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Database Marketing How-to Guides for Small Business

Learn about your options for how to set up and manage a marketing database to capture and store your customer and prospect information.  How-to guides, costs and top supplier reviews. Plus how to find database experts you can hire to help. 

What do you want to get done today?
  • Create a customer database
  • Add people to your customer database
  • Enhance your customer data
  • Develop a customer contact plan
  • Collect and save customer information
  • CRM (customer relationship marketing)
  • Create a customer satisfaction survey
  • Customer segmentation
  • Targeting
  • Marketing planning and strategy
  • Direct mail marketing
  • Sell more to existing customers
Help with Budgeting
  • Costs for a customer database
  • Direct mail costs
  • List costs
  • More help with budgeting and costs...
Top Suppliers
    For Premium Members
  • Top customer database suppliers
  • Top CRM suppliers
  • Data management services suppliers
  • Top direct mail marketing suppliers
  • Top direct mail list suppliers
  • Top market research suppliers
  • More Top Suppliers...
Marketing Advice From Your Peers
Learn what your peers and colleagues say about what works and doesn't work for marketing in your industry. Plus what people are paying, ways to save money, and who the top suppliers are.

 
How-to Do It Yourself
    How to do it. What it costs. Who can help.
  • Create a customer database
  • Collect customer data
  • Business customer data
  • Consumer / customer data to collect
  • Add to your mailing list
  • Buy a mailing list
  • Manage customer data
  • How to enhance customer data
  • How to create an effective direct mailer
  • Personalized direct mail
  • Personalized website addresses (PURLs)
  • Direct mail fulfillment for bulk mail
  • Tracking direct mail responses and ROI
  • Test direct mail
  • Create a newsletter
  • Trade shows and events
  • See all how-to guides
Hire Experts to Help
  • Select and hire a marketing consultant
  • Best sources for marketing freelancers
  • Who you can hire to help with direct mail
  • List brokers
  • Marketing agencies
  • How to select and hire a commercial printer
  • Find experts on MarketingZone
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