Monday, September 14, 2009

What is Direct Marketing Lead?


Marketing is the most important area for the prosperity of any business venture. Marketing is a communications based, integrated process through which, people and communities are made aware of products and/or services that can cater to their new found needs and demands. Marketing is the set of institutions, the activity and the processes for generating, interacting, exchanging, and delivering offerings which have value for clients, customers, and society at large. Marketing is the process of identifying, analyzing, anticipating and catering to the needs of the people in a profitable manner. The entire process begins with marketing research, followed by segmentation of market, business planning, proper execution, analyzing the sales prior to and after the promotional events. Marketing which was earlier seen as a creative art, is now recognized as a emerging science as it involves everything from social science, sociology, psychology, economics, mathematics, neuroscience and anthropology. Direct Marketing Leads is a very important aspect of marketing.
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DMA or Direct Marketing Advertising is business strategy, in which the target sector or community is identified and marketing the product or service offered to that target group. The main idea is that marketing is mainly concentrated on the consumer groups that have shown inclination towards the product through their purchasing habits. Therefore marketing is heavily focused on consumer groups where there is a high interest on the product that is being marketed. Direct Marketing Leads help in identifying that high value group. This differs from the Mass marketing strategy, in that, this approach targets only the high value consumers, whereas Mass marketing approach concentrates on all consumers. The use of DMA has several benefits. The most important one si that the funds allocated to advertising, is mainly concentrated on attracting potential clients who are more likely to consider the new product or service offered. But this also has a down part. If the potential group is not rightly identified by a Lead generating team, the whole business venture could tumble. There fore Lead generation for Direct Marketing Advertising is a very crucial part in the Direct marketing process.


Generation of Lead or Lead-gen as it is commonly known is a marketing practice that arouses interest on the product being marketed among the target consumer group or inquiry into a business ventures' services offered or products. Signing up for an advertising offer, which includes the acquisition of contact information, demographic details, etc, is what is referred to as Lead. Leads or of two types. One is the marketing lead. The other is sales lead.
Mortgage, insurance and the finance markets generally employ Sales leads. Whereas marketing leads are pretty much used in any business venture, because every business venture needs marketing. Direct Marketing Leads are those which are generated for a single advertiser offer. They are brand specific. Direct Marketing leads are always sold only for a single time , unlike sales leads. Transparency is a must when it comes to Direct Marketing leads. And owing to this leads for Direct Marketing campaigns are made effective by mapping the Marketing leads to their source. The nature of generation of Direct marketing Leads depend entirely on how the buyer decides on the product that is being Directly Marketed.

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