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Using Hyper-targeting and Hyper-personalization Without Relying on Sensitive Personal Information

Direct Marketing, Personalization, Marketing Data, Hyper-targeting, Hyper-personalization April 25, 2024

This is the last of four blog posts on Hyper-targeting and Hyper-Personalization. In this post we will explain how these two strategies can be applied without using sensitive or protected personal information. If you missed any previous installments, you can find them here: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3

In today's digital marketing landscape, the integration of hyper-targeting, hyper-personalization, alongside behavioral insights and data-driven creativity, can set the stage for groundbreaking multi-channel campaigns.

Here's what you need to know to get the most out of your efforts...

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Using Hyper-targeting and Hyper-personalization in Banking, Credit Cards and Insurance

Direct Marketing, Personalization, Data Marketing, Hyper-targeting, Hyper-personalization April 18, 2024

This is the third of four blog posts on Hyper-targeting and Hyper-Personalization. In this post we will explain how these two strategies can be applied in data rich categories such as banking, credit cards and insurance. This includes strategies for each channel, as well as real world examples. If you missed previous installments you can find them here: Click here for Part 1. Click here for Part 2

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The Benefits of Hyper-Targeting and Hyper Personalization

Direct Marketing, Personalization, Data Marketing, Hyper-targeting, Hyper-personalization April 12, 2024

This is the second of four blog posts on Hyper-targeting and Hyper-Personalization. These two strategies are frequently misunderstood, as marketers attempt to use one strategy, when they really mean the other. In this post, the benefits of using each strategy individually are explained, as well as the benefits of integrating and using them together to create a seamless marketing funnel. If you missed the first installment of the series, you can find it here.

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Transforming Marketing with Hyper-targeting and Hyper-personalization

Direct Marketing, Personalization, Relationship Marketing, Hyper-targeting, Hyper-personalization April 4, 2024

This is the first of four blog posts on Hyper-targeting and Hyper-Personalization. In this post, each of these strategies is defined, and their similarities and differences outlined. Also, some ideas are provided for how each of these strategies can be applied within different marketing channels like direct mail, email, search and content marketing.

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Recession Marketing: The Direct Approach

Personalization, Marketing Data July 4, 2022

In any economic downturn, marketers can quickly find themselves in unfamiliar territory. Sure, no two recessions are alike. But marketers who have been around the block once or twice (or three times) may notice patterns in consumers’ purchasing behavior and/or in marketers’ strategies. And those strategies can either boost or bust their overall performance.

Often what you’ll see in a recession is consumers will tighten their belts and reduce their spending. As a result, sales drop and companies start cutting costs and reducing prices. Budget cuts across the board follow.

But hold on… wholesale reductions like these can be a mistake.

So, How Do You Market In Times Like These?

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System Failure - Please Check Your Marketing Message

Personalization, Marketing Data June 16, 2022

With hundreds and hundreds of decisions to make every hour, how do humans ever get through the day?

Well, it comes down to System 1 and System 2 thinking.
For example, if a speeding taxi were racin
g toward you as you stepped off the curb, you’d jump back. No thinking involved.

Or maybe it’s something more subtle, like noticing the facial cues of an angry boss. Either way, in these types of situations, your thinking is automatic. That's called System 1 – and it’s a far cry from the more deliberate kind of thinking you do when you’re asked to work through an algebra problem, assemble some new furniture, or do your taxes — the long-form. That’s System 2 thinking.

The idea that we use two systems to process information was detailed by Daniel Kahneman in his best-selling book, Thinking Fast and Slow.

And this concept is directly related to marketing and how consumers arrive at a purchase/no-purchase decision?

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Is AI Part of Your Marketing Plan?

Personalization, Marketing Data June 5, 2022

It’s been quite a ride.

COVID-19… The Great resignation… Hybrid work styles…

For marketers, this has been the most tumultuous 2+ years in recent memory.

But if you’re reading this, congratulations, you made it this far...

So enough already. Enough looking back, enough lamenting about what was.

Let’s take a look ahead.

What’s next?

What’s out on the horizon?

What could impact your business in the next two years?

Well, how about Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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3 Data Trends That Should Drive Your 2022 Marketing Objectives

Personalization, Marketing Data April 7, 2022

Did you know 90% of the world’s data was created in the past two years?  

It’s true.  

It’s one of the many takeaways in Simon Data’s 2022 State of Customer Data report (available here).  

That statistic alone shows how vital it is to stay on top of the latest consumer data, trends and habits. This exponential growth means marketers need to keep up… or get left behind.  

So looking ahead: what’s next for marketing data? Here’s how data trends are evolving in 2022. 


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The 4 Keys To Personalization in Marketing

Digital Marketing, Personalization, Data Marketing February 13, 2020

With the growing number of messages people receive today — online and offline — the importance of delivering a message that resonates with the user has never been more important. Creating a personalized message that creates a connection is critical, and with the increasing amount of data available to marketers, personalization options have only expanded. Personalization needs to be incorporated into all marketing, shopping and service experiences. In many of his presentations on personalization, J&C's CEO Ron Jacobs has referenced the 4 R’s of personalization from Accenture and discussed how they are key ingredients in connecting with prospects and customers. This blog explores these 4 key components of personalization and how you can use them to better connect with your customers.

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Moving Personalization from Tactic to Strategy

Direct Marketing, Personalization, Email Marketing February 6, 2020

Personalization in communications is not new. Direct marketers have used it in direct mail since the first computers and printers were used for marketing in the mid-twentieth century. Today, variable data printing technologies mean that marketers can personalize every word of a direct mail package, from outer envelope to letter, brochure and response device. Email marketers have had the same option since email’s first day.

Today, personalized email or direct mail communications don’t seem optional. Yet many marketers that use personalization often report poor results. So, what has held personalization back?

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