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There was a time when marketers tried to make sales by interrupting their customers. Old-style outboundmarketing methods like radio and TV ads, telemarketing, directmail, trade shows, and cold calls, of course, still work; if done right, they can still yield a good ROI.
And who doesn’t skip television ads or throw away unsolicited directmail? Email response rates, click-through rates and contact rates by telemarketers are all seeing rapid declines. Let’s face it folks, most marketing…well, it just sucks. Millions of Americans have joined the U.S. “Do Do Not Call” list.
We don’t do this directly of course, but whenever we sponsor a trade show, send out a directmail, or pay for a Google ad because we are not showing up in the organic search results, we are essentially paying for traffic. As a result of all this, outboundmarketing messages are becoming less effective.
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