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Putting mobile banking on the map

Without knowing how many of its customers are ready to embrace mobile banking, a credit union could find itself over-investing in the service. Location intelligence can help uncover the answer.

August 20, 2012

Tags:Location intelligence, Predictive analytics, Credit unions, Mobile, Mobile banking

Case Study

Banking on better results through uplift modeling

Portrait Uplift enables U.S. Bank to identify only those customers that will respond positively to marketing.

August 20, 2012

Tags:Portrait Uplift, Marketing, Uplift modeling, Cross-sell

Article

Where the ‘Culture of Discounting’ Meets the Law of Diminishing Returns

Desperate to drive sales during tough times, retailers may have been offering discounts to customers who would have been willing to pay full price, needlessly cutting into profits.

July 20, 2012

Tags:Retail, Discounts, Uplift analysis, Portrait Uplift, Customer targeting, Customer segmentation

White Paper

How Green is Your Mail?

Consumers in UK, France and Germany reveal misconceptions over environmental impact of direct mail.

June 22, 2012

Tags:Pitney Bowes, Integrated marketing

White Paper

Dividing Marketing Investment

European businesses disagree over how to split marketing budgets between customer retention and prospecting.

June 22, 2012

Tags:Pitney Bowes, Customer relationships, Integrated marketing

White Paper

Colourful Connections

Exploring the impact of colour and its role in business communications.

June 22, 2012

Tags:Pitney Bowes, Integrated marketing communications

White Paper

Best Practices in Business Continuity

How planning for the worst can be the best thing for your business.

June 22, 2012

Tags:Pitney Bowes, Customer relationships

Video

Personal Connections ECHO Award

Pitney Bowes invites marketers around the world to submit entries for the inaugural Personal Connections ECHO Award. The award recognizes companies and marketers that lead the way in customer communications by using customer insights and marketing to create personal, long-lasting consumer relationships.

May 9, 2012

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DMA and Pitney Bowes Invite Marketers to Submit Entries for 2012 'Personal Connections ECHO Award'

DMA and Pitney Bowes team up to offer a new award recognizing marketing excellence.

May 9, 2012

Tags:ECHO Award

Article

The Power of Integrated Marketing

There are many ways to communicate with your customers today and it's best to look at the ones your customers prefer.

May 3, 2012

Tags:Integrated marketing, Email, Direct mail, Targeting customers, Monitoring customer behavior

Article

Direct Mail + Email = Improved ROI

By combining the two forms of communication you can actually save money and increase revenue at the same time.

May 3, 2012

Tags:Direct mail, Email marketing, ROI, Increase revenue, Reduce costs, Enhanced customer experience

Video

How Pitney Bowes helps mid-size businesses

Through customer profiling and targeting, personalizing communications and monitoring customer interaction, Pitney Bowes is helping companies decrease costs and drive revenue.

May 3, 2012

Tags:Personalized communications, Customer targeting, Get customers, Keep customers

Video

Enabling Lifetime Customer Relationships

John O'Hara, Vice President and President, Pitney Bowes Software Solutions speaks about enabling lifetime customer relationships.

April 2, 2012

Tags:Customer relationships, Customer retention

Article

Lost in Translation

Branding on a global scale is like playing the ultimate game of "telephone." By the time a company's message has made its way around the world, there's a good chance it's been changed beyond recognition.

March 28, 2012

Tags:Brand management, Campaign management, Distributed marketing

Article

Brand globally, market locally

With the right technology, companies can protect their brands while still giving dealers and franchisees the flexibility to craft localized marketing campaigns.

March 28, 2012

Tags:Web portal, Campaign management

Article

The Power of QR Code Marketing

QR codes are gaining momentum as a powerful, flexible and engaging marketing tool.

March 8, 2012

Tags:QR codes, Uplift, Invoicing, Statements, Billing, Marketing enhancement, Getting customers, Keeping customers

Video

Pitney Bowes Knows More Than Mail

Pitney Bowes marketers ─ Justin Amendola, Chris Giles and Bernie Gracy ─ discuss how the company has evolved from being a leader in mailing equipment to a leader in physical and digital customer communications for companies of all sizes.

February 27, 2012

Tags:Customer communication, Pitney Bowes

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The Challenges of Invoicing Customers

Maintaining good customer relationships is important and invoicing can be a dicey proposition. We offer suggestions on turning this situation into a potential relationship building process.

February 24, 2012

Tags:Customer retention, Uplift, Invoicing, Statements, Billing

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Keeping Your Customers

Behavioral economists advise marketers to stop focusing retention efforts on "high-risk" customers and instead turn their attention to those who can most likely be convinced to stay.

February 3, 2012

Tags:Customer retention, Uplift, Predictive analytics, Behavioral economics

Case Study

The Power of Foresight

Using sophisticated modeling, T-Mobile was able to accurately target the right customers, with the right offer, at the right time to reduce churn dramatically.

February 3, 2012

Tags:Predictive analytics, Customer retention, Uplift modeling

Article

It’s all about her

It’s no longer enough to simply claim your company is “customer-focused.” Businesses now need to engage with each customer as an individuals and create a complete experience.

January 24, 2012

Tags:Customer experience, Customer interaction

Article

Real-time Restaurant Review

Shoeless Joe’s was the first business in Canada to adopt a new survey system for gathering instant customer feedback, in this case from diners awaiting their check.

January 24, 2012

Tags:Customer experience, Location intelligence

Article

The importance of where

People commonly associate "Location, location, location" with the real estate business. But in fact, geography is crucial to decisions in every industry—not to mention public policy.

January 12, 2012

Tags:Location intelligence, Predictive analytics, Geographic data, GIS

Article

Understanding consumer tastes

Using the science of location to bring more patrons into every restaurant.

January 12, 2012

Tags:Location intelligence, Predictive analytics, Geographic data, GIS

Article

Closing the e-Deal

Online retailers are losing out on nearly $110 billion in sales a year because their sites fail to deliver a great customer experience when it counts most ─ at check-out time.

December 22, 2011

Tags:E-commerce, Best practices, International

Article

Customer story: Breaking e-trade barriers

In six months, Dabee went from a start-up to a global e-tailer with customers in 50 countries.

December 22, 2011

Tags:E-commerce, International, Customer story

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Gold Rush

Winning your share of soaring online sales around the world.

December 22, 2011

Tags:E-commerce, International, Consumer preferences

Article

Marital Bliss: Data integration is key to a successful bank merger

It’s hard enough nurturing customer relationships. It’s far more complicated in the midst of a post-merger rebranding—and worse still when the underlying databases don’t even talk to each other.

December 15, 2011

Tags:Data integration, Data consolidation, Data quality

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Q&A: Spinning raw data into gold

Customer information is usually stored in multiple silos. Organizations that are able to pull this information together gain a significant competitive advantage. A conversation with Scott Arnett.

December 15, 2011

Tags:Data flow, Customer information, Interview, Marketing

Article

Data Diagnosis: The high cost of mistakes in the age of ‘Big Data’

Everybody is talking about “Big Data” these days. But when the data is bad, the consequences can be dire ― for financial markets, for businesses and even for personal relationships.

December 6, 2011

Tags:Data quality, Data management

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Whose data is it, anyway?

Many senior leaders mistakenly believe that data quality is an IT problem. In today's world, data quality must be a responsibility shared across the organization.

December 6, 2011

Tags:Data quality, Data management

Article

Crystal Ball - Predict which customers are worth targeting

Analytical tools can now help marketers identify in advance which customers to target. By narrowing their focus, marketers can strengthen customer relationships and increase ROI.

November 30, 2011

Tags:Uplift modeling, Customer targeting

White Paper

Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

Most direct marketing targets the wrong people. Uplift modeling can change that by predicting how individual customers are likely to react to a particular campaign.

November 30, 2011

Tags:Uplift modeling, Direct marketing

Article

When opportunity knocks — or calls

The call center is becoming an increasingly important customer touch point, as consumers become immune to “push” marketing.

November 23, 2011

Tags:Call centers

Article

Mental opt-out: Email marketing's silent killer

Many consumers are ignoring emails from their favorite brands. How can your business avoid a similar fate?

November 16, 2011

Tags:Email marketing

Article

A sure thing is a bad bet when it comes to email marketing

Learn how to design smarter email campaigns that reduce costs, increase revenue and strengthen lifetime customer relationships.

November 14, 2011

Tags:Email marketing

Article

Making it personal

How do you get people’s attention in this over-communicated, multichannel world? One at a time, it turns out. When it comes to customer communications, it’s a brave new world. The biggest change? Your customers are in charge.

November 11, 2011

Tags:Predictive analytics, Data quality, Customer profiling tools, Multichannel communications strategy, Document composition software, Production software

Article

Hug Your Customers

Treating customers well is an obsession for Jack Mitchell, CEO of Connecticut-based the Mitchells Family of Stores. It's also the vision behind Mitchell's book, Hug Your Customers.

October 3, 2011

Tags:Customer communication

Article

How to Transform Insurance Legacy Systems: Ten Best Practices for Growth

Migrating IT systems and processes from legacy environments to next-generation solutions is a sizable investment with hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of dollars in returned value. Read ten best practices for migrating legacy systems to next-generation solutions.

October 3, 2011

Tags:Best practices

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Independent Research Firm Ranks Pitney Bowes Business Insight as a "Leader" in Document Output for Customer Communications Management

Pitney Bowes Business Insight, a global leader in customer data, analytics and communication software and services, announced that it was ranked a “leader” in the September 2011 Forrester Research, Inc. report, The Forrester Wave™: Document Output For Customer Communications Management [DOCCM], Q3 2011.

September 20, 2011

Tags:Pitney Bowes, CCM, Pitney Bowes Business Insight

Video

Strengthening Customer Relationships

A conversation with Kevin Klein of Pitney Bowes.

August 1, 2011

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Video

The Power of Targeted Communications

Alan Kraft, president of direct marketing firm Media Horizons, talks about maximizing lifetime customer value.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Pitney Bowes

Video

The Long-Term Cost of Email Opt-Out

Jeff Nicholson, Vice President of Product Marketing for Pitney Bowes, discusses email opt-out at the 2011 DMA conference.

August 1, 2011

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Video

Pitney Bowes History of Innovation

Learn about the first 30 years of the company’s history, beginning with the invention of the postage meter.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Pitney Bowes

Video

Insurance Communications

Bill Sinn of Pitney Bowes reveals how to create a personal customer experience.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Pitney Bowes

Video

Healthcare Communications

A conversation with healthcare industry expert John Skroly of Pitney Bowes.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Pitney Bowes

Video

Harnessing the Power of Consumer Data

Darrin Wilen, President of Wilen Media discusses personalized direct marketing.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Pitney Bowes

Video

Engage Your Customers, One at a Time

A conversation with small business experts Jane Applegate, Melinda Emerson and Phil Simon.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Pitney Bowes

Article

Going Beyond Six Sigma To Protect Personal Financial Data

An error rate of less than two dozen for 45 million documents doesn't sound like much. But Ameriprise Financial, Inc., wanted something even closer to perfection.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Data security, Privacy

Article

The personal touch: Turn your call center into a profit center

It seems like a sensible way to cut costs: Drive customers to your website to reduce call-center traffic. But it may be penny wise and pound foolish. Find out how the Nationwide Building Society turned its call centers into profit centers.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Call centers

Article

Helping healthcare providers connect with patients through better billing systems

No matter how wonderful the care, patient billing is a sensitive matter for every healthcare provider, from large hospitals to individual doctors. Statements provide an essential communications link between patients and practitioners.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Privacy, Deliver essential communications

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Keep the Customer Satisfied

It's a truism that happy customers are the best customers. So you'd think every business would do its best to keep each individual customer happy. But the evidence is, many don't bother. And they're paying a stiff price.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Customer satisfaction

Article

Brand Aid: Even Starbucks started small

Big companies have long understood the value of branding. But today branding can be just as critical for small businesses.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Branding

Case Study

KFC Case Study

See how Canada's Largest KFC Franchisee achieved unprecedented coupon redemption rates with targeted direct mail.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Direct mail

Case Study

London Life Case Study

London Life Insurance needed to move quickly after it acquired Prudential Insurance Company's entire Canadian business operations near the end of 1996. Pitney Bowes Business Insight was able to help.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Pitney Bowes Business Insight

Case Study

Fairmont Targeted Marketing Case Study

A luxury hotel and resort chain in Canada (Fairmont Hotels & Resorts) tripled its direct mail response rates by using Pitney Bowes software to profile and segment customers and target prospects bette

August 1, 2011

Tags:Direct mail

Case Study

Marui Department Stores Case Study

Read how a Japanese department store boosted sales with personalized offers on customer statements.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Data analytics

Video

A Bit About Us

People often think about Pitney Bowes for mail, but in the scheme of things our mission has always been broader. A brief look at our heritage, our innovative technologies, our values.

August 1, 2011

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Video

Pitney Bowes Capabilities Video

Mass marketing is no longer getting the job done. Why? Your customers and prospects want to feel a personal connection. View our video to see how Pitney Bowes can help.

August 1, 2011

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Finance Overview Video

Mass marketing is no longer getting the job done. Why? Your customers and prospects want to feel a personal connection. View our video to see how Pitney Bowes can help.

August 1, 2011

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Healthcare Overview Video

Mass marketing is no longer getting the job done. Why? Your customers and prospects want to feel a personal connection. View our video to see how Pitney Bowes can help.

August 1, 2011

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Insurance Overview Video

Mass marketing is no longer getting the job done. Why? Your customers and prospects want to feel a personal connection. View our video to see how Pitney Bowes can help.

August 1, 2011

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Small Business Overview Video

Mass marketing is no longer getting the job done. Why? Your customers and prospects want to feel a personal connection. View our video to see how Pitney Bowes can help.

August 1, 2011

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Win New Customers Video

Learn how to find the prospects you want and start a personal conversation.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Win new customers

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Strengthen Customer Relationships Video

Keep customers by staying in touch—personally.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Strengthen customer relationships

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Deliver Essential Communications Video

Make sure your communications get delivered right and on time, every time.

August 1, 2011

Tags:Deliver essential communications