Thursday, October 15, 2015

New Product Injects Direct Mail in Retail Clickstream

A debut "programmatic direct mail" service hopes to inject a direct mail response boost into Internet retailers' clickstreams. The new PebblePost product, described in a recent Direct Marketing News report, offers a direct mail retargeting mechanism using real-time digital analytics so that, for example, an online customer's shopping cart abandonment triggers a postcard mailing that puts a personalized offer in the customer's mailbox within a few days. Pilot product testing mainly has involved online retailers and catalogers with the required first-party mailing address data. PebblePost is supported by partners that include Axciom, and the startup venture just received $3 million in funding for expanded visibility, per DM News. The article quotes PebblePost's CMO David Cooperstein, a former Forrester marketing analyst: "It is physical retargeting of digital activity, but it's also a powerful new form of direct mail. Here we know there's interest and there's relevancy, because these people were just on the website." For more, go to http://www.dmnews.com/direct-mail/programmatic-direct-mail-makes-its-debut/article/444135/

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