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January 2012 From Target Marketing
Whether you call it "Green Purchasing," "Sustainable Sourcing" or "Environmentally Preferred Procurement," evaluating whether or not suppliers meet your own environmental standards—and creating buyer/supplier relationships that reinforce those standards—drives sustainability through your print and paper supply chains.
November 14, 2011 From Chet Dalzell
One of the highlights of the Direct Marketing Association's 2011 annual conference was the awarding of a special ECHO award to Consumer Reports, the organization behind the magazine of the same name. As a member of DMA's Committee on the Environment and Social Responsibility (CESR), I was one of the judges of this year's competition, which looks to honor one marketing organization that has demonstrated environmental performance and sustainable practices in the design and execution of an advertising campaign.
August 1, 2011 From Home Page
We produced the Winter 2010/11 direct marketing campaign with the goal of strategically supporting the sustainability objectives of meeting our acquisition targets, serving the ongoing needs of consumers, and of being good stewards of the resources we use. Direct Marketing and Publishing Operations departments worked collaboratively guided by our internal Environmental Policy & Vision Statement to identify, implement, and track meaningful environmental choices made throughout the life cycle of the campaign season.
July 2011 From Target Marketing
Marketers need to consider mobile activity and how it may affect their email programs. Best practices in email design are changing to ensure a good experience for all recipients, regardless of how they access their messages.
May 20, 2011 From Ad Age
A big part of Facebook's advertising strategy is to turn user "likes" into advertisements that show the user's name and image. And that strategy is a major reason brands love Facebook so much—if a user "likes" a brand page, Facebook will spread that endorsement around the ...
January 2011 From Target Marketing
Target Marketing magazine reached out to some of the most knowledgeable people in the direct marketing industry to find out what they believe are the biggest issues facing direct marketers today and what questions your company needs to be able to answer to thrive in the coming year and beyond.
November 2, 2010 From Webinars & Virtual Events
The partnership between marketer and printer is a powerful opportunity to reduce the environmental impact of direct marketing.
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November 2, 2010 From Webinars & Virtual Events
As a printer, you know partnership between marketer and printer is a powerful opportunity to reduce the environmental impact of direct marketing.
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September 7, 2010 From Denny Hatch's Business Common Sense
President Obama's words at a White House Ramadan gathering Aug. 13, 2010 regarding a mosque being opened near the Ground Zero 9/11 site:
As a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country. And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America. And our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country and that they will not be treated differently by their government is essential to who we are. The writ of the Founders must endure.
In terms of the Constitution, the message was spot-on and not debatable. Many on the Left, Right and Center agreed with him.
Shortly thereafter Newt Gingrich committed what Mike Barnicle labeled “political pyromania” (see “IN THE NEWS” at right) and dropped an “N” bomb by equating Muslims to Nazis—pouring gasoline on what might have remained a brush fire.
The following day, President Obama caved. "I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there,” he said in response to a reporter’s question. What was intended as nuance was pounced on by the media as a John Kerry flip-flop; where he was for the mosque before, now he was against it.
Suddenly the Ground Zero mosque took over the news.
Direct marketers who fail to take current news into consideration will be sunk by it,” wrote Martin Gross, author of “The Direct Marketer’s Idea Book.”
September 2010 From Target Marketing
The more things change on Target Marketing's Top 50 Mailers list, the more they stay the same. As I write this, mail volume continues to plummet; the U.S. Postal Service reported a drop just shy of another billion pieces for the third quarter of its 2010 fiscal year. So with increasingly less First-Class and Standard Mail in circulation, what do consumers find in their mailboxes these days?
April 2010 From Target Marketing
Recently, I saw a photograph of a polar bear floating on a lonely hunk of ice in the Arctic, and the accompanying story told how these exquisite creatures will be doomed, victims of global warming. Sad.
October 2009 From Target Marketing
Pegg Nadler loves the unknown. Where others see challenges, she sees opportunities. Where others fear change, she fears boredom. These are some of the qualities that have driven her 30-year direct marketing career, the bulk of which she's spent advancing database marketing operations at commercial and nonprofit organizations and giving back to the direct marketing community. And they're why she's Target Marketing magazine's Direct Marketer of the Year.
June 17, 2009 From Tipline
In an ideal direct marketing world, all actions and initiatives that are taken on behalf of the environment by an organization are not only genuine and effective, but also recognized by prospects and customers. Of course, in an ideal world, there wouldn't have been such environmental degradation wrought by modern society and business in the first place and, thus, such a dire need for these corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives today.
May 27, 2009 From Tipline
Integration. It’s one of the biggest buzzwords out there these days and for good reason. Without an integrated direct marketing strategy, a successful future is unlikely. Today’s consumers live their lives, and do their shopping, in a wide array of channels, so marketers must target them in each appropriate channel—in a consistent and integrated way.
September 17, 2008 From Tipline
Green marketing messages are widespread, with environmental claims and certifications now almost commonplace among the many products and services that prospects receive. But are they effective? And if they aren't, why not?
