| Do any of these challenges sound familiar? | |||||
| Has your marketing plan stopped working, but your reporting gives you no idea why? | |||||
| Do you want to experiment with new marketing methods, but cant figure out how to get your systems to support the necessary tests? | |||||
| Are you encountering roadblocks to your e-marketing efforts because you cant extract the data you need from your membership or fulfillment system? | |||||
| Do you want to target customers/members who respond to both on- and offline marketing efforts but you cant figure out who they are? | |||||
| Are you spending too much effort and too many dollars on "experiments" that yield too few answers? | |||||
| If so, then: | |||||
| Consider these points: | |||||
| Even if you successfully install a new system, it will do you little good if it is not integrated with your current systems. | |||||
| You may not need a new system if you can improve coordination between the ones you already have. | |||||
| Integration is usually the key to improving the effectiveness of direct marketing systems. As a practical matter, the source of trouble is usually found in one or more of the following four areas: | |||||
| Inadequate or inappropriate storage of data. | |||||
| Ineffective movement of data between systems. | |||||
| Lack of intersystem reporting. | |||||
| Excessively manual processes built to make up for bad system integration. | |||||
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Bartol Consulting specializes in identifying and addressing these four issues using your existing resources. Find out what a typical Bartol Consulting engagement looks like by clicking here. Contact us by email
or phone at 240-460-6274. |
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| Other Bartol Consulting services: | |||||
| Database Marketing Project Management Technology Planning and Assessment | |||||
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