Contrary to popular belief, advertisers will be using direct mail marketing even more in the future,” says an infographic released by the Experian Data Quality group. If you’re wondering how that can be possible, consider these stats noted in the infographic: • Some 70% of Americans say physical mail is “more personal” than email. • …

Freud schreef ooit dat weten geen enkel effect heeft op waarheid. Je kunt een neuroticus nog zoveel inzicht geven in zijn symptomen en waar ze vandaan komen, het heeft geen effect. Omdat de waarheid is dat zijn fobieën of dwangbeelden – hoe disfunctioneel ze ook lijken – een rol spelen in het bedwingen van angst, …

So… you are running an email campaign, and you’ve planned your schedule. That’s great! You’ve developed a campaign plan and you’ve segmented your list. Even better! But now it’s time to craft the actual emails. You send emails every day, you’ve been practicing for this since you got your first AOL account, it should be …

I’m going to give myself a letter grade in personal branding: F. F is for failure. Yeah, if I’m to look back on my career from a personal branding point of view, I deserve the harsh grade. Why? I was a laggard. I failed to get serious about developing my personal brand until I was …

Let’s face it, making a viral brand video is a marketer’s Holy Grail. From the classic sneezing baby panda to the more recent human Gumby dog toy, viral videos pop up out of nowhere and swiftly take the Web by storm, amassing millions of views, shares, and press hits along the way. With that much …

Werkgevers moeten hun personeel meer ruimte geven om nieuwe vaardigheden te ontwikkelen, ook als die vaardigheden niet direct aansluiten bij de baan van de werknemer. Dat schrijft de Organisatie voor Economische Samenwerking en Ontwikkeling (OESO) in een rapport over de Nederlandse arbeidsmarkt. Hoe valt dit in de praktijk te brengen? De Sociaal Economische Raad (SER) …

When it’s time to bring in a new addition to your marketing team, finding the right person can be an arduous task. This article discusses what qualities in a marketer help make a marketing team stronger, as well as how to narrow down an overwhelming list of resumes to make the right hire. Finding the …

Almost one in five (18%) FTSE 100 CEOs are former marketers, according to new research from Heidrick & Struggles. This makes marketing the second most common route to the CEO position, behind only those with a background in finance (36%). The recruitment firm’s 2017 Route to the Top study explores the backgrounds of CEOs at …

You’ve surely seen those eye charts with hundreds of marketing technology vendor logos. There are the iconic LUMAscapes by Terence Kawaja. And there’s my own chiefmartec.com marketing technology landscape, which last year organized 3,874 martech solutions on a single slide. (Spoiler alert: the upcoming 2017 edition will have more.) These charts provoke a visceral reaction …