To create a successful 360 degrees direct marketing campaign, you need an
integrated and complete business or consumer database. Today, over 87% of
organizations in the US have incomplete databases. Collected over the years
through several sources such as direct mail, website, telemarketing, promotions,
events, and more their database is now a mix of customer information
with some critical data missing in each of the contact fields.
There are several companies all over the world, offering database appending
services with high match rates. Through these services you can have a foolproof
database that will help you in generating more bang for each marketing dollar
you spend.
Here are the top 10 reasons, why you should invest in getting your database
appended right away.
1. Revive old contacts It will help you in getting the latest customer
contact details including name, title, phone, email ID, mailing address,
state, zip, and more, so that you can communicate even to old and lost customer
contacts. The updated NCOA in the vendors database will enable you
to reach the ones who had moved out and re-touch them.
2. Open doors to new ways of marketing Once you get the complete database
in your hand, you can touch your prospects at several points through
multi-channel marketing. By having a direct marketing strategy with a mix
of email, direct mail and telemarketing activities, you can increase your
customer participation and retention rates.
3. Boost response rates Reduce wastage due to undeliverable mails,
boost response rates and increase savings on postage and printing. This will
significantly reduce your customer acquisition and marketing costs.
4. Data cleansing Apart from adding the missing info you can also
get your data corrected for errors such as obsolete locality names; miss-spelt
localities, names and e-mail Ids, zip codes; fraud names and email addresses,
among others.
5. Save the hassle, cost, time and resources You can get access to
millions of records appended based on your need, minus the hassle of collecting,
collating, managing and updating the database.
6. Gain competitive advantage By delivering the right content to the
right prospects at the right time, through the right channel, you can move
a step ahead of your competition. Cost of acquiring new customers is much
higher than keeping the old ones, so leverage the potential of your existing
contacts.
7. Faster turn-around Data appending vendors provide a host of appending
services such as email appending, phone appending, fax appending, address
appending and reverse appending. They provide append rates ranging from 30-70%
(based on the shape of your in-house database) and deliver results within
a week or two, so that you can start your full-circle marketing campaign
right away.
8. Enhance data integrity Through the appending services you will
get a complete and robust database. You can also get other demographic details
of your prospects while appending such as age, sex, income, credit
score, etc. This will help you in understanding your market and craft highly
targeted marketing strategies.
9. Get verified contact details All the records appended are checked
and thus guarantee 100% delivery so that you can ensure accuracy in your
marketing campaign.
10. Affordable Thousands of records are appended for just a couple
of dollars. When compared to in-house costs that you will incur in updating
your database, this one is among the cheapest ways and generates greater
ROI.
The benefits that your business will witness are more than the ones mentioned
here. Take action now, run marketing activities based on your robust in-house
database to attract and retain your prospects; otherwise your competition
will sweep them away from you.
If you would like to get your business or consumer lists appended, contact
me at anujaa@stratmail.com. I can give you a list of good companies operating
in this domain, so that you can make an informed decision.
Anuja is the marketing and content coordinator in a global marketing firm.