ADMA Data Day audience poll results on consumer contact preference vs. channel effectiveness

With the support of Edentify (thanks guys, super fast turn-around on your end) we did a little live poll this morning at the ADMA Data Day 2009 asking a couple of hundred Australian direct marketers the following two questions:

Poll 1: Thinking of yourself as a consumer which of the following channels would you prefer companies to use when communicating with you (select only one)?

Poll 2: Putting your direct marketer head back on, which is the most effective direct marketing channel for your company (select only one)?

The below results are only very top-line and would most likely differ by industry and product (i.e. price) but it's comforting to see that a great majority of people would like to be communicated with via email and that marketers also think email is a very effective channel that works for them (same goes for DM). More of a concern is that is seems that no-one really wants a phone call but quite a few marketers consider phone calls an effective direct marketing channel.

If all this sounds like a familiar challenge to you and you'd like to know how data and analytics can help to select the most suitable channel at the right point in time or just want to contribute to industry best practice then please join the new ADMA Data & Analytics council by emailing councils@adma.com.au.

Check out the Edentify Bubble Toolbox yourself hereĀ 
http://www.edentify.com.au/

Forrester ExactTarget report on changing consumer contact preferences

According to the report email gained in popularity for marketing messages but Internet users reported using it less for their own written communications, the biggest increase here happened in social networks.

Read the original article here or download the full report from ExactTarget
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007330
http://pages.exacttarget.com/channel_bundle_home

   
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Forrester_ExactTarget_report_o.zip (20 KB)

Google Ad Preferences lets you control your Google cookie profile

Follow the below link to add or delete interests to your Google profile so you only see ads that are relevant to you. Why is not every publisher or online retailer offering something similar? The technology certainly is not rocket science and aside from increasing trust with customers by being open about profiling and putting them in control it has also the potential to significantly increase response and conversion rates!

http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

Interest areas you can chose from are: Animals, Arts & Humanities, Automotive, Beauty & Personal Care, Business, Computers & Electronics, Entertainment, Finance & Insurance, Food & Drink, Games, Home & Garden, Industries, Internet, Lifestyles, Local, News & Current Events, Photo & Video, Real Estate, Recreation, Reference, Science, Shopping, Social Networks & Online Communities, Society, Sports,. Telecommunications, Travel.