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    Laura Cross

    There have been two blog posts in the 10 Goals I have for Marketers in 2010 series, today’s post is on goal #2; review the health of your database.

    A great database helps you identify, profile and target the right people, at the right time.  So if your ability to communicate is only as good as

    Laura Cross

    Typically when clients first start with marketing automation they have to complete a data audit where they begin to understand how their data (the good, the bad and the ugly) affects their marketing effectiveness. 

    One area I see most often in B2B (businesses that sell to other businesses) organizations is the need for moving from a

    Heather Foeh

    In our series about declining email response rates, so far we’ve looked at:

    Cleaning out inactive contacts
    Online reputation measurement
    Follow-up timing

    Today we’re going to talk about purchased list. (Hint: Bad Idea!)

    Are you buying email lists from other sources and adding those folks into your database? Don’t. I mean it: stop right now. First of all, the success