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Denny Hatch's Blog

Denny Hatch's Blog

By Denny Hatch

About Denny

Author, direct marketing guru, and always entertaining Denny Hatch focuses on a major story in the news and shows how businesses can take advantage of–or avoid the pitfalls from–the lessons to be learned in terms of marketing, sales, PR and communications.

 

Ruthless B-to-B Marketing

Ruth P.  Stevens
Digital Developments in B-to-B Event Marketing
May 25, 2012

Event marketing has long been a staple in B-to-B, where the face-to-face conversation enabled by a trade show or corporate...



Making Social Sell

Jeff Molander
How 'Keeping Up' With Social Media Will Sabotage Your Ability to Sell With It
May 25, 2012

What separates the leading social sellers from the aimless, follower marketers? Thinking. Sure, most of us believe we're thinking about...



The Power Punch

Carolyn Goodman
Is Frequency a Pay-off or Piss-off Strategy?
May 18, 2012

We've all heard about contact frequency strategies: Send (often) the same communications to your target audience repeatedly over a period...



Online Video Marketing Deep Dive

Gary Hennerberg
How to Convert a Direct Mail Package to Online Video
May 16, 2012

Today we demonstrate how to convert a successful direct mail package into an online video. You'll see how copy style...



Marketing Sustainably

Chet Dalzell
'Every Door Direct' Not for Every Mailbox
May 14, 2012

For approximately the past year, the U.S. Postal Service has offered an innovative program called "Every Door Direct" that is...



Who's Your Data?

Rio Longacre
MDM: Big Data-Slayer
May 9, 2012

There's quite a bit of talk about Big Data these days across the Web … it's the meme that just...



Muscle Marketing

Wendy Montes de Oca
An ABC Introduction to Data Mining for Dollars: Slicing and Dicing Your In-House List for Profit (Part 2 of 2)
May 7, 2012

In my last post, I introduced the RFM method, an effective direct response strategy to slice and dice your list...



The Whole Magilla

Ken Magill
What Marketers Can Learn From Maine's Political Email Idiocy
Feb 24, 2012

It finally happened. Politicians' idiotic email practices had a measurable negative effect. "Maine Republican Party chairman Charlie Webster has admitted...



SEO & Content Marketing Revue

Heather Lloyd-Martin
5 Tips for Top Positioning (And Converting) Page Titles
Aug 11, 2010

Wondering about a SEO content strategy that offers the biggest impact in the shortest time? Try tweaking your page titles....



Do You Know Where Your Customers Are?

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Imagine people sitting in a bar boozing at 8:00 a.m. It's OK. Most of these morning drinkers work the night shift and this is their cocktail hour. What's more, they want their TV news during prime time when they are having breakfast and getting ready to go to work.

Meanwhile, sometimes I cannot sleep and get up at 4:00 a.m., walk the dog, make coffee, scan the headlines. Alas, the printed newspapers are ipso facto yesterday's news. What happened overnight?

From The New York Times, August 31, 2010:

Stations in Boston, New York, Washington and other cities are adding 4:30 a.m. newscasts this month, joining a backward march that started in earnest a few years ago. And those are not even the earliest. One station in New York, WPIX, will move up its start time to 4 a.m. on Sept. 20.

In catering to the earliest of the early risers, stations are reacting to the behavior patterns that are evident in the Nielsen ratings. Simply put, Americans are either staying awake later or waking up earlier — and either way, they are keeping the television on.

In the past 15 years, the number of households that have a TV set on at 4:30 has doubled, to 16 percent this year from 8 percent in 1995. At 11:30 p.m., by comparison, when most local newscasts end, 44 percent of televisions are on, up 10 percent from the levels 15 years ago.

-Brian Stelter
"TV News for Early risers (or Late-to-Bedders)"

Do you know your market and how, when and where to reach it?

Takeaways to Consider

  • Marketing guru Axel Andersson bought a small mail order study course in Germany after World War II and turned it into the largest "distance learning" organization in Europe. Axel retired to Florida, a millionaire many times over. When he would come to Philadelphia to consult, he insisted on staying at the Clarion Suites. Why the Clarion Suites—emphatically non-deluxe lodgings in the middle of Chinatown? "Certainly I could stay at a four-star hotel," Andersson said. "But first of all, I get a suite with a living room where I work and a bedroom where I sleep. Secondly, the price is very reasonable. And thirdly, I see real people! At the Marriott or the Four Seasons, I would be among people just like me. I see those people everywhere. You can't learn anything from them!"
  • "If you are a marketer, take the bus, subway, train or streetcar to work. These are the real Americans that you want to reach with your messages."
    —Axel Andersson
     Direct marketer, founder of the Axel Andersson Akademie, Hamburg
  • "Listen to the murmur of your market. Create feedback loops in your database environment so that you can record what your customers and prospects are saying about your products, your service, your company and your competition. There is no more valuable source of information."
    —Don Jackson
    Direct marketing insurance consultant

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MaKenzie Birchell* - Posted on September 17, 2010
Great post, Denny--many marketers develop their message, their campaign, and the audience they seek, without perhaps finding them where they truly are. We can all be reminded to take another look so our campaigns will be more effective by truly reaching our target audience!
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MaKenzie Birchell* - Posted on September 17, 2010
Great post, Denny--many marketers develop their message, their campaign, and the audience they seek, without perhaps finding them where they truly are. We can all be reminded to take another look so our campaigns will be more effective by truly reaching our target audience!