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Jonathan Blaine Musings

Marketing and business management leader in Fortune 100, private equity and non-profit organizations, publishes thoughts about integrated marketing, tactics, successes and anything else that springs to mind. www.jonathanblaine.com

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Posted on March 25, 2012April 24, 2012 direct mail direct marketing Marketing News

HubSpot misses the mark on calling direct mail “interruptive”

Direct mail is still very powerful. What is going away (thankfully) are the "spray and pray" advertisers who thought direct mail was taking an ad and sticking a label on it, and perhaps buying lists that had no correlation to what they were selling.

Posted on May 20, 2010February 7, 2013 direct mail direct marketing Marketing

Is Direct Mail Marketing Dying?

On May 17, 2010, DMNews mused: “Is Direct Mail on its Deathbed?”: As consumers communicate more via e-mail, the US Postal Service is considering cutting...

Posted on January 20, 2010December 2, 2011 direct marketing

Should you use email to make sales? Or Twitter, for that matter?

Acquisition: only permission based, and by that I mean these customers explicitly requested you contact them. And only when relevant, timely and targeted. The only...

Posted on January 20, 2009December 10, 2015 direct mail direct marketing

Direct Marketing in an economic downturn

I just responded to this question posed on LinkedIn, and thought it would be a good first post here: “Can anybody point me to reliable...

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