to customers (business-to-customers or B2C). It is a pro-active approach to marketing that takes the product and/or service to potential customers rather than waiting for them to come to a store or other point of access. It is a form of non-shop' shopping and is sometimes referred to as precision marketing' or one-to-one' marketing. Rather than the marketing firm sending out a general communication or sales message to a large group of p...
1 Direct marketing explained Direct marketing is a collection of techniques that enables organisations to market goods and services directly to customers (business-to-customers or B2C). It is a pro-active approach to marketing that takes the product and/or service to potential customers rather than waiting for them to come to a store or other point of access. It is a form of non-shop' shopping and is sometimes referred to as precision marketing' or one-to-one' marketing. Rather than the marketing firm sending out a general communication or sales message to a large group of p...
1 Direct marketing explained Direct marketing is a collection of techniques that enables organisations to market goods and services directly to customers (business-to-customers or B2C). It is a pro-active approach to marketing that takes the product and/or service to potential customers rather than waiting for them to come to a store or other point of access. It is a form of non-shop' shopping and is sometimes referred to as precision marketing' or one-to-one' marketing. Rather than the marketing firm sending out a general communication or sales message to a large group of p...
1 Direct marketing explained Direct marketing is a collection of techniques that enables organisations to market goods and services directly to customers (business-to-customers or B2C). It is a pro-active approach to marketing that takes the product and/or service to potential customers rather than waiting for them to come to a store or other point of access. It is a form of non-shop' shopping and is sometimes referred to as precision marketing' or one-to-one' marketing. Rather than the marketing firm sending out a general communication or sales message to a large group of p...
1 Direct marketing explained Direct marketing is a collection of techniques that enables organisations to market goods and services directly to customers (business-to-customers or B2C). It is a pro-active approach to marketing that takes the product and/or service to potential customers rather than waiting for them to come to a store or other point of access. It is a form of non-shop' shopping and is sometimes referred to as precision marketing' or one-to-one' marketing. Rather than the marketing firm sending out a general communication or sales message to a large group of p...
