Michael Collins
Michael Collins
Database Marketing Counsel
Michael Collins runs Database Marketing Counsel, a data strategy and CRM consultancy in London. An acknowledged consultant, trainer and author with 2+ years experience in CRM, he contributes articles regularly to web sites and journals and has delivered his lectures and workshops in Europe, North America and Asia.
Increased Effectiveness of Your E-Communications
Understanding a customer's needs is essential to good business – it is a basic tenet of marketing. But add to that insight into how...
A Vacation Is Not a One-Off Sale
I have often been surprised to what extent travel companies still look upon each sale as a conquest rather than the next transaction in...
Don’t Forget That Customer Experience Includes Hopes and Dreams
Buying a car is one of the last bastions of making a purchase where one can forget for a moment one is over 50....
How Do Sales and Marketing Collaborate?
The key to sales and marketing cooperation is to use data to direct the marketers on the marketing mix and present the prospects most...
You Can Find Nuggets of Opportunity in Your Data
We're told that businesses can find tremendous benefits from analyzing the vast amounts of data they collect. And it's true. In fact, you can...
The Web Puts a New Spin on the Campaign Management Loop
The growth of the World Wide Web has implications on both sides of the data-driven communications equation. On the one hand, the web provides...