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Why Roger Federer May Never Win Another Wimbledon (But the business world will continue to append emails)


Whoa! Where did we just go now. Tennis. Now wasn't that a good old American sport when Connors, Mcenroe, Sampras and Agassi ruled the roost at different phases. But why in the world are even talking tennis. Well let's just say that something just got me thinking, about how some...

Email Appending Process for Beginners – Opt In and Opt Out


Marketing, we know it has undergone a distinct shift in the last few years. Companies have been the biggest beneficiaries of this transition, due to the humongous drop in costs thanks to the evolution of new avenues in marketing. But while these opportunities have opened up possibilities for achieving more...

Email Appending in the Digital Marketing Universe


Not all Marketing Heads are wired the same. Some are proactive, some others strategic, many others formulaic. The marketing decisions of a company may often be guided by the inherent DNA of its Marketing leadership. So let me try and map this situation out to a space called list management. It...

What The Email You Didn’t Append Cost You


The email that you appended cost you $0.50. The email that you didn't append cost you $50,000. Don’t even venture to calculate the negative ROI. It would depress the best of us marketers to work this math. But then the story of most companies, retold in a myriad ways, runs a...

List Building to Email Appending, The Sales Cycle Mantra


Building your internal database and appending emails to them may seem like mutually inclusive processes but they are in fact two equally relevant and hugely connected processes that work towards the same goal. Both these processes form the backbone for the online pre-sales activity of the company. From prospecting to...

Opt-In vs Opt-Out – Email Appending


Email Appending is not just a mere business experimentation nowadays. It has become more of a necessity to a company's marketing initiatives and plans. Why has email appending become such a success in a company's business decisions? It’s because Email appending provides a much cheaper and faster alternative in exploring...

Building Industry Specific Prospect Data


Much has been spoken about the importance of maintaining a qualified repository of marketing data. But the most important part of managing this data is to organize it according to certain important criteria – the key being industry segment. Industry segments are classified on the basis of SIC (Standard Industry...

The Rationale of an Append Test


All my blogs have focused on the processes of email appending or list building and the beneficial effects of these on a company’s ROI. The basic idea of email appending or Custom List building is to provide a full fledged marketing list with all the necessary contact information for the...

Zen and the Art of Email Appending


Many summers ago, I found myself hooked to Robert Pirsig’s Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (along with a sizable population of the world) and couldn't help but wonder how simple metaphysical truths could have a correlation with automobiles. And a few summers down the road, when I stepped...

Charting Online Marketing Success with Email Appending


To say that the marketing universe is a populated landscape might be like stating the obvious. But in today’s context, this assumes more relevance than ever. Back in the day, when organizations’ spend big budgets on direct marketing channels alone, vendors had only direct lists to worry about. The 21st...