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	<title>Marketing Forward &#187; Amanda Brief</title>
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		<title>Three programs you can use now to boost holiday sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Brief</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[holiday]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have outlined three programs taken from our holiday marketing report that marketers can use this holiday season.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As marketers embrace the upcoming holiday season, they must align themselves with the tools and insights to help identify their most valuable customers and target them with highly personalized and dynamic messaging. Recently, Experian Marketing Services’ developed <a href="http://go.experian.com/forms/ems-2012-holiday-planning-webinar" class="broken_link">The 2012 holiday marketing checklist </a>to help marketers unwrap these key trends and insights and drive strong results. Below we have outlined three programs taken from our report that marketers can leverage this holiday season.</p>
<p><strong>Text-to-join program    </strong></p>
<p>Marketers can organically grow their mobile base by initiating a text-to-join program to allow mobile users to opt in to receive promotional text messages.</p>
<ul>
<li>Choose a specialized keyword or style</li>
<li>Create a campaign to engage subscribers</li>
<li>Build a call to action like an in-unit display or window signage to promote the Short Message Service (SMS) program</li>
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<p><strong>Loyalty program</strong></p>
<p>Businesses can set up a loyalty program where customers gain reward points to help increase engagement and retention rates with customers. Although there can be many barriers to entry, setting up a loyalty program is the best way to create a link between the customer and transactional data. It enables marketers to gain visibility into who their best customers are and market directly to them.</p>
<p><strong>Retail address capture</strong></p>
<p>Marketers can capture transactional data after a purchase is made in a store to get a direct profile of who customers are, from economic status to key demographics. By understanding who is shopping in your store, you can better target them with personalized and dynamic content in other channels.</p>
<p>To learn more about our holiday insights, join our <a href="http://go.experian.com/forms/ems-2012-holiday-planning-webinar" class="broken_link">webinar</a> on October 25<sup>th</sup>. Our resident data experts Bill Tancer and Regina Gray will review holiday trends and offer insights you can use to update your email, search and social campaigns based on real-time data.</p>
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		<title>Develop a winning online marketing program</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/marketing-forward/2012/07/11/develop-a-winning-online-marketing-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Brief</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[audience segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[case study]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Experian Audience IQ]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Identifying true customers and understanding where growth opportunities exist are common questions businesses strive to answer. See how a financial services company leveraged Experian Marketing’s targeting solutions to develop a winning online marketing program.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Identifying who your true customers are and understanding where growth opportunities exist are common questions businesses strive to answer. Axcess Financial, a respected leader in the sub-prime, underbanked and unbanked credit industry, needed help identifying the online behavior and attributes of consumers who were in-market for their products and determining how to outperform their competitors online.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.experian.com/blogs/marketing-forward/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/afcs-report-cover.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-4392" title="afcs-report-cover" src="http://www.experian.com/blogs/marketing-forward/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/afcs-report-cover.jpg" alt="Axcess Financial Case Study" width="200" height="261" /></a>By leveraging Experian Marketing Services’ targeting solutions such as <a href="http://www.experian.com/hitwise/">Experian Hitwise</a> and <a href="http://www.experian.com/marketing-services/digital-advertising.html">Audience IQ</a>, Axcess Financial was able to overcome the following challenges:</p>
<ul>
<li>Understand which channels and keywords are most effective in driving low cost, qualified traffic to their website</li>
<li>Identify the segments of consumers with the highest on-site conversion rates</li>
<li>Understand how their key competitors drive converting traffic</li>
<li>Find a solution that would ensure display ads were only shown to their target audience segments in precise geographies</li>
<li>More profitably acquire new customers</li>
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<p>Axcess Financial was able to develop a winning online marketing program with outstanding results. in fact, they grew their business by <strong>450%</strong> over two years and successfully lower their cost per acquisition (CPA) by <strong>71%</strong>.</p>
<p>To learn more, download our latest <a href="http://www.experian.com/hitwise/axcess-financial-case-study.html">case study</a>.</p>
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