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Customer acquisition is fast becoming a distant second to customer retention, and with good reason. Once customers defect, it is increasingly difficult to win them back. On top of that, assisted by the Internet and emerging mobile technology, your competitors are able to match your service and price with more speed and agility than ever before. So how do you turn this same technology to your advantage?

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What to do with 'dormant' accounts on your email list

'Blogging rights'

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Constellation Hotels Increases Escape Club Membership Rate by 700%.

The recent launch of the Escape Club website, on-line sign-up form and e-newsletter has proven a smart move for the Constellation Hotel group. The Escape Club is a loyalty program set up for customers of the Chifley, Country Comfort and Australis hotels within the Constellation Hotel Group, providing privileges which includes free night stays.



Before the launch of this e-channel solution, Escape Club had an average sign-up rate of seven per week over fax and off-line customer points. Now, two weeks after their soft launch, they are experiencing a peak of around 15 a day: that's an average increase of some 900%.

So, what contributed to this success?

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What to do with 'dormant' accounts on your email list

One of my clients, let's just call him 'Jaime', publishes an e-newsletter to nearly 12,000 customers every month, with a good 57-60% open rate. He called me last week, just wondering what the other 40 odd percent were doing with his email and what he should be doing with them. A colleague of his in Direct Marketing told him that if they hadn't opened his email in 6 months, he should just remove them from his mailing list. Jaime called me for some advice regarding this.

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'Blogging rights'

How many of you out there follow the online musings of your favourite political commentators, or study the diaries of Samuel Pepys? Not many? Well how about sneaking a peak at a Washington intern's very frank and risqué journal? Yes, thought that would get your attention!

Regardless of what 'turns you on', if you're avidly following the personal thoughts and comments of another human being through a web site, then chances are it's a 'blog'.

Oh no, not a blog?! How could I have been so stupid?! I'd better format my hard drive then!

Before you panic and start ripping Cat 5 cables out of the wall, don't, because it's not as bad as it seems:

A 'blog' or 'weblog', as defined by Wikipedia.org, is:

"A website which contains periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts on a common webpage. Such a web site would typically be accessible to any Internet user. Part of the reason "blog" was coined and commonly accepted into use is the fact that in saying "blog", confusion with server log is avoided. Individual posts (which taken together are the blog or weblog) either share a particular theme, or a single or small group of authors."

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Online Event Registration Software Hits The Spot

The long-awaited release of the PeopleLogic:) Event Module was announced at Sydney On Sale last month.
The module integrates e-mail invitations, ticketing, online registration and SMS to create a cost effective way to boost registration numbers and reduce admin hassles for event managers. The Event Module slots seamlessly into the popular web based PeopleLogic:) E-communication Suite and can be used in conjunction with the other modules or as a stand alone unit

Interest was high at the show which saw more than 6000 visitors in two days.
For more information on the Event Module contact PeopleLogic:) on 1300 737 277 or email

Avoiding Subject Lines That Alert Spam Filters.

Legitimate e-mails are sometimes swept away with the tide by automatic spam filtering. Whether it's a newsletter or a single, one-to-one message, there are a number of phrases and words that are best avoided to ensure that your baby isn't thrown out with the bath water.

To help you, we have compiled a list of words and phrases which best avoided in your subject lines. This doesn't include those to do with sex (use your imagination) or over punctuation, which should also be avoided.

The List..

Jargon Busters

List fatigue: A condition producing diminishing returns from a mailing list whose members are sent too many offers, or too many of the same offers, in too short a period of time.

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