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Marketing Database Conversion: “There’s no app for that.”

Marketing Database Conversion: “There’s no app for that.”

Posted on September 7, 2016 · Posted in Business, Customer relationship management, Marketing

“Marketing database conversion projects are STILL more challenging than 3D chess.” We take you now to the news studios of CRM-TV: Moderator: BREAKING NEWS! Yet another marketing database implementation project has.. read more

Customer Scoring for Marketing Newbies: Introducing R-F-M

Customer Scoring for Marketing Newbies: Introducing R-F-M

Posted on August 3, 2016 · Posted in Business, Customer response, Marketing

While the axiom “all men are created equal” serves our country well, marketers know that not all customers are equal. R-F-M scoring of customers (Recency, Frequency, Monetary Value) offers a.. read more

Peanuts & Free Shipping: Are Your Loyalty Initiatives Working?

Peanuts & Free Shipping: Are Your Loyalty Initiatives Working?

Posted on June 15, 2016 · Posted in Catalog Marketing

The summer semester of my Johns Hopkins CRM (customer relationship management) class began anew this week. New students, new changes in the CRM marketplace, and a new curriculum that our.. read more

Omni-Channel Marketing: Can We Get There from Here?

Omni-Channel Marketing: Can We Get There from Here?

Posted on May 13, 2016 · Posted in Catalog Marketing

Perhaps the biggest hurdle of omni-channel marketing lies in understanding the scope of the term. The phrase has become a bit of a Holy Grail, not unlike in the 1960s.. read more

WiseGuys Completes Another Installation of “Site RFM” Module

WiseGuys Completes Another Installation of “Site RFM” Module

Posted on March 14, 2016 · Posted in Catalog Marketing, News

Recency, Frequency, and Monetary Value (RFM) has been a tried-and-true metric in consumer marketing for decades. It is most valuable when used to predict the response from a marketing campaign. By.. read more

The Science and Art of Customer Lifetime Value

The Science and Art of Customer Lifetime Value

Posted on March 1, 2016 · Posted in Catalog Marketing

We just hosted a great webinar on Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Marketers talk at length about how helpful it is to know the net profit they’re likely to accrue from acquiring.. read more

Catalog University Foundations of CRM

Back to School for Marketers

Posted on September 8, 2015 · Posted in Catalog Marketing, News

With the stores full of notebooks, crayons, glue sticks, and other colorful back-to-school supplies, you might find yourself wishing you could return to the classroom too… Of course you already.. read more

Desktop Marketing Changes Company Name to WiseGuys Marketing

Desktop Marketing Changes Company Name to WiseGuys Marketing

Posted on April 9, 2015 · Posted in News

Many of you have known us for years as Desktop Marketing Solutions Inc. or DMSI. Today we’re announcing that we have changed the company name to WiseGuys Marketing. When our.. read more

Near-Term Value: More evidence that its time has come

Near-Term Value: More evidence that its time has come

Posted on October 16, 2012 · Posted in Uncategorized

Customer Lifetime Value is a topic that appears often in our blog and others – and yet it still seems to struggle to gain traction.  LTV discussions appear from time.. read more

Success is Social Marketing NOT Social Media

Success is Social Marketing NOT Social Media – Part 1 of 2

Posted on September 5, 2012 · Posted in Uncategorized

Many of you know that I am an Adjunct Professor in CRM at the Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins Univ. I have invited a fellow instructor and colleague –.. read more