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Email ROI: Many Happy Returns

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Ray Tomlinson is widely acknowledged as the godfather of email, sending the first message way back in 1971, followed seven years later by Gary Thuerk who “hijacked” this largely government/military tool to send the first email marketing campaign. The rest, as they say, is history! Benchmarks: ROI, budgets, and key challenges.

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Email Data Quality: Compliant, Correct, Complete

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Validity and the Data & Marketing Association (DMA) recently published the ”Email Data Quality: Compliant, Correct, and Complete” report. It highlights how important most marketers consider data quality and its three core tenets of compliance, correctness, and completeness. For big businesses, the cost can be much greater.

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Data Quality: The CReaM of the Crop

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An obvious example is marketing, which has evolved into a primarily data-driven function, with many companies now hiring marketing technologists to combine IT and marketing skills to deliver high-performing programs. Most have defined budget for data quality ( 84% ), usually as part of their marketing budgets ( 51% ).

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