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AI can find your ideal customers, but only humans can build real relationships

Martech

Beyond the inbox: Creative engagement strategies While AI and digital are essential, using old-school physical things like corporate gifts, swag and direct mail will make you truly stand out. Direct mail: Direct mail is so far out, that it’s in again. Swag: Branded items have their place, too.

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AmEx’s Member-Get-Member program is a winner with Millennials, Gen Z

Martech

Some 79% of referrals through the program represent the Millennial or Gen Z age groups – and a statistic like that can hardly be a coincidence. AmEx has a range of acquisition channels, digital and traditional, such as paid search, display, affiliate channels, and in certain markets direct mail. Personalization and relevance.

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Gaining referrals from Millennials and Gen Z: Thursday’s daily brief

Martech

Some 79% of referrals through the program represent the Millennial or Gen Z age groups – and a statistic like that can hardly be a coincidence. AmEx has a range of acquisition channels, digital and traditional, such as paid search, display, affiliate channels, and in certain markets direct mail.

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Email: Wanted Dead or Alive [Infographic]

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Sure companies have access to social media, direct mail, and TV opportunities for communicating their message, yet email marketing is still the quickest and most direct way to reach the customer. And email has even been deemed the favorite mode of communication reported by millennials. Clearly email isn’t dead.

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How to Target Generation X Through Paid Ads

Neil Patel

Generation X has often been ignored as marketers instead targeted the larger baby boomer and millennial generations. There are about 65 million Generation X, and they outspend millennials by 41 percent and baby boomers by 18 percent. The X refers to the variable “x,” allowing them to be named but perhaps not limited by one definition.

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4 Reasons Why Marketing Automation Fails

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

A great example is that most millennials communicate using mobile, while retirees prefer to use email or direct mail. The key is to remember who’s ultimately receiving your marketing messages on the other side of that computer, mobile device, or direct mail: individuals.

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How Would You Answer “Why Does Most Marketing Stink?”

Marketing Insider Group

44% of direct mail is never opened and goes straight to the trash - Tweet This! Recent eye-tracking studies show 18-34 year-old millennials do not look at banners on the web pages they visit - Tweet This! 86% of us skip TV ads - Tweet This! 90% of emails are never opened and 99.5% of emails receive no clicks - Tweet This!